1) Conservation issues and policy are not widely discussed or attracting much attention on Weibo based on low average reposting frequencies compared to other topics.
2) The study identified 5 frames of discussion including a policy frame, which is dominated by government discourse.
3) Attention to conservation policy increased in October corresponding to the inclusion in China's 5-year plan, but was low for specific May and September policies. Local discussions were more common than national.
This study finds support for agenda melding and further validates the Network Agenda Setting (NAS) model through a series of computer science methods with large datasets on Twitter. The results demonstrate that during the 2012 U.S. presidential election, distinctive audiences “melded” agendas of various media differently. “Vertical” media best predicted Obama supporters’ agendas on Twitter whereas Romney supporters were best explained by Republican “horizontal” media. Moreover, Obama and Romney supporters relied on their politically affiliated horizontal media more than their opposing party’s media. Evidence for findings are provided through the NAS model, which measures the agenda-setting effect not in terms of issue frequency alone, but also in terms of the interconnections and relationships issues inside of an agenda.
This document discusses a topic modeling analysis of tweets from members of the 113th US Congress. The analysis aimed to identify patterns in party messaging and how individual members adopted or diverged from party messages. Topic modeling of over 180,000 tweets from 522 members identified 40 topics. Results showed that while members discussed a wide range of issues, both Democratic and Republican party accounts focused more on a few key messaging topics. However, some members diverged from party stances on certain issues like ISIL and Keystone pipeline.
IRJET - Political Orientation Prediction using Social Media ActivityIRJET Journal
This document discusses research into predicting the political orientation of Twitter users based on their social media activity. The researchers aim to incorporate factors like tweets, retweets, followers, followees, and network connections to better understand how political views are expressed and shaped on Twitter. Prior studies that have analyzed political bias in media outlets and the spread of information across partisan networks on social media are reviewed. The researchers describe collecting and analyzing Twitter data including tweets, retweets, mentions, followers and who a user follows to predict individual users' political leanings.
R. Nishida, 2018, Post Truth Politics and Recent Media Matters in Japan, JSPS seminar “Media, migration and nationalism: Comparing European and Asian Experiences and Perspectives” in Arts Chiyoda, 20, Sep.
Strayer pad 540 week 2 assignment 1 position paper newBartholomee
pad 540 week 2 assignment position paper,pad 540 week 2 discussion the costs of globalization,stayer pad 540 week 2,pad 540 week 2,stayer pad 540 week 2 tutorial,stayer pad 540 week 2 assignment,stayer pad 540 week 2 help
Through content analysis of their coverage on a large-scale media event, this paper examines the difference of agendas set by traditional media (represented by newspapers) and new media (represented by micro-blogs) in China. The results show that the agendas discussed by the Chinese people on micro-blogs are not significantly influenced by newspapers. In terms of the topics of the news, newspapers are more concerned with the Chinese economy and people's livelihood while micro-blogs are more concerned with political and legal reforms in China. As for media tone, newspapers are more likely to cover the event positively while micro-blogs tend to be negative. These findings that the Chinese government may be incapable of exercising their traditionally strong media agenda influence over newer digital media suggest that Chinese citizens, or netizens, may enjoy more freedom of speech in micro-blogging.
Zhang, G., Bowman, N. D., Shao, G., & Guan, D. (2015, May). “The people dissent, or The People’s consent?” Comparing news agendas of traditional and new media surrounding a large-scale Chinese political event. Paper presented at the International Communication Association, Puerto Rico.
Building a Connected Stance: Motivation and Engagement in Asynchronous Discus...Susan Wegmann
This presentation was delivered Oct. 29, 2009 at the Sloan C conference in Orlando. It presents a description of the Connected Stance and the moves that occur during the enactment of a connected stance.
The document discusses the concept of "indexical cycles" in sociolinguistics. It describes indexical cycles as the process where the meanings associated with linguistic variants become more visible through metapragmatic discourse, leading the meanings to then shift and become conventionalized for a new indexical meaning. Several examples are provided, such as how "dude" in American English has cycled through meanings relating to clothing, gender, and stance over time. The document also discusses how indexical cycles relate to the concept of "indexical order" in renewing systems of indexicality through constant semantic shifts.
This study finds support for agenda melding and further validates the Network Agenda Setting (NAS) model through a series of computer science methods with large datasets on Twitter. The results demonstrate that during the 2012 U.S. presidential election, distinctive audiences “melded” agendas of various media differently. “Vertical” media best predicted Obama supporters’ agendas on Twitter whereas Romney supporters were best explained by Republican “horizontal” media. Moreover, Obama and Romney supporters relied on their politically affiliated horizontal media more than their opposing party’s media. Evidence for findings are provided through the NAS model, which measures the agenda-setting effect not in terms of issue frequency alone, but also in terms of the interconnections and relationships issues inside of an agenda.
