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Global Forest Monitoring:The Ethics of Space Politics
Full text linkThough a powerful tool for both transnational forest product companies and Indigenous activists, global forest monitoring platforms present ethical and political dilemmas. In this presentation, Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman share their research on Global Forest Watch (GFW), the most popular open-source platform for global forest health monitoring. Some Indigenous activist groups have argued against tools like GFW on the grounds of surveillance and data sovereignty, while others use the tool to prevent poaching and to protect their ancestral territories. A solution to this dilemma can be found in what Schneider and Olman call story-world networks — layered and articulated views of forests at multiple scales and in multiple media, which are capable of empowering the agency of all beings who live with and in them. They will present their analysis of the platform by looking at the history of forest monitoring through maps and interviews with Global Forest Watch end users from Cameroon, Georgia, Indonesia, and Peru, as well as the development team. Based on Olman and Schneider’s collaborative research project on Global Forest Watch, which began at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich in 2017, the talk will highlight both the promising and disturbing potential of these tools to transform climate geopolitics. Lynda Olman (formerly Walsh) is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her primary field is the rhetoric of science, particularly the public reception of visual STEM arguments and of the ethos or public role of the scientist. Her book Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (Oxford University Press, 2013) traces a dominant strand in the role of the science adviser back to its roots in Ancient Mediterranean prophecy. Her first book, Sins Against Science: The Scientific Media Hoaxes of Poe, Twain, and Others (State University of New York Press, 2006), examined the pivotal epoch when science first entered American political life. Her current project seeks a structural vocabulary for scientific graphics in order to help non-experts better interpret them. Olman has also published studies in environmental and non-Western rhetoric; these are connected to her main body of work through an unswerving commitment to archival data, inductive methods, and the interpretation of results in terms of local politics. Birgit Schneider is Professor for Knowledge Cultures and Media Environments in the Department of European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam. She studied art and media studies as well as media art and philosophy in Karlsruhe, London, and Berlin. After initially working as a graphic designer, she worked from 2000 to 2007 in the research department ‘The Technical Image’ at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she received her PhD. Since 2009, Schneider has researched in the context of fellowships held in the Department of European Media Studies at the University of Potsdam as well as in Munich, Weimar, and Cambridge, UK. Her current research focuses on images and perceptions of nature, ecology, and climate change, diagrams, data graphics and maps as well as images of ecology. She is the founder of the working group ‘Eco Media: Media of Nature’, co-speaker of the Digital Humanities Network at the University of Potsdam, and a member of the research groups ‘Sensing: On the Knowledge of Sensitive Media’ and ‘Weather Reports: Wind as Medium, Model and Experience’. Her publications include: The Technical Image (University of Chicago Press, 2015); Image Politics of Climate Change (transcript Verlag, 2014); Klimabilder. Eine Genealogie globaler Bildpolitiken von Klima und Klimawandel (Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2018); and Der Anfang einer neuen Welt. Wie wir uns den Klimawandel erzählen, ohne zu verstummen (Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2023)
Birgit Schneider: Textiles Prozessieren
No full textDie Kulturwissenschaftlerin Birgit Schneider veröffentlichte bereits 2007 ihr 300-seitiges, umfangreich bebildertes Werk Textiles Prozessieren. Eine Mediengeschichte der Lochkartenweberei (bei Diaphanes in der Reihe Sequenzia). Sie geht darin der verflochtenen Geschichte zwischen textiler Bildkunst und dem digitalen Zeitalter auf erstmals systematisch auf den Grund. Vor fünfzehn Jahren, als sich unter anderem der Begriff »Pixel Art« erst etablierte, man also die erkennbare Rasterung nic..
Die visuelle Rhetorik des Klimawandels: Birgit Schneider über den strategischen Einsatz von Klimabildern
Full text linkBirgit Schneider: Klimabilder: Eine Genealogie globaler Bildpolitiken von Klima und Klimawandel. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2018. 978-3-95757-545-
Scaling, Mapping, Networking:The Politics of Zoom
Full text linkAs a starting point, Birgit Schneider and Lynda Olman will provide an overview of their work on global forest monitoring platforms that use satellite technologies to detect forests. The workshop will invite short interventions on ecologies and scale to open up an interdisciplinary discussion on the potential and limits of understanding the politics of zoom. Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam) and Lynda Olman (University of Nevada) will take responsibility for leading the workshop and supplying reading material
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
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