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SporttiParlamenttiKausi 2.Jakso 8 Golf Vieraana Nicke Kaajavirta ja Rasmus HögströmÄänessä: MTOP ja RD Ääniteknikko: Mikko Niiranen. Musiikki: J.Pellikka / M.Niiranen
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KeywordsA Study About Smiling Politicians That Doesn’t Make You SmileFemale political candidates smile more than their male colleagues, Marc Jungblut and Mario Haim show in a new study.That’s not a problem itself, but the dilemma is if a certain way of presenting yourself is putting you into a box, says Jungblut. This is the “double bind” that female candidates might face: either they are "too" warm and compassionate – typical feminine stereotypes – to be associated with the common traits associated with a strong leader, or they counter these stereotypes – and face a backlash.A low female representation in the European parliament set off the...
2021-10-0533 minKeywordsSci-Hub Founder Alexandra Elbakyan Believes Open Science Is the Only WayAlexandra Elbakyan is enjoying wide recognition by scientists all over the world. She is the creator of Sci-Hub, an online library for millions of research papers – for free. Every day, half a million users use the site. In the process of making knowledge open to everyone, she has gained many enemies as well.In this episode of Keywords, Elbakyan explains her motives behind Sci-Hub and her plans with the portal for the future.Keywords: Sci-Hub, science, open access, knowledge• Resources Elbakyan's personal website with articles by her: https://sci...
2021-08-1014 minKeywordsWhat 25.000 Images Say About Arab Feminism@i_love_my_cheetah, @koodiz, @Sondos_aq, @thehala and @themayaahmad are hugely popular social media influencers in the Middle East. These women caught the interest of researcher Zoe Hurley, after hearing of them from her students at the all-female university in Dubai.Despite skeptics, who belittled the relevance of Instagram as a point of inquiry in social sciences, Hurley collected nearly 25.000 Instagram posts by the influencers. What emerged was an analysis of how these women represent themselves in a space still dominated by patriarchy, traditionalism and Islam. This is the story of how t...
2021-07-0639 minKeywordsBonus: Rhys and Louise Explain Discourse AnalysisIn this bonus episode, the researchers behind the study of the C.I.A. on Twitter explain how they used discourse analysis as a tool for unraveling the fascinating reasons behind the agency’s online presence.Topics on this episode:• Critical theory• Discourse analysis• Quantitative vs. qualitative• Research questions Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-05-1220 minKeywordsThe C.I.A. – The Funny, Open and Young InstitutionThe C.I.A. is down with the kids. Since 2014, the agency has been an active tweeter on social media, posting short bursts of light, humorous and self-referential content. In a fresh study, Rhys Crilley and Louise Pears have scrutinized the tweets and analyzed the humorous side of the agency that’s constructed. The C.I.A. being active on Twitter is a natural continuum in the agency’s history of infiltrating itself into pop culture. In doing so, the agency can own parts of its narrative, thus hiding the darker corners of its actions.
2021-05-1234 minKeywordsBabies Are Everywhere Online. But Who Asked Them?Major events in life call for photos, starting from immortalizing pregnancy and birth to depicting everyday life. In the 21st century, the family album is now online, containing photos of children. This is what the emerging field of studies on parental practices on social media call sharenting. Today, there are more than 199 million posts on Instagram tagged #baby, followed by nearly 82 million for #babygirl and 65 million for #babyboy.Anna Brosch, who is a PhD from the University of Silesia in Katowice in Poland, is a pioneer in studying the parental practice of posting pictures and texts...
2021-04-0939 minKeywordsBonus: Tali Explains Her Qualitative ResearchIn this bonus segment of episode 1, Tali Aharoni tells me more about how she conducted the research with the young Israelis avoiding news. If you’re a student embarking on a journey doing research on your own, you might find this helpful in explaining what that inductive method really is. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-03-1609 minKeywordsMeet the News AvoidersFor the past year we have been glued to the newsfeed. In this exercise we now call doomscrolling we keep on refreshing the news about the pandemic on and on. What does this do to our sanity? It might be helpful to actually avoid news nowadays.In this inaugural episode of Keywords, Tali Aharoni, who is a PhD student at the Hebrew university of Jerusalem, tells about news avoidance. She has recently published a study with her colleagues on news avoiding youth in Israel. We will hear more about why the young israelis are avoiding news – not be...
2021-03-1635 minKeywordsGotta Love ResearchThe world is a confusing place. The only thing I know for certain is that I know nothing. That’s why i love research! It gives us a deeper understanding about the world. Keywords is a homage to science and the people behind it. In every episode, I call a researcher somewhere in the world to talk about a study they have conducted. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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