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This issue of the BMS includes two research articles and four research notes. The first research article, in English, “Co-authorship Network Dynamics and Geographical Trajectories - What Part Does Mobility Play?”, by Bastien Bernela and Béatrice Milard, matches bibliometric and qualitative data (from CVs and semi-structured interviews), and analyzes the careers of two prolific chemists located in the same laboratory, showing that differences in mobility do not strongly incidence co-authorship geography.
The second research article, in French, “Radicalization as Seen by the Press - Fluctuation of a Representation”, by Caroline Guibet Lafaye and Pierre Brochard, systematically analyzes four daily newspapers between 1995-2015, using the Mallet computer program, and distinguishes several relevant semantic fields regarding the notion of radicalisation, their temporal variations and the restriction of these fields since 2012 leading to a quasi identification between radicalisation and Islamic terrorism.
The first research note, in French, “Provinces and Rebalancing Inequality in New Caledonia - How to Measure Poverty?”, by Laure Hadj, examines the methodological choices made to permit the establishment of poverty scenarios according to the Province of residence of the population. Provinces thus become a statistical and a political-administrative scale permitting an adjustment of political, economical and social inequalities.
The second research note, in English, “Secondary Respondent Consent in the German Family Panel”, by Claudia Schmiedeberg, Laura Castiglioni and Jette Schröder, look at low consent rates for secondary respondents in families, and experimented with placing the consent questions in the self-interview part of the interview, but found that thus bypassing the interviewers and their influence on responses did not increase consent rates.
The third research note, in French, “Observing Internet Communities and Forums”, by Jean-Baptiste Clais, proposes a set of methodological recommendations for analyzing Internet forums and presents the technical operation of these forums, their content, and the points to be observed to understand their social dynamics, temporality, exchanges and interactions with the physical world.
The fourth research note, in English, “Social Factors and Elderly Frailty - An Application of the Frail Scale in Italy”, by Stefano Poli and Valeria Pandolfini, presents the multidimensional methodological tools for evaluating frailty in ageing and the first validation in Italy of the FRAIL scale.