scholarly journals Feeling Left Out: Underserved Audiences in Science Communication

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Humm ◽  
Philipp Schrögel ◽  
Annette Leßmöllmann
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
The Other ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Detailed Composition ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
The One ◽  
Deliberative Processes

Science communication only reaches certain segments of society. Various underserved audiences are detached from it and feel left out, which is a challenge for democratic societies that build on informed participation in deliberative processes. While only recently researchers and practitioners have addressed the question on the detailed composition of the not reached groups, even less is known about the emotional impact on underserved audiences: feelings and emotions can play an important role in how science communication is received, and “feeling left out” can be an important aspect of exclusion. In this exploratory study, we provide insights from interviews and focus groups with three different underserved audiences in Germany. We found that on the one hand, material exclusion factors such as available infrastructure or financial means as well as specifically attributable factors such as language skills, are influencing the audience composition of science communication. On the other hand, emotional exclusion factors such as fear, habitual distance, and self- as well as outside-perception also play an important role. Therefore, simply addressing material aspects can only be part of establishing more inclusive science communication practices. Rather, being aware of emotions and feelings can serve as a point of leverage for science communication in reaching out to underserved audiences.

scholarly journals Estudo preliminar da anáfora num corpus de interpretação simultânea

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sílvia Araújo ◽  
Ana Correia
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Language Translation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Simultaneous Interpreting ◽  
Sensitive Areas ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Interpreter Training ◽  
The One ◽  
Anaphoric Relations

In this paper, we propose an exploratory study about the usefulness of multilingual corpora in areas related to the study of language, translation and, in particular, of simultaneous interpreting. After a brief overview of corpus-based interpreting studies as well as of some existing electronic interpreting corpora, we move on to describe the compilation stages of a bidirectional multimedia corpus (PT--EN/EN--PT). This is followed by an example of how the corpus can be explored, which focuses on the issue of anaphoric relations. The aim of this study if twofold: on the one hand, to convey the relevance of this type of resource as a repository of authentic simultaneous interpreting data; and, on the other hand, to demonstrate that by analysing it from a linguistic perspective it may be possible to identify sensitive areas in simultaneous interpreting (e.g. anaphora), which may prove an important contribution for interpreter training.

scholarly journals ‘Whose context collapse?’: Ethical clashes in the study of language and social media in context

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 169-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Media Research ◽  
The One

AbstractThe longstanding tradition of the examination of language and discourse in context has not only spurred the turn to issues of context in language and new media research but it has also led to numerous methodological and analytical deliberations, for instance regarding the roles and nature of digital ethnography and the need for an adaptive, ‘mobile’ sociolinguistics. Such discussions center around social media affordances and constraints of wide distribution, multi-authorship and elusiveness of audiences which are often described with the term ‘context collapse’ (Marwick and boyd 2011; Wesch 2008). In this article, I argue that, however helpful the insights of such studies may have been for linking social media affordances and constraints with users’ communication practices, the ethical questions of where context collapse leaves the language-in-context analysts have far from been addressed. I single out certain key challenges, which I view as ethical clashes, that I experienced in connection with context collapse in my data of the social media circulation of news stories from crisis-stricken Greece. I argue that these ethical clashes are linked with context collapse processes and outcomes on the one hand and sociolinguistic contextual analysis priorities on the other hand. I put forward certain proposals for resolving these clashes arguing for a discipline-based virtue ethics that requires researcher reflexivity and phronesis.

scholarly journals Financing Companies using Financial Technology an Exploratory Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Sadiq Jafar Kadhum Al-Atabi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Exercise Activity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
The One ◽  
Financial Technology

         The modern technology to finance investments, of leasing, and the wide attention in the industrialized countries due to their particular flexibility, as well as their low costs often thus making them an alternative to compete with other traditional financing methods. It is noted in this regard that developing countries, especially Arab ones for the most part what relatively late still in the application of this type of financing , companies are leasing is still very low compared with the industrialized countries due to traditional methods control of funding for financial institutions, and non-acceptance risk in new areas of funding, lack of professionalism in the financial and banking field and then dodging relatively active participation in economic development; this study examine the decision to leasing the Iraqi environment as a source of funding for projects to identify extent the desire of the Iraqi projects and their ability to exercise Activity leasing, as well as the desire of the Iraqi banks and their ability to finance the leasing projects, According hypotheses of the study using a model according to the measure " Likert " questionnaire, the first model to the Iraqi projects, as leasing , and was (50) projects , in the face of the second model to the branches of Iraqi banks, as leased, the (40) bank. The study concluded the following results:  The desire of the Iraqi projects, and their ability to exercise Activity leasing, as well as a statistically significant relationship between the knowledge of the project of leasing activity and flexible lease process, and pledges to the tenant project against for financing its assets on the one hand, and between the desire of the projects, and their ability to exercise leasing activity on the other.

scholarly journals Jokes, the unconscious and social subjectivity: from the “latent narratives” to the groupal bond

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Marc Barbeta ◽  
María Jesús Izquierdo Benito
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The One ◽  
Methodological Reflection

The purpose of this paper is to propose a psychosociological approach to the configuration of human bonds, on the one hand, and a methodological reflection on the analysis, on the other. The bonds are analyzed in their less explicit side, in order to reveal those emotional and representational elements which tend to express themselves an unclear and obscure way. The empirical research material has been a set of jokes told in different focus groups, with participants located in similar social positions. We analysed the associative chains developed in group dynamics, presenting methodological schemes for each particular analysis. The “latent accounts” arising from the analysis of each discussion group exhibit significant differences which are expressive of link models specific to each social context. Additionally, the phenomenon of the joke is confirmed as a valuable tool for social research.

