Author: eugene

Assignment about Oral history and biography

– Lynn Abrams, Oral History Theory: whole book.
– Ghislaine Boulanger, ‘The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Psychoanalysis and Oral History’, Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (New York 2014).
– Alessandro Portelli, The Oral History Interview (in Files)
– Selma Leydesdorff, The Narratives of the Survivors of Srebrenica (in Files)
– Deborah Possing, Historical Biography, p. 1-16
– Shirley A. Leckie, Why Biography Matters, p. 1-25
– Barbara Caine, Changing Biographical Practices
– Intersectionality

Explain The Use of Data and Social Media in Political Campaigns.

How were data and digital media/social media used in the Obama campaigns 2008 and 2012? Describe this briefly based on Biber (2014) and Nickerson and Rogers (2014).

2. Nickerson and Rogers (2014) present three categories of predictive scores in the voter database: behavior scores, support scores, and responsiveness scores. Describe these briefly.

3. What did you found most interesting in the paper by Nickerson and Rogers (2014) or in the paper by Biber (2014)?

4. How did Trump make use of data and digital media/social media and IT in one of his campaigns or both (2016 or/and 2020)? You can focus on one aspect of the campaign related to data and digital media/social media and discuss that. [Here you need to find your own source(s), and refer to it (them)in your anser]

5. What was the role of API (Application Programming Interface), such as Graph API, in Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica Affair related to the Trump campaign 2016? Describe briefly.

Describe the main challenges related to mobile public warning messages based on Bean et al.

4. Describe the main challenges related to mobile public warning messages based on Bean et al. (2015).

5. Discuss the relation between risk communication and crisis communication based on Bean et al. (2015).

6. Explain how health-related data in social media can be useful in times of an outbreak of a severe communicable disease. See Vorovchenko, Ariana, van Loggerenberg & Amirian (2017).

7. What did you find interesting, or surprised you, in the paper by Vorovchenko, Ariana, van Loggerenberg & Amirian (2017)?

8. Think of a situation that involves one of the following health threats and discuss how ICT can be used to deal with the public and/or global health concerns: *harmful levels of air pollution, *food or water contamination, or *a natural disaster. Refer to at least two of the four papers in your discussion.