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May Day 5/5/85
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/270725Photograph of Building Trades Union Banner. Eureka flag. Inscription on verso: L dark shirt holding banner VIC BLF activist George Despond; C Ms Pat George (wih?), R Norm Gallagher. Stamped on verso: This photogrpahs may not be reproduced without permission in writing from the Editor of "The Age". Previous control number: 1/23/55135924
Item: [1991.0099.00004] "May Day 5/5/85
Compo Demo, Parliament House
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Item: [1991.0099.00002] "Compo Demo, Parliament House
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
The shattered world of Nabokov's Bend sinister
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Vladimir Nabokov's 1947 novel Bend Sinister has long been considered problematic and over-ambitious. This thesis attempts to resolve some of those perceived difficulties through an intense consideration of its detail and structure.
On the surface, Bend Sinister is predominantly a critique of totalitarianism, but the novel's great surprise is the intervention of its author in the final chapter, driving his creature Adam Krug insane but rescuing him from a world of pain. Krug had previously probed the nature of the afterlife, formulating the possibility of a human spirit (specifically his wife Olga) continuing beyond death as "infinite consciousness;" its alternative as "infinite nothingness." When Krug's creator reduces him to the level of a "mere whim," this seems to favour the latter option, but throughout the novel certain details point towards a secondary Presence beyond Adam's world.
In facto, Nabokov has carefully balanced the supernatural dimension of the work associated with the god-like author with another supernatural dimension, inhabited by Olga. By appearing in the form of a hawkmoth in the world of her husband's author, however, Olga seems to have trumped her creator, and subtly manipulates the author into inadvertently answering in the affirmative krug's question about survival beyond death.
This "solution" to the novel is itself problematic and paradoxical, as the author-figure that appears in the final scene is clearly intended to represent Valadimir Nabokov, the actual author, and is thus unlikely to have been duped by a figment of his own imagination. On closer inspection, however, the figure of Nabokov presented within the novel is not entirely consistent with his original. Although establishing this schism allows space for Olga to work her particular magic, it fails to tip up several of the novel's loose ends.
It is my contention that Nabokov employs the crackpot theories of Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, a proponent of the theory that Francis Bacon composed the works of William Shakespeare, as an outlandish tool for reconciling the novel's contradictions, a makeshift mechanism for incorporating the deistic narrator, ghostly Olga and Vladimir Nabokov, the true author, into a metaphor for an otherworld that, Nabokov insisted, was unimaginable
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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