Knowledge and Experimental Realism in Conrad, Lawrence, and Woolf

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
David W. Robinson ◽  
Patrick J. Whiteley
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Realism

Peter Seebergs poetik hinsides modernisme og realisme

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Juhl Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
Unique Position ◽  
Experimental Realism ◽  
Everyday Reality

AbstractIn Danish literary historiography, Peter Seeberg (1925–1999) tends to be categorized as a modernist author. However, a few hitherto unknown letters support the assumption that his poetics, from the mid-1960s, rather led him in the direction of an experimental realism, which is alien to modernism. Seeberg simply felt more comfortable with mimesis than with modernism’s anti-mimetic poetics. His deep respect for everyday reality – that can be traced back to ­Seeberg’s university thesis on Nietzsche – manifested itself both in his establishing of a so-called ‘total-archive’ and in the inclusive strategy of genre and composition in his late collections of short stories. In modern Danish literature, Seeberg holds a unique position, which possibly can be compared with the German noncon­formist Arno Schmidt (1914–1979).

Studying Electoral Persuasion Using Online Experiments

2019 ◽  
pp. 1015-1036
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Leeper
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Internal Validity ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Online Experiments ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Online Experimentation ◽  
Experimental Realism

Online experimental methods have become a major part of contemporary social science research. Yet the method is also controversial and experiments are frequently misunderstood. This chapter introduces online experimentation as a method, by explaining the logic of experimental design for causal inference. While experiments can be deployed in almost any setting, online experiments tend to take two forms: online survey experiments and experiments in naturalistic online environments. Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of these types relative to each other and relative to their offline analogues, the chapter demonstrates ways that experimentation has been used to learn about political behavior, media and campaign dynamics, and public opinion. Emphasizing trade-offs between internal validity, experimental realism, and external validity, the chapter demonstrates how researchers have used online platforms in tandem with randomization to gain insights into both online and offline phenomena. Though experiments are sometimes seen as trading off external for internal validity, this is not an accurate depiction of all experimental work. Rather, online experiments exist on spectrums that trade-off these features to varying degrees. And with those trade-offs come key challenges related to experimental control, the generalizability of experimental results across settings, units, treatments, and outcomes, and the ethics of online experimentation. The chapter concludes by suggesting how future research might innovatively push beyond existing work.

Experimental Methodology in Political Science

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose McDermott
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
Experimental Realism

Experiments offer a useful methodological tool to examine issues of importance to political scientists. The historical and cultural differences between experiments in behavioral economics and social psychology are discussed. Issues of central concern to experimentalists are covered, including impact versus control, mundane versus experimental realism, internal versus external validity, deception, and laboratory versus field experiments. Advantages and disadvantages of experimentation are summarized.

Hacking's Experimental Realism

1994 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Resnik
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Realism ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Scientific Representation ◽  
Scientific Explanations ◽  
Scientific Inference ◽  
The World ◽  
Experimental Realism ◽  
Realism Debate

Traditional debates about scientific realism tend to focus on issues concerning scientific representation (broadly speaking) and de-emphasize issues concerning scientific intervention. Questions about the relation between theories and the world, the nature of scientific inference, and the structure of scientific explanations have occupied a central place in the realism debate, while questions about experimentation and technology have not. Ian Hacking's experimental realism attempts to reverse this trend by shifting the defense of realism away from representation to intervention. Experimental realism, according to Hacking, does not require us to believe that our theories are true (or approximately true), nor does its defense depend on inference to the best explanation. For Hacking, the strongest proof for realism is that we can manipulate objects: 'So far as I'm concerned, if you can spray them, then they are real' (ibid., 23).

scholarly journals Efectos del framing en diseños de realismo experimental. Consumo de encuadres y compromiso político en la campaña electoral mexicana de 2018

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Muñiz ◽  
Martín Echeverría
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Content Consumption ◽  
Experimental Realism ◽  
Issue Frames ◽  
Informative Content ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

International literature demonstrates the influence of news media on the political attitudes and behaviors of citizens, stemming from the coverage and framing of politics. In the context of election campaigns, this news framing effect has usually been analyzed based on experimental designs, mainly through the manipulation of strategic game and issue frames. However, the need to conduct studies with greater realism has recently been raised, to increase the external validity and generalization of the findings. This approach, called experimental realism, seeks to link media content with opinion measurements to generate consumption indicators of certain types of news frames. Taking this procedure as a reference, this paper presents results on the impact of informative content consumption, focused on either the electoral strategy or programmatic proposals, in the development of the political engagement of citizens during the 2018 Mexican presidential campaign. The findings reveal an important effect of issue frame consumption on citizen political engagement according to all the measured indicators. Resumen La bibliografía internacional ha permitido determinar la influencia de los medios de comunicación en la generación de actitudes y comportamientos políticos de los ciudadanos, a partir de su cobertura de la política y en particular del framing de las noticias durante las campañas, de tipo asunto político y juego estratégico. Aunque habitualmente estos estudios se han elaborado desde diseños experimentales clásicos, recientemente se ha planteado la necesidad de realizar estudios de mayor validez externa y capacidad de generalización, llamados de realismo experimental, que vinculan contenidos mediáticos con mediciones de opinión para generar indicadores de consumo de cierto tipo de encuadres. Tomando este procedimiento como referente, el artículo presenta los resultados sobre el impacto del consumo de contenido informativo, enfocado ya sea desde la estrategia electoral o bien en las propuestas programáticas, en el desarrollo del compromiso político de los ciudadanos durante la campaña presidencial mexicana de 2018. Los resultados muestran un importante efecto del consumo del encuadre de asunto político sobre el compromiso ciudadano en todos los indicadores medidos.

Recalling a Habermas-inspired experimental realism

Metascience ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-341
Author(s):  
Juha Saatsi
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Realism
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