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Inside the brain of an addict
Get PDFVancouver Sun article from November 10-16, 2005. Collected material for The Nova Library by Hans Winkler
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
Visual Arts Listings
Get PDFCritic's Picks in The Vancouver Sun's Visual Arts Listings. Collected Material for Set: Room 302 by Judy Radul and Geoffrey Farmer
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
Humorous tendentious poetics : Bruce Andrews, Marie Annharte Baker, and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk
No full textHumorous Tendentious Poetics interrogates tendentious humour as it operates as a textual-political strategy in the poetry of three contemporary poets. The term tendentious humour derives from Freud, who uses it to describe humour that is offensive and obscene—but also at times critical—in its intent and outcome. In the work of these poets, humour is highly fractious, rebarbative, and intransitive, at the level of its formal organization and syntax, as well as in terms of its language and socio-semantics. Typically, it functions by mobilizing, foregrounding, and eliding problematic or unconscious forms of knowing, thinking, or enjoyment, especially as these relate to the underlying “real” of social antagonism and alterity. Drawing on humour theory and poetics scholarship, this dissertation argues that this mode of humour functions differentially in the work of these poets as a means to navigate, circumvent, and intensify the socio-textual complexities and double binds particular to their respective poetic projects.
In his work from the 1980s and 1990s, the Language poet Bruce Andrews arrives at a politically and analytically difficult form of humour qua textuality. Emerging within a cultural milieu in which radical feminist, queer, and racialized writers are persuasively contesting dominant discourses, Andrews’ aggressive poetic fragmentation and reconfiguration of “injurious” speech acts is legible at times as a critique of oppressive forms of subjectivization. But it also registers forcefully as a repetition of these oppressive logics, as well as a strategy for absorbing cultural “crisis” into the body of Andrews’ own writing and recoding it as a formal analogy for the (ostensible) superiority of avant-garde transgression and irrecuperability. In texts like Indigena Awry, the Anishinaabe poet Annharte uses contentious humour as a vehicle of anti-colonial struggle, exploiting its logic of misprision and misrecognition to solicit but ultimately refuse colonial enjoinders to reconciliation as these operate within both settler and Indigenous populations. Like Annharte, KSW poet Dorothy Lusk yokes humorous ire and provocation to a recalcitrant politics of difference. Yet here tendentious joking operates as a mechanism for travestying and attacking the classist and anti-maternal ideologies underlying patriarchal capitalist social formations, including that of the “avant-garde” cultural community.Arts, Faculty ofEnglish, Department ofGraduat
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
Cop Puppet Negative 27B
No full textMark Laba squeezes sauce from a bottle while Clint Burnham reads. Still from Cop Puppet by Clint Burnham and Mark Laba
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