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A Critique on the Book Everyday Life of the Urban Precariat
Get PDFThis article has been written with the aim of critical study on the book Everyday Life of Urban Precariat (2013-2011) written by Alireza Sadeghi. This book is considered as a collection of works written in the theoretical-methodological tradition of Bayat and according to the author, it is readable in the continuation of Bayat's book "Street Policies" which was written in 1997. The results of this critical study show that although the information and evidence presented in the book, which has been analyzed in an ethnographic manner, indicate the depth and breadth of this research, the fact is that the book is one of its original examples of "street politics". He has not stepped beyond. Also, showing the negligence and insignificance of the role of the poor in reproducing the inferiority situation and urban irregularities is a point that can be seen in the design and summary of the present book
Studying the image of "university professor" on Instagram
No full textAbstractThe aim of this article is to study and classify the various forms of university professors’ presence on Instagram, a platform that allows users, including university faculty, to showcase themselves and aspects of their lifestyles. This study, which began with an exploratory approach, was conducted using digital ethnography. After examining twenty accounts across three fields: humanities, arts, and engineering, it was concluded that professors’ presence on Instagram can be classified into four forms of performance: academic, event-based, everyday, and reactive performance. The data from this research indicate that the mechanisms of Instagram and the rules governing presence on the platform can eliminate informational barriers between professors and their followers, potentially leading to the normalization of academic identity and ultimately changing the traditional professor-student relationship in this space.Extended Abstract:IntroductionThe emergence of the virtual space as a novel platform for interaction between the present and the absent, as well as the opportunity for the absent to engage with the absent, has introduced novel ways to broaden the scope of criticism and opinion, thereby meeting the heightened communication demands of contemporary individuals and enhancing the exposure prospects for the parties involved in communication.Instagram is still considered to be one of the most significant social networks in Iran, due to its focus on user-generated content, particularly in the form of photos and videos accompanied by explanations. This platform has become a primary medium that shapes a large part of users' understanding and interaction with each other or the prominent personalities present within the space.Prior to the emergence of the virtual realm and social networks, the relationship between teachers and students was often marked by disagreements and rigid thought processes, resulting in limited interaction options. Student encounters with teachers were typically few and limited to face-to-face interaction, with an inherent sense of distance in terms of knowledge and social stature. This lack of readily accessible information hindered students from forming comprehensive mental images of their teachers.Over time, with the emergence and spread of social networks, the once distant relationship between teachers and students transformed into a closer and more visible interaction. This change was characterized by professors sharing aspects of their daily lives and personal characteristics with the public. In turn, students and other members of virtual communities associated with these professors found ample opportunities to fill information gaps and gain insights into their teachers through these virtual platforms.By actively participating in social networks, professors have exposed and explained their lives and mindset, providing users with a markedly different and more accessible image than what was previously available. Transparency, despite being an inherent aspect and logic of this medium, undoubtedly challenges the traditionally distant and unapproachable stature of professors.The objective of this research is to examine and classify the various forms of presence university professors exhibit on Instagram and identify the patterns through which they disclose aspects of their lives. Specifically, the question is: How do Iranian university professors in diverse disciplines portray themselves and their lives on Instagram?The question then becomes how the position of a professor is implemented and how various types of professor presence can be categorized in the social network. Furthermore, through studying these pages and categorizing them, can we identify differences in how professors in various fields, such as technical, experimental, and humanities, express their identities and describe these differences?The article aims to analyze and classify different forms of university professor presence on Instagram, a platform that enables users, including professors, to showcase themselves and their lives. Images that can challenge established hierarchies and power dynamics within the professor-student relationship and transform the learning environment into a more open and diversified space.This study, which began with an exploratory approach in the initial stage, was completed through the utilization of the digital ethnographic method. This leads us to the overarching question: How do faculty members from Iranian universities with various fields portray "themselves" and their lives on Instagram?Indeed, two key questions emerge: How is the role of a professor implemented in this social network, and how can distinct forms of professor presence be classified? Additionally, by analyzing these pages and categorizing them, can we discern any differences in how professors from various fields, such as technical, experimental, and humanities, express their identities, and if so, how might we describe these differences?The active participation of professors in social networks seems to have provided users with a more authentic and accessible image of their professors, by revealing and explaining their lives and ideologies. Transparency, while being the backbone and logic of this space, inevitably challenges the long-established yet distant and unattainable status of professors.After examining user accounts in three distinct fields — humanities, arts, and technical engineering — a total of twenty accounts, it was discovered that the presence of university professors on Instagram could be categorized into four main identities: academic, occasion, everyday, and reactive.The results of this study demonstrate that the mechanisms of Instagram and the norms of engagement within this platform, by decreasing the information barrier between professors and their followers, contribute to the normalization of Professor's identity and the gradual disappearance of their traditional, sacred aura in this digital space
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
Urban Image in Iranian Fiction Films
No full textTehran as a symbol of Iranian modernity has been considered in many Iranian fiction films. Representation of Tehran in cinema can be the representation of Iranian modernity revolution. This study focuses on the representation of urban image in Iranian fiction films through critical theories such as Simmel or Benjamin opinions. In this article we discus about the mediator role of cinema for representing the Urban life Image and confliction of modernity in Iran.Meanwhile some megalopolis such as Paris, Berlin, Moscow, New York and sanpitersboorg est.…have had great opportunity for understanding confliction of modernity in their situation, Tehran has never have that chance. Regarding to this vacuum we want to explain the role of Iranian fiction films for understanding the entrance of modernity consequences in different eras. We believed that fiction films can represent confliction of city and village, represent of modern dualities, non cohesive rationality and many other gaps in Iranian modernity that we have to know
Imagination of Tehran: Study of "Mindscape of the City" through 1340s and 1350s Iranian Cinema
No full textThis paper aims to study the imagination of Tehran through 1340s and 1350s Iranian cinema and the main question is that what kind of representation on city was fueled by cinema. This study was conducted based on analysis of four impressive films in these two decades. Two of them are popular movies (Ganje Gharoon and Khater Khah) and the two other (Khesht-o Ayeni and Ragbar) are related to avantgarde cinema. Although they are different in presenting the city in some aspects, the results reveal that both approaches emphasise on the negative aspects of the city and expose latent contradictions in the extreme way
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
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