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02/05/2023 OECD Ghent Sept 2016 1
‘Science Culture’ Indicators from Media Monitoring
Ahmet Suerdem (Bilgi, Istanbul)Martin W Bauer (LSE)
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02/05/2023 OECD Ghent Sept 2016 2
Fish tanks and their ambience
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Science is global, ‘science culture’ remains local
Science culture = a matter of mentality
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Background and project MACAS (mapping the cultural authority of science)
• Mass media: cultivation functions on public opinion -> cultural repository for understanding how public understand science.
• Trends in public opinion: surveys and polls• Automatized media monitoring short, regular
intervals without extra costs.• MACAS project aims to produce science culture
indicators through automatic content analysis of digital news
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Three project news corpora
1. MACAS media monitoring project [UK-Germany-India 1990-2013]: • Times –Mirror(UK)• Spiegel-Suddeutsche (Germany)• Times of India
2. Tubitak SMM project in Turkey [1999-2015]• Hurriyet
3. ‘Beyond’ UK news corpus [2000-2016]: biotechnology case study: attention, salience, sentiment, structure
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Intensity of science news
UK GERMANY
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Specific topics
UK
TR
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Disciplines [OECD]
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Beyond MACAS: Need for an open access Science in the Media Monitoring system:
• Early detection of adverse events: feed-back for the policy makers, science communicators and citizens• Artificial intelligence technologies: to
construct indicators to monitor public attitudes towards science and technology through media data.
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Methodological steps: 1. Crawling the web for corpus construction2. Cultural indicators (Gerber, 1969)
1. Media attention2. Saliency3. Sentiment analysis 4. Structure
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1. Corpus construction: Issues In Automatic crawling:• Web as a corpus “surrogate”: low level of
control on data. • Massive document collections on a wide
range of topics representing different jargons. • Not just automatizing the keyword search:
an intelligent and actionable corpus construction strategy is needed
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Biotechnology corpus
Selection of the newspapers: popular or quality press; left or conservative worldviews; leader or follower, high or low readerships. Opinion leaders with high readership (Telegraph (quality) and Daily Mail (popular). Selecting the news: Determining the keywords is a challenging task as these are not only grammatical categories but also social categories representing the thematic focus of the study. Ontological approach:We have organized the ontology into the following core conceptual facets: Generic (i.e. genome), organisms (i.e. enviropig), applications (i.e. cloning), and peripheral facets related disciplines (i.e biomedicine), biology (i.e. genetics), tools (ie Bioreactor), companies (Celera), and organizations (i.e. OECD).
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Cultural Indicators1. Media attention:.
Words: existential problems such as regenerative medicine and aging
Bigrams: “decoding the mystery of life”
Named entities: private or public biotechnology research
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Regenerative medicine
the creation of stem cells by therapeutic cloning based on human embryonic stem cells .develop new sources of parent stem cells , to treat serious diseases therapeutically useful human stem cells be cloned for research on the use of stem cells for therapies.huge potential of embryonic stem cells to alleviate suffering.
Economic prospectsnew technique offers the prospect of GM crops tailor-made for specific situationsBASF included the nptII gene in their GM potato. The gene will help protect the science shows overwhelmingly that GM crops will help to ease world hunger before concluding that GM crops would not benefit the Third World however , that GM technology will lead to more efficien has urged government to embrace GM food as the only way to feed the
Concordances: how stem cells and GM are represented in the text
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2. Emphasis: Density of biotechnology topic between 2000-2015
GM debate, Dolly
Stem cells from mouse embryos
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telegraph dailymail
Saliency of biotechnology compared to all news in different newspapers
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3. Tendency: “Fashion cycle” ?
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regenerative medicine (stem, cell, research, patient, human, body, heart, blood, tissue, disease); gene therapy (gene, therapy, genetic, disease, immune, patient, treatment, virus, ); stem cell controversy (stem, cell, research, scientist, human, embryo, egg, genetic disease, treatment); human genome research (human, genome, research, scientist, gene, sequence, genetic, DNA, code, life); commercial biotechnology (drug, companies, market, fund, biotechnology, science, research, medical, treatment, world) GM controversy (GM, food, crops, plant, agriculture, product, research, technology, animals, gene).
4. Structure: LDA TOPIC DETECTION
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Change in intensity of biotechnology topics (2000-2015)
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