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Young British Muslims in Higher Education: exploring the experiences and identities of Bradford students within a narrative framework
Get PDFThis research aims to explore the lived experiences of young British Muslims in higher education at the University of Bradford and the implications this has for the construction of their identities. The increased participation of Muslims in higher education has been hailed a major success story and is said to have enabled the forging of new, alternative, more empowering identities in comparison to previous generations. This thesis provides a new approach in exploring young British Muslims identity by focusing on the dynamics underling identity construction through the use of a pluralistic method to present an array of informants’ accounts of their experiences (Frost et al., 2011). Phase one of the research included qualitative ethnographic observations which were carried out at the University of Bradford City Campus and was chosen in order to capture the use of the various social settings by informants and to understand actions, practices and meanings people gave to issues relevant to the research. Moreover, phase one was used to identify diversity of experience and select participants for phase two, the more focused aspect of the study which involved narrative interviews. A generative narrative interview was conducted with five young Muslims and aimed to understand how students negotiated their identity as Muslims in Britain within the higher educational contexts. The research revealed that rather than Muslims utilising university as a place whereby they are able to forge new identities, as depicted in previous literature, higher education is a context which demands the negotiation of identities that both enabled and constrained
Expressing Identity, Experiencing Belonging, and Everyday Life in Heavy Metal Music
Get PDFWhen heavy metal fans traverse through their everyday life, they are faced
with countless opportunities to engage in social interactions with others. Such
interactions question, establish, and strengthen fans’ heavy metal identities
whilst providing them with a sense of community and belonging through
engaging with others who also share a preference for heavy metal music. This
thesis is built on a qualitative research approach, complimented by an insider
and ethnographic orientation in order to explore identity expression, the feeling
of belonging and community, everyday life processes, and the role of heavy
metal music in the everyday life of heavy metal fans. Through social
interactions based on shared musical preference, heavy metal fans are able
to meaningfully engage with others through which communal affiliations are
strengthened and reinforced. Despite mainstream, and largely negative
attitudes towards heavy metal, the music provides a safety net for listeners
and is a driving force in their experience of the reciprocal relationship between
personal identity and group membership and community. Due to the deep
connection listeners have with heavy metal, the music becomes something
which fans are able to call theirs alone
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Expressing Identity, Experiencing Belonging, and Everyday Life in Heavy Metal Music
No full textWhen heavy metal fans traverse through their everyday life, they are faced
with countless opportunities to engage in social interactions with others. Such
interactions question, establish, and strengthen fans’ heavy metal identities
whilst providing them with a sense of community and belonging through
engaging with others who also share a preference for heavy metal music. This
thesis is built on a qualitative research approach, complimented by an insider
and ethnographic orientation in order to explore identity expression, the feeling
of belonging and community, everyday life processes, and the role of heavy
metal music in the everyday life of heavy metal fans. Through social
interactions based on shared musical preference, heavy metal fans are able
to meaningfully engage with others through which communal affiliations are
strengthened and reinforced. Despite mainstream, and largely negative
attitudes towards heavy metal, the music provides a safety net for listeners
and is a driving force in their experience of the reciprocal relationship between
personal identity and group membership and community. Due to the deep
connection listeners have with heavy metal, the music becomes something
which fans are able to call theirs alone
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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