Thinking Through Levees: How Political Agency Extends Beyond the Human Mind

Bergmann, Nicolas T.; McEvoy, Jamie; Shanahan, Elizabeth A.; Raile, Eric D.; Reinhold, Ann Marie; Poole, Geoffrey C.; Izurieta, Clemente

doi:10.1080/24694452.2019.1655387

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“…These three communities–Livingston, Miles City, and Glendive–were chosen because they border the Yellowstone River and had all experienced significant riverine floods recently despite manmade levees intended to protect infrastructure. Regardless of these commonalities, these communities have different relationships with the river, including varying recreational and economic opportunities (Shanahan et al, 2018c; Bergmann et al, 2020). The purposive sampling procedure aimed to achieve a sample with individuals from a range of affected sectors in the communities.…”

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Persuasion with Precision: Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Instrument Fidelity for Risk Communication Experimental Treatments

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Izurieta

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Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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Instrument fidelity in message testing research hinges upon how precisely messages operationalize treatment conditions. However, numerous message testing studies have unmitigated threats to validity and reliability because no established procedures exist to guide construction of message treatments. Their construction typically occurs in a black box, resulting in suspect inferential conclusions about treatment effects. Because, a mixed methods approach is needed to enhance instrument fidelity in message testing research, this article contributes to the field of mixed methods research by presenting an integrated multistage procedure for constructing precise message treatments using an exploratory sequential mixed methods design. This work harnesses the power of integration through crossover analysis to improve instrument fidelity in message testing research through the use of natural language processing (NLP).

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Persuasion with Precision: Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Instrument Fidelity for Risk Communication Experimental Treatments

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et al. 2022

Journal of Mixed Methods Research

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“…The empirical organisation of the volume will undoubtedly make it a useful teaching aid, and a helpful compendium of reference points for those seeking orientation. But recent conceptual contributions by geographers to the critical study of technology, such as work in new materialist traditions on the agential force of technological artefacts (Barry, 2013; Bergmann et al, 2020), gets less visibility.…”

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Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

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2020

Progress in Human Geography

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In a world of accelerating environmental crises, global pandemics and seemingly unstoppable datafication of anything that moves, thinks or feels, the politics of science and technology are pervasive. In this first of three progress reports on the geographies of science and technology, I home in on some definitional questions which an account of anything like a new or emerging subfield must necessarily concern itself. I examine how geographers have addressed the spatial effects of the making and unmaking of boundaries between science, technology and their various outsides. While work on historical and contemporary geographies of technoscience has often pulled in slightly different directions, I identify some promising convergences around questions of political economy and on the topic of scale as an emergent property of technoscientific practices. New attention is also falling on the spatial practices through which technoscience gets plugged into wider worlds, such as politics and policymaking, while geographers have also been busy disrupting, in a more experimental mode, conventional boundaries and hierarchies of technoscientific practice. Finally, the report examines recent and welcome efforts to convene new conversations around the geography of technology but cautions against the potential seduction of the new, the innovative and the ‘disruptive’. Important recent work in cultural geography has purposively unsettled assumed hierarchies of ‘high’ and ‘low’ tech, new and old, and suggests that any nascent subfield of ‘geography of technology’ needs to reflexively attend to how boundaries get drawn around ‘technology’, and with what effects.

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“…The Yellowstone River flows ~1100 km from its source in northwestern Wyoming to its confluence with the Missouri River in western North Dakota (Fig 1). The Yellowstone River poses flood threats to communities along the river [56, 57]. The present study involves discussion of flooding in three of these Montana communities–Livingston, Miles City, and Glendive.…”

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Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communication

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IntroductionWhereas scientists depend on the language of probability to relay information about hazards, risk communication may be more effective when embedding scientific information in narratives. The persuasive power of narratives is theorized to reside, in part, in narrative transportation.PurposeThis study seeks to advance the science of stories in risk communication by measuring real-time affective responses as a proxy indicator for narrative transportation during science messages that present scientific information in the context of narrative.MethodsThis study employed a within-subjects design in which participants (n = 90) were exposed to eight science messages regarding flood risk. Conventional science messages using probability and certainty language represented two conditions. The remaining six conditions were narrative science messages that embedded the two conventional science messages within three story forms that manipulated the narrative mechanism of character selection. Informed by the Narrative Policy Framework, the characters portrayed in the narrative science messages were hero, victim, and victim-to-hero. Natural language processing techniques were applied to identify and rank hero and victim vocabularies from 45 resident interviews conducted in the study area; the resulting classified vocabulary was used to build each of the three story types. Affective response data were collected over 12 group sessions across three flood-prone communities in Montana. Dial response technology was used to capture continuous, second-by-second recording of participants’ affective responses while listening to each of the eight science messages. Message order was randomized across sessions. ANOVA and three linear mixed-effects models were estimated to test our predictions.ResultsFirst, both probabilistic and certainty science language evoked negative affective responses with no statistical differences between them. Second, narrative science messages were associated with greater variance in affective responses than conventional science messages. Third, when characters are in action, variation in the narrative mechanism of character selection leads to significantly different affective responses. Hero and victim-to-hero characters elicit positive affective responses, while victim characters produce a slightly negative response.ConclusionsIn risk communication, characters matter in audience experience of narrative transportation as measured by affective responses.

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Thinking Through Levees: How Political Agency Extends Beyond the Human Mind

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

Persuasion with Precision: Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Instrument Fidelity for Risk Communication Experimental Treatments

Persuasion with Precision: Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Instrument Fidelity for Risk Communication Experimental Treatments

Geographies of science and technology 1: Boundaries and crossings

Characters matter: How narratives shape affective responses to risk communication

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