This document discusses a topic modeling analysis of tweets from members of the 113th US Congress. The analysis aimed to identify patterns in party messaging and how individual members adopted or diverged from party messages. Topic modeling of over 180,000 tweets from 522 members identified 40 topics. Results showed that while members discussed a wide range of issues, both Democratic and Republican party accounts focused more on a few key messaging topics. However, some members diverged from party stances on certain issues like ISIL and Keystone pipeline.
IRJET - Political Orientation Prediction using Social Media ActivityIRJET Journal
This document discusses research into predicting the political orientation of Twitter users based on their social media activity. The researchers aim to incorporate factors like tweets, retweets, followers, followees, and network connections to better understand how political views are expressed and shaped on Twitter. Prior studies that have analyzed political bias in media outlets and the spread of information across partisan networks on social media are reviewed. The researchers describe collecting and analyzing Twitter data including tweets, retweets, mentions, followers and who a user follows to predict individual users' political leanings.
R. Nishida, 2018, Post Truth Politics and Recent Media Matters in Japan, JSPS seminar “Media, migration and nationalism: Comparing European and Asian Experiences and Perspectives” in Arts Chiyoda, 20, Sep.
Strayer pad 540 week 2 assignment 1 position paper newBartholomee
pad 540 week 2 assignment position paper,pad 540 week 2 discussion the costs of globalization,stayer pad 540 week 2,pad 540 week 2,stayer pad 540 week 2 tutorial,stayer pad 540 week 2 assignment,stayer pad 540 week 2 help
Through content analysis of their coverage on a large-scale media event, this paper examines the difference of agendas set by traditional media (represented by newspapers) and new media (represented by micro-blogs) in China. The results show that the agendas discussed by the Chinese people on micro-blogs are not significantly influenced by newspapers. In terms of the topics of the news, newspapers are more concerned with the Chinese economy and people's livelihood while micro-blogs are more concerned with political and legal reforms in China. As for media tone, newspapers are more likely to cover the event positively while micro-blogs tend to be negative. These findings that the Chinese government may be incapable of exercising their traditionally strong media agenda influence over newer digital media suggest that Chinese citizens, or netizens, may enjoy more freedom of speech in micro-blogging.
Zhang, G., Bowman, N. D., Shao, G., & Guan, D. (2015, May). “The people dissent, or The People’s consent?” Comparing news agendas of traditional and new media surrounding a large-scale Chinese political event. Paper presented at the International Communication Association, Puerto Rico.
Building a Connected Stance: Motivation and Engagement in Asynchronous Discus...Susan Wegmann
This presentation was delivered Oct. 29, 2009 at the Sloan C conference in Orlando. It presents a description of the Connected Stance and the moves that occur during the enactment of a connected stance.
The document discusses the concept of "indexical cycles" in sociolinguistics. It describes indexical cycles as the process where the meanings associated with linguistic variants become more visible through metapragmatic discourse, leading the meanings to then shift and become conventionalized for a new indexical meaning. Several examples are provided, such as how "dude" in American English has cycled through meanings relating to clothing, gender, and stance over time. The document also discusses how indexical cycles relate to the concept of "indexical order" in renewing systems of indexicality through constant semantic shifts.
Discussion 1 Please review the chapter once again. Chapter 1 is a.docxcuddietheresa
Discussion 1: Please review the chapter once again. Chapter 1 is a guide for the rest of the book. The book is a compilation of articles that have been selected to address the topics that are addressed in the course. This chapter is a roadmap for the rest of the course. Although we are not going to be reading all of the articles, we see that the chapters that are included in our reading in the course do address the topics of importance that are outlined in the chapter.
Discussion 2: Please answer the following two questions in your main posting this week.
Do you agree or disagree with the skills and competencies that have been identified in the article this week.
What did the authors miss if anything?
Discussion 3: Describe the different ways in which policy models are used.
What are the key lessons for policy modeling, according to this paper?
Based on the examples that are provided, do you agree that these models would be useful? Please explain why or why not.
Discussion 4: Please find a total of 4 websites that are related to modeling policy with simulations. These can be and include eGovPoliNet and others that have been mentioned in the papers, readings or videos. They can be community-based, software based, or other, but make sure they are related to the topics that we are discussing this week.
Please describe the purpose of the website.
What you learned from visiting the website.
Anything else what you want to describe.
