Highlights“Westeros Sentinel” – a visual analytics dashboard for Game of Thrones.Extraction of affective and factual knowledge from news and social media coverage.Emotional categories from semantic knowledge bases.Automated annotation services for contextualized information spaces.Interactive visualizations to explore context features.

For many years, concern has been raised about the demise of the teaching of public administration. No longer is the subject taught in its own right as an undergraduate subject in the UK. The emphasis has moved from administration to management. The malaise in the teaching of public administration is such that the subject has almost disappeared. It is time to re-visit the importance of public administration as a taught academic subject, and its importance in many other academic disciplines.

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Abstract-Understanding stakeholder perceptions and the impact of campaigns are key insights for communication experts and policy makers. A structured analysis of Web content can help answer these questions, particularly if this analysis involves the ability to extract, disambiguate and visualize contextual information. After summarizing methods used for acquiring and annotating Web content repositories, we present visualization techniques to explore the lexical, geospatial and relational context of entities in these repositories. The examples stem from the Media Watch on Climate Change, a publicly available Web portal that aggregates environmental resources from various online sources.

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