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Clear red water? Devolved education policy and the Welsh news media audience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Preprint submitted to Participations, 2012.The long-running debate about the information gap between the Welsh voting public and the processes of devolution tends to revolve around structural, cultural and economic deficiencies in the media.
Roberts, Simon Gwyn
core  

GeoCLEF 2006: the CLEF 2006 Ccross-language geographic information retrieval track overview [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information retrieval (GIR): retrieval for topics with a geographic specification.
Bischoff, K.   +9 more
core   +4 more sources

Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polyphonic discourses in the Hong Kong press: a diachronic analysis of media attitudes towards the One Country, Two Systems policy

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The One Country, Two Systems policy (OCTS), which is the cornerstone for the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR in 1997, has been subjected to varying and changing interpretations and opinions in Hong Kong society.
Qingyu Gao, Dezheng Feng William
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Participatory News Consumer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analyzes survey findings on the impact of social media and mobile connectivity on news consumption behavior by demographics and political affiliation.
Amy Mitchell   +4 more
core  

The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the impact of the societal level of freedom of speech on conspiracy beliefs. In Study 1, using aggregated nation‐level data (N = 68 countries), we found
Paul Bertin   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sports fanaticism as a disease: a Corpus-based study of metaphors in Saudi newspapers

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
Sports fanaticism seems to be a social and national concern in Saudi Arabia. This paper aims: 1) to identify the metaphorical manifestations and highlight the discursive construction of disease as associated with sports fanaticism in a corpus of Saudi ...
Yahya Abdu A. Mobarki, Fahad Alzahrani
doaj   +1 more source

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