1,720,990 research outputs found
How to do things with cultures? International Perspectives on the Theory and Practices of Cultural Studies
No full textThe present issue of “Azimuth” aims to analyse this intellectual constel¬lation from different points of view, gathering all these efforts and different ways to study cultures under the label of “cultural studies”.
In this frame, the opening essays by Lawrence Grossberg and Hartmut Böhme have the paradigmatic task to establish the state of the research and its problems with reference to the disciplines of cultural studies (Grossberg) and Kulturwissenschaft (Böhme) in their respective countries and scientific communities. The articles by Mena Mitrano and Antonio Lucci attempt to establish a link between cultural studies and Kulturwissenschaften, as they developed in their countries of first elaboration, and the Italian Thought. They aim to bring to light a possible hidden tradition (Lucci) or a contem¬porary line (Mitrano) of thought in Italy, which one could ascribe to the field specified by the definition of “cultural studies”. The essays by Joachim Fischer and Andrea Borsari provide a thematic study on two basic lines of the German declination of the studies on culture. They discuss Philosoph-ical Anthropology as a set of theories of culture made available by the new reading of three main works by Cassirer, Scheler, and Plessner (Fischer), and the contribution offered by the Cassirer-Simmel debate to the origin and new development of the Kulturphilosophie (Borsari). The survey by Giacomo Scarpelli refers to classical authors in the canon of the Kulturwissenschaft (Freud and Warburg above all), and examines the figure of the god¬dess Diana of Ephesus, providing a practical example of “cultural” analysis.
The three final essays emphasize some major points characterizing the Anglo-Saxon field of studies on cultures. Michele Cometa focuses on the relationship among processes of subjectivation, the birth of the Self and the manipulation of tools from an anthropological, archaeological, and neu¬ro-cognitive perspective. Gilberto Mazzoli analyzes the example of Environmental Studies as a paradigm to understand the links between nature, culture, and environment, developing further the longue durée approach started in the last century by the Annales School. João Cezar de Castro Rocha, from his Latin-American point of view, reflects on the connections among cultures, art, and literature, applying René Girard’s anthropological theory of mimetic desire to an aesthetic-visual context.
Finally, it is an honor for us to publish for the first time as an appendix to the issue an article by Friedrich A. Kittler, entitled Nietzsche oder die Erfindung der Kulturpolitik – thanks to the courtesy of Susanne Holl and the valuable work of transcription, review and introduction made by Sandrina Khaled and Tania Hron, curators of the Kittler Archiv in Berlin
Sergio Benvenuto, Antonio Lucci, Lacan, oggi. Sette conversazioni per capire Lacan
No full textLa recensione mette in rilievo la peculiarità della lettura che Benvenuto propone di Lacan: il suo postmodernismo "nietzscheano", il suo specifico utilizzo del concetto di Reale, in una chiave fondamentalmente ironica e affermativa
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
