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Crime in the Wilmington Enterprise Community
No full textIt is
a preliminary look at the nature
of crime in the Wilmington
Enterprise Community as
revealed through information
from official sources
Crime & Justice in the Enterprise Community: The Public’s View
No full textThis report represents
the results of the second phase of the
examination of crime. It is based on
the view of crime of the residents inside and outside of the EC;
essentially the “unofficial” view from
the neighborhoods. The findings are
based on a survey conducted
between April and September 1997
of 734 Wilmington residents
Location, Location, Location: Urban & Suburban Crime on Local TV News
No full textEven though crime has fallen in the United States in the past six years, public opinion
polls indicate that crime and public safety are the over-riding concerns of citizens in
communities. These polls tell us that a significant majority of our citizens get most of
their information from local television news and, in general, they believe what they are being
shown and told. In short, these newscasts play a pre-eminent role in the social construction
of reality and, by extension, in forming the cognitive maps that citizens use to understand their
communities. This paper examines how the press, particularly local television news, portrays
the urban–suburban dimensions of crime in two major television markets in the U.S. Findings
show that local newscasts in the markets differed significantly along the urban--suburban
dimension of crime coverage. But they were consistent in the message that the city was a
dangerous place. This paper suggests how this type of message in turn influences the shape
of public policy responses
Making the Movies Real: The Death Penalty & Local TV News
No full textMedia organizations, particularly the broadcast media, have become extremely
important actors on the public stage over the last three decades. As a result,
what the media chose to cover and how they chose to cover it is an
important question. That is magnified when the media turn their attention to a public
policy issue like the death penalty that already possesses profound social significance.
In no other area of public policy can the state impose its will so completely and finally
on an individual citizen. Therefore, the public should understand the issues that
surround capital punishment. That understanding is virtually always communicated
through media organizations because very few of us have first-hand knowledge of the
death penalty. In this paper, I explore how television broadcast organizations cover
the imposition of the death penalty. How did they carry it out? What themes did they
convey? What did the public learn
Discussion Questions for Buying Reality: Political Ads, Money, and Local Television News
No full textThese discussion questions accompany Buying Reality: Political Ads, Money, and Local Television News
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
Legal needs in Delaware: the low-income population
No full textCommunity Legal Aid Society, Inc. (CLASI) is the agency in the state that has a
major responsibility for providing civil legal services to low-income Delawareans. In order
to serve that population, CLASI needed to know the nature of their legal needs. Therefore,
CLASI approached the University of Delaware to conduct a systematic assessment of those
needs. This report is the result of that examination and it represents the first comprehensive
look at the legal needs of the low-income public in Delaware.Funding for the project came from the Delaware Bar Foundation, CLASI, First State
Community Action Agency and the Delaware Volunteer Legal Services, Inc
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