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WSN - an X-Ray of our list by Tausch, Arno 24 January 2001 09:08 UTC |
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Dear colleagues: Recent developments on this list give pause for thought. A short quantitative content analysis of our archive http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/wsn/glimpse.html <http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/wsn/glimpse.html> reveals the following occurrences of messages containing the following catch-words in our electronic exchanges since the very beginning of the list. The implications of this analysis should be, I think, on everybody's mind, before clicking the send-command: The sinking ship? - Considerable insatisfaction is present Summary for query "unsubscribe": Found at least 124 matches in at least 101 files Hate language abounds: Summary for query "insult": Found at least 150 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "outrageous": Found 81 matches in 81 files Summary for query "reactionary": Found at least 150 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "idiotic": Found 32 matches in 30 files Summary for query "hate": Found at least 115 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "bum": Found 3 matches in 2 files Easy promises of a promised land are made all too often: Summary for query "comrade": Found at least 361 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "socialist revolution": Found 166 matches in 61 files Summary for query "imperialism": Found at least 219 matches in at least 101 files By contrast: Some hard, core-issues of world-systems research are being dealt with, others not: Summary for query "data analysis": Found 21 matches in 21 files Summary for query "long cycle": Found at least 261 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "re-orient": Found 102 matches in 69 files Summary for query "quantitative": Found at least 160 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "European Union": Found at least 243 matches in at least 101 files More academic discourse would be a promising beginning and would help graduate and undergraduate students in finding relevant materials and data: Summary for query "research result": Found 6 matches in 6 files Summary for query "library": Found at least 177 matches in at least 101 files Dialogue of cultures and on a future global order, for example, could be a more promising beginning: Summary for query "islam": Found at least 180 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "catholic": Found at least 187 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "protestant": Found at least 161 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "human rights": Found at least 391 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "Galtung": Found 99 matches in 40 files Summary for query "Goldstein": Found at least 237 matches in at least 101 files Summary for query "United Nations": Found at least 155 matches in at least 101 files Kind regards Arno Tausch
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