In diesem Beitrag wird das Vorhaben Entwicklungskommunikation – Communication for Social Change (EC4SC) vorgestellt, das im Institut fur Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft der Universitat Leipzig angegliedert und durch das Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) gefordert ist. Dieses langfristig ausgerichtete Vorhaben, das im Januar 2019 startete, zielt darauf ab, das Forschungsfeld „Communication for Social Change“ (C4SC), auch unter dem Namen „Entwicklungskommunikation” bekannt, sowohl in der Forschung, als auch in der Lehre der deutschen Kommunikationswissenschaft aufzubauen und zu etablieren. Dafur wird als Teil des Vorhabens das gleichnamige Forschungszentrum EC4SC etabliert. Entwicklungskommunikation ist in anderen Landern (etwa USA, Grosbritannien, Schweden und Norwegen) bereits seit Langem entweder als Studienprogramm oder als Forschungsfeld etabliert.
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Topic fatigue is a potential reaction to news topics that the media covers intensively. Recipients experiencing topic fatigue are annoyed and state that they do not want to hear or see anything about such topics anymore. As potential outcome, they strive to avoid such topics during their future news exposure. In this essay, we discuss the question of whether topic fatigue is an international problem. Based on initial empirical insights obtained via qualitative interviews, we establish four theses that underline the international meaning of the phenomenon. First, we argue that the level of press freedom can shape the intensity of topic fatigue and that fatigue experiences can be extreme in countries with low press freedom. Second, we discuss topic fatigue as a potential threat to political transitions and democratization processes. Third, we propose that topic fatigue may reinforce resentments against western societies. Regarding this point, the role of the international media in particular for English-peaking, non-western countries is addressed. Finally, we introduce the argument that topic fatigue may erode the deliberative potential of social media, which can be particularly problematic for countries in which the traditional news media is (politically) dependent. Ultimately, the key elements of these theses are used to propose a comparative research design for an international study on topic fatigue.
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Our paper uses the events of the Arab Spring to examine amateur videos as a discourse of conflict produced by untrained and unpaid individuals, often at great personal risk, and which is taken up by, and incorporated into, news outcomes by professional news networks. The different semiotic elements comprising amateur images used in news coverage create what we call an “eyewitness texture” that reflects not only the generally low quality technologies in use and nonprofessional camera skills, but the sensibilities of a public desire for proximity and immediacy, which is sometimes utilised by news organisations as a means to authenticate their coverage with affective and narrative features. The corpus of our study includes the amateur footage used in news coverage of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya during the first 100 days of the Arab Spring uprisings (December 17th 2010 to March 31st 2011) by France 24 and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Our paper uses a multipronged discourse analysis to reveal a range of priorities at work in the selection and use of amateur images. We notice that the inclusion of the eyewitness textures of amateur produced images in some cases implied meanings that tied news narratives to larger and largely ideological forms of discursive significance.
{"title":"The eyewitness texture of conflict: contributions of amateur videos in news coverage of the Arab Spring","authors":"M. Lithgow, Michèle Martin","doi":"10.22032/DBT.35001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.35001","url":null,"abstract":"Our paper uses the events of the Arab Spring to examine amateur videos as a discourse \u0000of conflict produced by untrained and unpaid individuals, often at great personal risk, and which is \u0000taken up by, and incorporated into, news outcomes by professional news networks. The different \u0000semiotic elements comprising amateur images used in news coverage create what we call an “eyewitness \u0000texture” that reflects not only the generally low quality technologies in use and nonprofessional \u0000camera skills, but the sensibilities of a public desire for proximity and immediacy, \u0000which is sometimes utilised by news organisations as a means to authenticate their coverage with \u0000affective and narrative features. \u0000The corpus of our study includes the amateur footage used in news coverage of Tunisia, Egypt and \u0000Libya during the first 100 days of the Arab Spring uprisings (December 17th 2010 to March 31st \u00002011) by France 24 and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). Our paper uses a multipronged \u0000discourse analysis to reveal a range of priorities at work in the selection and use of amateur \u0000images. We notice that the inclusion of the eyewitness textures of amateur produced images in \u0000some cases implied meanings that tied news narratives to larger and largely ideological forms of \u0000discursive significance.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79670332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Research on European integration posits that people support and identify with the European Union (EU) by considering its economic benefits. Thus, it is argued that people’s sense of identity and their degree of political support for the EU can be explained by estimating the economic prosperity it yields. However, the current paper illustrates that in addition to utilitarian factors, media use can also explain political support for the EU. Thus, to examine this relationship between political support and the media, the study uses the political support framework by David Easton along with the theoretical underpinnings of the media malaise and media mobilization effects. The empirical analysis is conducted on the basis of secondary data obtained through Eurobarometer surveys. Furthermore, to test if the economic factors are a strong predictor of political support, the study assumes that the recent Eurozone crisis has caused a sharp decline in political support. Therefore, it investigates the role of different economic factors and media on political support before and after the crisis. The results indicate that consuming information from the television (TV) does not lead to malaise but rather, that it has a mobilization effect. Furthermore, the results reveal that the respondents’ informed-ness and their TV usage for getting information predict political support better than the economic indicators.
