scholarly journals The interdependency of online and offline activism: A case study of Fridays For Future-Barcelona in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown

Hipertext.net ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Roger Soler i Martí ◽  
Mariona Ferrer-Fons ◽  
Ludovic Terren
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Level Of Activity ◽  
Twitter Account ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

The lockdown imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak as well as the resulting surge in the use of digital technologies and social media for activism or social life all represent a unique opportunity to study the relationship between online and offline activism. To do so, we focus on the Barcelona branch of Fridays For Future, the recent and global youth climate movement that expanded through social networks and organised several large-scale global protests. Based on data from Fridays For Future-Barcelona’s Twitter account, the analysis looks at and compares the level of activity and interactions during normal times and during the lockdown. The results suggest a close and mutually-reinforcing relationship between offline and online activism, with peaks of Twitter activity and interactions usually revolving around offline protest actions. They also show that the lockdown period was characterised by an increase in the number of tweets but a decrease in the number of interactions and thus in the repercussion of the movement on social networks.

scholarly journals Local industrial strategy and skills policy in England: Assessing the linkages and limitations – a case study of the Sheffield City Deal

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 857-872 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Sissons ◽  
Katy Jones
Keyword(s):  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Innovation Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Local Growth ◽  
Potential Growth ◽  
Economic Development Policy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

This paper examines changes in local economic development policy which occurred between 2010 and 2015, with a focus on the relationship between industrial strategy and skills policy. Under the Coalition Government, Local Enterprise Partnerships were established and tasked with facilitating local growth, and to do so many identified a set of (potential) growth sectors for industrial strategy to support. These sectors tended to be drawn from a relatively narrow range of industries which therefore often excluded a large proportion of the local economy. An important focus of the support for growth sectors for many has been through an ambition to influence the local skills system. Skills policy more broadly has been an important dimension of devolution, and a number of City Deals have included elements of skills policy. Echoing previous national policy however, the focus of local concerns with skills under devolution has been framed largely with reference to skills gaps and shortages. While specific skills gaps and shortages can be identified, this paper questions whether this default position is reflected widely, and as such, if a narrow focus on skills supply is a sufficient approach. It is argued that to support local growth across a broad base, greater attention needs to be paid to stimulating employer demand for skills through better integrating industrial and innovation policy with skills policymaking across a wider section of the local economy. To support these arguments we present a case study of the Sheffield City Deal.

scholarly journals Temporal Activity Path Based Character Correction in Heterogeneous Social Networks via Multimedia Sources

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Jun Long ◽  
Lei Zhu ◽  
Zhan Yang ◽  
Chengyuan Zhang ◽  
Xinpan Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Multimedia Data ◽  
Attribute Information ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Relationship Network ◽  
Heterogeneous Social Networks ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Vast amount of multimedia data contains massive and multifarious social information which is used to construct large-scale social networks. In a complex social network, a character should be ideally denoted by one and only one vertex. However, it is pervasive that a character is denoted by two or more vertices with different names; thus it is usually considered as multiple, different characters. This problem causes incorrectness of results in network analysis and mining. The factual challenge is that character uniqueness is hard to correctly confirm due to lots of complicated factors, for example, name changing and anonymization, leading to character duplication. Early, limited research has shown that previous methods depended overly upon supplementary attribute information from databases. In this paper, we propose a novel method to merge the character vertices which refer to the same entity but are denoted with different names. With this method, we firstly build the relationship network among characters based on records of social activities participating, which are extracted from multimedia sources. Then we define temporal activity paths (TAPs) for each character over time. After that, we measure similarity of the TAPs for any two characters. If the similarity is high enough, the two vertices should be considered as the same character. Based on TAPs, we can determine whether to merge the two character vertices. Our experiments showed that this solution can accurately confirm character uniqueness in large-scale social network.

scholarly journals Drawing Out by Drawing Into: Representation and Partnership in a Design-Science Collaboration

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Pablo Schyfter
Keyword(s):  
Design Science ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Structural Growth ◽  
Science Collaboration ◽  
Interdisciplinary Partnership ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Joint Representation ◽  
Do So

