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Emerging scholar profile: Dr. Anja Pabel
No full textDr Anja Pabel is an early career researcher and lecturer in tourism at Central Queensland University, Australia. She holds a PhD in tourism, which was awarded in 2015 from James Cook University, Australia. Her PhD thesis titled “Assessing and enhancing humour in the tourism setting” investigated the role of humour in tourism. More specifically, it examined ways in which humour influences the tourist experience by making tourists feel comfortable, connected and more mindful. The findings are considered from the perspective of positive psychology, where humour itself is regarded as a character strength that contributes to peoples’ well-being and happiness
Emerging scholar profile: Dr. Anja Pabel
No full textDr Anja Pabel is an early career researcher and lecturer in tourism at Central Queensland University, Australia. She holds a PhD in tourism, which was awarded in 2015 from James Cook University, Australia. Her PhD thesis titled “Assessing and enhancing humour in the tourism setting” investigated the role of humour in tourism. More specifically, it examined ways in which humour influences the tourist experience by making tourists feel comfortable, connected and more mindful. The findings are considered from the perspective of positive psychology, where humour itself is regarded as a character strength that contributes to peoples’ well-being and happiness
A narrative approach to understanding recreational dive tourists’ experiences on coral reefs
No full textPabel, A ORCiD: 0000-0003-1409-5496This chapter explores tourist blogs to gain better insights into dive tourists’ experiences at various coral reef destinations. Using a purposive sampling strategy, 100 travel blogs were selected from two travel blog websites. Thematic content analysis of these blogs resulted in common themes such as marine life, underwater scenery, social aspects, service related attributes and wreck diving opportunities. A further theme dealt with the issues contributing to dive tourists’ disappointment and concerns. Knowledge of this kind can provide important information to managers at coral reef destinations and marine tourism operations regarding what strategies could assist in improving experiences for recreational scuba divers. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Bruce Prideaux and Anja Pabel; individual chapters, the contributors
Coral reefs: Tourism, conservation and management
No full textCoral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities. However, coral reefs are under increasing threat from climate change and related impacts such as coral bleaching and ocean acidification. Other anthropogenic stresses include over-fishing, anchor damage, coastal development, agricultural run-off, sedimentation and coral mining. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to review these issues as they relate to the sustainable management of coral reef tourism destinations. It incorporates coral reef science, management, conservation and tourism perspectives and takes a global perspective of coral reef tourism issues covering many of the world’s most significant coral reef destinations. These include the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef in Australia, the Red Sea, Pacific Islands, South East Asia, the Maldives, the Caribbean islands, Florida Keys and Brazil. Specific issues addressed include climate change, pollution threats, fishing, island tourism, scuba diving, marine wildlife, governance, sustainability, conservation and community resilience. The book also issues a call for more thoughtful development of coral reef experiences where the ecological needs of coral reefs are placed ahead of the economic desires of the tourism industry. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Bruce Prideaux and Anja Pabel; individual chapters, the contributors
Coral reefs: Tourism, conservation and management
No full textPabel, A ORCiD: 0000-0003-1409-5496Coral reefs are an important tourism resource for many coastal and island destinations and generate a range of benefits to their local communities, including as a food source, income from tourism, employment and recreational opportunities. However, coral reefs are under increasing threat from climate change and related impacts such as coral bleaching and ocean acidification. Other anthropogenic stresses include over-fishing, anchor damage, coastal development, agricultural run-off, sedimentation and coral mining. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to review these issues as they relate to the sustainable management of coral reef tourism destinations. It incorporates coral reef science, management, conservation and tourism perspectives and takes a global perspective of coral reef tourism issues covering many of the world’s most significant coral reef destinations. These include the Great Barrier Reef and Ningaloo Reef in Australia, the Red Sea, Pacific Islands, South East Asia, the Maldives, the Caribbean islands, Florida Keys and Brazil. Specific issues addressed include climate change, pollution threats, fishing, island tourism, scuba diving, marine wildlife, governance, sustainability, conservation and community resilience. The book also issues a call for more thoughtful development of coral reef experiences where the ecological needs of coral reefs are placed ahead of the economic desires of the tourism industry. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Bruce Prideaux and Anja Pabel; individual chapters, the contributors
Anja Pabel, Josephine Pryce, and Allison Anderson (Eds.), Research Paradigm Considerations for Emerging Scholars, Channel View Publications, Bristol–Blue Ridge Summit 2021, https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845418281
No full textResearch Paradigm Considerations for Emerging Scholars (2021), edited by Anja Pabel, Josephine Pryce, and Allison Anderson, published by Channel View Publication (DOI: 10.21832/9781845418281), is notable among methodological publications for its scientific openness and permission to experimentation in the research process. The book’s target audience is postgraduate HDRs, emerging scholars and higher-degree supervisors, lecturers in methodology seeking to enhance their reflexivity. According to the authors, it is the reflexive approach that differentiates this book from other methodological books, especially those intended for researchers who are in the process of development regardless of their academic status. Among Polish methodological books there is no publication which as clearly as the book Research Paradigm Considerations… encourages the development of cognitive research curiosity by applying and developing already known paradigms but also by modifying them depending on the socio-cultural context of the research. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for practical applications of paradigms, but the subject of their research cannot be clearly categorized
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
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