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C. Scott Fletcher Papers
No full textAustralian-born C. Scott Fletcher came to educational and instructional broadcasting via Encyclopedia Britannica Films, where he oversaw the creation of films and filmstrips for the classroom. In 1951, Fletcher became president of the Fund for Adult Education, a part of the Ford Foundation. For the next ten years, Fletcher helped establish the first thirty noncommercial television stations in the United States. He also helped fund the first educational television program service, the National Educational Television and Radio Center (NETRC). In 1964, he served as consultant to the Educational Television Stations (ETS) division of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters. In this capacity, he convened a national meeting in 1964 to discuss the long-range financing of educational broadcasting. This conference resulted in the formation of the Carnegie Commission on Educational Television and led to the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The collection chronicles Fletcher's involvement in the Fund for Adult Education, the Educational Television Stations division of the NAEB, and other positions in the public broadcasting field. Types of documents include awards, clippings, correspondence, minutes, newsletters, notes, reports, speeches and writings
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
Kindly anarchism - James C Scott
No full textLa douceur sur les nerfs de lire avec « an anarchist squint » (James C. Scott). Oui cet autre anarchiste doux à lire, Graeber, peut-être moins trustworthy plus naïf, qui écrit de lui « No one else has the same ability to pursue a simple, surprising idea, kindly but relentlessly, until the entire world looks different. ... he demonstrates a skill shared by the greatest radical thinkers : to reveal positions we’ve been taught to think of as extremism to be émanations of simple human decency and..
George C. Scott and others in THE EXORCIST III, 1990
No full textGeorge C. Scott and others in a scene from THE EXORCIST III, 1990. 35mm color slide
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
Oral History Interview with A. C. Scott
No full textOral history interview on cassette dated 15 August 1975. Owen Glen Cosgrove interviewed A. C. Scott, retired trustee of Abilene Christian College. Scott was a personal friend of Don H. Morris, a fellow student in college, and a member of the Abilene Christian College Board of Trustees during most of Don H. Morris\u27 administration
V. C. Scott records, MSS.1235
No full textAbstract: Documents concerning Scott and his ship, the "Anna Maria D'Abundo"Scope and Content Note: Documents concerning Varian Cuthbert Scott and his ship, the "Anna Maria D'Abundo," customs, shipping articles, ledger, etc.Biographical/Historical Note: V. C. Scott was the captain of the ship, Anna Maria D'Abund
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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