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The Sudan Uprising and its possibilities: regional revolution, generational revolution, and an end to Islamist politics?
No full textThis blog was taken from Dr. Willow’s panel contribution at the Prospects for Democracy in Sudan event hosted by LSE’s Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit on 11 October 2019. This article was originally published on the Newcastle University blog platform
Reframing the Nation: Army Media, Memory, and Militarised Legitimacy in Sudan’s War
No full textSince the start of the war in Sudan in 2023, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has used Arabic-language media to portray itself as Sudan’s only legitimate national institution—non-Islamist, inclusive, and the last safeguard against fragmentation. This report explores how that projection is constructed, and how it draws on selective historical memory and co-opted revolutionary rhetoric to consolidate military legitimacy. This report assesses the contribution of the SAF’s Facebook pages – including its official page, and the specific page for the affiliated al-Quwwat al-Musallaha newspaper – to its propaganda campaign during its current conflict with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It focuses in particular on the ways in which the military uses its social media presence to appeal to a broad range of social categories in Sudan, whether through its calls for mobilisation, its narrative of political developments, or its reports from the battlefield. It pays detailed attention to the way the army has sought to present itself as the guarantor of the Sudan’s national interests, and the ways in which it has used history to legitimise itself. This report shows that SAF propaganda rebrands the military not by abandoning the past, but by curating it – mobilising nostalgia, nationalism, and selective silence to present itself as Sudan’s last remaining centre of gravity
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
The African Union in Sudan: Perspectives from the Sudanese Media
Get PDFRecent academic literature has criticized internationally led conflict resolution
processes in Sudan for ‘killing politics’1 and diverting attention from purely Sudanese
efforts to bring about change through revolutionary civic mobilization. This paper
investigates why many in Sudan held this perspective through an assessment of
Sudanese media reactions to the African Union’s activities in Sudan, with particular
reference to the involvement of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel
(AUHIP) between 2009 and 2016 and the broader role of the African Union in Sudan
following the 2018-2019 Revolution. It draws on commentaries on the African Union in
a wide range of electronically available Sudanese media outlets between 2009 and the
present.
This paper introduces a number of recommendations relevant to international actors in
Sudan and other conflict affected countries, including (i) using independent media
organs to identify a wider range of civic actors who need to be engaged with through
internationally facilitated processes (ii) adoption of careful media relations strategies to
prevent hardline actors undermining talks. It also recommends that civic actors
continue to use the media to create an alternative fora to those established by
internationally convened talks
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
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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