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Staking Cosmopolitan Claims: How Firms and NGOs Talk About Supply Chain Responsibility
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) increasingly hold firms responsible for harm caused in their supply chains. In this paper, we explore how firms and NGOs talk about cosmopolitan claims regarding supply chain responsibility (SCR). We investigate the language used by Apple and a group of Chinese NGOs as well as Adidas and the international NGO Greenpeace about the firms' environmental responsibilities in their supply chains. We apply electronic text analytic methods to firm and NGO reports totaling over 155,000 words. We identify different conceptualizations of cosmopolitanism in this discourse: a legalistic approach to cosmopolitanism for Apple and a group of Chinese NGOs and a moralistic approach for Adidas and Greenpeace. We argue that these differences connect to the roles that the firms are expected and perhaps willing to take in SCR: legalistic discourse connects to a governmental function of rule development and enforcement; in contrast, moralistic discourse connects to a citizenship function that focuses on doing good to the global community. We discuss implications for companies' non-market strategies and future research.
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Machine Translation: Mining Text for Social Theory
More of the social world lives within electronic text than ever before, from collective activity on the web, social media, and instant messaging to online transactions, government intelligence, and digitized libraries. This supply of text has elicited demand for natural language processing and machine learning tools to filter, search, and translate text into valuable data. We survey some of the most exciting computational approaches to text analysis, highlighting both supervised methods that extend old theories to new data and unsupervised techniques that discover hidden regularities worth theorizing. We then review recent research that uses these tools to develop social insight by exploring (
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) collective attention and reasoning through the content of communication; (
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) social relationships through the process of communication; and (
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) social states, roles, and moves identified through heterogeneous signals within communication. We highlight social questions for which these advances could offer powerful new insight.
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INTERSEMIOTICITY AND MULTIMEDIA: TRANSITION FROM TRADITIONAL TO ELECTRONIC TEXTS
The article looks into such features of modern electronic texts as intersemioticity and multimedia nature. Studying these features is essentially a new stage in researching intertextual relations; hence the article first turns to non-electronic texts, presenting on their basis the theoretical grounds of the notions in question, and only then proceeds to electronic texts tracing the evolution of the traditional conception of text. Electronic texts are regarded as multimodal, i.e. resulting from the synthesis of diverse semiotic objects and joining text and media in one syntagm. In order to distinguish the most common combinations of text and media, to explore the reasons why users combine them, and to establish their percentage ratios, the authors have conducted a social and linguistic study, whose results are analyzed in the article.
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Stockhausen : der Mann, der vom Sirius kam
\"Karlheinz Stockhausen gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Insbesondere als Pionier der elektronischen Musik erlangte er ab Mitte der 1950er-Jahre Bekanntheit und schuf Klänge, die man nie zuvor gehört hatte. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten strahlten seine radikalen Neuerungen und Kompositionen, seine avantgardistischen Orchester- und Bühnenwerke weit über Deutschland hinaus und nicht zuletzt auch in die Popkultur - zu seinen Bewunderern zählten die Beatles und Miles Davis. \"Der Mann, der vom Sirius kam\" nähert sich Karlheinz Stockhausen ebenso kundig wie persönlich: Erzählt wird die mehrphasige Geschichte der Stockhausen-Verehrung des jugendlichen Thomas von Steinaecker, die den Leser*innen darüber hinaus die bewegte Biografie des kontroversen Komponisten nahebringt\"--Publisher.
Child-Parent Research Reimagined
Child-Parent Research Reimagined challenges the field to explore the meaning making experiences and the methodological and ethical challenges that come to the fore when researchers engage in research with their child, grandchild, or other relative. As scholars in and beyond the field of education grapple with ways that youth make meaning with digital and nondigital resources and practices, this edited volume offers insights into nuanced learning that is highly contextualized and textured while also (re)initiating important methodological and epistemological conversations about research that seeks to flatten traditional hierarchies, honor youth voices, and co-investigate facets of youth meaning making. Contributors are (in alphabetical order): Charlotte Abrams, Sandra Schamroth Abrams, Kathleen M. Alley, Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis, Molly Kurpis, Linda Laidlaw, Guy Merchant, Daniel Ness, Eric Ness, \"E.\" O'Keefe, Joanne O'Mara, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie, Sarah Prestridge, Lourdes M. Rivera, Dahlia Rivera-Larkin, Nora Rivera-Larkin, Alaina Roach O'Keefe, Mary Beth Schaefer, Cassandra R. Skrobot, and Bogum Yoon.
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Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology
Emerging Standards for Enhanced Publications and Repository Technology serves as a technology watch on the rapidly evolving world of digital publication. It provides an up-to-date overview of technical issues, underlying the development of universally accessible publications, their elemental components and linked information. More specifically it deals with questions as how to bring together the communities of the Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) and the Common European Research Information Format (CERIF). Case studies like EGEE, DILIGENT and DRIVER are analyzed, as well as implementations in projects in Ireland, Denmark and The Netherlands. Interoperability is the keyword in this context and this book introduces to new standards and to concepts used in the design of envelopes and packages, overlays and feeds, embedding, publishing formats and Web services and serviceoriented architecture. It is a must-read for quick and comprehensive orientation.
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