Discussion 5: Please find a video from any source that is sharable and post this in the main discussion. The video should cover a technology adoption theory. A technology adoption theory is a theory that is used to describe how and why technology is adopted. Additionally, write a short introduction which describes the theory that the video is covering and why you think this is valuable for discussion this week.
Discussion 6: Question: How would social media affect the early adoption of eco-farming in the 1980’s if it was available in that time period? What are the different ways that it could be applied? Who would be the stakeholders?
Public Administration and Information
Technology
Volume 10
Series Editor
Christopher G. Reddick
San Antonio, Texas, USA
[email protected]
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10796
[email protected]
Marijn Janssen • Maria A. Wimmer
Ameneh Deljoo
Editors
Policy Practice and Digital
Science
Integrating Complex Systems, Social
Simulation and Public Administration
in Policy Research
2123
[email protected]
Editors
Marijn Janssen Ameneh Deljoo
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Faculty of Technology, Policy, and
Management Management
Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology
Delft Delft
The Netherlands The Netherlands
Maria A. Wimmer
Institute for Information Systems Research
University of Koblenz-Landau
Koblenz
Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-12783-5 ISBN 978-3-319-12784-2 (eBook)
Public Administration and Information ...
Using Twitter to Measure Global Engagement on Climate Change - Project OverviewUN Global Pulse
Global Pulse developed a real-time social media monitor to measure and explore online discourse about climate change in support of the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014. The publicly accessible monitor analysed tweets in English, Spanish and French on a daily basis to show the volume and content of tweets about climate change across a range of topic areas such as economy and energy. Measuring and visualising public tweets over time created a baseline of engagement, and showed a significant increase in discussions about climate change around the Climate Summit. By providing a tool for comparing interest level between topics and regions, and monitoring the social media impact of climate-related public communications and events, the monitor could be used to measure awareness, support climate policy decision-making and to drive further public engagement.
Cite as: "Using Twitter to Measure Global Engagement on Climate Change', Global Pulse Project Series", no.7, 2014
America Saves Week 2013 eXtension Social Media Project Final Report With Data...Barbara O'Neill
104 Cooperative Extension educators participated in a social media outreach project for America Saves Week. They posted 100 tweets and Facebook messages each promoting savings tips. The project employed multiple evaluation methods including tracking hashtags, surveys, and click data. Survey results found the messages were helpful and 83% clicked on links. Participants' social media influence increased as measured by Klout and PeerIndex scores. The project was successful in promoting savings messages through social media.
AI in the Social Sciences Presentation April Heyward
April Heyward gave an invited talk titled "AI in the Social Sciences" for the Hawaii Data Science Institute on how she employs Artificial Intelligence in her research.
This document proposes a method to quantify the political leaning of Twitter users based on their tweet and retweet activity. It formulates the inference of political leaning as a convex optimization problem that incorporates two ideas: (1) a user's tweets and retweets should be consistent in sentiment, and (2) similar users tend to be retweeted by similar audiences. The method is evaluated on 119 million election-related tweets from the 2012 US presidential election and achieves 94% accuracy in classifying frequently retweeted sources. A quantitative analysis of the tweets also finds that parody accounts and less vocal users are more likely to be liberal, while hashtags usage changes significantly with political events.
America Saves Week 2014 eXtension Mini Grant Project-Final Report-03-14Barbara O'Neill
The 2014 America Saves Week mini-grant project involved developing and delivering two webinars on saving strategies, hosting four Twitter chats on saving topics, promoting six animated saving videos, and coordinating a social media outreach campaign. Over 1,000 tweets were generated through the hashtag #eXASw, and thousands of Facebook posts were estimated to have been shared. Surveys found that participants and their followers found the messages helpful and some reported joining America Saves or planning to. The project was successful in raising awareness about saving through multiple social media channels.
History Of Louisiana Department Of Transportation And...Amanda Burkett
The document discusses Louisiana's Complete Streets policy, which aims to address infrastructure issues and improve pedestrian and cycling safety. Following devastating hurricanes in 2005, Louisiana had over $12 billion in needed road repairs. In 2009, the Louisiana Department of Transportation convened a work group to develop a Complete Streets policy to consider all road users and recommend future actions. However, pedestrian fatalities remained high, indicating more safety measures were needed in city planning. The policy aims to improve infrastructure while enhancing safety for all modes of transportation.
