Agris on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, 2019
Our paper presents first analysis of Czech Twitter content within the agriculture context. We dep... more Our paper presents first analysis of Czech Twitter content within the agriculture context. We deployed textual analysis of more than 240,000 tweets over 2014-2019 hashtags that were, according to Google Trends, most trending and related to Czech agriculture such as #dotace, #repka, or #bionafta-both in Czech and English language. Besides descriptive statistics of the tweet dataset, we visualized keyword correlations which revealed strong focus of the discourse on rapeseed, biofuel and the prime minister Andrej Babiš. Owing to inherent political context of the given hashtags, we found spikes in topics which followed the public attention to the topics in mass media. We also found several accounts that produces high traffic for certain hashtags in Czech, yet those accounts were located abroad. Consistent with other studies, a high proportion of tweets was generated by unverified accounts that might be bots-automated accounts. We propose to conduct semantic analysis of a broader dataset over the main social media platforms in the Czech Republic.
Building capacity for carrying out and understanding responsible science that is relevant to loca... more Building capacity for carrying out and understanding responsible science that is relevant to local challenges is a key ingredient in the OPCW’s strategy for achieving and maintaining a world free of chemical weapons. Two important contexts for building that capacity for responsible science are (1) the global attention being drawn to the rapidly increasing human chemical footprint on our planet and (2) the pervasive use of digital technologies. We describe an effort coordinated by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to build capacity among young people around the world to harness the power of small mobile chemical sensors to develop data literacy in complex chemical analysis based on measuring analytes that are relevant to their lives and local contexts. This new type of data literacy is an emergent element in educational programs and is key to developing the capacity for decision-making on chemical measurement data. The project brings together student and facult...
Czech Resistance to German Occupation, 1939-1945: A Case Study of Decentralized Networks Engaged in Irregular Warfare
... sources. Then it will conclude with a look at modern day decentralized organizations like the... more ... sources. Then it will conclude with a look at modern day decentralized organizations like the ... after the war when he returned to Czechoslovakia and joined the communist party. The Three Kings also made an unsuccessful attempt on Heinrich Himmler's life by ...
Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
We focus on trust development in dynamic, unstructured and non-commercial networked environments ... more We focus on trust development in dynamic, unstructured and non-commercial networked environments and conceptualize it as the process of producing a stable network ordering. We present a longitudinal, in-depth case study of the global humanitarian aid network, which is undergoing a disruptive transformation due to the emergence of digital volunteers who offer unique digital capacity for collecting and analyzing humanitarian aid data. Integrating this new actor-network into the existing global humanitarian network, comprised of formal organizations exhibits many problems that are concerned with trust. The ongoing inter-penetrating of these two networks is leading towards stabilizing into a new, qualitatively different network ordering that morphs the traditional and digital network models. We draw on sociology of translation, with its relational and performative sensibility, to analyze the network emerging and stabilizing as processes of trust development. We highlight the importance of four practices, performative of network trust: problematization, interessement, enrollment and mobilization.
Crisis management frameworks are typically associated with concepts related to command and contro... more Crisis management frameworks are typically associated with concepts related to command and control or “hierarchical” decisionmaking. However, advancements in communication technologies and new media platforms have brought new prospects to the design of crisis management frameworks. Social media platforms, for example, enable volunteering citizens to actively take part in crisis response efforts. In our paper we explore comparing and contrasting two forms of crisis management frameworks: a formal, the welltested Incident Command System of the US, and an informal example, the Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) program. The goal of the paper is to outline potential ways to examine the disparities in network structure and collaboration linkages in different forms of crisis management frameworks.
This paper explores the difficulties of collaboration between Volunteer and Technical Communities... more This paper explores the difficulties of collaboration between Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) and Humanitarian Response Organisations (HROs). The phenomenon of digital volunteers and their role in collecting and analyzing social media data provided by disaster affected populations has brought unprecedented opportunities and challenges to the humanitarian system. Central to these processes are the risks and vulnerabilities that these transformations might bring to existing humanitarian actors. Thus, this paper draws upon the work of Anthony Giddens regarding trust to account for the ongoing relational dynamics, and the unpacking of both it's institutional and inter-personal dimensions. The paper identifies two major approaches underlying their collaborative efforts. The first approach concerns a top-down and centralized process of developing a institutionalized forms of interfacing; while the second concerns the development of interpersonal relational infrastructure.
How Virtual and Technical Communities can Contribute to U.N. Led Humanitarian Relief Operations - boundary Spanning and the Exploration of Collaborative Information Practices
Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) have the potential to augment U.N. led humanitarian r... more Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) have the potential to augment U.N. led humanitarian relief operations with unique information management capabilities and practices. Together with formal U.N. response organizations, some V&TCs strive to generate shared situational awareness for crisis decision makers. Yet, the role of V&TCs in humanitarian missions is not fully capitalized upon. Based on a participatory observation at UN OCHA, this paper inquires how formal humanitarian actors and V&TCs coordinate their information management practices. It explores the effects of organizational and technical difference on the creation of shared situation awareness and discussed avenues for improved coordination between these profoundly different organizations.
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