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Carol Mueller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • International Press coverage of east german protest events 1989
    American Sociological Review, 1997
    Co-Authors: Carol Mueller
    Abstract:

    Despite increasing International interest in the quantitative study of protest events, there has been no systematic attempt to test D. Snyder and W. R. Kelly's (1977) validity model for evaluating the newspaper data on which such analyses are based. Their model emphasizes the independent roles of media sensitivity (proximity to protest events and ideological bias) and event intensity (protest size, duration, and violence) in the enumeration of protest events. The author expands their model to encompass issues raised in the context of International Press reporting and test the expanded model using data from six International newspapers that covered the protest events in the former German Democratic Republic in 1989

Gianfranco Salvatore - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • frank zappa e il 68 tedesco un paradosso transatlantico e un accusa di provincialismo culturale frank zappa germany 1968 a transatlantic paradox and an accusation of cultural provincialism
    H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2018
    Co-Authors: Gianfranco Salvatore
    Abstract:

    FRANK ZAPPA, GERMANY, 1968. A transatlantic paradox and an accusation of cultural provincialism. Besides his autobiography, the rock guitarist and contemporary composer Frank Zappa (1940-1993) has disseminated his thinking through hundreds of highly articulate and seldom repetitive interviews. Published around the world by the International Press since 1965, for almost thirty years, his statements, reflections, and analyses display a musicological, sociological, even semiotic and political approach not only to the arts, but to reality in the wider sense. Part of a broader research on his thinking, this paper aims to retrace Zappa’s position towards the protest movement in late Sixties, not only in the USA but also in Europe. A key moment in the development of such position came when he played in West Berlin in 1968 with his band The Mothers of Invention. That concert provides a very good example of a cultural clash between the highly politicized German audience, with its believes and principles, and Zappa’s personal visions for society and the way to improve it. That night the musician realized that ideas and actions implemented by the student protest in Europe, and above all in Germany, were the byproduct of a ‘cultural periphery’ in the worst sense: a sort of provincial extension of the USA which had been culturally colonized by the American model of the ‘youth revolt’, with local distortions and worsening. The crucial evolution of politics in the late Sixties both in Germany and in the USA, the social theories on youth developed during the Fifties and the Sixties, the influence and impact of Zappa’s songs and lyrics during the late Sixties, and the reaction of European media to his statements, are here examined contextually to the unfortunate concert in Berlin and the evolution of Zappa’s sociological and political theories developed after that controversial episode.

D.b. Heaney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Geo-bioethics: Reporting on Russia’s ban from Olympic Competition in the International and Russian English language Press
    Università del Salento, 2020
    Co-Authors: D.b. Heaney
    Abstract:

    The decision of the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2018 Pyeonchang Games in South Korea, following accusations of a state-promoted doping programme behind Russian sport, indicates that what was formerly framed as a personal misdemeanour has now developed into a geopolitical matter, a shift that involves a considerable change in the approach taken towards the phenomenon of doping. Scholars of political science and International relations now see such venues as occasions for the exercise of ‘soft power’, namely, “the ability of states to communicate universally shared values […] in order to court the publics of other states” (Grix, Lee 2013, p. 526). If states are “attempting to use sports mega-events to persuade the governments, businesses and the public in other countries to alter negative stereotypes they hold” (Grix, Houlihan 2013, p. 577), how are those negative stereotypes affected when the reason for non-inclusion is a bioethical one? Concomitantly, how does the ostracized nation attempt to protect its threatened identity before the eyes of the world (Altukhov, Nauright 2018)? To assess how this issue has been contested and negotiated in the media two comparable corpora have been assembled: the first comprising English language articles about the bans in the International Press (IPC); the second composed of English language articles on the same topic available on the ITAR-TASS website (Russian Press Corpus; RPC). The corpora are interrogated using concordancing software to provide an initial sample of 100 keywords from each corpus, which are then placed in broad semantic fields. The IPC corpus furnishes insights both into the kinds of stereotypes that abound in reporting about Russia’s alleged behaviour and also into the values the International community implicitly attributes to itself. On the other hand, the RPC provides pointers to how Russia implements its English language Press service to effect damage repair to its International reputation and cushion the blow to its soft power

