scholarly journals The Labor of Digital Privacy Advocacy in an Era of Big Tech

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Holt ◽  
Lisa Parks
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Public Interests ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Public And Private Sector

This article explores the labor of contemporary digital privacy advocates and their myriad efforts to protect and preserve public interests during the era of Big Tech companies. It is based on qualitative interviews with professional staff, lawyers, and policy analysts at multiple major advocacy organizations in Washington, DC. We have employed a grounded theory approach to address four labor-related themes that consistently emerged across our interviews: coalition building, agenda formulation, the art of navigating public- and private-sector relationships, and balancing a domestic and global policy landscape. In the current policy landscape, there is an intensifying degree of advocacy–industry coordination taking place, in part because of US regulatory roll-backs under the Trump administration and a gridlocked Congress. As a result, advocacy organization staff members often rely on companies for information to do their assessment and agenda-setting work. They also apply pressure to these companies and force them to think about how their technologies and operations impact users and publics around the world; they mount legal challenges to various media and tech initiatives to ensure public interests are protected; and some end up working with or for these companies in ways that may impart and integrate the values of advocacy organizations within profit-driven organizations. This article explores the multiple dimensions of advocacy labor which itself is often excluded from media policy and industry analysis.

How Mentors Contribute to Latinx Adolescents’ Social Capital in the Sciences

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842098545
Author(s):  
Bernadette Sánchez ◽  
Alison L. Mroczkowski ◽  
Lisa Y. Flores ◽  
Wendy de los Reyes ◽  
Jesus Ruiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Bonding Social Capital ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Axial Coding ◽  
Latinx Adolescents

The aim of this study was to examine how mentors provide social capital to Latinx adolescents in science education. Participants were drawn from a long-term, comprehensive science support program at a medical university in the Midwest. Using a case study approach, various stakeholders participated in one-on-one, in-depth qualitative interviews: 11 Latinx high school and college students, three staff members, 12 graduate student mentors, and 13 faculty mentors. Protocols were approved by an Institutional Review Board. The qualitative analysis was guided by a modified grounded theory approach, which involved three steps: initial coding, focused coding, and modified axial coding. Participants described how mentors promoted youth’s social capital through bridging and bonding behaviors, which were related to students’ (a) enhanced professional development, (b) broadened perspectives about science specifically and education broadly, (c) exploration opportunities, and (d) increased interest in science. This study fills gaps in the literature by showing how bridging and bonding social capital are provided in mentoring relationships and by examining STEM mentoring in a Latinx adolescent sample. Study findings have implications for increasing Latinx students in the science education pipeline. Future directions for research on STEM mentoring and social capital are discussed.

scholarly journals Business Associations and the Developmental State in Korea The Case of the Machinery Industry in the 1960 and 1970s

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Eom Seok-jin ◽  
Choi Jae-young
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Development ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Machinery Industry ◽  
Business Association ◽  
Public And Private Sector

This research examines a way the Korean developmental state achieved a synergy between state and society for industrial development: business associations. In the machinery industry, a business association was involved in formulating industrial policy for promoting the machinery industry and in implementing policy programs such as the prohibition of the import of machinery made in foreign countries. The association also functioned as a channel through which information relevant to the industry was provided to government. The association had a professional staff and an internal governance structure that helped prevented rent seeking and encouraged synergy between public and private sector.

scholarly journals Project evaluation for work-based education management

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-127
Author(s):  
Vichit Suratruangchai ◽  
Pongthep Jiraro
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Project Evaluation ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Education Management ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Evaluation Work

The objective of this research is to evaluate the project education management by area in Chonburi province. The special purpose is to evaluate the database of project information. The result found that the overall level is “fair” but project PR is the “lowest” average. Strengths of the project 1. The project is a priority in line with government policy, and in accordance with the requirements of the professional staff with expertise in specific fields.  2. The project is to be strengthened. The executives in the province to make a significant contribution. It also received support from many sectors. Both public and private sector.3. The project is unique of Chonburi.4. The project is well equipped in terms of personnel and agencies to cooperate.5. A program with a budget for the operation. The weakness of the project is stakeholder lack of understanding on the project entirely. The lack of awareness in action or sometimes in operation, it did not meet the objectives of the project. Keywords: Project evaluation, work-based education management, Chonburi.                

