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Methods in Land-Assessment in Late Medieval Scotland
Full text linkScottish medieval studies face particular difficulties regarding land-assessment. This is due to the nature of the related sources and the unfounded scepticism towards early-modern sources, which can be used with respect to their prerequisites to substitute the losses of medieval sources. Furthermore, there is a lot of untapped potential regarding already known sources, like the Exchequer Rolls and some types of source-material, like wills and inventories, which could be exploited for economic questions. A combination of the various methods makes it redundant to continuously nurse the pessimism, which is currently dominating Scottish medieval economic studies.Scottish medieval studies face particular difficulties regarding land-assessment. This is due to the nature of the related sources and the unfounded scepticism towards early-modern sources, which can be used with respect to their prerequisites to substitute the losses of medieval sources. Furthermore, there is a lot of untapped potential regarding already known sources, like the Exchequer Rolls and some types of source-material, like wills and inventories, which could be exploited for economic questions. A combination of the various methods makes it redundant to continuously nurse the pessimism, which is currently dominating Scottish medieval economic studies
A Critical Evaluation of Tracking Public Opinion with Social Media: A Case Study in Presidential Approval
Full text linkThere has been much interest in using social media to track public opinion. We introduce a higher level of scrutiny to these types of analyses, specifically looking at the relationship between presidential approval and “Trump” tweets and developing a framework to interpret its strength. We use placebo analyses, performing the same analysis but with tweets assumed to be unrelated to presidential approval, to assess the relationship and conclude that the relationship is less strong than it might otherwise seem. Secondly, we suggest following users longitudinally, which enables us to find evidence of a political signal around the 2016 presidential election. For the goal of supplementing traditional surveys with social media data, our results are encouraging, but cautionary
Digitale Diskursanalyse: Annotation und formale Modellierung von Diskursen
Full text linkDieser Beitrag widmet sich einer Auslegung des Begriffs digitale Diskursanalyse und fokussiert dabei auf den Aspekt des Digitalen. Wir argumentieren, dass Digitalität sich nicht auf Diskursmedium und -material oder verwendete Analysewerkzeuge bezieht, sondern für einen epistemologischen Ansatz steht, der es erlaubt, bislang eher vage und narrativ formulierte Elemente von Diskursen zu explizieren. So ist es möglich, Diskurse tatsächlich zu modellieren und empirisch fundierte Aussagen abzuleiten. Wir stellen den Prozess der Annotation von Diskursen auf verschiedenen Ebenen ins Zentrum und gelangen so zu einer adäquaten Sicht von digitaler Diskursanalyse als wissenschaftlich explizite und reproduzierbare Modellierung
Interlanguage as a projection of abstract lexical structure from L1 and TL: Testing the Composite Matrix Language model of second-language acquisition
No full textThis thesis investigates the Composite Matrix Language model of second-language acquisition (Jake, 1998) which predicts what structures may arise in the construction of interlanguage independently of the specific language pair involved. The model views second-language acquisition as an instance of language contact where the native and the target language interact at an abstract level of lexical structure preceding surface-level projections. The abstract lexical structure of lexical items is stored in the mental lexicon and includes information on three levels, namely, 1) lexical-conceptual structure, 2) predicate-argument structure, and 3) morphological-realization patterns.The Composite Matrix Language model argues that in interlanguage construction, abstract lexical structure from the native and the target language is split up and recombined, resulting in a composite morphosyntactic frame projecting surface structure. Based on its psycholinguistic role in interlanguage construction, the model constrains the possible contribution of the native language. This thesis tests whether the predictions of the model can account for interlanguage structures in English learners of French, i.e., whether these can be explained as projections of composite lexical structure from the native and the target language.For this purpose, spoken interlanguage data from ten British sixth-form students in their sixth year of learning French (Newcastle Corpus, Myles & Mitchell, 2013b, available via the French Learner Language Oral Corpora database, Myles & Mitchell, 2013a) are analyzed.The results of the analysis largely confirm the predictions stated under the Composite Matrix Language model. Ambiguous and problematic structures are discussed with regard to their implications for the predictions of the model. In general, the thesis provides evidence for the universal principles of language contact assumed under the Composite Matrix Language model
Virtuelle Realität im Museum: Möglichkeiten und Mehrwert von historischen Videospielen für historische Ausstellungen
