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Confessional data selfies and intimate data traces
No full textPresented at Digital Intimacies 4 with Dr Brady Robards December 5, 2018. Curtin University, Perth.</div
Girls' 'Pain Memes' on YouTube: the production of pain and femininity on a digital network
No full textIn this chapter, the author tentatively calling pain meme' videos on You Tube created by teenage girls in Australia and other Western countries. The author use the phrase pain meme' to describe a particular style of video blog found on You Tube, and seemingly created mostly by young women, who use handwritten flash-cards and an emotive music soundtrack to narrate personal experiences of bullying, abuse, grief, and often also self-harm, eating disorders and anxiety. The videos related to Todd's that surface on You Tube have several stylistic features in common: the use of handwritten flash-cards to tell a story while the subject remains silent; a black and white film setting; and an emo' ballad soundtrack. Many such videos predate Todd's. Research conducted on the representation and discussion of self-harm and suicide online is of some use in helping us understand the meaning and function of pain meme videos
Just a 'spoonful' of pop culture to help the theory go down? (Book Review)
No full textReview(s) of: Teaching youth studies through popular culture, by Sarah Baker and Brady Robards, 2014, ACYS Publishing, ISBN Paperback: 9781875236664 (paperback
The networked neo-tribal gaze
No full textThe snowboarding community is a neo-tribe that is highly dependent on visual media for the establishment and communication of tribal norms and the creation of symbolic capital. This research illustrates the tribe’s co-evolution with visual technologies and the impact networked technologies have on the essence of the tribe, particularly in the way snowboarders connect. The quest for the extraordinary, fuelled by sharing on social media, leads contemporary snowboarders to subject themselves to a neo-tribal gaze that is omnipresent because of its networked quality. As a result, they self-discipline to an extent that creates a chasm between online and offline tribal activities and shifts the tribal sense of belonging from being grounded in social interaction to emerging from emulating tribal idols and upholding tribal ideals
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
Friending Participants: Managing the Researcher–Participant Relationship on Social Network Sites
No full textResearch into youth engagement with social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook highlights a complex set of ethical dimensions, which do not always translate easily from similar concerns in traditional offline research. On social network sites, it is clear that many young people are managing their online presences in strategic ways, often involving conventions around determining access to these spaces. If these sites are framed by their young users as at least 'partially private', how should the researcher seek access to these spaces and how should the researcher operate in these spaces if access is permitted? This article reflects on qualitative research undertaken by the author from 2007 to 2010, which involved 'friending' participants on MySpace and Facebook. Based on this reflection, and contextualized by an engagement with literature concerning both Internet research and youth research, this article argues that social network sites blur the public/private dichotomy. Thus, research engaging with participants on these sites requires ongoing ethical reflection around assumptions about public and private information, and researchers, institutional ethics committees and review boards must develop and make use of suitably informed expertise to both conduct and review future scholarship in this area.No Full Tex
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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