Rewriting Violence: Risk Effects and the Targeting of Journalists in Mexico’s Criminal Conflict
Cassy Dorff
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, and Faculty Affiliate, Data Science Institute, Vanderbilt University, http://cassydorff.com/
Over the last 12 years, Mexico has become a dangerous place to be a journalist. Increasingly, journalists are targeted and killed for reporting on the causes and consequences of violence tied to organized crime. In this paper, we seek to understand how this risk-environment influences the content and strategies of reporting at one of Mexico’s most well known national newspapers, Reforma. Our study utilizes two novel sources of data. The first capture attacks on journalists during the drug war period, while the second uses natural language processing techniques to measure changes in reporting on victimization and violence at Reforma. In this paper, we present preliminary evidence demonstrating the link between violence against journalists and changes in news content over time.
Entebbe – Uganda, 18-22 November 2019
“Harnessing Africa’s Population for Sustainable Development: 25 Years after Cairo and Beyond.”
Hosted by the Government of Uganda and the Union for African Population Studies
Deadline for submitting papers or abstracts: 30 June 2019
Every four years, The Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) organizes a general conference on the African population. The aim of this conference is to share and disseminate research evidence on population and development issues and explore ways for applying the research evidence to improve policies and programs aimed at uplifting the well-being of people in Africa. The conference provides an opportunity for networking and knowledge sharing among researchers, policy makers, program managers, international development partners, and other key stakeholders in the population field. The conference includes various capacity building activities targeted at young scholars.
UAPS invites submissions for research papers, assessments of best practices, proposals for workshops, posters and exhibitions under the sessions grouped across the 16 sub-themes and sessions listed in the attached call for papers.
All submission must be made online on the 8th African Population Conference Website, http://uaps2019.popconf.org/.
All authors are asked to submit both: a) a short (150 word) abstract; and b) either an extended abstract (2-4 pages, including tables) or a completed paper to be uploaded to the website following instructions available online. Authors may modify their submission online at any time until 30 June 2019.
For more details please read the full Call for Papers attached.
If you have any questions, please contact: uaps@uaps-uepa.org
Join us for engaging discussions with leaders from business, government, and
academia on the latest developments in cybersecurity and technology, including privacy, systemic risk, artificial intelligence, international threats, state and homeland security, and crisis management and informatics.
Enjoy an opportunity to network with speakers and colleagues at the conclusion of each lecture. All are welcome!
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) anticipates soliciting applications for Behavioral Interventions Scholars grants to support dissertation research by advanced graduate students who are using approaches grounded in behavioral science or behavioral economics to examine specific research questions of relevance to social services programs and policies. These grants are meant to build capacity in the research field to apply a behavioral science or behavioral economics lens to issues facing poor and vulnerable families in the United States, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students. Applicants will be required to demonstrate the applicability of their research to practice or policy serving low-income children, adults, and families, especially those that seek to improve their well-being. Specific topics of interest may be delineated in the full funding opportunity announcement. For information about OPRE, please go to https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre. For information about related work ongoing within OPRE, please go to https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/behavioral-interventions-to-advance-self-sufficiency-bias-research-portfolio.
| Funding Oppportunity Title: |
Behavioral Interventions Scholars |
| Funding Opportunity Number: |
HHS-2019-ACF-OPRE-PD-1570 |
| Program Office: |
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation |
| Funding Type: |
Discretionary |
| Funding Instrument Type: |
Grant |
| Announcement Type: |
Initial |
| CFDA: |
93.647 |
| Post Date: |
05/03/2019 |
| Letter of Intent Due Date: |
06/03/2019 |
| Application Due Date: |
07/02/2019 |
This Friday, cosponsored with the West Coast Poverty Center, Fabian Pfeffer will present on a novel non-parametric bounding approach to partially identify the effects of social mobility. Researchers have long sought to estimate the effects of intergenerational socioeconomic mobility on a range of individual outcomes. However, the empirical study of mobility effects faces a fundamental methodological challenge: The linear dependency among social origins (O), destinations (D), and social mobility (M = D − O), prohibits the use of conventional statistical methods to estimate the unique contributions of the three variables to any given outcome.
Please visit the seminar page to reserve a time to meet with Professor Pfeffer.
The Social Impact Track offers a half-day focused exclusively on innovative KDD-relevant projects in areas such as sustainable urban planning, crime prevention, education, smart cities, data ethics, social justice and humanitarian issues. This workshop will bring together data experts working with data on socially relevant problems.
We seek to bring together a diverse community of researchers in data science for social good and AI ethics efforts, as well as cross-disciplinary and cross-sector partnerships to show the state-of-the-art in research and applications.
We are soliciting submissions primarily from collaborative projects, whether publicly or privately funded. We will give preference to open innovation projects, especially those with contributions to open source, open data, or contributing to socially impactful goals. However, we welcome submissions from projects that do not exactly fit these criteria if they provide new insights and compelling demonstrations.
For more information about KDD2019 and this session please visit:
https://www.kdd.org/kdd2019/Calls/view/social-impact-call-for-papers
As we close out the 2018-19 academic year, we’re excited to celebrate another successful year and recognize the achievements of CSDE Fellows and Trainees. Please join us in learning more about their accomplishments and celebrating our community at the End of Year Reception on 6/7/19 from 12:30-1:30 in Denny Hall 313. Students will also receive their certificates for completing the Graduate Certificate in Demographic Methods. CSDE Affiliates, Trainees, Staff, and anyone interested in joining the CSDE community are welcome to attend. There will be refreshments and a brief program.
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support innovative approaches to identifying, understanding, and developing strategies for overcoming barriers to the adoption, adaptation, integration, scale-up and sustainability of evidence-based interventions, tools, policies, and guidelines. Conversely, there is a benefit in understanding circumstances that create a need to stop or reduce (“de-implement”) the use of interventions that are ineffective, unproven, low-value, or harmful. In addition, studies to advance dissemination and implementation research methods and measures are encouraged.
PAR-19-274 (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
PAR-19-275 (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
PAR-19-276 (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
CSDE Affiliate Melissa Knox, Lecturer in Economics, recently co-authored a report for the City of Seattle on the impact of City funded food access programs on farmers and the Washington farm economy. Authors presented the results to the King County Agricultural Commission and plan to report them to other City policymakers in coming months. CSDE supported the project by providing administrative oversight through its P2C research infrastructure grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Seattle’s Food Access Programming increases access to healthy and affordable food, improving consumer welfare as well as benefiting local farmers who grow the food sold and those who do business with participating farmers. The report finds a net positive range of economic activity in the State of Washington and in King County as a result of City spending on food access programs. Knox additionally finds that farmers felt positively about these programs, and reported many benefits of participation, as well as opportunities for program improvement.
In 2018, CSDE collaborated with Brian McCabe, Associate Professor of Sociology at Georgetown and, at the time, Visiting Scholar at the UW Department of Sociology and Evans School of Public Policy, and Jennifer Heerwig, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, on a policy brief that assessed the impact of Seattle’s Democracy Vouchers. The brief examined how the program has expanded participation in municipal elections, and whether voucher participants voted at higher rates. A recent The Hill story mentions the evaluation as supporting evidence for federal public campaign financing proposals.