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ONLINE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, MEANINGFUL CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROTEST CAMPAIGNS

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ONLINE POLITICAL PARTICIPATION, MEANINGFUL CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT, AND SOCIAL PROTEST CAMPAIGNS

Author(s): George Lăzăroiu,Malcolm Gray-Hawkins,DIANA LETCHER,Glyn Brennan / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This article reviews and advances existing literature concerning the role of media technologies for social protest campaigns. Using various empirical data, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the percentage of social media users who say they discuss politics and government with others nearly every day/few times a week/few times a month/less often; the percentage of social media users who say they have publicly expressed support for campaign on social media, contacted elected official, contributed money to campaign, attended political rally or event, attended local government meeting, and worked or volunteered for campaign; the percentage of social media users who feel that these sites help users get involved with issues that matter to them/bring new voices into the political discussion/help people learn what political candidates are really like very/somewhat well; and the percentage of social media users who say their political discussions are more or less respectful/likely to come to a resolution/civil/focused on policy debates/politically correct/informative/angry compared with other places people might discuss politics.

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HOW A MUSEUM OF ROMA CULTURE SHOULD (NOT) LOOK LIKE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PREMISES AND MUSEUM STUDIES CONSIDERATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

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HOW A MUSEUM OF ROMA CULTURE SHOULD (NOT) LOOK LIKE: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PREMISES AND MUSEUM STUDIES CONSIDERATIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Author(s): Ciprian Tudor / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The topic of this article is a reflection upon the timeliness and possibility of establishing a Museum of Roma People, more specifically, a museum able to present and re-present the Roma cultural identity in contemporary Romania. The two quotations above put in perspective the initial assumptions of my approach: firstly, the Roma identity is, from the very beginning, considered here in non-essentialist terms (i.e. this is not about discovering and reifying once and for all, in a museum, the “true Roma identity”). Secondly, but equally important, the quotations emphasize the fact that the aim of this article is to provide arguments in favor of the idea that the purpose of a Museum of Roma People should also be to bring to life and give a voice to various Roma identities, as lived and negotiated nowadays within compact Roma communities, as well as outside them.

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THE BUSINESS VALUE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, BIG DATA ANALYTICS, AND CONSUMER HEALTH APPLICATIONS

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THE BUSINESS VALUE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, BIG DATA ANALYTICS, AND CONSUMER HEALTH APPLICATIONS

Author(s): KAREN COATNEY,ROGER A. DONOVAN,DERRICK WHELAN,Adrian Gill-Cox,Tessa Blanton / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

We inspect the relevant literature on the employment of artificial intelligence algorithms in clinical medicine and healthcare delivery, providing both quantitative evidence on trends and numerous in-depth empirical examples. Using various empirical data, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the importance of big data in healthcare organizations, the relationship between digital health and data analytics, individuals’ use of technology to track health care charges and costs, the artificial intelligence healthcare startups by segment and founding period, and U.S. healthcare assistive robots market size, by product.

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DECODING IDEOLOGICAL INFLUENCES IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIAN MASS MEDIA: A CASE STUDY

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DECODING IDEOLOGICAL INFLUENCES IN POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIAN MASS MEDIA: A CASE STUDY

Author(s): Monica Dascălu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The case study presented in this paper refers to the first attempt of the former king of Romania, Mihai I, to visit the country, in December 1990. This can be considered a significant moment in the post-communist period of Romania, as it gave the direction of the official relations between the political leaders of the country and the royal institution for several years. The main research question was how the facts were presented by media, as compared to the historical perspective acquired over the years on the same facts. The research method (critical discourse analysis) is appropriate for small dimension data sets and was successfully used in media studies research to make the qualitative analysis of mediated discourse. In the present case study, several media articles related to this event were selected for textual, contextual and time dimension analysis, according to the research methodology. The representations and framing of news, as decoded by the critical discourse analysis, offer significant information about the ideological influences behind the media discourse. The case study is presented within the background offered by scientific literature on Romanian post-communist media landscape. This paper is a first step in the attempt to make a sociological investigation regarding the role played by Romanian mass media in the post-communist period.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WORKPLACE AUTOMATION,
AND COLLECTIVE JOBLESSNESS

