Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Synchiropus splendidus: "REMINDER: Workshop Series on Text Based Methods | Session 4, featuring Jennifer Pan," * 'Thanks for your excellent presentation today. Here are the questions I asked in the text chat. What do you think?' * Am reminded of Manuel Castells’ book “Communication Power” (2009/2013): “The core argument presented in this book is that power relationships, the foundation of the institutions that organize society, are largely constructed in people’s minds through communication processes.”

Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

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Dear Professor Jennifer Pan,

Thanks for your excellent presentation today. Here are the questions I asked in the text chat. What do you think?

Sincerely, Scott

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Thanks, excellent, Jennifer,!

How do you theorize power?

Am reminded of Manuel Castells’ book “Communication Power” (2009/2013): “The core argument presented in this book is that power relationships, the foundation of the institutions that organize society, are largely constructed in people’s minds through communication processes.” (2013: xix) … where power is “the relational capacity that enables a social actor (CGTN?) to influence asymmetrically the decisions of other social actor(s) in ways that favor the empowered actor’s will, interests, and values. Power is exercised by means of coercion (or the possibility of it) and/or by the construction of meaning on the basis of the discourses through which social actors guide their actions” (10). In what ways would you approach these 4 framing narratives on CGTN on Twitter (https://twitter.com/CGTNGlobalBiz?) differently, if you examined questions of (your) 'sharp power' or 'soft power' conceptions with the above understandings of 'power' per Castells? How would you measure or assess 'power' in different ways, as a consequence if at all? Thanks so much, Jennifer! Scott MacLeod, sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org - @WorldUnivAndSch, Languages - World Univ - @sgkmacleod). Thank you!

For your presentation, do your 'sharp power' and 'soft power' conceptions relate to Castells' coercion or meaning approaches to power?

Best regards, and thank you,

Scott

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A Workshop Series on
Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis
Topic: Reframing China: The Counter-Narrative Strategies of Chinese State Media on Twitter

Speaker:
Jennifer Pan
Assistant Professor of Communication
Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University

Moderated by:
Steven J. Davis
Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Justin Grimmer
Professor, Department of Political Science at Stanford University
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Tuesday, August 17, 2021
9:00 am - 10:30 am Pacific

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Jennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication, and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford University. Her research resides at the intersection of political communication and authoritarian politics, showing how authoritarian governments try to control society, how the public responds, and when and why each is successful. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, and Science. Pan received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government, and her A.B. from Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs.

Steven J. Davis is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He studies business dynamics, labor markets, and public policy. He advises the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, co-organizes the annual Asian Monetary Policy Forum, and is co-creator of the Economic Policy Uncertainty Indices and the Survey of Business Uncertainty. Davis has appeared on BBC, Bloomberg TV, Channel News Asia, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC Network News, the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System.

Justin Grimmer is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, elections, and developing new machine-learning methods for the study of politics.

ABOUT THE SERIES
The Hoover Institution seminar series on Using Text as Data in Policy Analysis features applications of natural language processing, structured human readings, and machine learning to examine policy issues in economics, history, national security, political science, and other fields. The seminar is organized by Steven Davis and Justin Grimmer.

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