{"title":"Investigating Malaise and mobilization effects of media use on European identity before and after the Eurozone Crisis","authors":"W. Ejaz","doi":"10.22032/dbt.35000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35000","url":null,"abstract":"Research on European integration posits that people support and identify with the European \u0000Union (EU) by considering its economic benefits. Thus, it is argued that people’s sense of \u0000identity and their degree of political support for the EU can be explained by estimating the economic \u0000prosperity it yields. However, the current paper illustrates that in addition to utilitarian factors, \u0000media use can also explain political support for the EU. Thus, to examine this relationship between \u0000political support and the media, the study uses the political support framework by David Easton \u0000along with the theoretical underpinnings of the media malaise and media mobilization effects. The \u0000empirical analysis is conducted on the basis of secondary data obtained through Eurobarometer \u0000surveys. Furthermore, to test if the economic factors are a strong predictor of political support, the \u0000study assumes that the recent Eurozone crisis has caused a sharp decline in political support. \u0000Therefore, it investigates the role of different economic factors and media on political support before \u0000and after the crisis. The results indicate that consuming information from the television (TV) \u0000does not lead to malaise but rather, that it has a mobilization effect. Furthermore, the results reveal \u0000that the respondents’ informed-ness and their TV usage for getting information predict political \u0000support better than the economic indicators.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87764368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tal Samuel-Azran, Y. Galily, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Y. Karniel
Various voices assert that the sport-politics nexus that characterized international sport events during the Cold War era is irrelevant in the current age of globalization. This study examines the validity of this argument via a case study of Jewish-Israelis’ fandom tendencies during the 2014 World Cup. A survey conducted during the World Cup games among a representative sample of the Jewish-Israeli population revealed that the Dutch team, whose popularity in Israel has been attributed to the Netherland’s perceived support of Jews during the Holocaust, was the most supported team. The teams most rooted against were Iran, Germany, and Algeria, indicating the potential role of the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish-Islamic relations on fandom tendencies. To better understand the animosity towards the German team, which is surprising in light of current improved Israel-Germany relations and the strength of the German team, we analyzed user comments on Israel’s main online newspaper following the German team’s glorious 7-1 victory against Brazil. The analysis revealed that 51 of the 287 user comments made direct or indirect references to the Holocaust, further highlighting the centrality of nationalism in contemporary sport fandom.