FLOOD RISK REDUCTION 1
Flood-Risk Reduction
Student’s Name: Rodney Martinez
Institution’s Name: CSU
Date: 06/01/17
Introduction
Floods have a far-reaching negative implication on the people and the society as a whole. Unpredictable climatic changes have led to the occurrence of flooding which is usually accompanied by massive destruction of properties and infrastructure (Knox, 1993). Disaster preparedness education can help equip the citizens and inhabitants of flooding-prone areas to take precautionary measures to avoid massive losses (Thieken, Kreibich, Muller & Merz, 2007). Flooding is a catastrophe for the residents as it causes the destruction of properties, causes transmission of waterborne disease and also results in the loss of lives. Flood risk reduction strategies comprise of rationally sound approaches that aim to counter the adverse effects of the floods.
Background
Floods distress most citizens and render most of them homeless. Historically, my hometown is a flood-risk area since there are previous positive flood histories. Flooding has cost the town economically as it scares away investors. Therefore, investing in flood mitigation will have a significant positive impact as it will directly reduce the losses that usually result with the occurrence of this calamity. The incorporation into practice of the various strategies will ensure that the people are no longer affected by the floods and that they are fully prepared before the onset (Fortin, 2009).
Key issues for commencing the risk reduction project
Floods impacts on the people and the community and have socioeconomic and environmental consequences. The magnitude of these consequences is dependent on the extent of flooding and the value of the environmental damage that results. Key reasons for commencing this particular project was to reduce the adverse effects such as loss of lives, damage to properties and infrastructures, destruction of crops and the deterioration of health status of individuals that occur as a result of waterborne infections (Merz & Thieken, 2004). Floods cause disruption of industrial activities that leave people economically vulnerable; therefore the proper preparation of the masses will counter all this.
The main stakeholders involved
For the successful participation of the public in flood managements, various groups must actively participate so as to actualize the strategies. The different key players include:
1. Government ministries. The primary objective of the government is to ensure the wellbeing of the citizens. They participate by administering incentives and devising strategies (Tobin & Calfee, 2005).
2. Communities are the major stakeholders. The inclusion of community representative members will ensure that their interests are identified. The programs are tailored to cater for the specific unmet needs of these flood-prone communities (Tobin & Ca ...
Stock market prediction using Twitter sentiment analysisIJRTEMJOURNAL
In a study, it was investigated relationship among stock market movement and Tweeter feed
content. We are expecting to see if there is connection among sentiment information extracted from the Tweets
using a Vader in predicting movements of stock prices. As a result it was obtained strong positive correlation with
a coefficient of correlation to be 0.7815.
Stock market prediction using Twitter sentiment analysisjournal ijrtem
ABSTRACT : In a study, it was investigated relationship among stock market movement and Tweeter feed content. We are expecting to see if there is connection among sentiment information extracted from the Tweets using a Vader in predicting movements of stock prices. As a result it was obtained strong positive correlation with a coefficient of correlation to be 0.7815.
KEYWORDS : correlation, financial market, polarity, sentiment analysis, tweets
This document discusses how to properly identify and state a research problem by introducing the broad subject matter and narrowing it down to a specific research question. It covers how to write the background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, and scope and delimitations. The goal is to establish a clear research problem and questions to guide the rest of the research process.
This document provides guidelines for formatting a thesis or dissertation for submission to the Graduate School of Pangasinan State University. It includes specifications for pagination, chapter headings, theoretical frameworks, conceptual frameworks, statements of the problem, research hypotheses, scopes and delimitations, significance of the studies, and definitions of terms. Key requirements include using roman numerals for preliminaries and Arabic numerals for the body, providing theoretical justification, outlining a conceptual framework diagram, specifically stating research problems and sub-problems, and defining important terms. The document aims to standardize thesis/dissertation formatting for the Graduate School.
Analyzing Attitudes Towards Biofuels with Social Media - Project OverviewUN Global Pulse
This project analysed how public perceptions of and attitudes towards biofuels in the UK and Germany evolved other a period of three years, from 2013 to 2015. The project analysed around 350,000 public tweets from the UK and 35,000 tweets from Germany about biofuels to understand whether any changes occurred in the balance between statements for and against the use of biofuels.
This paper examines the Federal Reserve System’s dissemination of information strategy to see how well it has worked and how it can be improved. The System provides information to a broad spectrum of individuals and organizations (such as, but not limited to, the Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, consumer and community groups, analysts, bankers, investors, researchers and academics, financial institutions regulated by the System, the media, and the general public), referred to as "stakeholders". This information covers an array of subjects with varying degrees of importance and impact on monetary and public policy and economic conditions
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Public Administration and Information
Technology
Volume 10
Series Editor
Christopher G. Reddick
San Antonio, Texas, USA
[email protected]
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10796
[email protected]
Marijn Janssen • Maria A. Wimmer
Ameneh Deljoo
Editors
Policy Practice and Digital
Science
Integrating Complex Systems, Social
Simulation and Public Administration
in Policy Research
2123
[email protected]
Editors
Marijn Janssen Ameneh Deljoo
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Faculty of Technology, Policy, and
Management Management
Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology
Delft Delft
The Netherlands The Netherlands
Maria A. Wimmer
Institute for Information Systems Research
University of Koblenz-Landau
Koblenz
Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-12783-5 ISBN 978-3-319-12784-2 (eBook)
Publ.
