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Experiencing film through the eyes of the blind
No full textWhat is it about watching movies that so many of us love? Sitting back in the chair to watch the big screen? Those rich, high definition visuals? Asks Natasha Mitchell on ABC\u27s Radio National.Much of going to the movies and watching films or television at home incorporates visual aspects. But what are these experiences like for those of us who can’t see?
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Civility, sexism and democracy
No full textJournalist Anne Summers has called for the community to reject the abuse and sexist attacks against the Prime Minister. Natasha Mitchell in Life Matters discusses this further. In a lecture at the University of Newcastle she argues that this sexual harassment would be challenged in any other workplace and that parliamentarians should speak out against it. But is this intolerant and abusive tone only about gender or, more broadly, a symptom of the current political environment
Citizen power: citizen juries advise on energy policy
No full textWhen the NSW Government decided it wanted to hear what people really thought about energy policy they turned to the New Democracy Foundation, a privately funded research venture, states Natasha Mitchell on Life Matters.They established two citizen juries to meet over a period of four Saturdays to consider issues like what might be the right energy mix, and how to tackle demand management.
The reports of the juries will be tabled in the NSW Parliament this week, and the Government will respond directly to their recommendations.
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Talkback: do we love our smartphones too much?
No full textSmartphones are internet enabled mobile phones, and more than 50% of Australians own one (maybe more like three quarters of us by some estimates), Radio National\u27s Natasha Mitchell and her guests Mark Pesce and Mark Eiden discuss.
Clearly we love them—and why shouldn\u27t we? They\u27ve have got everything: the internet, apps, cameras, navigation, games.
But do we love them too much?
Is all this compact connectivity changing who we are? Are we giving our smartphones more of our attention and love than we should?
 
Privacy and safety
No full textSurveillance technology is now a standard feature in the fight against crime, states Natasha Mitchell on Life Matters.
CCTV cameras are everywhere and CCTV camera vision helped to identify the man accused of the murder of Jill Meagher in Melbourne. Clubs and hotels also now scan licences or fingerprints before allowing access to the venue. But does this kind of technology really make us safer and what happens to all the personal data that’s collected? Are we less concerned than we used to be about personal privacy?
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Northern Lights: bright ideas from Nordic countries
No full textAndrew Scott, Associate Professor in Politics and Policy at Deakin University, is the guest on this episode of Life Matters.
The Nordic countries have both economic prosperity and social equality and Scott believes that Australian governments should adopt similar policies on work life balance, employment, education and child development.
Life Matters is presented by Natasha Mitchell, and produced by Lindy Raine
Seven billion: it's getting crowded in here!
No full textHigh density living is great for the environment, right? But what does it do to our heads and hearts? The Australian psyche was moulded by the myth of the ‘wide brown land’, so what might life packed like sardines look and feel like?
With the world’s seven billionth person is about to be born, can we learn from the Asian megacity experience? And will we still be sharing a cup of sugar with our neighbours? As the population debate gets mental, we’re going in search of the soul in urban sprawl.
Hosted by Natasha Mitchell and featuring Kim Dovey, Helen Killmier, Bernard Salt and Sein-Way Tan.
Presented in partnership with ABC Radio National.
 
Creative alternatives to retirement living: what do YOU want?
No full textBy 2050 a quarter of our population will be over sixty-five but we\u27ll be living longer and with different expectations of life in our latter years. We explore the options of how to live and where to live beyond the conventional choices of downsizing the family home or moving into a retirement village.
Guests
Guy Luscombe, architect specializing in design for the aged
Michael Hollingworth, The Shedders, three older couples who are sharing a purpose-built house
Professor Hal Kendig, Professor of Ageing and Public Policy ANU
Credits
Presenter, Natasha Mitchell
Producer, Lindy Rain
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
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