Full text linkAm Beispiel der Discovery Tours des französischen Softwareherstellers Ubisoft sollen die Möglichkeiten und der Mehrwert des Einsatzes von Videospielen für museale Ausstellungen untersucht werden. Nach der inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung mit der (didaktischen) Nutzbarmachung von Geschichte im Videospiel, schließen sich zwei Interviews mit Dr. Winfried Bergmeyer, langjähriger Sammlungsleiter des Computerspielmuseums in Berlin, sowie Maxime Durand, kanadischer Historiker und World Design Director bei Ubisoft Montreal, an
‘Is there Anything Else You’d Like to Say About Community Relations?’ Thematic Time Series Analysis of Open-ended Questions From an Annual Survey of 16- Year Olds
Full text linkSince 2003, respondents to the annual Young Life and Times (YLT) survey have been offered an opportunity to give their thoughts on community relations in Northern Ireland. To date, approximately 4,000 comments have been received. This paper reports on a systematic approach to a content analysis of this question. Our methodological aim is to demonstrate the analytic processes involved in creating a coding scheme and to show how a structured content analysis of these responses can complement the published quantitative survey findings, and, in turn, provide a more nuanced understanding of young people’s views on community relations in Northern Ireland over time. By doing so, we feel we also afford a sense of agency to respondents by integrating their opinions and emotions, which ranged from hope to despair, expressed outside the pre-determined survey content, as important data. Our approach shows that a meaningful combination of interpretive and deductive methods can demonstrate the added value that open-ended questions can have for a standardised survey instrument
In Search of the Best Response Scale in a Mixed-mode Survey (Web and Mail). Evidence from MTMM Experiments in the GESIS Panel
Full text linkMixed-mode surveys allow researchers to combine the advantages of multiple modes, for example, the low cost of the web mode with the higher coverage of offline modes. One drawback of combining modes is that there might be systematic differences in measurement across modes. Thus, it would be useful to know which measurement methods work best in all employed modes. This study sets out to find a method that results in the highest measurement quality across self-administered web mode questionnaires (web mode) and self-administered paper questionnaires sent out by mail (mail mode). Two Multitrait-Multimethod (MTMM) experiments employing questions on environmental attitudes and supernatural beliefs were implemented in the GESIS Panel, a probability-based panel in Germany. The experiments were designed to estimate the measurement quality of three different response scales: A seven-point fully labelled scale, a 101-point numerical openended scale and an eleven-point partially labelled scale. Our results show that the elevenpoint partially labelled scale consistently leads to the highest measurement quality across both modes. We thus recommend using eleven-point partially labelled scales when measuring attitudes or beliefs in mixed-mode surveys combining web and mail mode
Interviewers’ and Respondents’ Joint Production of Response Quality in Openended Questions. A Multilevel Negativebinomial Regression Approach
Full text linkOpen-ended questions are an important methodological tool for social science researchers, but they suffer from large variations in response quality. In this contribution, we discuss the state of research and develop a systematic approach to the mechanisms of quality generation in open-ended questions, examining the effects from respondents and interviewers as well as those arising from their interactions. Using data from an open-ended question on associations with foreigners living in Germany from the ALLBUS 2016, we first apply a two-level negative binomial regression to model influences on response quality on the interviewer and respondent level and their interaction. In a second regression analysis, we assess how qualitative variation (information entropy) in responses on the interviewer level is related to interviewer characteristics and data quality. We find that respondents’ education, age, gender, motivation and topic interest influence response quality. The interviewer-related variance in response length is 36%. Whereas interviewer characteristics (age, gender, education, experience) do not have a direct effect, they impact on response quality due to interactions between interviewer and respondent characteristics. Notably, an interviewer’s experience has a positive effect on response quality only in interaction with highly educated respondents
Zwischen Theorie, Praxis und Corona - Das wissenschaftliche Volontariat im Museum: Auszüge aus der Volontariatsumfrage 2020
No full textDer Berufsweg ins Museum führt nach einem entsprechenden Studium im Regelfall zunächst über ein zweijähriges wissenschaftliches Volontariat. Welche Erfahrungen die Volontär*innen in dieser Zeit machen, ist dabei so vielfältig wie die deutsche Museumslandschaft selbst, denn die Organisation und Ausgestaltung der Volontariate liegen bei den Museen, die diese spezielle Form der Ausbildung anbieten. Bereits zum zweiten Mal werden in der ZEITARBEIT nun die Ergebnisse der Volontariatsumfrage vorgestellt, die der Arbeitskreis Volontariat des Deutschen Museumsbunds auch 2020 wieder erhoben hat