The Economic And Social Development Plan in Thailand since 1961 focused on economic development through expanding natural resources and the labor force. This led to growth in production, exports, employment, and income. However, issues arose from prioritizing income generation without regard for environmental and social costs. Less attention was given to developing human potential and local culture. In 1998, a seminar was held to generate ideas for Thailand's future development that envisioned a self-sufficient society respecting human rights.
The document discusses the Sense4us toolkit which aims to help policymakers make more informed decisions by analyzing social media, open data sources, and modeling policy problems. It describes the different components of the Sense4us toolkit, including tools for topic analysis of social media, sentiment analysis, cognitive mapping of policy issues, and simulation of policy options. The document also discusses challenges in using social media and open data to inform policymaking and demonstrates how Sense4us addresses these challenges through various case studies and examples.
ECSM2014: Using Social Media To Inform Policy Making: To whom are we listenin...Miriam Fernandez
This document analyzes social media data related to policy topics collected from Twitter over a one week period. It finds that a small number of users, mainly news agencies and organizations, contribute the majority of content. The average user discussing policy on Twitter is more active than typical users. Discussion is geographically concentrated in regions with high population densities. A few topics, like privacy and minimum wage, received extensive discussion, while most topics were underrepresented. Sentiment analysis found that genetic engineering, immigration, and political donations received more negative sentiment, while privacy and fracking had more mixed positive and negative sentiment. The study is limited to one platform, language, time period and has scarce geo-location data for tweets.
Discussion 1 Please review the chapter once again. Chapter 1 is a.docxcuddietheresa
Discussion 1: Please review the chapter once again. Chapter 1 is a guide for the rest of the book. The book is a compilation of articles that have been selected to address the topics that are addressed in the course. This chapter is a roadmap for the rest of the course. Although we are not going to be reading all of the articles, we see that the chapters that are included in our reading in the course do address the topics of importance that are outlined in the chapter.
Discussion 2: Please answer the following two questions in your main posting this week.
Do you agree or disagree with the skills and competencies that have been identified in the article this week.
What did the authors miss if anything?
Discussion 3: Describe the different ways in which policy models are used.
What are the key lessons for policy modeling, according to this paper?
Based on the examples that are provided, do you agree that these models would be useful? Please explain why or why not.
Discussion 4: Please find a total of 4 websites that are related to modeling policy with simulations. These can be and include eGovPoliNet and others that have been mentioned in the papers, readings or videos. They can be community-based, software based, or other, but make sure they are related to the topics that we are discussing this week.
Please describe the purpose of the website.
What you learned from visiting the website.
Anything else what you want to describe.
Discussion 5: Please find a video from any source that is sharable and post this in the main discussion. The video should cover a technology adoption theory. A technology adoption theory is a theory that is used to describe how and why technology is adopted. Additionally, write a short introduction which describes the theory that the video is covering and why you think this is valuable for discussion this week.
Discussion 6: Question: How would social media affect the early adoption of eco-farming in the 1980’s if it was available in that time period? What are the different ways that it could be applied? Who would be the stakeholders?
Public Administration and Information
Technology
Volume 10
Series Editor
Christopher G. Reddick
San Antonio, Texas, USA
[email protected]
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10796
[email protected]
Marijn Janssen • Maria A. Wimmer
Ameneh Deljoo
Editors
Policy Practice and Digital
Science
Integrating Complex Systems, Social
Simulation and Public Administration
in Policy Research
2123
[email protected]
Editors
Marijn Janssen Ameneh Deljoo
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Faculty of Technology, Policy, and
Management Management
Delft University of Technology Delft University of Technology
Delft Delft
The Netherlands The Netherlands
Maria A. Wimmer
Institute for Information Systems Research
University of Koblenz-Landau
Koblenz
Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-12783-5 ISBN 978-3-319-12784-2 (eBook)
Public Administration and Information ...
Using Twitter to Measure Global Engagement on Climate Change - Project OverviewUN Global Pulse
Global Pulse developed a real-time social media monitor to measure and explore online discourse about climate change in support of the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014. The publicly accessible monitor analysed tweets in English, Spanish and French on a daily basis to show the volume and content of tweets about climate change across a range of topic areas such as economy and energy. Measuring and visualising public tweets over time created a baseline of engagement, and showed a significant increase in discussions about climate change around the Climate Summit. By providing a tool for comparing interest level between topics and regions, and monitoring the social media impact of climate-related public communications and events, the monitor could be used to measure awareness, support climate policy decision-making and to drive further public engagement.
