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The Role of the Built Environment in Social Interactions and Loneliness
No full text204 pagesLoneliness has been rising among all age groups, especially young adults. This study dissected the everyday interactions of Cornell University students during the Covid-19 pandemic to examine links between loneliness, social interactions, and the physical environment in a 3-phase study consisting of two surveys and a week of Ecological Momentary Assessments. Questions asked about feelings of loneliness, how meaningful the most recent interaction was, and physical environment components of their interactions. Engaging in primarily virtual versus in-person interactions was linked to increased loneliness. Recreational and outdoor spaces were linked to the more meaningful interactions, with the worst results connected to study spaces. Loneliness and meaningfulness were not significantly different after interactions in private versus public space, although many interactions between variables were found. Visual preference analyses suggest the need to a provide a mixture of open and closed spaces, including affordances for privacy based on the nature of the interaction
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
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Work, Leisure, and a Rosemary Latte: Exploring the Instrumental and Spiritual Qualities of Coffee Shops
No full textWhile public physical space use has dramatically changed over the last 50 years, most recently exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, participation in these spaces, remains a vital facet of people’s lives. In order to create public spaces that are suitable to these altered patterns of social interactions, it is critical to understand how physical spaces and in-person relationships intersect with virtual worlds and interactions. These intersections of digital and physical worlds are especially consequential in Third Places, different from work or home spaces, often known as spaces of leisure and community. This study utilized interviews (n= 20) in Third Places, specifically coffee shops, to explore the reasons for and meanings associated with coffee shops for their users. Using an inductive approach, this study used open coding and thematic coding to analyze transcribed interviews. Results of this work advance existing literature on the instrumental and spiritual uses of spaces, where instrumental features refer to those that directly impact concrete tasks or outcomes and spiritual qualities are those that are intangible and affective, encompassing meanings, connections, and values. These instrumental and spiritual qualities are complicated by interactions and behavior patterns mediated and transformed by digital technologies and the cybersphere. Specifically, interviewees reported differing motivations for space use, ranging from purely instrumental to highly spiritual. The findings suggest that coffee shops, while not primarily used as traditional Third Places, provide spiritual qualities of productivity, social connectivity, and identity, even among irregular space users. Spiritual meanings ascribed to physical places are influenced by past, present, and desired future identity of their occupants. Broadly, findings indicate a reveal a wide array of instrumental and spiritual meanings of coffee shops among the participants in the study
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
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