“Synthetic Aesthetics” was a two-year experimental, interdisciplinary project that supported six partnerships between synthetic biologists and artists and designers. Each group sought to accomplish two tasks: build an interdisciplinary partnership and construct a joint representation. In this article, I explore the relationship between partnering and representing in one of the six partnerships: a collaboration between an architect and a synthetic biologist. I describe David Benjamin and Fernan Federici’s work on the self-organization and structural growth of xylem cells, and their pursuit of graphical and mathematical representations of so-called biological “logic.” I analyze the case study using two frameworks in unison. The first, from research in STS, explains representation as a social accomplishment with ontological consequences. The second, by pragmatist John Dewey, describes representation as drawing out and drawing into: selecting and extracting out of the world, and molding and installing into human artifice. I study Benjamin and Federici’s work as two acts of drawing out by drawing into: constructing and representing “logic” by forming a partnership to do so; and building a partnership by jointly forming a commitment to the existence of that “logic.” Doing so also involved ontological labor: making biological “logic” and rendering cells intelligible as products of rational mechanisms (as logical cells). Thus, representing and partnering are mutually enabling, mutually dependent and capable of ontological accomplishments. The lesson is useful to STS, a field increasingly concerned with art and design as topics of study and potential partners in work.

scholarly journals Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J Madison
Keyword(s):  
Steel Industry ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
Industrial Regions ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Assessments of the relationship among law, innovation, and economic growth often begin with one or more propositions of law or law practice and predict how changes might affect innovation or business practice. This approach is problematic when applied to questions of regional economic development, because historic and contemporary local conditions vary considerably. This paper takes a different tack. It takes a snapshot of one recovering post-industrial economy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. For most of the 20th century, Pittsburgh's steelmakers were leading examples worldwide of American economic prowess. Pittsburgh was so vibrant with industry that a late 19th century travel writer called Pittsburgh "hell with the lid taken off," and he meant that as a compliment. In the early 1980s, however, Pittsburgh's steel economy collapsed, a victim of changing worldwide demand for steel and the industry's inflexible commitment to a large-scale integrated production model. As the steel industry collapsed, the Pittsburgh region collapsed, too. Unemployment in some parts of the Pittsburgh region peaked at 20%. More than 100,000 manufacturing jobs disappeared. Tens of thousands of residents moved away annually. Over the last 30 years, Pittsburgh has slowly recovered, building a new economy that balances limited manufacturing with a broad range of high quality services. In 2009, President Barack Obama took note of the region's rebirth by selecting the city to host a summit of the Group of 20 (G-20) finance ministers. The paper describes the characteristics of Pittsburgh today and measures the state of its renewal. It considers the extent, if any, to which law and the legal system have contributed to Pittsburgh's modern success, and it identifies lessons that this Pittsburgh case study might offer for other recovering and transitioning post-industrial regions.

Emotional and Subjective Volunteered Geographical Information

2017 ◽  
pp. 97-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiri Panek
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Spatial Features ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
The City

Crowdsroucing of emotional information can take many forms, from social networks data mining to large-scale surveys. The author presents the case-study of emotional mapping in Ostrava´s district Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic. Together with the local administration, the author crowdsourced the emotional perceptions of the location from almost 400 citizens, who created 4,051 spatial features. Additional to the spatial data there were 1,244 comments and suggestions for improvements in the district. Furthermore, the author is looking for patterns and hot-spots within the city and if there are any relevant linkages between certain emotions and spatial locations within the city.

scholarly journals An Intersectional Approach towards Parental Employment in Families with a Child with a Disability: The Case of Belgium

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-261
Author(s):  
Julie Vinck ◽  
Wim Van Lancker
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Single Parents ◽  
Childhood Disability ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Parental Employment ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Employment Probabilities ◽  
The Relationship

For parents with disabled children labour market participation is difficult since these children require care that exceeds typical parental care. At the same time, disabled children often live in families who belong to social categories that are associated with lower employment probabilities. However, the intersection between disability and social categories is hitherto overlooked in the literature. Drawing on a case study of Belgium, this article empirically examines to what extent parental employment is explained by the child’s disability and/or the family’s social disadvantages. For this, unique and large-scale register data are used. The results show that (1) childhood disability overlapped with social disadvantages; (2) childhood disability inhibited parental employment; but (3) the relationship differed by social category: for single parents, parents with low educational qualifications, and parents having multiple disabled children, disability and social disadvantage reinforced each other.