Cite as: "Using Twitter to Measure Global Engagement on Climate Change', Global Pulse Project Series", no.7, 2014
America Saves Week 2013 eXtension Social Media Project Final Report With Data...Barbara O'Neill
104 Cooperative Extension educators participated in a social media outreach project for America Saves Week. They posted 100 tweets and Facebook messages each promoting savings tips. The project employed multiple evaluation methods including tracking hashtags, surveys, and click data. Survey results found the messages were helpful and 83% clicked on links. Participants' social media influence increased as measured by Klout and PeerIndex scores. The project was successful in promoting savings messages through social media.
AI in the Social Sciences Presentation April Heyward
April Heyward gave an invited talk titled "AI in the Social Sciences" for the Hawaii Data Science Institute on how she employs Artificial Intelligence in her research.
This document proposes a method to quantify the political leaning of Twitter users based on their tweet and retweet activity. It formulates the inference of political leaning as a convex optimization problem that incorporates two ideas: (1) a user's tweets and retweets should be consistent in sentiment, and (2) similar users tend to be retweeted by similar audiences. The method is evaluated on 119 million election-related tweets from the 2012 US presidential election and achieves 94% accuracy in classifying frequently retweeted sources. A quantitative analysis of the tweets also finds that parody accounts and less vocal users are more likely to be liberal, while hashtags usage changes significantly with political events.
America Saves Week 2014 eXtension Mini Grant Project-Final Report-03-14Barbara O'Neill
The 2014 America Saves Week mini-grant project involved developing and delivering two webinars on saving strategies, hosting four Twitter chats on saving topics, promoting six animated saving videos, and coordinating a social media outreach campaign. Over 1,000 tweets were generated through the hashtag #eXASw, and thousands of Facebook posts were estimated to have been shared. Surveys found that participants and their followers found the messages helpful and some reported joining America Saves or planning to. The project was successful in raising awareness about saving through multiple social media channels.
History Of Louisiana Department Of Transportation And...Amanda Burkett
The document discusses Louisiana's Complete Streets policy, which aims to address infrastructure issues and improve pedestrian and cycling safety. Following devastating hurricanes in 2005, Louisiana had over $12 billion in needed road repairs. In 2009, the Louisiana Department of Transportation convened a work group to develop a Complete Streets policy to consider all road users and recommend future actions. However, pedestrian fatalities remained high, indicating more safety measures were needed in city planning. The policy aims to improve infrastructure while enhancing safety for all modes of transportation.
FLOOD RISK REDUCTION 1
Flood-Risk Reduction
Student’s Name: Rodney Martinez
Institution’s Name: CSU
Date: 06/01/17
Introduction
Floods have a far-reaching negative implication on the people and the society as a whole. Unpredictable climatic changes have led to the occurrence of flooding which is usually accompanied by massive destruction of properties and infrastructure (Knox, 1993). Disaster preparedness education can help equip the citizens and inhabitants of flooding-prone areas to take precautionary measures to avoid massive losses (Thieken, Kreibich, Muller & Merz, 2007). Flooding is a catastrophe for the residents as it causes the destruction of properties, causes transmission of waterborne disease and also results in the loss of lives. Flood risk reduction strategies comprise of rationally sound approaches that aim to counter the adverse effects of the floods.
Background
Floods distress most citizens and render most of them homeless. Historically, my hometown is a flood-risk area since there are previous positive flood histories. Flooding has cost the town economically as it scares away investors. Therefore, investing in flood mitigation will have a significant positive impact as it will directly reduce the losses that usually result with the occurrence of this calamity. The incorporation into practice of the various strategies will ensure that the people are no longer affected by the floods and that they are fully prepared before the onset (Fortin, 2009).
Key issues for commencing the risk reduction project
Floods impacts on the people and the community and have socioeconomic and environmental consequences. The magnitude of these consequences is dependent on the extent of flooding and the value of the environmental damage that results. Key reasons for commencing this particular project was to reduce the adverse effects such as loss of lives, damage to properties and infrastructures, destruction of crops and the deterioration of health status of individuals that occur as a result of waterborne infections (Merz & Thieken, 2004). Floods cause disruption of industrial activities that leave people economically vulnerable; therefore the proper preparation of the masses will counter all this.