scholarly journals An Exploratory Study of Language Use and Preferences among Nursing Lecturers and Students at Mzuzu University in Malawi

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-198
Author(s):  
Agness C C Hara
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Classroom Setting ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The One

This article reports on the insights gained from multilingual nursing lecturers and students at Mzuzu University in Malawi on the languages they use and prefer in a classroom setting. Research (Setati, Chitera and Essien, 2009; Chowdhury 2012) has found that both lecturers and students in multilingual and multicultural settings favour code-switching practices in the classroom setting. Code-switching is, therefore, an important phenomenon, which researchers should continue exploring because of the several distinctive attributes associated with it. The study adheres to qualitative and quantitative designs through the use of a questionnaire and follow-up interviews as methods of data collection. The results reveal that both lecturers and students favour code-switching from English to Chichewa during lectures. From both lecturers’ and students’ perspectives, code-switching helps to translate and clarify difficult concepts. It also helps to prepare students for the nursing profession. The study has some practical and pedagogical implications. On the one hand, it contributes some meaningful insights for language planners and policy-makers; on the other hand, the study sheds important light on the need to include the workplace dimension during language in education and language planning conversations. This study is also important because it addresses the issue of how code-switching might effectively be exploited as a communicative and pedagogical resource in instruction.

scholarly journals Cui prodest Michel Foucault?

2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. C01
Author(s):  
Yuri Castelfranchi ◽  
Nico Pitrelli
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
The One

Do we have to drag in the thought of Michel Foucault to show the political (and not neutral), partial and local (and not universal and non-historic), active (and not merely transmissive) face of science communication? Do we need the work of the controversial French intellectual to dispute the anxious search – almost a quest like that for the Holy Grail – for the “best practices” in the dissemination of scientific culture? If we read over the pages that Foucault dedicated to words and things, to the archaeology and genealogy of knowledge, to biopolitics, we have few doubts. Two elements, on the one hand the central nature of discourse and “regimes of truth”, on the other the concept of biopower (a “power over bodies”), enable us to reflect both on the important specific features of modern science in comparison with other forms of production and organisation of knowledge, and on the central role of its communication.

scholarly journals Visual communication, popular science journals and the rhetoric of evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. C04
Author(s):  
Dirk Hommrich ◽  
Guido Isekenmeier
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Popular Science ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Brain Scans ◽  
Vitruvian Man ◽  
The One ◽  
Popular Images

While the use of scientific visualisations (such as brain scans) in popular science communication has been extensively studied, we argue for the importance of popular images (as demonstrated in various talks at #POPSCI2015), including pictures of everyday scenes of social life or references to pictures widely circulating in popular cultural contexts. We suggest that these images can be characterised in terms of a rhetorical theory of argumentation as working towards the production of evidentiality on the one hand, and as aiming to link science to familiar visualities on the other; our example is da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man".

scholarly journals Do we know the value of what we are doing?

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (01) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Trench
Keyword(s):  
Science Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Global Spread ◽  
Communication Practices

The demand for evaluation of science communication practices and the number and variety of such evaluations are all growing. But it is not clear what evaluation tells us - or even what it can tell us about the overall impacts of the now-global spread of science communication initiatives. On the other hand, well-designed evaluation of particular activities can support innovative and improved practices.

scholarly journals The Value of Constitutional Values: An Exploratory Study of the Constitutions of India and Bavaria

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30
Author(s):  
Christian Alexander Bauer ◽  
Harald J Bolsinger
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Innovative Model ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Globalized World

This article is an attempt to understand “Bounds of Ethics in a Globalized World”, the hiatus between principles, norms and values and how they are codified on the one hand and the risks that follow when the actualisations of regulative principles fail in political reality on the other hand. Considering the political, economic and social reality, it is frequently diagnosed that reality is lagging far behind the potential of constitutionally guaranteed rights and duties. A variety of constitutionally guaranteed values suffers from devaluation. Taking examples from Bavaria in Germany, questions concerning whether the Bavarian society is at the borders of ethical capacities, or whether the limits of possible ethical regulation have been reached are dealt with. Important parallels in the genesis of the Bavarian and the Indian constitution are highlighted in this context. Through an understanding of the ideas of Ludwig Erhard, a pragmatic approach and an innovative model is proposed for cultivating values in a sustainable way. The importance of values of virtues is discussed and an emphasis is put on the importance of practiced virtues.

scholarly journals Motivators of Participation and Non-Participation in Youth Environmental Protests

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah R. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Outright Rejection ◽  
Change Mitigation

This paper is an exploratory study investigating motivators of teenagers to both attend and not attend a climate change related protest event. Using open-ended surveys and focus groups, 16–19-year-old Australian students were asked about their motivators to attend and abstain from School Strike 4 Climate events. Through qualitative analysis and thematic coding, results show key motivators to attend a Strike include climate change and acts of political participation that provide youth with a public voice. Protest is positioned as a key part of teen political repertoires. Reasons for non-attendance included prioritizing schoolwork and low efficacy in protest or participatory action. However, low efficacy in climate change mitigation, or an outright rejection of climate science, was not evident in this sample. Overall, reasons for attendance and non-attendance at a Strike event were not direct mirror images of the other, and implications for inclusion of non-participants in further studies is discussed in this light.

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