An examination of the international telecommunication network

Barnett, George A.; Jacobson, Thomas L.; Choi, Young Eun; Sun-Miller, Sulien

doi:10.1080/13216597.1996.9751833

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“…The results from the study are in line with the World System theory (Wallerstein, 1974;Chase-Dunn & Grimes, 1995;Barnett, Jacobson, Choi, & Sun, 1996) and Galtung's (1971) Structural Theory of Imperialism. These theories suggest that the world order is manifested in a central-peripheral pattern.…”

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Measuring international relations in social media conversations

Barnett

Chu

et al. 2017

Government Information Quarterly

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oThis paper examines international relations as perceived by the public in their social media conversations. It examines over 1.8 billion Facebook postings in English and 51 million Chinese posts on Weibo, to reveal the relations among nations as expressed in social media conversations. It argues that social media represent a transnational electronic public sphere, in which public discussions reveal characteristics of international relations as perceived by a foreign public. The findings show that the international relations in social media postings match the core-peripheral structure proposed in the World Systems Theory. Additionally, the relations are associated with the amount of news coverage and public attention a country receives. Overall, the study demonstrates the value of webometric data in revealing how international relations are perceived by average citizens.

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Measuring international relations in social media conversations

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Government Information Quarterly

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“…Thus, this perspective places an emphasis on the asymmetry of global web visibility between North and South (Barnett and Park 2005;Chase-Dunn and Grimes 1995;Lee et al 2007), which resonates with Wallerstein's world-system theory (Wallerstein 1974). The world-system theory posits that nations' economic development can be best understood by considering the systematic ways in which societies are connected to one another within the context of a global network of finance and trade (Barnett et al 1996;Barnett and Park 2005). In a similar vein, research on global web visibility has documented that information exchanges or connections can be described using three structurally equivalent categories-the core, the periphery, and the semi-periphery-which are determined by the level of economic development (Barabasi 2002;Barnett and Choi 1995;Barnett and Park 2005).…”

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Exploring the web visibility of world-class universities

Lee

Park

2011

Scientometrics

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With the rapid development of the Internet, there is a need for evaluating the public visibility of universities on the Internet (i.e., web visibility) in terms of its implications for university management, planning, and governance. The data were collected in December 2010 by using Yahoo, one of the most widely used search engines. Specifically, we gathered ''Single Mention'' data to measure the number of times that each university was mentioned on websites. In addition, we collected network-based data on Single Mentions. We obtained another data set based on the 2010 world university rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). We employed several analytical methods for the analysis, including correlations, nonparametric tests (e.g., the Mann-Whitney test), and multidimensional scaling (MDS). The significant positive correlation between university rankings and web visibility suggests that indicators of web visibility can function as a proxy measure of conventional university rankings. Another distinctive implication can be drawn from the pattern of a disparity in web visibility stemming from the linguistic divide, that is, universities in English-speaking countries dominated the central positions in various network structures of web visibility, whereas those in non-English-speaking countries were located in the periphery of these structures. In this regard, further research linking web visibility to university management, planning, and governance is needed.Keywords Web visibility Á Webometrics Á World university rankings The ''education gospel'' glorifying the key role of education in national economic competitiveness (Grubb and Lazerson 2004) has driven a new international race of higher education over the last decades.

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“…A series of previous studies (Barnett, Jacobson, Choi, & Sun-Miller, 1996;Chase-Dunn & Grimes, 1995;Kim & Barnett, 1996;Maoz, 2010;Maoz, Terris, Kuperman, & Talmud, 2007;Nemeth & Smith, 1985;Snyder & Kick, 1979) demonstrated the benefits of network analysis in understanding the world's political and economic systems, the position of countries and transnational interactions. Network analysis has also been used to chart and display structure and flow of International and intercultural Communications (Barnett, 2001;Barnett & Lee, 2002;Barnett & Sung, 2005;Lee, Monge, & Matei, 2007;Monge & Contractor, 2003;Park, Barnett & Chung, 2011;Smith, 1999;Yum, 1984Yum, , 1988.…”

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Counter Publicity of Kurdish Women Journals: ROZA as an Alternative Media Exam

Tahincioğlu¹,

Ova²

2015

RJMC

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This study measures the presence of Spain in online news worldwide as an example of the significance of economic news in a globalizing, interdependent environment. Employing the ´Global Salience Meter` based on a multilingual news-mining technique, Spain´s relative prominence was traced over 43 months in 35 leading news sites in 10 languages. Our findings reveal a growing online attention given to Spain, especially in the business section of European digital news outlets. Network analysis of country co-mentions finds that together with European countries, Spain is frequently mentioned together with the US and international organizations. This reflects the underlying regional and global economic structures and ties related to the European economic recession. More generally it points to the increasing connectedness of the world´s economies and the world´s online news reporting.

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An examination of the international telecommunication network

Cited by 49 publications

References 23 publications

Measuring international relations in social media conversations

Measuring international relations in social media conversations

Exploring the web visibility of world-class universities

Counter Publicity of Kurdish Women Journals: ROZA as an Alternative Media Exam

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