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Modelling the future?
No full textWhat are research engineers doing when they develop models of the energy system? While modellers may or may not be designing specific technological interventions, their modelling activities play a crucial role in the progress of technological ideas and imaginaries. Contrary to the popular vision of inventors tinkering in workshops– an image promoted by appliance developers such as Trevor Bayliss– the majority of significant engineering and infrastructure developments come out of research laboratories through a lengthy process of detailed modelling. What is meant by modelling can vary extraordinary widely. Models may be calculative computing models of inputs and outputs or processes, they may be based on readings from real physical entities, simulated data generated mathematically from physical measurements, or actual material exemplarseven a whole house fitted with monitors that acts as a ‘model’ or archetype of material effects. Common to all such models is the measurement of something in the real world which produces mathematical data that can then be manipulat ed with the use of computing software, using programmes often designed and run by those researchers who we refer to, in shorthand, as modellers
Bibliographie selective sur le tourisme
No full textABRAM, Simone, 1994, Recollections and recreations : tourism, heritage and history in the french Auvergne, Unpublished D. Phil. thesis, University of Oxford. ABRAM, Simone, WALDREN, Jacqueline, MacLEOD, Donald V.L. (eds.), 1997, Tourists and Tourism. Identifying People and Places, New York, Oxford, Berg. ADAMS, Kathleen M., 1997, “ Ethnic Tourism and the Renegotiation of Tradition in Tana Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) ”, Ethnology, 36 (4) : 309-20. AMIROU, Rachid, 1995, Imaginaire touristique ..
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
Introduction: Politicizing Energy Anthropology
No full textInternational audienceA political anthropology of energy starts from the position that energetic infrastructures are pivots for sociopolitical inquiry. They facilitate the contours of the state and local communities, both in their material existence and in their projection of imaginaries into the future and into a global environment. Not only is energy at the core of many economic interests, geopolitical struggles and international relations, but energy technologies are also central to modernist ideologies and neoliberal narratives. A political anthropology approach is one that can begin to unpack such tightly knitted sociomaterialand sociotechnical forms, tracing the links between material forms, concepts and ideologies and elaborating the forms of power that arethereby enabled or inhibited.Ethnographies of Power compiles topical case studies and analysis of contemporary entanglements of energy materialities and political power. Based on original contributions with a strong ethnographic sensibility, it revisits some of the classic anthropological notions of power by questioning the role of energetic infrastructures and their current transformations in the consolidation, extension or subversion of modern political regimes
Introduction: Politicizing Energy Anthropology
No full textInternational audienceA political anthropology of energy starts from the position that energetic infrastructures are pivots for sociopolitical inquiry. They facilitate the contours of the state and local communities, both in their material existence and in their projection of imaginaries into the future and into a global environment. Not only is energy at the core of many economic interests, geopolitical struggles and international relations, but energy technologies are also central to modernist ideologies and neoliberal narratives. A political anthropology approach is one that can begin to unpack such tightly knitted sociomaterialand sociotechnical forms, tracing the links between material forms, concepts and ideologies and elaborating the forms of power that arethereby enabled or inhibited.Ethnographies of Power compiles topical case studies and analysis of contemporary entanglements of energy materialities and political power. Based on original contributions with a strong ethnographic sensibility, it revisits some of the classic anthropological notions of power by questioning the role of energetic infrastructures and their current transformations in the consolidation, extension or subversion of modern political regimes
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