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Mediated meta-deliberation: Making sense of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament
No full textMost of the chapters in this volume look inside the Australian Citizens' Parliament (ACP) to study the practical and political challenges of deliberating together in an assembly of ordinary citizens. However, the ACP also created the possibility for a kind of deliberation that can occur only through mass communication.1The news coverage of the ACP had the potential to spark a mediated deliberation-a process whereby newspapers, online news outlets, and other media help the wider public understand and think through issues in at least a quasi-deliberative way. In our view, projects like the ACP succeed or fail not only based on their internal quality but also depending on how they engage the larger media and, ultimately, the broader public. This essay presents a particular aspect of this larger public engagement, which we call "mediated meta-deliberation." In simple terms, a meta-deliberation involves deliberation about deliberation, or how we talk about how this special kind of talk. In the context of this chapter, we focus specifically on how the media do this, hence the term mediated meta-deliberation. In the sections that follow, we explain why organizers of deliberative initiatives should care about the mediated meta-deliberation that occurs regarding their activities. We then apply this concept to the ACP and present a comprehensive analysis of the quantity and character of news coverage generated by the ACP in Australian print media
Improving Public Deliberative Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Two Italian Citizens’ Jury Projects in 2006
No full textRecently the author was invited to Italy, by the Regional Government of Tuscany, the University of Bologna and the University of Turin. The three institutions asked the author to speak about random sampling as a means to include missing voices in political decision making, i.e. the voices of those who usually remain unheard (see Carson & Martin 1999). Their interest was with the author’s work in the field of deliberative democracy and its practical expression, democratic deliberative processes, best exemplified by citizens’ juries (see, for example, Carson & Martin 1999, Carson & Hart 2005, Carson & Hartz-Karp 2005, Carson 2004, Carson 2003, Carson et al. 2002, Crosby 2003). Inevitably the author was drawn into deep discussions about the two recent attempts to convene citizens’ juries (CJs) in Bologna and Turin (both in 2006). It became apparent, as it had already to the convenors from the Universities of Bologna and Torino (Turin), that both attempts were ambitious and well executed but still fell short of the convenors’ ideals. This paper draws together the author’s reflections about the concerns that were heard during these discussions. Advice was sought, and that advice is repeated here. These observations may be helpful for those embarking on similar experiments for the first time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Taking control : young people convening Australia's first youth jury
No full textIn 2003 Australia’s first youth jury was convened in Parramatta, near Sydney. It was also, the organisers believe, the world’s first youth jury to be convened by young people themselves. This project was an experiment in deliberative democracy, an opportunity for young people to create a mechanism to enable young voices to be heard. The project team was made up of a group of university students. The author helped the team apply for funding to transfer their classroom experience to an intractable community problem: racial stereotyping of ethnic groups. Once government funds were granted, the author stepped out of the picture. The chapter reflects upon the adults’ responses to the youth leadership of the youth jury, drawing upon interviews with ten of them to establish their perceptions mostly in relation to the jury process. The chapter begins with an explanation of that process and innovations wrought by the project team
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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