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Hard to Dismiss: The Archival Value of Gay Male Erotica and Pornography
Get PDFIn this article, the author argues that gay male erotica and pornography is a critically important part of the gay male documentary heritage. He suggests that in the absence of other queer records – which were either suppressed or destroyed – in some ways, these documents have gained an even greater value as the “surrogate records” of the twentieth-century gay male experience in North America. The author states that gay male erotica and pornography meets Schellenberg’s definition of an archival record, and throughout the article, he demonstrates how these materials do have an enduring value, which is at once evidential, informational, and research-based. He begins by presenting the historical context that led to the creation of queer archives in Canada, like the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) in Toronto, which have a mandate to preserve gay male erotica and pornography. Then, in his discussion of the evolution of the records themselves from the earliest American beefcake magazines to recent Web resources, he reveals examples of their evidential and informational nature. In the last part of the article, which deals with North American efforts to censor these materials, he argues that the attempts to censor, mask, and otherwise alter the originals have added another level of informational and evidential value to the records, and he provides examples of the types of information embedded therein.RÉSUMÉ Dans cet article, l’auteur soutient que les documents érotiques et pornographiques gais forment une partie importante du patrimoine documentaire gai. Il suggère qu’en l’absence d’autres documents gais, lesbiens, bisexuels et transgenres – qu’ils aient été supprimés ou détruits – ces documents ont pris une valeur encore plus grande en tant que « documents de substitution » pour décrire l’expérience des hommes gais en Amérique du Nord au vingtième siècle. L’auteur affirme que les documents érotiques et pornographiques gais rencontrent la définition des documents d’archives, telle qu’élaborée par Schellenberg, et tout au cours de l’article, il montre comment ces documents ont effectivement une valeur durable qui prend à la fois la forme d’une valeur de preuve, d’information et de recherche. Il aborde le sujet en présentant le contexte historique qui a mené à la création des archives gaies au Canada, comme les Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) à Toronto, qui ont le mandat de conserver les documents érotiques et pornographiques gais. Ensuite, en présentant l’évolution des documents à partir des toutes premières revues culturistes américaines (surnommées « magazines beefcake ») jusqu’aux ressources Web récentes, il donne des exemples de leur valeur de preuve et d’information. Dans la dernière partie de l’article, qui traite des efforts nord-américains pour censurer ces documents, il soutient qu’en tentant de censurer, de masquer ou de modifier ces documents, les censeurs ont ajouté un autre niveau d’information et une valeur de preuve additionnelle aux documents, et il donne des exemples de types d’information qui y sont inscrits
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
Pénélope nous attend : notes de parcours sur l’odyssée archivistique acadienne
No full textThis text examines the current state of Acadian archives and the challenges facing record-keepers and researchers who are interested in these records. Archival repositories that hold Acadian records are identified in several countries and regions that had a stake in the colonization of Acadia during the early French Colonial Period (1604–1713). The destruction of Acadian records during the Seven Years’ War, as well as the creation of new records in the many countries where the exiled Acadians settled after the deportations (1755–1763) is discussed. Finally, the challenges inherent to the nature of the Acadian records as belonging to an “international archives” are explored.RÉSUMÉCe texte examine l’état actuel des archives acadiennes et les défis que doivent relever les gestionnaires de documents et les chercheurs qui s’intéressent à ces documents. L’auteur identifie les institutions archivistiques qui conservent des documents acadiens dans plusieurs pays et régions qui s’intéressaient de près ou de loin à la colonisation de l’Acadie au début de la période de la colonisation française (1604– 1713). Il explore la destruction des documents acadiens pendant la Guerre de Sept Ans, ainsi que la création de nouveaux documents dans les nombreux pays d’adoption des Acadiens exilés après les déportations (1755–1763). Enfin, il considère les défis inhérents à la nature même des documents acadiens en tant que partie constituante des « archives internationales »
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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