"Jedes starre Konzept ist schlecht und passt net' in diese Welt"

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (148) ◽  
pp. 369-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Ludwig-Mayerhofer ◽  
Ariadne Sondermann ◽  
Olaf Behrend
Keyword(s):  
Public Management ◽  
New Public Management ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
New Public ◽  
Recent Reform ◽  
The Unemployed ◽  
New Procedures

The recent reform of the Bundesagentur fijr Arbeit, Germany's Public Employment Service (PES), has introduced elements of New Public Management, including internal controlling and attempts at standardizing assessments ('profiling' of unemployed people) and procedures. Based on qualitative interviews with PES staff, we show that standardization and controlling are perceived as contradicting the 'case-oriented approach' used by PES staff in dealing with unemployed people. It is therefore not surprising that staff members use considerable discretion when (re-)assigning unemployed people to one of the categories pre-defined by PES headquarters. All in all, the new procedures lead to numerous contradictions, which often result in bewilderment and puzzlement on the part of the unemployed.

Corporate Social Reporting Practices In India

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr Vipin Bihari Srivastava ◽  
Dr Manoj Kumar Mishra ◽  
Dr Wogari Negari
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Reporting Practices ◽  
Corporate Social Reporting ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
Corporate Social

"This paper aims to examine the extent of corporate social reporting practices in the annual reports of companies in India and to ascertain the differences if any, between public sector and private sector companies and to investigate what were the determinants of corporate social reporting . The study intends to answer the research questions which include: a) what variables could represent a Conceptual Model of Corporate Social Reporting consists of dependent variables and Independent variables? b) What are the factors of Corporate Social Reporting (COSOR) and how valid and reliable are these factors? c) What is the degree of COSOR by factors in public and private sector companies? d) What are the determinants of COSOR? What is the level of their influence on COSOR? A sample of 120 listed companies of National Stock Exchange of India was chosen and they were stratified in to public and private sector companies. A Corporate social reporting Index was constructed for data collection through content analysis from the annual reports. The results of the study revealed that social accounting information were disclosed in company’s annual reports, chairman’s speech, directors’ reports, notes to accounts, schedule to accounts and auditor’s report. The degree of corporate social reporting varies between public sector and private sector companies. The public sector companies have disclosed more corporate social reporting information than the private sector companies. The study found that higher the level of capital employed, earnings before depreciation and taxes, total assets and total sales higher was the level of corporate social reporting. However, the degree of influence of determinants on corporate social reporting was different among public and private sector companies. Most of the companies have disclosed corporate social information on voluntary basis. To improve the understandably, uniformity, and comparability of corporate social information, this study suggests making it mandatory. A standard format for disclosure of corporate social information shall be prescribed by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs by amending the Indian Companies Act. The concept of social accounting is relatively new in India. This study suggests to include it in the commerce curriculum and also in the curriculum of CA/CWA/CS. Corporate Social Reporting is such a vast area of research that no single study can cover different dimensions related to it. Though some studies including the present study have been conducted on Corporate Social Reporting Practices in India, but still there is much potential of research in this area. Future research in this area will hopefully bring more brightening result measuring and analysing social costs and benefits data by manager as well as by other concerned. Since the subject is in the primary stage, an in-depth research is needed to be done in different sectors such as banking information technology, manufacturing etc. The results are specifically applicable to sample companies and generalisations can be made with caution. The results of the study are based on the data collected from published annual reports of sample companies using content analysis method. Corporate social reporting in company websites, brochures etc are not covered. Social cost and benefit analysis is not covered in this study.

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