Sustainable Futures: Comparing Methodologies for Analyzing Citizen Visions in Europe
| Autor: | Päivi Timonen, Kaisa Johanna Matschoss, Petteri Repo |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Political and Economic Studies (2010-2017), Centre for Consumer Society Research |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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517 Political science 020204 information systems Political science 5141 Sociology 11. Sustainability 05 social sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Environmental ethics 02 engineering and technology 0509 other social sciences 050905 science studies Futures contract |
| Zdroj: | Sociology Study |
| ISSN: | 2159-5534 2159-5526 |
| DOI: | 10.17265/2159-5526/2017.05.002 |
| Popis: | There are increasing calls for engaging citizens in the development of future outlooks. At the same time, large‐scale public engagement activities warrant appropriate methods for analyzing their outcomes. This paper reviews how topic modeling could provide such a methodology, which both accounts for all textual data collected in public engagement activities, however large in scope, yet also allows for meaningful topical analysis. It compares topic modeling results concerning a corpus of 179 citizen visions from 30 European countries on desirable and sustainable futures to those acquired through deliberative analysis. While both methodologies contend that European citizens’ outlook consists of education, sustainability in the economy, health concerns, and fairness in communities, and the particular strengths of topic modeling relate to its documentability, repeatability, cost efficiency, and scalability. Topic modeling can also be considered to support public engagement analytically from the perspective of knowledge formation rather than that of common sense. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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