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Author Commentary: Mobile Music Technology: From Innovation to Ubiquitous Use
No full textThis author commentary chapter accompanies the re-publication of my co-authored 2006 paper ‘Mobile Music Technology: Report on an Emerging Community’ - one of 30 papers selected from 1,200 NIME papers to be included in the book ‘A NIME Reader: Fifteen Years of New Interfaces for Musical Expression, published by Springer and edited by Alexander Refsum Jensenius and Michael J. Lyons
Soundwalking
No full textThis chapter gives a systematic and interdiciplinary overview of research, practice and histories of soundwalking. It also proposes a new and inclusive definition of soundwalking that pays particular attention to media in relation to mobility. After a definition of soundwalking, the chapter considers the educational and pedagogical aspects of soundwalks, soundwalks as method for urban planning as well as the artistic and qualitative aspects of soundwalks, followed by a conclusion. Soundwalks combine a specific form of human mobility – walking – with a specific way of sensory attention – listening, and do so in a variety of ways and with a range of purposes, while often featuring elements of talking, silence, and media. This definition proposed in this chapter is wide, including mobile listening practices where walkers wear headphones to listen to or engage with sound from media devices in addition to listening to their soundscape. Soundwalking can be understood as research and practice that is not about sound but in sound, as well as not about walking but in walking. Soundwalking is a spatio-temporal, embodied, situated, multi-sensory and mobile practice. Soundwalks are used across a wide range of academic disciplines as well as artistic/creative practices, including as method, tool, and methodology.The concept and history of soundwalks is closely related to the soundscape concept, the history of acoustic ecology and considerations of listening. This chapter discusses how over time, soundwalks have been considered and used by an increasing range of research and practice fields, including sound art, media studies, sound studies, urban planning, social science. While the key components of a soundwalk are listening to sounds and being mobile by walking, this chapter discusses the great variety when it comes to the detail of components such as the location, length, and route of the walk, as well as the sounds focussed on, the group size of the listeners, the ration of walking and being stationary, the use of media for recording or playing back sound, the amount of talking, and of course the aim of the soundwalk. The wide range of soundwalking practices and discussions presented throughout the chapter show how soundwalks are used in a wide range of academic and artistic ways. Pedagogical and educational aspects of soundwalks are at the heart of the practice and help to spread the word about them further. Urban planning is an example of how the practice of soundwalking has been used as a more formal method or tool in the context of planning, design and policy.The qualitative and artistic aspects of soundwalks illustrate the diversity of creative and academic practices around soundwalking. The conclusion proposes elements of a future research agenda of soundwalking, including discussions in health and wellbeing and around media - appreciating for the constantly evolving world of media media informs, shapes and changes our practices and experiences of walking, listening and interaction with soundscapes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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