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WORKPLACE AUTOMATION, AND COLLECTIVE JOBLESSNESS

Author(s): TIMOTHY GROSSMAN,Brian Sorells,Darren Chessell,LISE MCQUAY,Melissa Connolly-Barker / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

This research synthesizes existing studies and investigates how automation will transform the labor market. Building our argument by drawing on various empirical data, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the proportion of U.S. adults who think it is not at all/not very/somewhat/very likely that the following jobs will be replaced by robots or computers in their lifetimes, share of current work hours with potential for automation by 2030 in selected countries, probability of job automation by race, ethnicity and gender, and percentage of adults who think it is likely that people would have a hard time finding jobs/the inequality between the rich and poor would be much worse than it is today/economy would be more efficient/there would be new, better-paying jobs if robots and computers were able to do much of the work currently being done by humans.

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PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

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PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY AND CORRUPTION AND THE PERFORMANCE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM

Author(s): Luminita Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

Following recent research on public perception of government accountability and corruption, we have identified and provided empirical evidence on the performance of the political system. Using data from Gallup and Transparency International, I investigate the empirical link between actual experiences and perceptions of corruption in the public sector among individuals, and highlight the relevance of public perceptions of corruption for citizens’ assessments of the standards and effectiveness of the political system. Being politically informed shapes perceptions of government corruption. Greater unambiguousness may generate inferior degrees of corruption and a climate contributing to long-term growth and advancement. I draw on Rose-Ackerman and Palifka (2016), D’Agostino et al. (2016), and You (2015) to illustrate my arguments concerning the institutional economics of public sector reform and its relationship with corruption. Corruption confines growth and suppresses confidence in government, whereas low growth and skepticism of the state invigorate and substantiate corruption. Corruption is adverse for economic and social advancement, and is likely to raise preferentiality.

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Testul X2 pentru compararea a k proporţii. Program aplicativ

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 28/2010

An important subcategory within statistical tests is constituted by the one refering to comparing several indicators. Courtesy of the tests from this category one compares statistical indicators resulting from several samples, highligthing the significance of the differences among these indicators. Χ2 test subsequently presented is used to verify the hypothesis of the equality of several proportions, and for its use a TURBO PASCAL procedure was created.

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Testul Cochran pentru compararea mai multor eşantioane. Program aplicativ

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 27/2010

Cochran Test constitutes a special method of assessing the homogeneity of several samples, in case the studied variable is dichotomical or can be dichotomized. The test is subsequently presented, and for its utilization a TURBO PASCAL procedure was created.

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Testul Link-Wallace pentru compararea a k medii. Program aplicativ

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 25/2010

Within the statistic poll, in case the statistic population is made of complex units, the sample is formed by extracting such units. The indicators of the poll are determined by synthesizing the indicators of each unit. One raises the question whether the indicators of these units are compatible, that is whether all the complex units are characteristic to the base population or not. The Link-Wallace test verifies the hypothesis of the equality of several averages from several samples of equal volumes.

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Q&A - In Search of the Perfect Interview

Author(s): Davian Vlad / Language(s): English Issue: 23/2009

This article is a theoretical overview of the concept of journalistic interview. The author approaches several important issues (e.g., the techniques of interviewing, the various types of interviews, the categories of questions).

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Determinarea drumului de valoare minima într-un graf cu ajutorul algoritmului Bellman-Kalaba; program aplicativ

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 14/2007

L'algorytme Bellman-Kalaba est utilisé pour determiner la voie optimale dans un réseau. Cet article propose un programme applicatif pour résoudre ce problème.

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Why Degressive Proportionality? An Argument from Cartel Formation

Author(s): Luc Bovens,Claus Beisbart / Language(s): English Issue: 12/2006

Dans cet article on présente un nouvel argument pour l'application de la proportionnalité dégressive dans les assemblées fédérales. Cet argument est basé sur l'idée que les états de la fédération sont vus comme des cartels d'unités sociales et que la formation des cartels ébranle l'égalité des utilités de chaque état. En créant un modèle probabilistique on montrera comment il faut établir les poids dégressivement proportionnels.

