62 research outputs found
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Program Committee, External Reviewers, List of Authors
No full textFront Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Program Committee, External Reviewers, List of Author
System Aspects of Black Liquor Gasification
No full textThe Swedish Energy Agency has financed technical research regarding black liquor gasification within the programme Black Liquor Gasification (BLG programme). The agency has also identified a need for systems related studies within this field. In the years 2005-2006, the project “System Aspects on Black Liquor Gasification” was carried out at Chalmers Institute of Technology. The project included a literature review of completed projects directed to this aim, which had been carried out during the decade 1996-2005.The final report of the project was considered to be of interest for a wider audience and therefore the Swedish Energy Agency has decided to publish it in its report series.Black liquor gasification is a technology which for several reasons has been of interest for a long time. The possibility to replace the furnace of kraft pulp mills with a more secure technology (avoiding explosion risk) and also to increase the potential to produce electricity at the mill have been important driving forces. In later years the option to produce renewable motor fuels from the gas has aroused significant interest.The report is written in English and is intended for decision makers, governmental agencies, researchers, consultants and other stakeholders, with an interest in this field.The principal author of the report is professor Thore Berntsson, Chalmers Institute of Technology
System Aspects of Black Liquor Gasification
No full textThe Swedish Energy Agency has financed technical research regarding black liquor gasification within the programme Black Liquor Gasification (BLG programme). The agency has also identified a need for systems related studies within this field. In the years 2005-2006, the project “System Aspects on Black Liquor Gasification” was carried out at Chalmers Institute of Technology. The project included a literature review of completed projects directed to this aim, which had been carried out during the decade 1996-2005.
The final report of the project was considered to be of interest for a wider audience and therefore the Swedish Energy Agency has decided to publish it in its report series.
Black liquor gasification is a technology which for several reasons has been of interest for a long time. The possibility to replace the furnace of kraft pulp mills with a more secure technology (avoiding explosion risk) and also to increase the potential to produce electricity at the mill have been important driving forces. In later years the option to produce renewable motor fuels from the gas has aroused significant interest.
The report is written in English and is intended for decision makers, governmental agencies, researchers, consultants and other stakeholders, with an interest in this field.
The principal author of the report is professor Thore Berntsson, Chalmers Institute of Technology
Georeferenced Open Data and Augmented Interactive Geo-Visualizations as Catalysts for Citizen Engagement
No full textCitizen engagement figures prominently on political agendas around the world. In this context, high hopes are pinned to open government, open data and ICT tools. At the same time, there are fears of a widening digital divide, where large groups of society are in danger of being excluded from societal processes, for example due to having difficulties in using the online tools provided. In this paper, we propose an approach that has the potential to address many key issues in this context (e.g. accessibility, complexity, engagement). It relies on space and time as common integrators, and uses interactive augmented geo-visualizations to facilitate citizen engagement. We report on key challenges that need to be overcome to realize this approach and on initial progress towards this goal. We describe a set of prototypical tools aimed at supporting citizen engagement in the envisioned way, and discuss the approach as well as its potentials, issues and challenges in detail. Initial experiences and results indicate that our approach is not only technically feasible but it can also empower citizens to more effectively engage with societal and governmental processes
Integrating Augmented Interactive Geo visualizations and Open Government
No full textEs gibt große Hoffnungen zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement im Rahmen von Open Government Initiativen neu zu gestalten. Das Ziel ist es, Bürgerbeteiligung mittels offener Interaktionen und Zugang zu Daten zu stärken und einen Schwerpunkt auf Transparenz, Partizipation und Kollaboration zu legen. Vor diesem Hintergrund formuliert und untersucht diese Arbeit einen Ansatz zur Förderung von bürgerschaftlichem Engagement mittels erweiterten und interaktiven Geo-visualisierungen (AIGs). AIGs nutzen Raum und Zeit als Integratoren, um Bürgern Kontextualisierung, Visualisierung und verschiedene Möglichkeiten zum Engagement zu bieten. Die Hauptforschungsfrage dieser Arbeit untersucht die Effekte von AIGs auf bürgerschaftliches Engagement, während vier Leitfragen Vorbedingungen und Herausforderungen untersuchen. Zusammenfassend werden ein Design Space für AIGs konzeptualisiert, potentielle Rollen der Zielgruppe beschrieben, Best Practices für die Publikation von räumlichen offenen Daten formuliert und es wurden drei AIG Prototypen für einzelne Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren und Stufen entwickelt und evaluiert.High hopes are pinned to reshaping civic engagement in Open Government Initiatives that seek to open up governmental processes and data by using