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PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D5.3 "Production of a report discussing (including visualizing topographic maps of meanings) the emergent topics in identity relevant discourse at the different levels"
Get PDFIn this report we describe the results of the analysis that we performed through topic modeling on
the texts that we collected and described in the previous deliverable 5.2. In particular, our aim was
to analyze the latent meaning structure, and the shared meanings of EU policies and EU identity, on
four levels of communication:
1) Communications of the EU: here we analyzed the magazine Panorama;
2) Local implementation: here we analyzed financed projects’ abstracts;
3) Local press: at this level we focus on newspapers;
4) Social media: at this level we focus on Facebook.
The analysis performed with Topic Modeling on the corpus of tweets collected from Twitter did not
provide good results, due to the short length of each tweet. It is a result that is expected, but
collected data are not useless. In order to provide a better coherence of this report, which focuses on
the results of Topic Modeling, we are therefore not providing an analysis of tweets here. On the
contrary, we will analyze tweet in the next deliverable 3.3, that is aimed at analyzing the use LMAs
make of social media.
With regards to the other level, we are presenting 16 models: one model for Panorama, one model
for financed projects’ abstracts, 7 models for newspapers – one for each country – and 7 models for
Facebook. Regarding Facebook, LMAs in our case study region in UK do not have a Facebook profile.
The seventh model regards thus European Institutions’ Facebook profiles. Each model is composed
of a list of 20 topics, which we analyze and characterize through descriptive statististics. We focus in
particular on the emergent topics related to European Identity and Cohesion Policy. Moreover, in
this report, we make use of formal methods and techniques to visually represent the meaning of
topics elicited through topic modeling.
The following paragraph provides a short introduction to the technique of topic modeling. Then four
paragraph accounts for the several topic models elicited at different level of communication. Finally,
conclusions make sense of the whole analysis
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D3.3 "Descriptive report on the specific role of new media in EU financed projects' communication strategies"
Get PDFIn this report, we inquire the role of new social media as a communication tool of EU Cohesion
Policy. Practitioners in the feld of public policy communication in general and Cohesion Policy in
particular tend to agree on the need to increase the prominence and effectiveness of new media as
key channels of strategic communication of both central institutions and national/local managing
authorities.
Social media in particular tends to be associated with the possibility of reaching the youngest
population (see for example the results of our interviews and survey in PERCEIVE Deliverables 3.1 and
3.2). However, their potential impact on communication strategies goes much beyond this point and
encompasses changes in the segmentation of target audiences (i.e. communities rather than the
general public) on the one hand, and in the way Cohesion Policy ‘stories’ are told on the other hand
(i.e. interactivity with audiences).
In spite of the potential impact of new and especially social media on strategic policy
communication, based on our experience in the feld as well as on a review of both academic and
practice-oriented literature, we argue that much is still to be learnt about how to realise this
potential. This is especially true given the scarce attention of academic research to the specifcities of
Cohesion Policy, among other public policies.
Therefore, in order to extend current knowledge on the communication issues highlighted above, we
present the results of empirical analysis we have performed with the aim of describing the new
(social) media presence of different key actors in the institutional feld of EU Cohesion Policy
communication in the current report
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D5.4 "Report of the comparative analysis of the correlation between topics emergent from regional discourses on the one hand, and the awareness and perceptions of the EU (from Eurobarometer) on the other hand"
Get PDFThe report at hand focuses on the statistical test of an eventual relationship between media representation of EU regional cohesion policy, among other explanatory variables, and individuals’ level of European identification as well as their different definitions of being European.
At present time, it is largely acknowledged that individuals do not possess an innate sense of being European, rather, the meaning of such status is socially constructed. Accordingly, extant research has explored the role of the media in shaping the opinions of the general public. However, only recently has research started focusing on the potential role of cohesion policy in shaping EU identity and many aspects of this phenomenon are still unexplored.
We claim that by extending knowledge in this still unfolding area our work contributes to the wider debate on European identity in several ways:
a) by performing a media analysis in seven different countries we offer one of the first international evidences as most of the media analyses are conducted in individual national contexts;
b) our study is based on a large ad-hoc designed survey which allows us to capture so far largely overlooked aspects of EU identity such as the multiplicity and synchronicity of levels – i.e. individual, regional and national – in a way that Eurobarometer-based research could not do so far;
c) our survey also allowed us to explore in unprecedented depth the factors associated with different definitions of being European;
d) we analyse media in a bottom-up way, that is, without using pre-coded frames of valence characterising most of extant research;
e) along with standard interpretive techniques, we use formal methods for representing national media spaces such as topic modelling and sentiment analysis. We believe that this mixed method approach makes our study more replicable than purely qualitative ones, still, nuances and complexities of extracting meaning from text are better preserved than purely quantitative studies
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D5.2 "Database of the topics and sentiments to be made available on-line for further research"
Get PDFThis document describes the database we developed from data collection and organization activities as described in tasks 5.2 and 5.3 of the PERCEIVE project. The former task, which lasted from month 5 to month 10, consisted of an “Original data collection for exploratory topic modeling”. The latter task, which lasted from month 10 to month 13, was named “Topic modeling and qualification”. As stated in the Grant Agreement, this description of the database was expected around month 14 (October 2017), while the database itself will be made publically available on-line for further research only after the end of the PERCEIVE project. Indeed, task 5.4, which will last until month 15 is the “Actual Construction of a database of discursive topics”. This document will thus
focus on data collection and organization as well as provide an example of the topic models that we are developing coding discourses from different kinds of described datasets
PERCEIVE project - Deliverable D3.2 "Qualitative report with main findings from the interviews"
Get PDFThis summary report has been created with the objective of supporting the EU in its pursuit of enhancing communication efforts. More specifically, it provides an overview of the results of an online survey conducted between September and October 2017 among key actors in the field of communicating EU regional Cohesion Policy (therefore mainly, but not exclusively among so-called Managing Authorities).
The survey conducted has aimed at consolidating and deepening our understanding of three specific elements concerning the communication of policies, namely: a) perceptions of successful Cohesion Policy communication, b) assistance provided by the European Union to local communicators, and c) the communication strategy chosen by local communicators to convey Cohesion Policy. These elements have been defined on the basis of prior in-depth focus groups and semi-structured interviews with regional Cohesion Policy practitioners (see D3.1 ‘Qualitative report on the impact and effectiveness of communication strategies from the semi structures interviews with cohesion policy practitioners’ of the same Working Package) and are discussed in relation to the respective evidence in the following
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
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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