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Basque Cyberculture: from Digital Euskadi to CyberEuskalherria
Get PDFThe global telecommunications revolution poses one of the principal challenges to Basque culture in the new century. How will it survive homogenizing effects of globalization in cyberspace? Is it possible to transform Basque vernacular culture into a high-tech culture without losing its features? To answer these questions, we need to broaden our understanding of cyberculture to include the history of technology in the Basque Country, the present state of Basque culture, not just there, but in the Basque diaspora, and the future prospects for recreating a Basque vernacular culture in cyberspace. Basque Cyberculture explores possible futures in the new millennium by examining the resources available in the Basque culture, from the philosophy of technology to art and literature.This book was published with generous financial support from the Basque Government.Preface1. Introduction2. Euskalherria 20013. Short history of Basque technology4. Basque techno-science5. A Basque effort in telecommunications6. Basque Webgraphy7. Thinking cyberculture I8. Thinking cyberculture II9. Basque languages: a virtual model10. New Basque literature11. Transvernacular culture12. From heroic avant-garde to cyberart13. The Guggenheim effect14. Basque dissidence15. Basque violence as a low-intensity infowar16. The Basque choice17. Connected diaspora18. Culture CyberAmerica19. Basque utopias20. CyberEuskalherriaPicture CreditsIndexColopho
Right to Know, New Technologies and New Communities of Citizenship
No full textEducation allows people to know and to be able to know. It could be right to consider knowledge as a vital part for our well being as food, shelter, and security. Those are basic requirements for survival. But the interesting question for our paper is if there is a limit, if there should be something that should be kept in secret. That would imply the acceptance of a moral and political nature of knowledge. Here we find how this question can become difficult. We know the need to preserve some personal information in secret. If not basic elements of human life such as privacy and intimacy would disappear. On the other hand it is not easy to claim the right of intimacy in the era of computers and networks. Suspicious as we are, we tend to accept the evidence of an extremely invasive screening in our life, whereas we like or not.Peer reviewe
Amateur Versus Professionals: Politics, Citizenship and Science
No full textScientific and technological expertise is currently experiencing a crisis. The public shows a growing distrust in many aspects related to the techno-scientific development.
The birth of that suspicion begins after World War II but has transformed in the past few decades. In this paper, the authors examine how that doubt has specific features in the present moment. Also, there is a reaction to propose another way to make scientific and technological research where there is a more participative spirit. These changes reshape traditional ideas on science, technology and progress. Amateur efforts in science and technology maybe are opening the possibility of a change for these activities and information technology seems to support these efforts. If these can be considered, a consistent trend is
difficult to predict.Peer reviewe
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
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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