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Politics of cross-cultural reading : three case studies (Rabindranath Tagore, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Dario Fo)
No full textTHESIS 9844The aim of this thesis is to develop a multifaceted model by which one can engage with cross-cultural acts of reading in a meaningful way and to provide a sample of quite diverse works of world literature in translation to show the model?s flexibility. My methodology combines reception studies (Wolfgang Iser, Hans-Robert Jauss and Peter Rabinowitz) with polysystem theory (Itamar Even-Zohar) and rhetorical hermeneutics (Steven Mailloux). The foundations of meaning are negotiated in a complex interpretive process that involves an act of sense making (understanding) and an act of making-sense-to-others (persuading). Like meaning, authority and authenticity do not reside at one site (?the original? or ?the author?) but are distributed among various agents participating in the production and positioning of a literary text. The model developed in chapters 1 and 2 takes into account the text?s location in its producing culture and the agents? location in theirs
Translating Holocaust Literature [Reseña]
No full textArnds, Peter, Translating Holocaust Literature. Göttingen: Verlag Vandenhoeck
& Ruprecht, 156 pp., 2016
Remixing Transmedia for Cultural Heritage Sites: The Rhetoric, Creative Practice, and Evaluation of Digital Narratives
No full textIn the digital age, cultural heritage tourists need to invest a lot of time and cognitive effort into hunting and gathering cross-media content about a destination and then connecting it into a cohesive sense of a place. This thesis uses the guideposts of narrative and the affordances digital media to inform the creation of narrative experiences that provide people with the agency to make meaningful content choices tailored to their interests. In the context of tourism, the aim was to develop a choose-your-own-adventure virtual tour that met the needs of an audience that is primarily interested in cultural heritage activities. This thesis? transdisciplinary approach applied theories and practices from communication and media studies, literary studies, computer science, and digital humanities to the investigation of interactive digital narratives (IDN)?a term used by scholars across disciplines to describe emerging genres of digital storytelling. The research question this thesis addresses is: how can a transdisciplinary approach expand IDN theory into a framework that can be applied to create and evaluate multimodal, participatory narratives in non-fiction genres?
A theoretical framework for creating persuasive digital narratives was developed and demonstrated in practice through a case study on the 11 UNESCO World Heritage Australian Convict Sites. A mixed-methods approach of gathering qualitative and quantitative data was used for a comparative analysis to determine which narrative themes and content modalities were of most interest to visitors of these sites. A prototype interactive web documentary (iDoc) was created based on a multimodal discourse analysis of content produced by the tourism industry, subject-matter experts, and users (i.e., members of the public). A combination of content collected from the three corpora was remixed into a new narrative system, which was based on the developed theoretical framework and tested by experts and users. The survey results showed that video and image modalities were preferred, the alternative paths provided through the narrative structure were selected more often than the linear option, and the rhetorical communication goal of persuading future participation was achieved. Future IDNs could help preserve local history, uncover lost cultural stories and customs, allow people to explore their own and other cultures, serve as a method of informal education, and encourage public participation in cultural formation and dialogues
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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