Issue Professionals

Users for mapping controversies

Classified under Case Studies (Dying out of bees), Mapping Approaches (Public engagement), Tools Applied (Risk cartography, Debategraph), Users (Issue professionals), Data Management (Assembling stakeholders)


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Assembling Stakeholders
Selecting and holding an assembly of stakeholders
Climate Change Skeptics on the Web
The resonance of the names of well-known climate change skeptics on significant climate change sites on the Web.
Climate Change Skeptics in Science
How mainstream or fringe are climate change skeptics in climate science? Are the climate change skeptics skeptical about other controversies as well?
Debategraph
Debate mapping software for showing actors' positions
Who are the stakeholders?
Detecting the relevant groups involved in a controversy and their mutual relations
Dietary Supplements Risk Cartography
Dietary supplements are not classified as drugs up to now, and are therefore not subject to any registration requirements in Germany.
Dietary Supplements Dynamic Animation
The architecture of the controversy on dietary supplements visualized in a dynamic animation.
Dying out of bees
A case study of the dying out of bees (Apis mellifera) in the walloon region (Belgium)
Controversy Space Explorer
The Controversy Space Explorer is an interactive and dynamic interface dedicated to the exploration of controversies’ life in time, scale and space.
Lippmannian Device
The tool provides a coarse view of a source's partisanship and/or issue commitments.
Lully Flooding Case Study
Controversy Space Exploration of the Lully Flooding Case Study
Map Your Data
Visualize regional data grids on a worldmap - Turn your numbers into a map
Bruno Latour on Mapping Controversies
An Introduction to the MACOSPOL project by Bruno Latour
Nanotechnology Risk Cartography
Along with the possibility of unforeseen risks the question for regulations for nanotechnology specifically is put.
Risk-Cartography User Guide
Risk Cartography is a mapping tool directed to better equip civil society for reflexive risk governance, that is to enhance various stakeholders understandings and representational abilities for an emancipated involvement in decision making and in collaborative transformation of contested risks (MACOSPOL).
Risk Cartography Video Tutorial
The video tutorial gives a short introduction to the idea and the user interface of Risk Cartography.
Sustainable Homes
This study asks: what kind of space is the sustainable home, and what are its affordances for public engagement with the environment? To answer these questions, this study undertakes an object-centred analysis of three sustainability spaces on the Web. Using tools of textual analysis (Google Scraper, Open Calais) and visualisation (Bubbleline, Dorling), it explores how the sustainable home is 'multiply' constituted, made up by different objects in different publicity spaces, with various consequences in terms of its affordances for environmental engagement.
Do controversies really exist?
Disputing the very existence of controversies