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Data-Driven Public Diplomacy: A Critical And Reflexive Assessment, Hamilton Bean, Edward Comor
Data-Driven Public Diplomacy: A Critical And Reflexive Assessment, Hamilton Bean, Edward Comor
FIMS Publications
This essay presents a critical and reflexive assessment of contemporary efforts
to innovate the measurement and evaluation of public diplomacy. Analyzing a
recent and pivotal report called “Data-Driven Public Diplomacy,” it explains
how the institutional and ideological residue of the Cold War underwrites
these initiatives in the context of American activities in its contemporary “War
on Terror.” Inspired by Marx’s concept of the fetish—n under-represented
conceptual approach to public diplomacy research—he authors critique
the thinking of public diplomacy scholars and officials, arguing that both an
omnipresent past and a powerful form of technological fetishism are discernible
in the “Data-Driven Public …
Local Actions/Global Implications: The Economic And Social Impacts Of Oa Publishing, Cal Murgu
Local Actions/Global Implications: The Economic And Social Impacts Of Oa Publishing, Cal Murgu
FIMS Presentations
The second speaker will highlight the increased impact of open access publications compared to subscription-based publications, as shown in citation-based studies as well as altmetrics such as download reports. In order to access research published in a non-open access publication, readers must either be affiliated with an institution that subscribes to the publication, purchase an individual subscription, or pay to view/rent a particular article. Taking Scholarship@Western as a case in point, the second speaker will demonstrate the global impact of open access research. Because the content published in Scholarship@Western is indexed by Google and Google Scholar, researchers all around the …
A Retrospective On State Of The Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-Small Data Rivalries And The Spectre Of The 6vs, Anabel Quan-Haase, Luke Sloan
A Retrospective On State Of The Art Social Media Research Methods: Ethical Decisions, Big-Small Data Rivalries And The Spectre Of The 6vs, Anabel Quan-Haase, Luke Sloan
FIMS Publications
This concluding chapter offers critical reflections on some of the key themes covered in the Handbook. Ethics emerged as a concern for many scholars, both for those engaging in quantitative and qualitative approaches. Scholars agree in that there is no overarching set of rules that can be applied to all projects blindly, rather they see ethical decisions as being grounded in the specifics of the data being collected, the social group under study, and the potential repercussions for subjects. A second central theme was the value of qualitative approaches for understanding ‘anomalies’ within larger data sets. Qualitative approaches are seen …