Ranked #1
A quantitative approach to framing in political speech by Dr Eyal Sagi
A quantitative approach to framing in political speech by Dr Eyal Sagi
Eyal Sagi talks about framing in political speech. The example he uses is The War on Terror and whether terror can be fr... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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12mins
Ranked #2
Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions by Professor Christine Mahoney and Dr Heike Kluver
Framing policy debates in the EU: new techniques to answer old questions by Professor Christine Mahoney and Dr Heike Kluver
Heike Kluver talks about whether quantitative text analysis can be used to systematically study framing policy debates i... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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12mins
Ranked #3
Geography in a Web 3.0 World by Dr Andy Hudson-Smith
Geography in a Web 3.0 World by Dr Andy Hudson-Smith
Andy Hudson-Smith talks about using volunteered geographic information from social media for research.
5 Jul 2012
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39mins
Ranked #4
Geovisualisation, spatial analysis and simulation by Dr Nick Malleson
Geovisualisation, spatial analysis and simulation by Dr Nick Malleson
Nick Malleson talks about how to simulate urban phenomena, especially crime, and how to use new kinds of data to improve... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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24mins
Ranked #5
Happiness and welfare with changing preferences by Professor Sayantan Ghosal
Happiness and welfare with changing preferences by Professor Sayantan Ghosal
Sayntal Ghosal talks about the use of happiness data as a measure of disadvantage, and his work on poverty traps and asp... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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49mins
Ranked #6
Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data by Professor Kenneth Benoit and Dr Will Lowe
Human validation of latent trait scaling from textual data by Professor Kenneth Benoit and Dr Will Lowe
Will Lowe talks about extracting political information from legislative speech: learning about policy agenda and positio... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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14mins
Ranked #7
International journal of social research methodology lecture: The vicissitudes of methods by Professor Andrew Abbott
International journal of social research methodology lecture: The vicissitudes of methods by Professor Andrew Abbott
Andrew abbott talks about the turnover of various methods in sociology over the last sixty years, attempting to consider... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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54mins
Ranked #8
Is there a single "right" way to study political text? Legislative hearings on monetary policy, as viewed from three different perspectives by Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Is there a single "right" way to study political text? Legislative hearings on monetary policy, as viewed from three different perspectives by Dr Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey talks about researching the quality of the monetary policy deliberation.
5 Jul 2012
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15mins
Ranked #9
Key lecture: Choosing and combining units by Professor Laura Stoker
Key lecture: Choosing and combining units by Professor Laura Stoker
Decisions about units of observation, of analysis, and of measurement are central to research design. This talk by Laura... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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51mins
Ranked #10
Key lecture: Now you see it now you dont by Professor Gillian Rose
Key lecture: Now you see it now you dont by Professor Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose examines the extraordinary growth in visual methods over the last decade or so across all the social scienc... Read more
5 Jul 2012
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54mins