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1. Visible and invisible hands of power : theoretical preliminaries -- 2. Domination by virtue of a constellation of interests : benefits of gate keeping -- 3. The 2008 financial crisis through the lens of power relationships -- 4. Welcome to Russia : benefits of obedience -- 5. Access to justice : the rule of lawyers -- 6. An invisible dimension of the visible hand : entry control internal labour markets -- 7. Quality control as a weapon : gate keeping in peer review.

Mass media is has playing significant role in strengthening the society, promoting knowledge, globalizing the world and disseminating the information. The study presents the importance of gate keeping. The objective of the study was to know about the different models of gate keeping described by the different media scientists from early age to present. Media gathers information from all over the world, which can not publish, broadcast or telecast as it is because there is very little time and space, so every form of media has to define its content. The process by which this practice is done, called gate keeping. Through this process information is filtered for dissemination. The quantitative methodology used for this study. Data is gathered from early gate keeping model to latest model. The study concluded that Gate keeping is a selection process in which all the information is organized by level of importance and interest. The gatekeeper or gatekeepers fix on which information is relevant after sorting it out in a hierarchy that determines what they need. Information from important topics, controversial issues, and contemporary news stories has a higher tendency of being selected. Moreover, the gatekeeper alone can't decide how the information is sorted, for this purpose there are many gate keepers who determine which information will be pass out to People, a gatekeeper is always having its own influences like social, cultural, ethical and political. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n1s1p588

Wir bringen zwei neue Beiträge in die FQS-Debatte zu "Erfolgreich Sozialwissenschaft betreiben ...": (1) Einen theoretischen Text, der ein Schweige-Gebot für die sozialen Hintergründe und Interna in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Subkultur aufstellt, (2) eine (literarische) Einzelfall-Geschichte einer Promotion im universitären Dickicht. Die beiden Beiträge sind Ausdruck sehr unterschiedlicher Blickweisen auf das sozialwissenschaftliche Milieu. Sie sind Exempel unserer Intention als Debatten-Moderatoren, diese (kleine) soziale Welt von verschiedenen Beteiligten-Standpunkten aus zu beleuchten und daraus Gewinn zu ziehen für eine systematischere und tiefergehende Aufklärung der sozialen Bedingtheiten sozialwissenschaftlicher Produktion

AbstractPrevious studies generally assume that barriers to internet access are largely passive. That is, exclusion from the Internet is a consequence of poorly resourced individuals, communities, and institutions. This study complicates that assumption by focusing on the active policing and gatekeeping of internet access. Specifically, we estimate the causal effect of free Wi-Fi at chain restaurants on quality-of-life crime reporting by leveraging a staggered difference-in-differences design which compares geo-located crime reports near chain restaurants in Chicago before and after those restaurants introduced free Wi-Fi. We find that free Wi-Fi led to a substantive and significant increase in quality-of-life policing when restaurants were located in wealthier and Whiter areas, but not in other areas. Our findings suggest that internet access itself may be actively policed by social institutions, in our case, national chain restaurants and the police, to protect access for some at the expense of others.

This case study discusses the potential for conflict within qualitative research collaborations. It is particularly focused on collaborations with community organizations, and on the ethical principle of respect--that individuals should be treated as autonomous agents, yet those with diminished autonomy must be protected. Much of the author's research has been on sensitive topics, including self-harm and sexual abuse. Conducting research with young women who have experienced these entails a number of challenges, including access, recruitment, the development of trust, and managing potential vulnerability. However, participants frequently report benefits from participation, even when distress is experienced. Although collaborating with service providers with which potential research participants engage may reduce some of these difficulties, other tensions frequently arise. Furthermore, research on sensitive topics and/or with vulnerable people poses specific ethical difficulties. These include tensions between researcher and participant needs, such as conveying the possibility of distress while not discouraging participation. Service providers are often aware of some of these possible issues, and may take on a gate-keeper role through a desire to protect their clients. In so doing, the autonomy of potential participants is diminished. Thus, the development of trust on the part of both collaborating services and participants is key to the opening of research spaces. The challenges of complex and competing needs in research collaborations will be examined through the use of a specific research example.