{"title":"“Germany’s victory over Brazil was like the Blitzkrieg”:: the sport-politics nexus in Israel during the 2014 World Cup","authors":"Tal Samuel-Azran, Y. Galily, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Y. Karniel","doi":"10.22032/DBT.35004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.35004","url":null,"abstract":"Various voices assert that the sport-politics nexus that characterized international sport \u0000events during the Cold War era is irrelevant in the current age of globalization. This study examines \u0000the validity of this argument via a case study of Jewish-Israelis’ fandom tendencies during the 2014 \u0000World Cup. A survey conducted during the World Cup games among a representative sample of the \u0000Jewish-Israeli population revealed that the Dutch team, whose popularity in Israel has been attributed \u0000to the Netherland’s perceived support of Jews during the Holocaust, was the most supported \u0000team. The teams most rooted against were Iran, Germany, and Algeria, indicating the potential \u0000role of the Holocaust and contemporary Jewish-Islamic relations on fandom tendencies. To \u0000better understand the animosity towards the German team, which is surprising in light of current \u0000improved Israel-Germany relations and the strength of the German team, we analyzed user comments \u0000on Israel’s main online newspaper following the German team’s glorious 7-1 victory against \u0000Brazil. The analysis revealed that 51 of the 287 user comments made direct or indirect references to \u0000the Holocaust, further highlighting the centrality of nationalism in contemporary sport fandom.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79008929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Der Artikel arbeitet die permanente Reproduktion eines progressiven Fortschrittsnarrativs an zwei Diskursfeldern des turkisch-deutschen Migrationskontexts heraus und zeigt auf, wie es von integrationspolitischen Motivationen gepragt ist. Fur das Feld des Films wird das Narrativ vom Wandel der Reprasentationen in den Migrationsfilmen uber die Arbeitsmigranten seit den 1990er Jahren befragt. In dem Narrativ wird behauptet, dass es einen Wandel seit den fruhen deutsch-turkischen Filmen zu den Filmen um die Jahrtausendwende gegeben habe: von einem bemitleidenden, viktimisierenden Betroffenheitskino zu einem transkulturellen Kino des Empowerments. Der zweite Teil des Aufsatzes erortert demgegenuber das transnationale Narrativ von der Wandlunsgerzahlung im Moscheebau in Deutschland. Seine kritische Befragung zielt auf die Infragestellung des Wandlungsnarrativs, nach dem sich das Modell der Hinterhofmoschee der Migranten in ein Modell moderner Moscheeneubauten transformiert habe. Der Beitrag skizziert die Narrative anhand der Erorterung von wissenschaftlichen und offentlichmedialen Diskursen nach, stellt die Diskursdynamiken in ihrer integrationspolitischen Logik als unterkomplex heraus und eruiert einige praktische Folgen fur die Filmproduktion und den Moscheebau in Deutschland. Es zeigt sich, dass die in beiden Diskursfeldern zirkulierenden Diskurse von einem Wandel filmischer Verhandlungsformen turkisch-deutscher Migration bzw. der Moscheebaukultur im migrantischen Kontext mit einer Vorstellung von Fortschritt, einer Zeitlogik von Linearitat und ausgehend von einem Integrationsdispositiv her operieren, was zugleich fur die Forschungen in den Feldern erhebliche Folgen hat.
{"title":"Kritik von Fortschrittsnarrativen im deutschtürkischen Migrationskontext: Migrationskino und Diasporamoscheen im Integrationsdispositiv","authors":"Mehmet Bayrak, Ömer Alkın","doi":"10.22032/DBT.34999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.34999","url":null,"abstract":"Der Artikel arbeitet die permanente Reproduktion eines progressiven Fortschrittsnarrativs \u0000an zwei Diskursfeldern des turkisch-deutschen Migrationskontexts heraus und zeigt auf, wie es \u0000von integrationspolitischen Motivationen gepragt ist. \u0000Fur das Feld des Films wird das Narrativ vom Wandel der Reprasentationen in den Migrationsfilmen \u0000uber die Arbeitsmigranten seit den 1990er Jahren befragt. In dem Narrativ wird behauptet, \u0000dass es einen Wandel seit den fruhen deutsch-turkischen Filmen zu den Filmen um die Jahrtausendwende \u0000gegeben habe: von einem bemitleidenden, viktimisierenden Betroffenheitskino zu einem \u0000transkulturellen Kino des Empowerments. \u0000Der zweite Teil des Aufsatzes erortert demgegenuber