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Pellegrini (Anthony D.) (Ed.). — The Future of Play Theory. A Multidisciplinary Inquiry into the Contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith.
No full textBrougere Gilles. Pellegrini (Anthony D.) (Ed.). — The Future of Play Theory. A Multidisciplinary Inquiry into the Contributions of Brian Sutton-Smith.. In: Revue française de pédagogie, volume 119, 1997. L'éducation préscolaire. pp. 156-157
Constructing the Promise of Play: Exploring the Concept of Play in Stuart Brown and Brian Sutton-Smith’s Collaborative Efforts
Get PDFWhat is the promise of play? In this thesis, I explore how two preeminent play advocates, Stuart Brown and Brian Sutton-Smith, attempted to construct a comprehensive answer to this question during their collaborative efforts between 1991 and 2001. Engaging their archival materials located at the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, I examine how Brown and Sutton-Smith sought to gain support for their project The Promise of Play by conceptualizing play as a singular phenomenon worthy of intellectual and public attention. Working from a Bourdieusian framework, I posit that Brown and Sutton-Smith’s collaborative efforts create space to explore how meaning about play is produced through exchanges, negotiations, and differences in opinion, that is, through relations. Instead of accepting play as an inherently promising concept or subject of study, I examine how this notion appears within the context of Brown and Sutton-Smith’s collaboration, and interrogate its implications for Play Studies today.M.A
Constructing the Promise of Play: Exploring the Concept of Play in Stuart Brown and Brian Sutton-Smith’s Collaborative Efforts
No full textWhat is the promise of play? In this thesis, I explore how two preeminent play advocates, Stuart Brown and Brian Sutton-Smith, attempted to construct a comprehensive answer to this question during their collaborative efforts between 1991 and 2001. Engaging their archival materials located at the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York, I examine how Brown and Sutton-Smith sought to gain support for their project The Promise of Play by conceptualizing play as a singular phenomenon worthy of intellectual and public attention. Working from a Bourdieusian framework, I posit that Brown and Sutton-Smith’s collaborative efforts create space to explore how meaning about play is produced through exchanges, negotiations, and differences in opinion, that is, through relations. Instead of accepting play as an inherently promising concept or subject of study, I examine how this notion appears within the context of Brown and Sutton-Smith’s collaboration, and interrogate its implications for Play Studies today.M.A
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 Eighth Rhetoric of Play
No full textTo Brian Sutton-Smith’s catalogue of seven play rhetorics in his influential work, The Ambiguity of Play, the author adds an eighth category—the rhetoric of computational play, connecting the research field of game studies with other forms of play studies. By proposing this rhetoric, Sicart seeks to consolidate the relation between game studies and play studies
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
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