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Social Networks and the Demand for News

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Economic research has documented a robust, positive relationship between media consumption among minority individuals and the size of the minority population in local markets. The theoretical mechanism behind these “preference externaltities” has been understood to be the supply incentive to cater to large groups when fixed costs or other scale ...
George, Lisa M., Peukert, Christian
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The Social Costs of the Demand for Quantification

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1986
Their Origins That we live in a quantitative age is one of those rare statements that can be made without quantification. We consume numbers from the time we wake up (slugging averages, infant mortality in Ethiopia) through breakfast (percentage RDA of calcium in our cereal) to the evening news (percentage favoring more defense expenditures).
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Demanding: The Political Effect of Social Demands

2014
The objective of this chapter is to introduce the third constitutive internal nonterritorial dynamic shaping the formation of democratic subjectivities in a posttransition context: demanding. As with self-organizing and networking, I use demanding as a process that conveys activation, agency, and a complex political dynamic built through actions of ...
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Finding Demand for Products in the Social Web

2015 IEEE International Conference on Smart City/SocialCom/SustainCom (SmartCity), 2015
Finding potential customers in social networks is a hard challenge for today's businesses. But by listening to the noise of social network posts, we identify users, who express a demand for a certain product. We achieve this identification with a two-stage text categorization classifier: First, we detect whether the post expresses a demand for some ...
Philipp Berger 0001   +5 more
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Economic and social demands for coastal protection

Coastal Engineering, 2005
The purpose of this paper is to present methods and examples of economic valuation in the framework of cost–benefit analysis of coastal defense schemes. We summarize the concepts of value in economics and their application to coastal erosion defense. We describe the results of an original benefit transfer exercise on beach recreation, that is, whether ...
Polomé, Philippe   +2 more
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Psychoanalysis and Social Demand

International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 2002
In a public institution that works with adolescents who have committed infractions and the application of penalties that restrict the freedom of these adolescents, the psychoanalytical concept incompleteness has furnished the basis for an educational project.
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