This section of Resonance presents thought-provoking questions, and discusses answers a few months later. Readers are invited to send new solutions old ones comments, ‘Think It Over’, Resonance, Indian Academy Sciences, Bangalore 560 080. Items illustrating ideas concepts will generally be chosen.

Members of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) and its secretariat met and corresponded with the research team at LSE Consulting in order to develop and steer this research project. However, the robustness of the analysis is the responsibility of the authors, and the findings and views presented in this report do not necessarily reflect those of the MAC.

With the rapid proliferation of social media, more and more people freely express their opinions (or comments) on news, products, and movies through online services such as forums, discussion groups, and microblogs. Those comments may be concerned with different aspects (topics) of the target Web document (e.g., a news page). It would be interesting to align the social comments to the correspon...

Online news agents provide commenting facilities for their readers to express their opinions or sentiments with regards to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a news article may be indicative of its importance, interestingness, or impact. We explore the news comments space, and compare the log-normal and the negative binomial distributions for modeling comments from various ne...

Online news agents provide commenting facilities for their readers to express their opinions or sentiments with regards to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a news article may be indicative of its importance, interestingness, or impact. We explore the news comments space, and compare the log-normal and the negative binomial distributions for modeling comments from various ne...

The publication process is a shared responsibility. Besides the writing, reviewing, publishing, and editorial teams, readers are one of the most important pillars of this process. Readers and authors cannot be dealt with separately, because most of the readers are authors. The varieties of articles and improvement in presentations reflect the rising interest and enthusiasm of writers and reader...

Providing a brief concluding chapter to a very comprehensive and data-rich volume is a challenging task. This also proved to be the case in making some concluding comments to the conference on which this volume is based. In this final chapter, we seek to combine comments made in summing up the conference with some broad-brush attempts to encapsulate key issues that have been raised, both by con...

Media reporting of science has consequences for public debates on the ethics of research. Accordingly, it is crucial to understand how the sciences of the brain and the mind are covered in the media, and how coverage is received and negotiated. The authors report here their sociological findings from a case study of media coverage and associated reader comments of an article ('Does bilingualism...