GUIDELINES FOR REUSING ONTOLOGIES ON THE SEMANTIC WEB

2010 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 239-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELENA SIMPERL
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ontology Development ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Ontology Reuse ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Do So

The ability to efficiently and effectively reuse ontologies is commonly acknowledged to play a crucial role in the large scale dissemination of ontologies and ontology-driven technology, being thus a pre-requisite for the ongoing realization of the Semantic Web. In this article, we give an account of ontology reuse from a process point of view. We present a methodology that can be utilized to systematize and monitor ontology engineering processes in scenarios reusing available ontological knowledge in the context of a particular application. Notably, and by contrast to existing approaches in this field, our aim is to provide means to overcome the poor reusability of existing resources — rather than to solve the more general issue of building new, more reusable knowledge components. To do so we investigate the impact of the application context of an ontology — in terms of tasks this ontology has been created for and will be utilized in — has on the feasibility of a reuse-oriented ontology development strategy and provide guidelines that take these aspects into account. The applicability of the methodology is demonstrated through a case study performed in collaboration with an international eRecruitment solution provider.

scholarly journals Relasi Agama dan Negara dalam Gerakan Keagamaan Baru: Studi Kasus Komunitas Here Krisna Yogyakarta

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Budi Nurhamidin ◽  
Arifin Kusuma Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Politics ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
National Life ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
Spiritual Movement ◽  
The Relationship

<pre><em>This study aims to see and analyze the relationship between religion and the state towards the Here Krisna sect as a spiritual movement found in Hinduism. This research uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The problem in this study is whether there is a religious politics that occurs in Hinduism and how the relationship between religion and the state. In this regard, the points that will be elaborated by researchers include the background of the emergence of Here Krishna, the teachings conveyed, the vision of transformation, religious politics, and the relationship between religion and the state. The research results obtained that the emergence of the Here Krina stream does not become a problem for the PHDI because its existence does not make people uneasy about Hindus in general, as well as the relationship between religion and state philosophically the first precepts that read the Almighty God is based as a philosophical basis for national life and state. From the results of this study it can be understood that the Here Krisna stream can exist because it is based on Hinduism, which is an official religion and its social norms do not interfere with social life and its teachings do not conflict with the ideology of the nation as the basis of the state.</em><em></em></pre>

scholarly journals اتجاهات قصيدة الخَوف الأندلسيّة: وصايا ابن خاتمة وحكمه نموذجا (Andalus al-Khawf Poem Trends: Ibn. Khātimah Injunctions and his Poetry Wisdom as a Case Study)

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
محمد ماجد الدّخيل (Mohammad Majid al-Dakhil)
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Psychology Education ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
The People ◽  
The Relationship

