Between Collaboration and Disobedience

Deutschmann, Emanuel

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“…Mathematically, the power-law relation between two quantities y and x can be defined as y = ax −β , where a is a prefactor and β is the scaling exponent. Power laws are common in the social and natural world and have been shown to exist in phenomena as diverse as the gamma-ray intensity of solar flares (Clauset, Shalizi and Newman, 2009), the sizes of strike waves (Biggs, 2005), and the distribution of accusations between detainees (Deutschmann, 2014).…”

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The spatial structure of transnational human activity

Deutschmann

2016

Social Science Research

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Recent studies have shown that the spatial structures of animal displacements and local-scale human motion follow Lévy flights. Whether transnational human activity (THA) also exhibits such a pattern has however not been thoroughly examined as yet. To fill this gap, this article examines the planet-scale spatial structure of THA (a) across eight types of mobility and communication and (b) in its development over time. Combining data from various sources, it is shown that the spatial structure of THA can indeed be approximated by Lévy flights with heavy tails that obey power laws. Scaling exponent and power-law fit differ by type of THA, being highest in refuge-seeking and tourism and lowest in student exchange. Variance in the availability of resources and opportunities for satisfying associated needs appears to explain these differences. Over time, the Lévy-flight pattern remains intact and remarkably stable, contradicting the popular idea that socio-technological trends lead to a "death of distance." Longitudinal change occurs only in some types of THA and predominantly at short distances, indicating regional shifts rather than globalization.

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The spatial structure of transnational human activity

Deutschmann

2016

Social Science Research

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“…Further, Tidy (2017, 96–8, 102–5) critiques WikiLeaks’ video editing and other source interventions, to resist taking official US stories or WikiLeaks counternarratives at face value. Another assembles data from leaked Joint Task Force-Guantánamo documents regarding detainees (Deutschmann 2016), declaring an “urgent need” for research on “prisoner treatment” and the consequences of prisoners’ behavior for “how US authorities react.” A third uses US Trade Representative documents on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to analyze normative aspects of interest representation (Kuyper 2016), claiming that “interest in exclusion … by governments and bureaucrats,” with information such as treaty drafts “deliberately obscured from public view … violates standards of inclusive democracy” (318).…”

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The Provenance Problem: Research Methods and Ethics in the Age of WikiLeaks

Darnton

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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How should political scientists navigate the ethical and methodological quandaries associated with analyzing leaked classified documents and other nonconsensually acquired sources? Massive unauthorized disclosures may excite qualitative scholars with policy revelations and quantitative researchers with big-data suitability, but they are fraught with dilemmas that the discipline has yet to resolve. This paper critiques underspecified research designs and opaque references in the proliferation of scholarship with leaked materials, as well as incomplete and inconsistent guidance from leading journals. It identifies provenance as the primary concept for improved standards and reviews other disciplines’ approaches to this problem. It elaborates eight normative and evidentiary criteria for scholars by which to assess source legitimacy and four recommendations for balancing their trade-offs. Fundamentally, it contends that scholars need deeper reflection on source provenance and its consequences, more humility about whether to access new materials and what inferences to draw, and more transparency in citation and research strategies.

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Advancing Conflict Research Through Computational Approaches

Deutschmann

Lorenz

Nardin

2019

Computational Social Sciences

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Conflict, from small-scale verbal disputes to large-scale violent war between nations, is one of the most fundamental elements of social life and a central topic in social science research. The main argument of this book is that computational approaches have enormous potential to advance conflict research, e.g., by making use of the ever-growing computer processing power to model complex conflict dynamics, by drawing on innovative methods from simulation to machine learning, and by building on vast quantities of conflict-related data that emerge at unprecedented scale in the digital age. Our goal is (a) to demonstrate how such computational approaches can be used to improve our understanding of conflict at any scale and (b) to call for the consolidation of computational conflict research as a unified field of research that collectively aims to gather such insights. We first give an overview of how various computational approaches have already impacted on conflict research and then guide through the different chapters that form part of this book. Finally, we propose to map the field of computational conflict research by positioning studies in a two-dimensional space depending on the intensity of the analyzed conflict and the chosen computational approach.

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Between Collaboration and Disobedience

Cited by 21 publications

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The spatial structure of transnational human activity

The spatial structure of transnational human activity

The Provenance Problem: Research Methods and Ethics in the Age of WikiLeaks

Advancing Conflict Research Through Computational Approaches

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