Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere

Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere

This article reports on a research program that has developed new methodologies for mapping the Australian blogosphere and tracking how information is disseminated across it. The authors improve on conventional web crawling methodologies in a number of significant ways: First, the authors track blogging activity as it occurs, by scraping new blog posts when such posts are announced through Real...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

Mapping the Factors Affecting Public Budget Anomalies

This research has introduced a concept called anomaly of the public budget of the country and its causes. Anomaly of the budget is any objective and non-objective deviances, violation of the major plans of a society, creation of abnormal behaviors that cause a lack of zero balance of operational balance, balance of capital assets and balance of financial assets, and, consequently, instability o...

alternative citizen media and the public sphere

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Gamification in the Public Sphere

Those in the community of gaming theory and practice have pigeonholed gamification as a term. It is generally considered that it means applying gaming principles to non-gaming environments. Gaming theorists like Richard Bartle, wedded to his dated MUD model of gamers, speak out against gamification with passion, setting out why it never works and how videogames stand in their own right. Those i...