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Network approach in scholar achievements of Barry Wellman: explication and assessment
Get PDFВ даній статті розглянуто основні наукові здобутки канадсько-американського соціолога, одного з розробників мережевого підходу Баррі Веллмена.In this article the author discusses the main scholar achievements of Barry Wellman (Canadian-American sociologist, one of the developers of network approach).В данной статье рассмотрены основные научные достижения канадско-американского социолога, одного из разработчиков сетевого подхода Барри Веллмена
Serbia: “Better on Facebook Than in the Streets”
Get PDFThe new school year in Serbia is about to start, and Serbian daily newspapers and journals publish numerous articles on the bad effects of the most popular social network1, Facebook, frightening both parents and young people with negative and techno anti-utopian statements. A survey2 on the usage of Facebook among the youth in Serbia has been published recently, too, however, and its results suggest that things aren't really that bad.
Having in mind such an environment, the online public sphere created on the networking sites is no different, and the problems are magnified. There are numerous places where young people in Serbia spend their time online, and one of the most popular ones is Facebook
Social networking technology: place and identity in mediated communities
Get PDFThis paper explores the rise of social networking technology as instances of mediated communities. A dialectic between collectivity and place, resulting in the grounding of a shared sense of the past in a particular place, is at the base of all communities. In this sense, community is, by its very definition, inherently mediated. We reformulate the notion of a virtual community to examine the particular modalities of mediation across interactions occurring on Myspace. Data from two separate conversational exchanges are taken from open access Myspace profiles. Drawing on an approach broadly informed by the principles of Discursive Psychology (DP), we examine how identity is constituted within interaction by drawing on symbolic resources. The significance of place and of establishing a delicate relationship between the on-line and off-line accomplishments is underlined. The paper develops the arguments of Benwell & Stokoe ([2006]) and Dixon & Durrheim ([2000]) to arrive at an account of place identity as the central dynamic in mediated communit
Responses to commentaries
No full textThis paper is an author response to three commentaries, by Robert Kraut and Itamar Rosenn (2012), Barry Wellman (2012) and Mark van Vugt (2012), on our article entitled 'Relationships and the social brain: Integrating psychological and evolutionary perspectives' (Sutcliffe, Dunbar, Binder, and Arrow, 2012). © 2011 The British Psychological Society
Internetin monet kasvot arkielämässä
No full textThe Internet in everyday life, Barry Wellman & Caroline Haythornthwaite (toim.), Oxford (2002
Book review : Social structures
No full textReview of: Barry Wellman and S.D. Berkowitz (eds.). Social structures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 198
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
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