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Book review: Internet co-regulation: A view from the UK
No full textReview of Christopher T. Marsden: Internet Co-Regulation: European Law, Regulatory Governance and Legitimacy in Cyberspace, (2011, Cambridge University Press)
Book review: Net neutrality - a moderate view
No full textA review of Christopher T Marsden. 2010. Net Neutrality – Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, (Bloomsbury Academic), 301 pages including footnotes, indices, glossary
Net neutrality - a moderate view
No full textA review of Christopher T Marsden. 2010. Net Neutrality Towards a Co-Regulatory Solution, (Bloomsbury Academic), 301 pages including footnotes, indices, glossary
Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age, by Ian Brown and Christopher T. Marsden
Get PDFDigital technologies have profoundly changed not only the ways we create, distribute, access, use and re-use information but also many of the governance structures we had in place. Overall, "older" institutions at all governance levels have grappled and often failed to master the multi-faceted and multi-directional issues of the Internet. Regulatory entrepreneurs have yet to discover and fully mobilize the potential of digital technologies as an influential factor impacting upon the regulability of the environment and as a potential regulatory tool in themselves. At the same time, we have seen a deterioration of some public spaces and lower prioritization of public objectives, when strong private commercial interests are at play, such as most tellingly in the field of copyright. Less tangibly, private ordering has taken hold and captured through contracts spaces, previously regulated by public law. Code embedded in technology often replaces law. Non-state action has in general proliferated and put serious pressure upon conventional state-centered, command-and-control models.
Under the conditions of this "messy" governance, the provision of key public goods, such as freedom of information, has been made difficult or is indeed jeopardized.The grand question is how can we navigate this complex multi-actor, multi-issue space and secure the attainment of fundamental public interest objectives. This is also the question that Ian Brown and Chris Marsden seek to answer with their book, Regulating Code, as recently published under the "Information Revolution and Global Politics" series of MIT Press.
This book review critically assesses the bold effort by Brown and Marsden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Private regulation and enforcement in the EU : finding the right balance from a citizen’s perspective
No full textGlobalisation and technological innovation have been fuelling the need for increasing levels of trust in private actors, such as companies or special interest groups, to regulate and enforce significant aspects of people's daily lives: from environmental and social protection to the areas of food safety, advertising and financial markets. This book investigates the trust vested in private actors from the perspective of European citizens. It answers the question of whether private actors live up to citizens' expectations or whether more should be done as to the safeguarding of citizens' interests. Several cross-cutting studies explore how private regulation and enforcement are embedded in EU law. The book offers an innovative approach to private regulation and enforcement by focusing on the specific EU context which, unlike the national and transnational ones, has not yet been widely explored. This context merits a stand-alone analysis because of the unique normative framework of the EU, as a particular polity itself but also in relation to its Member States. With an overall analysis of the main aspects of private regulation and enforcement across different policy fields of the EU, the book adds a missing tile to the mosaic of public–private governance studies.-- Introduction : EU private regulation and enforcement – mapping its contextual, conceptual, constitutional and citizens' dimensions, Madeleine de Cock Buning and Linda Senden
-- Part I Policy Domains
-- The special position of agreements by social partners in EU law, Frans Pennings
-- Private regulation in the internal market : assessing European technical standardisation through a citizen's eye, Mariëtte Hiemstra and Linda Senden
-- The role of private actors in data protection law and data protection practice, Peter Blok
-- Private actors in European consumer law, Ewoud Hondius and Esther van Schagen
-- Of the people, by the people, for the people? : the European Union's experience with private environmental regulation and enforcement, Suzanne Kingston and Edwin Alblas
-- Unfolding the private–public dynamics of regulation and enforcement in EU food law, Michele Simonato and Salvatore F. Nicolosi
-- Engaging private actors in the production of EU financial regulation : advantages and disadvantages from a citizen's perspective, Andrea Minto
-- Trust through responsibility : advertising and self-regulation in Europe, Oliver Gray
-- Private regulation and enforcement in the EU : finding the right balance from a citizen's perspective – the protection of minors against online harms, Madeleine de Cock Buning
-- Internet liability law case study : private regulation and enforcement in the EU from the citizens' perspective, Christopher T. Marsden
-- The role of private actors in the regulation and enforcement of corporate environmental harm, Judith van Erp
-- Part II Cross-Cutting Issues
-- The constitutional authority of private regulation in the light of the EU's competence order, Kilian Klinger
-- Private regulation and enforcement within the single market's legal framework : the need for a more holistic approach, Frederick Brouwer
-- European Union co- and self-regulation and the protection of fundamental rights, Jessy M. Emaus
-- EU competition law versus private regulation : restrictive or enabling?, Jotte Mulder
-- The democratic challenges of effective private regulation and enforcement, Colin Scott
-- Conclusions : drawing the lines together of regulatory choice, public–private dynamics and citizens' trust in private regulation and enforcement in the EU, Madeleine de Cock Buning and Linda Sende
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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