In August 2011 the Globelics Secretariat was formed at Aalborg University with the support of the Swedish Development Agency (SIDA). BengtÅke Lundvall serves as the General Secretary while Björn Johnson, Birgitte Gregersen, Rasmus Lema and Allan Dahl Andersen are part-time employed in the Secretariat. The administrative coordination is taken care of by Dorte Baymler and Gro Stengaard Villumse…
The arts and sciences evolve by specialisation and broadening of their scopes. Much innovation results from unusual combinations of views and techniques originating in widely different domains. However, stepping outside an established discipline entails the danger of 'shallowness', even if the primary challenge was a 'deep' integration problem. Acceptance of new departures requires recognition …
Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people easily and effectively with the scientific commu…
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An exploration of how issues of race and ethnicity play out in a digital media landscape that includes MySpace, post-9/11 politics, MMOGs, Internet music distribution, and the digital divide. It may have been true once that (as the famous cartoon of the 1990s put it) “Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet,” and that (as an MCI commercial of that era declared) on the Internet there is no…
Med antologiens titel Den Ufærdige Ftremtid – Aktionsforskningens Potentialer og Udfordringer ønsker vi at understrege aktionsforskningens grundforståelse af, at fremtiden er ufærdig. De store samfundsmæssige udfordringer for demokratisk og bæredygtig udvikling kræver engageret forskning med både lokalt og globalt udsyn. Aktionsforskning har potentiale hertil. Bogen præsenterer ny ak…
Welchen Beitrag die Konzepte Bildungswerte und Schulentfremdung zur soziologischen Bildungsforschung leisten können, wird in diesem Buch theoretisch und empirisch aufgezeigt. Mit quantitativen Daten aus Sekundarschulen in Luxemburg und im Schweizer Kanton Bern (Projekt SASAL) werden Bildungsungleichheiten nach sozialer Herkunft, Geschlecht und Migrationshintergrund analysiert. Spezifische Wert…