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Approach to Categorization and Labelling of Qualitative Data

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu,Adela Ionescu / Language(s): English Issue: 11/2006

As text databases become available to researchers, the limits to human cognition are rapidly reached. Focusing on examining objective realities, this paper introduces the latent categorization method, a novel new research method for analysis of large and midsize data sets. Based on extracting knowledge from existing representative data, it is a widespread method in social sciences, in sociological methodology, giving new techniques in the interpretive research of a discourse.

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Utilizarea variabilei lui Bernoulli în sondajul statistic - Program aplicativ

Author(s): Nicolae Vasilescu Capsali / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 09+10/2006

L'auteur présente les composantes, le fonctionnement et l'utilité d'un programme original qui offre la possibilité de déterminer les indicateurs spécifiques de la variable aléatoire de Bernoulli et de leur emploi dans le sondage statistique.

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Identificarea datelor afectate de erori aberante. Program aplicativ

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 18+19/2008

The statistical poll has become a very powerful tool of reality knowledge, interpretation and anticipation. Still, even with the accepted degree of error, poll results could be distorted. This is due, mostly, to the quality of data from the sample. In the present article we refer to two test to discover and eliminate the abherant values, and at the end, we present a program to apply these tests.

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Biserial correlation coefficient. Applicative program

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 24/2009

In practice, there are cases when we have to study the connection between a continuous variable and a discontinuous – dichotomous one. In these cases a biserial correlation coefficient is used. The prerequisite for the calculation of such a correlation coefficient is that the number of subjects n be greater or equal to 50. The next procedure describes the determination of this correlation coefficient.

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Identifying indicators of dynamics. Application Program

Author(s): Mihai Radu Costescu / Language(s): English Issue: 33+34/2012

The analysis of different social-economic phenomena is characterized by specific elements. Even the average level of a series can be determined in different ways, given the fact that time series can be either of intervals of time, or of certain moments of time. Also, estimating evolutionary trends is influenced by the real progress suggested by the considered time series. Thus, for an accurate analysis, it is necessary to determine indicators specific to the series of time, indicators that are summarized below. At the same time, in order to determine the set of specific indicators, a program was presented as a procedure that can be easily applied.

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Nuklearni trag detektori

Author(s): Bećo Pehlivanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 4-5/2015

The best known nuclear track detectors are cellulose nitrate films (LR-115 and CN-85, manufactured by Kodak-Pathé, France), polycarbonate (Makrofol, produced by BayerAG, Germany, and Lexan, produced by General Electric Co., USA), and allyl diglycol carbonate (CR-39, produced by American Acrylics and Plastics, USA). These detectors are completely insensitive to β-particles and γ-rays because higher energy is required to create a mark on the detector film.

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Metod određivanja minimuma funkcije bez upotrebe diferencijalnog računa

Author(s): Dragana Kovačević,Alma Šehanović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 2/2011

In this article we describe two methods of finding the minimum of function without derivatives. Fibonacci method and his special case, golden section method have been used. We have shown some examples of those methods as well as Mathematica module for Golden section method.

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SOKALOVA ”PSINA”. NOVA METODA ZNANSTVENE PRIJEVARE I NJEZINA RELEVANCIJA ZA SOCIOLOGIJU ZNANOSTI I KULTURE

Author(s): Darko Polšek / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 33+34/1998

In the spring double issue of the journal Social Text (1996), professor Alan Sokal, a physicist from New York University, published an article entitled Crossing the Borders: Towards A Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravitation. Immediately after its publication in the journal Lingua Franca, the author Alan Sokal announced that his article Crossing the Borders...is a scientific fraud. The aim of Sokal’s deception was to show the scientific incompetency of the journal’s editorial board, i.e. of a large group of scientists in the fields of cultural and social sciences, or even of the sciences themselves.

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