User:Tkmu/Choose an Article

Option 1
Article Title - Policy Alienation

Article Evaluation - The article appears to bring together multiple ideas and examples in an effort to describe or define the concept of policy alienation. There is limited authorship or external validation/verification. It is an interesting concept, but needs additional peer-reviewed, authoritative, and diverse research. The content is relevant to the topic, but is limited. It is written with bias/self-validation.

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Tummers, L., Bekkers, V., van Thiel, S., & Steijn, B. (2015). The effects of work alienation and policy alienation on behavior of public employees. Administration & Society, 47(5), 596-617.

van Engen, N. A. (2017). A short measure of general policy alienation: Scale development using a 10‐step procedure. Public Administration, 95(2), 512-526.

Hiekischová, M. (2019). Policy Alienation Amongemployees of the Labor Office of the Czech Republic. Transylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 15(57), 5-20.

Option 2
Article Title - Accelerated Pluralism

Article Evaluation - The article documents a proposed theory from a single author that has limited additional sources or validation. There is qualitative discussion, but lacks quantitative measurement, or proof of its existence beyond anecdotal or limited observations. In documenting any theory there is often research provided that offers mathematical proof.

Sources -

Upchurch, M., & Grassman, R. (2016). Striking with social media: The contested (online) terrain of workplace conflict. Organization, 23(5), 639-656.

Glatter, R. (2017). 'Because we can': Pluralism and structural reform in education. London Review of Education, 15(1), 115-125.

Streeck, W., & Schmttter, P. C. (1991). From national corporatism to transnational pluralism: organized interests in the single European market. Politics & Society, 19(2), 133-164.

Smith, R. T. (2014). The matrifocal family: Power, pluralism and politics. Routledge.

Option 3
Article Title - Hypodermic needle model

Article Evaluation - This article is well constructed, but requires additional citation verification. It appears to be a mature article that was well-researched, but will need additional authoritative sources and needs additional peer-reviewed, authoritative, and diverse research to verify.

Sources -

Mehrad, J., Eftekhar, Z., & Goltaji, M. (2020). Vaccinating Users against the Hypodermic Needle Theory of Social Media: Libraries and Improving Media Literacy. International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM), 18(1), 17-24.

Anderson, C. W. (2021). Fake news is not a virus: On platforms and their effects. Communication Theory, 31(1), 42-61.

Pickard, V. (2021). Unseeing propaganda: How communication scholars learned to love commercial media. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.

Prilyantinasari, P., & Mulyana, A. The Effect of Instagram Exposure of Hedonic Lifestyle on Dissonance Rates for Digital Native.

Option 4
Article Title - Deplatforming

Article Evaluation - This article appears to have potential for significant bias and must be well researched and validated with quantitative and qualitative facts. In order to improve this article requires objective context, authoritative sources, and comparative viewpoints. This is a controversial topic and should be approached with caution to mitigate any perceived cognitive bias.

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Rogers, R. (2020). Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media. European Journal of Communication, 35(3), 213-229.

Cohen, A. J. (2020). Harms of silence: From Pierre Bayle to de-platforming. Social Philosophy and Policy, 37(2), 114-131.

Mirrlees, T. (2021). GAFAM and Hate Content Moderation: Deplatforming and Deleting the Alt-right. In Media and Law: Between Free Speech and Censorship. Emerald Publishing Limited.

Kanbur, R. (2020). Economic Inequality and Academic Freedom.

Paul, J. (2021). The international alt-right: fascism for the 21st century? by Patrik Hermansson, David Lawrence, Joe Mulhall, Simon Murdoch, London, Routledge, 2020, 268 pp.,£ 19.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781138363861.

Bode, L., & Vraga, E. (2021). The Swiss cheese model for mitigating online misinformation. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 77(3), 129-133.

Option 5
Article Title - Patent Troll

Article Evaluation - The scope of this article is limited to the U.S. and due to the global connectedness of the internet likely has global implication. Additional information should be provided.

Sources -

Sterzi, V., Rameshkoumar, J. P., & Van Der Pol, J. (2020). Non-practicing entities and transparency in patent ownership in Europe (No. 2020-10). Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée (GREThA).

Костенюк, Ю. Б., & Кушнір, І. В. (2020). Patent trolling: negative impact and need for protection. Економіка і організація управління, (3 (39)), 288-299.

Bian, R. (2021). Patent trolls in China: Some empirical data. Computer Law & Security Review, 40, 105517.

Papageorgiadis, N., & Sofka, W. (2020). Patent enforcement across 51 countries–Patent enforcement index 1998–2017. Journal of World Business, 55(4), 101092.