  • Geo-bioethics: Reporting on Russia’s ban from Olympic Competition in the International and Russian English language Press
    Università del Salento, 2020
    Co-Authors: D.b. Heaney
    Abstract:

    The decision of the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian athletes from the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the 2018 Pyeonchang Games in South Korea, following accusations of a state-promoted doping programme behind Russian sport, indicates that what was formerly framed as a personal misdemeanour has now developed into a geopolitical matter, a shift that involves a considerable change in the approach taken towards the phenomenon of doping. Scholars of political science and International relations now see such venues as occasions for the exercise of \u2018soft power\u2019, namely, \u201cthe ability of states to communicate universally shared values [\u2026] in order to court the publics of other states\u201d (Grix, Lee 2013, p. 526). If states are \u201cattempting to use sports mega-events to persuade the governments, businesses and the public in other countries to alter negative stereotypes they hold\u201d (Grix, Houlihan 2013, p. 577), how are those negative stereotypes affected when the reason for non-inclusion is a bioethical one? Concomitantly, how does the ostracized nation attempt to protect its threatened identity before the eyes of the world (Altukhov, Nauright 2018)? To assess how this issue has been contested and negotiated in the media two comparable corpora have been assembled: the first comprising English language articles about the bans in the International Press (IPC); the second composed of English language articles on the same topic available on the ITAR-TASS website (Russian Press Corpus; RPC). The corpora are interrogated using concordancing software to provide an initial sample of 100 keywords from each corpus, which are then placed in broad semantic fields. The IPC corpus furnishes insights both into the kinds of stereotypes that abound in reporting about Russia\u2019s alleged behaviour and also into the values the International community implicitly attributes to itself. On the other hand, the RPC provides pointers to how Russia implements its English language Press service to effect damage repair to its International reputation and cushion the blow to its soft power

Tarek Kanan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • automated arabic text classification with p stemmer machine learning and a tailored news article taxonomy
    Association for Information Science and Technology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Tarek Kanan
    Abstract:

    Arabic news articles in electronic collections are difficult to study. Browsing by category is rarely supported. Although helpful machine-learning methods have been applied successfully to similar situations for English news articles, limited research has been completed to yield suitable solutions for Arabic news. In connection with a Qatar National Research Fund QNRF-funded project to build digital library community and infrastructure in Qatar, we developed software for browsing a collection of about 237,000 Arabic news articles, which should be applicable to other Arabic news collections. We designed a simple taxonomy for Arabic news stories that is suitable for the needs of Qatar and other nations, is compatible with the subject codes of the International Press Telecommunications Council, and was enhanced with the aid of a librarian expert as well as five Arabic-speaking volunteers. We developed tailored stemming i.e., a new Arabic light stemmer called P-Stemmer and automatic classification methods the best being binary Support Vector Machines classifiers to work with the taxonomy. Using evaluation techniques commonly used in the information retrieval community, including 10-fold cross-validation and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, we showed that our approach to stemming and classification is superior to state-of-the-art techniques.

Huichun Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • lipschitz continuity of harmonic maps between alexandrov spaces
    Inventiones Mathematicae, 2018
    Co-Authors: Huichun Zhang
    Abstract:

    In 1997, Jost (Calc Var PDE 5:1–19, 1997) and Lin (Collection of papers on geometry, analysis and mathematical physics, World Sci. Publ., River Edge, 1997), independently proved that every energy minimizing harmonic map from an Alexandrov space with curvature bounded from below to an Alexandrov space with non-positive curvature is locally Holder continuous. Lin (1997) proposed an open problem: can the Holder continuity be improved to Lipschitz continuity? J. Jost also asked a similar problem about Lipschitz regularity of harmonic maps between singular spaces [see page 38 in Jost (in: Jost, Kendall, Mosco, Rockner, Sturm (eds) New directions in Dirichlet forms, International Press, Boston, 1998)]. The main theorem of this paper gives a complete resolution to it.