The main stakeholders involved
For the successful participation of the public in flood managements, various groups must actively participate so as to actualize the strategies. The different key players include:
1. Government ministries. The primary objective of the government is to ensure the wellbeing of the citizens. They participate by administering incentives and devising strategies (Tobin & Calfee, 2005).
2. Communities are the major stakeholders. The inclusion of community representative members will ensure that their interests are identified. The programs are tailored to cater for the specific unmet needs of these flood-prone communities (Tobin & Ca ...
Stock market prediction using Twitter sentiment analysisIJRTEMJOURNAL
In a study, it was investigated relationship among stock market movement and Tweeter feed
content. We are expecting to see if there is connection among sentiment information extracted from the Tweets
using a Vader in predicting movements of stock prices. As a result it was obtained strong positive correlation with
a coefficient of correlation to be 0.7815.
Stock market prediction using Twitter sentiment analysisjournal ijrtem
ABSTRACT : In a study, it was investigated relationship among stock market movement and Tweeter feed content. We are expecting to see if there is connection among sentiment information extracted from the Tweets using a Vader in predicting movements of stock prices. As a result it was obtained strong positive correlation with a coefficient of correlation to be 0.7815.
KEYWORDS : correlation, financial market, polarity, sentiment analysis, tweets
This document discusses how to properly identify and state a research problem by introducing the broad subject matter and narrowing it down to a specific research question. It covers how to write the background of the study, statement of the problem, significance of the study, and scope and delimitations. The goal is to establish a clear research problem and questions to guide the rest of the research process.
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Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of ACES, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How much does the public care about conservation policy in China?
Empirical Evidence from Weibo (Chinese Twitter) Microblogs
Finding #1: Conservation issues are not attracting much
public attention, and the public is not actively participating
in conservation policy discourse
Evidence: Table 1 shows a low median and
mean value, and a high standard deviation
value. Plus, we compare this statistics to
recent high trend topics in Weibo, which
have more than 500 average reposting
frequency per messages.
The pie chart also shows the second
argument.
Finding #2: Conservation topics the public is discussing
on Weibo
Finding #3: Conservation policy per se (May & Sep) is not
attracting public attention, but vagueness of policy
discourse does not appear to be a reason for this.
Finding #4: More policy relevant discussions at a local
level than a national level, but the government discourse
still dominates the overall discussions.
Though at a local level, conservation relevant policies mainly
stand for the government. So it is unlikely to have public
pressure to push the government and impact the conservation
policy
Result
Conservation discourse on social media
New social media like Weibo can have an agenda-setting effect:
they influence the issues people think about and suggest how
they should think about them (McComb, 2005).
Weibo characteristics:
- Largest microblogging platform: least 249 million users
with a 38% “netizen” use ratio.
- Relatively higher credibility than some traditional mass
media.
- An increasingly democratic space.
However, compared to other issues (e.g. air pollution) that
have put pressure on the government, conservation likely less
popular. So, we hypothesize:
H1: Conservation does not feature prominently in discussions
on Weibo, and conservation policy discourse on Weibo is
seldom led by citizens.
Ecological Civilization and Chinese Conservation Policy
The majority of conservation policies are under the umbrella of
the principle of “Ecological Civilization.” 2015 was a watershed
year for this principle:
The new Ecological Civilization policy in 2015 (May &
September policy) may not be very effective on its own in
influencing the public agenda, because:
- Discourse about this policy has been broad and vague;;
- Chinese public finds formal environmental regulations an
unreliable reference for actual practice;;
- The government continues to have low credibility.
So we hypothesize that:
H2: The government conservation policy discourse on
Ecological Civilization updated in May and September 2015 will
not attract much public attention.
Background & Hypotheses
Conclusion and Next Steps
The overall objective of this study is to analyze the relationship
between social media and conservation (ecosystem protection)
discourse and policy in China. We used Weibo (Chinese Twitter)
data to respond to the following questions:
(1) To what extent were conservation issues and relevant policies
discussed on Weibo and how were these issues framed?
(2) Is there any evidence of the influence of conservation policy
discourse on public discussion of conservation issues?
