‘Unite Unite Europe’ The political and cultural structures of Europe as reflected in the Eurovision Song Contest

Yair, Gad

doi:10.1016/0378-8733(95)00253-k

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“…Building on the work presented in [14,15], we begin with the hypothesis that Eurovision is not a fair contest, and voting patterns can be detected. In order to find voting communities, contests are modeled as a as a directed graph Gt = (Vt, Et), where Vt = {set of participating countries in year t} and Et = { set of all votes casted in year t}.…”

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“…In [14] and [15]one of the earliest analyses-the Eurovision community was split into three blocs: The Mediterranean Bloc, the North Bloc and the West Bloc. In this model, the west bloc consistently amassed the highest number of votes, and was the largest of the three.…”

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“…Past studies on the Eurovision contest have centered around social and historical facts, coupled with data clusterization methods [14], [15], regression analysis [10], dynamical networks [6], or analytical identification of statistically significant tends [9], all of which where able to group the participating countries into blocs of like behavior. In [14] and [15]one of the earliest analyses-the Eurovision community was split into three blocs: The Mediterranean Bloc, the North Bloc and the West Bloc.…”

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A study on the impact of crowd-based voting schemes in the 'Eurovision' European contest

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Camacho

2011

Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics

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Esta es la versión de autor de la comunicación de congreso publicada en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: ABSTRACTThe Eurovision contest has been the reference on european song contests for the past 50 years. Countries in the European Union can shows the rest of the participants their current music tendencies. This phenomena has been studied in domains like physic and social sciences to find correlations between contests and current political and socio-economy trends in EU. The inclusion of web and social technologies some years ago, have caused a disruption in the traditional voting system whereby the audience is encouraged to participate by casting votes for their favorite song. As a result, this system yields new, relevant information that may be extrapolated to social and political tendencies in Europe with a higher degree accuracy than by data collected using the previous jury-based system. This paper provides an initial data analysis in crowd behavior to assess the impact of the televote system, in the Eurovision voting dynamic, by focusing on two distinct five years periods that can successfully contrast each voting scheme. Analyzing these periods separately, we can observe results from the televoting contests and then compare to the jury to see if there is a change in voting patterns. Finally, we study the underlying community structure of the voting network using the Cluster Percolation Method and Edge Betweenness to discover stable core communities spanning a number of years in the contest. The clusters obtained using these algorithms are then used to compare how these stable communities have evolving during the considered periods.

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A study on the impact of crowd-based voting schemes in the 'Eurovision' European contest

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“…We collect the years 1975-2016 (inclusive) for our data analysis because there were no changes of the "douze points"-voting-system since its introduction in 1975. In total, 7 Other relevant papers include, inter alia, Haan et al (2005), Clerides and Stengos (2006), Yair (1995). 954 times countries received points throughout the investigated period.…”

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Do preferences for pop music converge across countries? – Empirical evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest

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Pannicke

2017

Creative Industries Journal

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Abstract:The combination of the digitalization of cultural goods and facilitated cross-border availability through the internet fuels a globalization process that is often said to cause a homogenization of demand across countries, in particular, for entertainment goods as music and movies. In the markets for music, this implies that the same hits and the same artists should be popular across countries and cultures.

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“…With this information it is possible to predict the score of a new country, and distribute the votes for a lot of the participants; this paper tries to explain this social behavior. (Rauhlen, 1997), the persistent structure of hegemony in the Eurovision Song Contest (Suaremi et al, 2006), cultural voting (Yair, 1995) and the analysis about Grand Prix which evaluate many countries participating in different years and with different many of countries competing (Yair et al, 1996) …”

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Social Data Mining to Improve Bioinspired Intelligent Systems

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González²,

Castro³

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Data Mining in Medical and Biological Research

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Social data mining systems enable people to share opinions and obtain a benefit from each other's experience. These systems do this by mining and redistributing information from computational records of social activity such as Usenet messages, system usage history, We report here on social data mining applications, systems that mine information from the structure and content of web pages and provide an exploratory information workspace interface. We carried out experiments that yielded positive answers to both evaluation questions. First, a number of automatically computable features about web sites do a good job of predicting expert quality judgments about sites. Second, compared to popular web search interfaces, the Topic Shop interface to this information lets users select significantly higher quality sites, in less time and with less effort, and to organize the sites they select into personally meaningful collections quickly and easily. We conclude by discussing how our results may be applied and considering how they touch on general issues concerning quality, expertise, and consensus The motivation for the social data mining approach goes back at least to Vannevar Bush's As We May Think essay. Bush envisioned scholars blazing trails through repositories of information and realized that these trails subsequently could be followed by others. Everyone could walk in the footsteps of the masters. In our work, we have formulated a similar intuition using the metaphor of a path through the woods. However, this metaphor highlights the role of collective effort, rather than the individual. A path results from the decisions of many individuals, united only by where they choose to walk, yet still reflects a rough notion of what the walkers find to be a good path. The path both reflects history of use and serves as a resource for future users. Social data mining approaches seek analogous situations in the computational world.Researchers look for situations where groups of people are producing computational records (such as documents, Usenet messages, or web sites and links) as part of their normal activity. Potentially useful information implicit in these records is identified, computational techniques to harvest and aggregate the information are invented, and visualization techniques to present the results are designed. Thus, computation discovers and makes explicit the "paths through the woods" created by particular user communities. And, unlike ratings-based collaborative filtering systems (Resnick et al., 1994), social data mining systems do not require users to engage in any new activity; rather, they seek to exploit user preference information implicit in records of existing activity. The "history-enriched digital objects" line of work (Hill et al., 1992) was a seminal effort in this approach. It began from the observation that objects in the real world accumulate wear over the history of their use, and that this wear -such as the path through the woods or the dog-eared pages in a paperback book or the smudges on...

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‘Unite Unite Europe’ The political and cultural structures of Europe as reflected in the Eurovision Song Contest

Cited by 62 publications

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A study on the impact of crowd-based voting schemes in the 'Eurovision' European contest

A study on the impact of crowd-based voting schemes in the 'Eurovision' European contest

Do preferences for pop music converge across countries? – Empirical evidence from the Eurovision Song Contest

Social Data Mining to Improve Bioinspired Intelligent Systems

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