ملخص البحث: يُجلي هذا البحث اهتمام ابن خاتمة الأنصاري الأندلسي بتربية النفس البشرية والسمو بها، وغرس القيم السلوكية الحميدة فيها، خصوصاً، أن الشعر الأندلسي أتاح المجال واسعاً لاستيعاب قيم إنسانية نبيلة من شتى جوانب الحياة الأندلسية، ومن تلك الجوانب العلاقة بالآخر التي نبعت من اتجاهات قصيدة الخوف الأندلسية، مُتمثلة في وصايا ابن خاتمة وحِكمه الشعرية، على نحو يستجلي علاقات تقابلية ثنائية جدلية، التي تشعبت لتشمل علاقة: الأعلى أو الأدنى، والإساءةأو الإحسان، والكلام أوالصمت، والغربة أو الإقامة؛ لتظهر النفس البشرية أمام الآخر بصورة سوية. لعلني أستطيع من خلال هذا السعي وكنتيجة له أن أقدّم أهم القيم السلوكية الحميدة الكامنة في العلاقات الثنائية التقابلية الجدلية التي وجّهت ابن خاتمة الأنصاري الأندلسي من جهة، وحِرصَه الشديد على بثّها وترسيخها في نفوس أبناء عصره من جهة أخرى بوساطة سلطة القارئ على النص.الكلمات المفتاحية: الخوف- العلاقة بالآخر- وصايا الحِكَم- قيم سلوكية- تقابل.Abstract:This study will polish Ibn. Khātimah Al–Anṣāriy concern on Human psychology Education; and how to erect good behavior value in it, for the reason that Andalus poems gave a wide chance to accommodate human behavior value in different Andalus social life. Among this sides is the relationship with others which flow out from Andalus Al-Khawf poem trends, such as Ibn. Khātimah injunctions and poetry wisdom. It draws out from its dual opposite relationships the following relationship that comprise highest and lowest, good and misdeed, speaking and silence, migration and residence, to exhibit human minds in front of other with a straight illustration. I will present in this work the most important good human behavior value that exist in dual opposite controversial relationship that guide Ibn. Khātimah in a side, and his strong desire to disseminate and plant it in mind of the people of his time in other side, towards power of reader on the text.Keywords: Fear- Relationship with Other- Conjunctions of Wisdom- Behavior Value- Opposite.AbstrakKajian ini memaparkan kecenderungan Ibn Khātimah Al–Anṣāriy Al-Andalusiy dalam menjadikan tema pendidikan jiwa serta nilai-nilai perilaku yang terpuji dalam hasil karangannya. Puisi di zaman Andalus adalah satu wadah yang luas yang mampu mencerap nilai-nilai kemanusiaan yang terpancar dari pelbagai aspek kehidupan Andalusia. Di antaranya ialah aspek hubungan dengan pihak lain yang timbul daripada halatuju yang menggariskan perjalanan puisi yang bertemakan perasaan takut di Andalus seperti yang di dapati dalam kumpulan wasiat Ibn Khatimah dan juga kata hikmah berpuitis beliau. Hubungan kontra dua hala yang turut merangkumi hubungan di antara pihak atasan dan bawahan, kebaikan dan kekejaman, luahan dan berdiam diri, duduk dan berkelana; menjadikan jiwa manusia terlukis dengan satu bentuk yang sama di mata pihak yang lain. Melalui kupasan ini, nilai perilaku terpenting yang tersirat dalam bentuk hubungan kontras dua hala tersebut yang mencorakkan hasil kerja Ibn Khatimah yang amat komited untuk melihatnya tersebar dan tertanam di kalangan pembacanya dengan autoriti mereka; akan diketengahkan.Kata kunci: Takut– Hubungan dengan yang Lain– Wasiat dan Kata Hikmah– Nilai-Nilai Perilaku– Kontras.

scholarly journals Beyond Military Humanitarian Intervention: From Assassination to Election Hacking?

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128
Author(s):  
Alexander Leveringhaus
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Traditional Concept ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Kinetic Force ◽  
Do So

This paper critically examines the implications of technology for the ethics of intervention and vice versa, especially regarding (but not limited to) the concept of military humanitarian intervention (MHI). To do so, it uses two recent pro-interventionist proposals as lenses through which to analyse the relationship between interventionism and technology. These are A. Altman and C.H. Wellman’s argument for the assassination of tyrannical leaders, and C. Fabre’s case for foreign electoral subversion. Existing and emerging technologies, the paper contends, play an important role in realising these proposals. This illustrates the potential of technology to facilitate interventionist practices that transcend the traditional concept of MHI, with its reliance on kinetic force and large-scale military operations. The question, of course, is whether this is normatively desirable. Here, the paper takes a critical view. While there is no knockdown argument against either assassination or electoral subversion for humanitarian purposes, both approaches face similar challenges, most notably regarding public accountability, effectiveness, and appropriate regulatory frameworks. The paper concludes by making alternative suggestions for how technology can be utilised to improve the protection of human rights. Overall, the paper shows that an engagement with technology is fruitful and necessary for the ethics of intervention.

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