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Sweating the Small Stuff: Linking Plankton to Climate Change, Brian Kim \u2718 Makes Conncetions
Full text linkIt takes an expansive mind to connect microscopic marine copepods (certain crustacean plankton) unwittingly chomping on floating microplastics with a bigger picture: the planet’s carbon pump and global climate change. But that’s what Brian Kim ’18 decided to investigate during Jan Plan, working with Bigelow Lab Senior Research Scientist David Fields
Readings by Brian Kim Stefans and Michael Ives
No full textThis reading was part of the John Ashbery Poetry Series that ran from approximately 1995 to 2007 and brought leading contemporary poets to Bard for readings and discussion. Stefans and Ives read from their published works and manuscripts, exploring themes of language, culture, and human experience through various poetic styles and forms.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard/1121/thumbnail.jp
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
Rewiring the Avant-Gardes: Brian Kim Stefans’s Digital Poetics
No full textIn the age of digital information, poetry and praxis are integrated with wireless technologies and hardware circuitry. These technologies not only permit unprecedented access to a variety of material, but they also enable preexistent texts to be easily sourced, reproduced, recycled, and repurposed into surprising new forms. In the case of Korean-American poet Brian Kim Stefans, this repurposing extends even to avant-garde strategies of appropriation. Stefans’s works use twenty-first-century digital technology to rearticulate both historical and contemporary avant-garde practices and texts. In this thesis, I interrogate five of Stefans’s digital projects from 2000 to 2010 in chronological order: “One or Two Things I Don’t Know About Her, or, ‘Dick’s Sister’ (Bellamy)” (2000), “the dreamlife of letters” (2001), The Vaneigem Series (2002), Circulars (2003a), and “Suicide in an Airplane (1919)” (2010). These projects selectively remediate historical and contemporary avant-garde texts in the digital environment. Through close readings of these projects, I investigate the use of algorithm, blogging platforms, and the World Wide Web as poetic devices. In addition, I address the relation of digital media to the avant-garde strategies and appropriated texts on which Stefans draws in his works. I demonstrate that Stefans’s digital poetics continues the struggle of the avant-garde to enunciate acts of resistance to linguistic, social, and political structures and conventions. Through Stefans’s work, I also identify ways that this struggle has been reframed, recontextualized, and complicated by the media-specific characteristics of digital programs and online spaces. Stefans illustrates the question about how to find oppositional positions without reusing normative structures in language and text. Yet his works highlight that digital media are not staged in utopian spaces. Rather, the use of convention-based electronic systems is necessary for linguistic disruption. Stefans’s texts demonstrate the need to revise our understanding of the relationship between conventions and disruption, as well as the impossibility of finding a place outside language and convention-based systems
Rewiring the Avant-Gardes: Brian Kim Stefans’s Digital Poetics
Full text linkIn the age of digital information, poetry and praxis are integrated with wireless technologies and hardware circuitry. These technologies not only permit unprecedented access to a variety of material, but they also enable preexistent texts to be easily sourced, reproduced, recycled, and repurposed into surprising new forms. In the case of Korean-American poet Brian Kim Stefans, this repurposing extends even to avant-garde strategies of appropriation. Stefans’s works use twenty-first-century digital technology to rearticulate both historical and contemporary avant-garde practices and texts. In this thesis, I interrogate five of Stefans’s digital projects from 2000 to 2010 in chronological order: “One or Two Things I Don’t Know About Her, or, ‘Dick’s Sister’ (Bellamy)” (2000), “the dreamlife of letters” (2001), The Vaneigem Series (2002), Circulars (2003a), and “Suicide in an Airplane (1919)” (2010). These projects selectively remediate historical and contemporary avant-garde texts in the digital environment. Through close readings of these projects, I investigate the use of algorithm, blogging platforms, and the World Wide Web as poetic devices. In addition, I address the relation of digital media to the avant-garde strategies and appropriated texts on which Stefans draws in his works. I demonstrate that Stefans’s digital poetics continues the struggle of the avant-garde to enunciate acts of resistance to linguistic, social, and political structures and conventions. Through Stefans’s work, I also identify ways that this struggle has been reframed, recontextualized, and complicated by the media-specific characteristics of digital programs and online spaces. Stefans illustrates the question about how to find oppositional positions without reusing normative structures in language and text. Yet his works highlight that digital media are not staged in utopian spaces. Rather, the use of convention-based electronic systems is necessary for linguistic disruption. Stefans’s texts demonstrate the need to revise our understanding of the relationship between conventions and disruption, as well as the impossibility of finding a place outside language and convention-based systems
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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