das transnationale Narrativ von der Wandlunsgerzahlung \u0000im Moscheebau in Deutschland. Seine kritische Befragung zielt auf die Infragestellung \u0000des Wandlungsnarrativs, nach dem sich das Modell der Hinterhofmoschee der Migranten in \u0000ein Modell moderner Moscheeneubauten transformiert habe. \u0000Der Beitrag skizziert die Narrative anhand der Erorterung von wissenschaftlichen und offentlichmedialen \u0000Diskursen nach, stellt die Diskursdynamiken in ihrer integrationspolitischen Logik als \u0000unterkomplex heraus und eruiert einige praktische Folgen fur die Filmproduktion und den Moscheebau \u0000in Deutschland. Es zeigt sich, dass die in beiden Diskursfeldern zirkulierenden Diskurse \u0000von einem Wandel filmischer Verhandlungsformen turkisch-deutscher Migration bzw. der Moscheebaukultur \u0000im migrantischen Kontext mit einer Vorstellung von Fortschritt, einer Zeitlogik von \u0000Linearitat und ausgehend von einem Integrationsdispositiv her operieren, was zugleich fur die Forschungen \u0000in den Feldern erhebliche Folgen hat.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"102 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83090028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Using structuration theory, assuming that every government has a stake in steering public communication and comparing 46 nation-states, this paper explores the major principles that can be used to explain different mass media structures around the globe. The study draws on extensive documentary analysis and includes more than 150 expert interviews. It shows that media freedom and journalists’ autonomy depend on not only the particular governmental system, the constitution, journalism education, and the existence of commercial media but also, to a significant extent, on economic realities, the tradition of press freedom, and various other factors that are historical, religious, and/or geographic. The tool to do so is a mass media system typology based on two dimensions: formal expectations and the state’s influence.
{"title":"Journalists’ autonomy around the globe: a typology of 46 mass media systems","authors":"M. Meyen","doi":"10.22032/dbt.35003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/dbt.35003","url":null,"abstract":"Using structuration theory, assuming that every government has a stake in steering public \u0000communication and comparing 46 nation-states, this paper explores the major principles that \u0000can be used to explain different mass media structures around the globe. The study draws on extensive \u0000documentary analysis and includes more than 150 expert interviews. It shows that media freedom \u0000and journalists’ autonomy depend on not only the particular governmental system, the constitution, \u0000journalism education, and the existence of commercial media but also, to a significant extent, \u0000on economic realities, the tradition of press freedom, and various other factors that are historical, \u0000religious, and/or geographic. The tool to do so is a mass media system typology based on two \u0000dimensions: formal expectations and the state’s influence.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"359 1","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76418241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-01DOI: 10.20431/2454-9479.0401004
Bharti Magotra, Simran Kaur
The verbal and visual mediums play a cardinal role in internalization of gender stereotypes in children. Being an influential form of communication, the media has an indispensable impact on the child's psyche. Besides being a mode of a method of entertainment only for youngsters, it has scholastic and socializing perspectives. Cartoon series as one such visual have provided youngsters with characters displaying behaviors and individual traits that they imbibe and internalize, thereby promoting stereotypical expectations. Gender bias in the cartoons is formulated by the stereotypes which are associated with the roles expected to be performed by a girl or boy. Gender disparity in cartoons reflects women characters as weak or inferior, bound to the household chores and male as strong or superior. Keeping in cue with the aforesaid, the research examines gender disparity prevalent in animated world and to reveal its adverse impact. The research analyzes two contemporary Indian cartoon series from the perspective of the character’s physical appearance, male/female roles in problem-solving, social roles and behavior.