Objective
Weibo’s limitations of representing the public in general:
- Overall represents young, low education level people
- People may not choose Weibo to talk about conservation
issues
- Government censorship: messages that are critical of the
government are usually deleted in Weibo
Time period:
- longer time period of data required to better understand
trends and changes in conservation discourse on Weibo
Limitations
Policy:
e.g.: policies, laws,
governmental
discourse
Action:
e.g.: appeals to
praising the actions
Awareness:
e.g.: slogans /
knowledge
Fact:
e.g.: scientific facts /
news
Tourism:
e.g.: scientific facts /
news
(Public) Opinion
Achievement
Implementation
Strategy
Frames:
Policy Sub-frames:
2007
Origin
… 2015.5
2015.9
2015.10…
Opinions on Promoting
Ecological Civilization
Construction
Integrated Reform Plan
for Promoting Ecological
Civilization
Officially as a part of
13th Five-Year Plan
(2016-2020)
Public discussion at the local level
On-line discussion between citizens and government are
likely to be more salient at the local level than in a
national level because:
- Citizens tend to care about their surrounding
ecosystem and specific places
- Citizens have tighter relationship to local government
compared to the central government
So we hypothesize that:
H3: Public discussion of conservation issues and policy
will be greater at the local level than the national level.
Max Median Mean Minimum
#
less
than
100
Std
Dev
Total 4891 27 103 10 295 339
High trend topics in WeiboMa Jun (A environmentalist)’s Weibo Website
Sampling:
• Keyword search: “ecology (生态)” AND “protect (保护),”
• Select messages with more than10 times reposting frequency
(to focus on more popular Weibo messages).
• In total: 355 Weibo messages (January to October, 2015).
Framing:
• We summarized the content for each of the messages in our
sample to identify several categories of frames used. These
frames represent the themes or main points emphasized.
• We focused on Weibo messages relevant to conservation
policies or other related government discourse. Messages that
contain such content categorized into the “policy frame.”
• We further categorized messages in the “policy frame” into
several “sub-frames” to identify the attributes of conservation
policy relevant messages.
Other Variables:
• Public discussionin Weibo is described by:
• Popularity of a frame (2 indicators):
- Reposting frequency of all messages in a frame;;
- Total number of the messages in a frame;;
• Message content diversity within a frame (1 indicator):
- Total number of messages.
• Government / citizens’stance in the policy frame.
• Time: messages in Weibo are highly dynamic.
• Vagueness expression of messages in the policy frame (3
point scale): 1 point: specific; 3 points: very vague.
• National / local level of messages in the policy frame.
Testing Hypotheses:
• For H1, we (1) analyze the descriptive statistics of reposting
frequency for all messages in our sample, and (2) compare it to
other high trend topics in Weibo. We (3) further compare
reposting frequency and total messages in policy frame that
stands for the government and citizens’stance.
• For H2, we (1) analyze the changes of reposting frequency
and total number for messages in policy frame. The unit of time
is accurate to “month”. If these two indicators have a
significantlyhigher value around October than May and
September, then it supports our H2. We (2) also pay attention
to the dynamic change of these two indicators for the total
messages that we collect. This may reveal some relationship
between public discussions on conservation in total and its
government discourse that worth further research. To test
whether the vagueness expression is associated with public’s
attention on conservation government discourse, we (3) run a
chi-square test of independence.
• For H3, we compare reposting frequency for messages that
stand at a local level and local level in policy frame.
Data and Methods
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2
4
Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the reposting frequency of conservation
relevant Weibo messages collected (n=355)
government
78%
citizens
22%
Proportion of messages that
represent citizens’ and
government’s stance in the
policy frame.
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
1 2 3Proportionof
repostingfrequency Vagueness Level
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
RepostingFrequency
Month
Total Policy Frame
In this figure, even the policy
discourse in Weibo is very
vague (level 3), it still has high
reposting frequency.
May and September has a very low reposting frequency
in policy frame. In October, there is a rapid growth. This
shows that what the public care about is the Five-year
Plan.
A relatively high reposting frequency of total messages
from July to October, and the trend of the dynamic
change reposting frequency of total messages is very
similar to the policy frame.
Acknowledgements
Public attention (represent by reposting
frequency) to policy frame is the lowest,
though the sum message number is high.
We identify five
frames in total
and four sub-
frames under
the “policy
frame”, which
reveal the main
themes of
conservation
discussions in
Weibo.
National
38%Local
62%
Proportion of messages at a
local level and national level in
the policy frame.
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
4500
Government
stance
Citizens' stance
RepostingFrequency
National Local
This figure shows even though at a local level,
messages in policy frames that at the government
stance are dominant. Lack of public attention on
conservation policies that stand for the citizens’ interest.
Discussion of conservation policy and issues is present on Weibo,
but remains relatively limited. New five-year plan may change public
interest and discussion on conservation.
Weibo data provide an interesting and potentially important window
into public understanding of and interest in conservation.
Future steps:
- Look for a longer time to observe the dynamic change of
conservation policy messages in Weibo (2009 – 2016);;
- Use “Big data” analysis methods to do framing
Thoughtful comments on an earlier draft of this paper by
Dr. Lulu Rodriguez and Dr. Anton Endress are gratefully
acknowledged.
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