Collaborating Groups/Centres
IndiaInstitute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi (INDIA) The Indian team, led by Prof. Rajesh Shukla, built capacity of undertaking public understanding of science research for over decade. Among others, two distinguished scholarly contributions include the publications of First India Science Report (2005) and First Indian Youth Report (2010) These reports are based on national surveys to provide a more holistic image of how the relationship between the public and S&T is changing to gauge the ‘scientific temper’ and public understanding. Indian team has been interacting with LSE since 2002, and co-organised the Royal Society meeting of November 2007. Additional data arise in North and Central India and hence a ‘cultural distance’ model of public understanding of science has been developed. Researchers:
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Institute for Human Development Phones: + 91 – 11 – 23358166, 23321610 |
Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) At Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI, India), Dr. K.N. Singh develops statistical/mathematical data mining models based on supervised/unsupervised learning, to mine the web contents and other texts. The textual data sources can range from text to semi-structured text (html, xml and others) and include formats that are open source (Open Document) and proprietary formats (Microsoft Word). Data mining on text has been called statistical text processing, knowledge discovery, intelligent text analysis, or natural language processing, depending on the application and the methodology used. Text mining tasks include topical classifying of documents (supervised learning), grouping documents on similarity (clustering or unsupervised learning), finding documents (information retrieval), and feedback about a specific technology (classification).These techniques of ontological data mining and databases will also be used in this project network.Researchers:
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Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Phone: 91 11 2584 7121 |
Europe (France, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands)LSE-STePS (London School of Economics, Institute of Social Psychology, Science, Technology and the Public Sphere Group) The London team (LSE-STePS), led by Martin W Bauer, conducts comparative research on large scale surveys of public attitudes to science (Bauer; Gaskell). (Post)doctoral researchers work with their global databases of attitudes to science and mass media coverage of science and technology (see Bauer et al, 2006; Bauer, 2007; Bauer & Gaskell, 2002l; Bauer, 1998; Petkova et al. 1997). Recent work focussed on values in scientific controversies (Gaskell) and on longitudinal analysis of attitude change (Bauer). Researchers:
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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies (LiLi), Bielefeld University The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies (LiLi) was founded in 1972. Its goals were interdisciplinary right from the very beginning, and it has always emphasized the connection between theoretical-systematic and practical applied research perspectives. The LiLi Faculty collaborates to a major extent in a number of larger research networks and projects including the MA Programme Interdisciplinary Media Studies and a working group ‘Science – Media – Public Sphere’. One of the main research interests of this group is ‘Science, Media and the Public’. Researchers:
Born 1986, is studying Educational Science (Diplom: equivalent to master’s degree) at Bielefeld University. In MACAS he is assisting Petra Pansegrau in the data analysis of German media. Beside he is an active member at the political organization SJD – Die Falken. jroesing@uni-bielefeld.de
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Bielefeld University |
Other Countries(if applicable) from Europe or South AsiaOBSERVA SCIENCE IN SOCIETY, Italy THE PROJECT/RESEARCH THAT IS LINKED TO MACAS The Observa (link: www.observa.it) team is working both on the side of media monitoring and on the side of indicators based on data derived from surveys. Concerning media monitoring, Observa realized an automated ICT system for tracking science and technology issues in the digital media. The system’s architecture is able to be adapted to different languages and topics, and to collect different sources of information (like online newspapers, blogs and others). It consists of a database, a query system for tagging S&T articles that can be adapted to different languages, and of a Web interface for users’ queries. The research team is made up of Science and Technology Studies Scholars and ICT experts, and has developed extensive multidisciplinary knowledge combining together science-society relationship, textual analysis and information retrieval. At the moment our database is collecting contents from different Italian online newspapers starting from 2008, and from 2013 of several Italian blogs and from three International English speaking newspapers, but can be expanded for new and other sources, like for example Twitter and social media. A demo of the system is accessible via web starting from here: www.observa.it/science-in-the-media-monitor/ As regards surveys, we are working on two main aims: OBSERVA SCIENCE IN SOCIETY STAFF
Nicoletta Parise, researcher
Andrea Lorenzet, researcher
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OBSERVA – Science in Society tel/fax: +39 0444 305454 |
Istanbul Bilgi University, Business Administration In Turkey (Bilgi University), Professor Ahmet Suerdem analyses political discourse sing qualitative techniques, network formalism, and their integration with quantitative echniques. His research shows how textual meaning networks is embedded in patterns of institutional and social practices, as in the comparison of populist and technocratic discourses (Suerdem 2009); social simulations (Suerdem and Albayrak 2009); mapping policy actors into policy discourse communities (Suerdem 2010) and discursive construction of GMO-related risk perceptions (Suerdem and Veltri forthcoming). Researchers:
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Istanbul Bilgi University,
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Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSK-BAS)
The Institute for the Study of Societies and Knowledge at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (ISSK-BAS) is the main national research centre in the field of social sciences. The Institute employs a staff of 107 scholars. Among its research priorities are: knowledge society and innovations; science, education and modernization of society; public understanding of science; lifelong learning; sustainable development; The Institute issues three academic peer reviewed journals.. ISSK has participated in a number of research projects relevant to the present project, among which: “Audio Visual Science Audience. A Comparative Study”, FP 7, 2008-10; “Towards a Lifelong Learning Society in Europe: The Contribution of the Education System” (FP 6, 2005-11); “Periods of Modernization of Society and Public Understanding of Science: 1945-1995” National Scientific Fund, and others Researchers: Prof. DSc Kristina Petkova |
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
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