modern information and communication technologies. The aim is to facilitate citizen engagement through open interactions and access to data by emphasizing transparency, participation, and collaboration. This thesis formulates and evaluates an approach to facilitate citizen engagement with Augmented Interactive Geo-visualizations (AIGs). AIGs use space and time as integrators that allow citizens to contextualize, visualize and engage in different ways. The central research question of this thesis investigates the effects of AIGs on citizen engagement while four guiding questions look at pre-requisits and challenges. In summary, a design space for AIGs is conceptualized, potential roles of the target audience are described, best practices for publishing geospatial Open Data established, and three AIG prototypes have been developed and evaluated for specific instances and levels of citizen engagement
Presenting Citizen Engagement Opportunities Online: The Relevancy of Spatial Visualization
No full textIntegrating Augmented Interactive Geo visualizations and Open Government
No full textEs gibt große Hoffnungen zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement im Rahmen von Open Government Initiativen neu zu gestalten. Das Ziel ist es, Bürgerbeteiligung mittels offener Interaktionen und Zugang zu Daten zu stärken und einen Schwerpunkt auf Transparenz, Partizipation und Kollaboration zu legen. Vor diesem Hintergrund formuliert und untersucht diese Arbeit einen Ansatz zur Förderung von bürgerschaftlichem Engagement mittels erweiterten und interaktiven Geo-visualisierungen (AIGs). AIGs nutzen Raum und Zeit als Integratoren, um Bürgern Kontextualisierung, Visualisierung und verschiedene Möglichkeiten zum Engagement zu bieten. Die Hauptforschungsfrage dieser Arbeit untersucht die Effekte von AIGs auf bürgerschaftliches Engagement, während vier Leitfragen Vorbedingungen und Herausforderungen untersuchen. Zusammenfassend werden ein Design Space für AIGs konzeptualisiert, potentielle Rollen der Zielgruppe beschrieben, Best Practices für die Publikation von räumlichen offenen Daten formuliert und es wurden drei AIG Prototypen für einzelne Bürgerbeteiligungsverfahren und Stufen entwickelt und evaluiert.High hopes are pinned to reshaping civic engagement in Open Government Initiatives that seek to open up governmental processes and data by using modern information and communication technologies. The aim is to facilitate citizen engagement through open interactions and access to data by emphasizing transparency, participation, and collaboration. This thesis formulates and evaluates an approach to facilitate citizen engagement with Augmented Interactive Geo-visualizations (AIGs). AIGs use space and time as integrators that allow citizens to contextualize, visualize and engage in different ways. The central research question of this thesis investigates the effects of AIGs on citizen engagement while four guiding questions look at pre-requisits and challenges. In summary, a design space for AIGs is conceptualized, potential roles of the target audience are described, best practices for publishing geospatial Open Data established, and three AIG prototypes have been developed and evaluated for specific instances and levels of citizen engagement
We Love to Hate Each Other. Mediated Football Fan Culture
No full textFootball fans are often portrayed as enthusiastic, loyal, critical and sometimes violent. But what is it about football that appeals to them? How do the media – newspaper, radio, TV, blogs and web forums – accommodate the needs of fans, and what connections – if any – is there between the imagined community of football fans and the broader society? These are the questions explored by 20 well-known and merited researchers from 8 countries in this anthology about the mediation of football fandom. We Love To Hate Each Other should be useful to scholars and students who are engaged in sports journalism and popular culture in both the old and new media. CONTENT: Acknowledgements Thore Roksvold, Roy Krøvel Introduction Hans K. Hognestad What is a Football Fan? Raymond Boyle Social Media Sport? Journalism, Public Relations and Sport I. Mediated Fan Culture in Newspapers Peter Dahlén An Exemplary Model. The Religious Significance of the Brann 2007 Norwegian Football Championship as Told by the Media Thore Roksvold A Hundred Years of Football Reporting in Norwegian Newspapers Rune Ottosen, Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Toby Miller Framing the Football Fan as Consumer. A Content Analysis of the Coverage of Supporters in The Star During the 2010 World Cup Hugh O’Donnell Scottish Football Fans. Hame and Away II. Social Media and Mediated Fan Culture Harald Hornmoen Battling for Belonging. How Club and Supporter Identities are Created in the Mediation of an Oslo Derby Aage Radmann The New Media and Hooliganism. Constructing Media Identities Deirdre Hynes “Jaysus! Is Janno a Bird?” A Study of Femininity and Football Fans in Online Forums Steen Steensen Conversing the Fans. “Coveritlive” and the Social Function of Journalism Andreas Ytterstad Football Nationalism in the Blogosphere. Carew, Riise and the Frames of Common Sense Roy Krøvel Communicating in Search of Understanding. A Case Study of Fans, Supporters and Islam III. Documentary Film and Television Alina Bernstein, Lea Mandelzis, Inbar Shenhar Documenting the Narrative of Arab Identity in a Jewish State Through Football. Between National ‘Multi-Existence’ and its Impossibility Britt-Marie Ringfjord Learning to Become a Football Star. Representations of Football Fan Culture in Swedish Public Service Television for Youth David Rowe, Stephanie Alice Baker “Truly a Fan Experience”? The Cultural Politics of the Live Site The Author
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