Research Forums
The Research Forums are in theory a repository of raw, factual information. The Orange Room states that the Research Forums go "beyond opinions, to facts".
- Archival: Serves as a repository for historical documents, elections numbers, interviews, government, municipalities and political parties administrative contacts and resources.
Archival seeks to help reduce the fragmentation of the historical record by connecting events whose temporal and spatial relationships are often obscured by a mass of contradicting and disconnected literature, the biases of the media, and the tendency for important past events to be relegated to the annals of forgotten history. By reducing the fragmentation of the historical record, this project hopes to reduce the amount of time it takes for the public to acquire a full and coherent picture of an event or issue.
This section is dedicated for all the inputs that are related to archives such as: Historical documents; Election campaigns and results; Important press conferences and interviews; Government administrative, municipality and ministerial contacts and resources; FPM committee’s contacts and resources; Etc ...
In order to better organize the Archival, this section is divided into the following four parts:
1) Historical Archives: Archives for all kinds of historical events from the World, Lebanon and FPM.
2) National and FPM Media: Directory and resource to all the media outlets, journalists, reporters, and media shows.
3) Elections and Campaigns: Archives to all kinds of elections; Covering candidates, campaigns, results and other related info.
4) The Government & the Parliament: Directory for government resources, ministries directories, MPs & politicians contacts and FPM’s offices and committees contacts.
- Research: Serves as a repository for governmental, FPM and other political party's achievements. Reports and biographies on many political and social personalities are also available. In addition, different political, social, economical and technological matters are studied objectively.
The Research section is to provide means for members of LFPM.ORG to monitor the activities of political entities, such as governments, Change & Reform Bloc, FPM and other parties. In this capacity, the RF should be regarded as a tool that enables members to operate as a sort of people’s intelligence agency.
To initiate an investigation of a certain issue, entity, or event, a user first creates a time line and a clear description of the project or the thread. LFPM.ORG members begin adding events, entities, and relationships to that thread.
Production and Acquisition:
To increase the efficiency of information production: RF is premised on the notion that collaboration in a networked “open-content” environment can greatly improve the efficiency and quality of information production in the public sphere as it allows contributors to build upon and improve the work of others in real time as part of an LFPM.ORG community.
To increase the efficiency of information acquisition: In order to avoid being faced with many threads in which members ending up debating for the sake of repeating a position (with or against) they heard from someone they trust, without really being provided deep professional insight into the matter. Therefore, RF interferes in certain threads, where professional insight is required to make the judgment easier on members and readers.
This section is dedicated to all inputs that are related, but not limited, to: Governments, FPM and all other political party achievements; All political and social personalities; Research on different political, social, economical and technological matters.
The division here will come in three different categories:
1) Politics: Research on different political matters and monitor the activities of Governments, FPM and other political parties.
2) Economy & Finance: Research on issues related to World and Lebanese economy.
3) People & Life: Research on issues related to different activities that affects our society.
- RF Info: Contains help tools and information about the Research Forums.
In addition to the regular Forum Rules, the Research Forum has the following additions:
1) All articles posted on this forum should have a reliable source. i.e. either an operating link, or a reliable reference.
2) Only Facts and analyzes based on facts are acceptable. You cannot post your interpretation of the story; this is not a discussion forum.
3) All threads should have a clear statement on its initiative and its benefits.
4) All posts and threads need the approval of the moderators.
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