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This paper sheds light on the implications of social media usage in the Nigerian electioneering campaigns and political processes. This study is anchored on the agenda setting and uses and gratification theory. Findings suggest that in the Nigerian 2015 and 2011 general elections, social media was employed due to its participatory nature. It was used as a platform for political campaign organization, electioneering crusades, ideological trumpeting exercises, and mobilization of voters. Specifically, in the 2015 elections, it was found that during the collation of results, citizen journalists and the civil society used social media to inform the public as regards the results in several states across the country. Social media was thus applied to influence the thoughts of many young people, increasing their political awareness and cognizance, which in turn resulted in an unbelievable presidential win of the opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ruling party People's Democratic Party (PDP). Conversely, social media were also used as a weapon to undermine and even destroy the image of political parties. Character assassination, violence, and abuses (hate) speeches were carried out, which further increased the divide between the North and Southern part of the country. This study recommends that political messages should be based on truth and full of information that will enable the electorate to make a proper decision that will assist in bringing the right people into governance. Future investigators are required to examine computational propaganda in electioneering campaigns in Nigeria.
{"title":"Understanding the Implications of Social Media Usage in the Electoral Processes and Campaigns in Nigeria","authors":"Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Elif Asude Tunca","doi":"10.7176/NMMC.vol7419-28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7176/NMMC.vol7419-28","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sheds light on the implications of social media usage in the Nigerian electioneering campaigns and political processes. This study is anchored on the agenda setting and uses and gratification theory. Findings suggest that in the Nigerian 2015 and 2011 general elections, social media was employed due to its participatory nature. It was used as a platform for political campaign organization, electioneering crusades, ideological trumpeting exercises, and mobilization of voters. Specifically, in the 2015 elections, it was found that during the collation of results, citizen journalists and the civil society used social media to inform the public as regards the results in several states across the country. Social media was thus applied to influence the thoughts of many young people, increasing their political awareness and cognizance, which in turn resulted in an unbelievable presidential win of the opposition party All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ruling party People's Democratic Party (PDP). Conversely, social media were also used as a weapon to undermine and even destroy the image of political parties. Character assassination, violence, and abuses (hate) speeches were carried out, which further increased the divide between the North and Southern part of the country. This study recommends that political messages should be based on truth and full of information that will enable the electorate to make a proper decision that will assist in bringing the right people into governance. Future investigators are required to examine computational propaganda in electioneering campaigns in Nigeria.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"38 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90461218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Resena de libro Rosas Mantecon, Ana (2017), Ir al cine: antropologia de los publicos, la ciudad y las pantallas, CDMX: Gedisa Editorial/UAM Iztapalapa En este libro, la investigadora Ana Rosas hace una radiografia de la ciudad de Mexico, de como se fueron desarrollando sus espacios cinematograficos en medio del resto de la oferta cultural, de como los publicos, en distintos tiempos y con diversas historias de vida, tenian sus modos de ver, sus reacciones ante las pautas que proponian las ofertas de cine y los pactos de consumo que se generaban. Su vision sobre los publicos, en su perspectiva antropologica, nos muestra que ir al cine es mas que ver una pelicula; se trata de una practica de acceso cultural a traves de la cual nos relacionamos con un filme, pero tambien con otras personas y con el espacio que contextualiza la experiencia cinematografica.
{"title":"Rosas Mantecón, Ana (2017), Ir al cine: antropología de los públicos, la ciudad y las pantallas, CDMX: Gedisa Editorial/UAM Iztapalapa","authors":"Lucila Hinojosa Córdova","doi":"10.29105/GMJMX14.27-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29105/GMJMX14.27-9","url":null,"abstract":"Resena de libro Rosas Mantecon, Ana (2017), Ir al cine: antropologia de los publicos, la ciudad y las pantallas, CDMX: Gedisa Editorial/UAM Iztapalapa En este libro, la investigadora Ana Rosas hace una radiografia de la ciudad de Mexico, de como se fueron desarrollando sus espacios cinematograficos en medio del resto de la oferta cultural, de como los publicos, en distintos tiempos y con diversas historias de vida, tenian sus modos de ver, sus reacciones ante las pautas que proponian las ofertas de cine y los pactos de consumo que se generaban. Su vision sobre los publicos, en su perspectiva antropologica, nos muestra que ir al cine es mas que ver una pelicula; se trata de una practica de acceso cultural a traves de la cual nos relacionamos con un filme, pero tambien con otras personas y con el espacio que contextualiza la experiencia cinematografica.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"93 1","pages":"166-167"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2017-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77069262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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