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De geneugten van seksualisering
No full textWat van ‘seksualisering’ te denken? Het eerste wat opvalt is dat de term ‘seksualisering’ een vage term is die vaak in conjunctie met, of als synoniem van ‘pornoficatie’ wordt gebruikt. Wat wordt precies met ‘seksualisering’ bedoeld? Kunnen we verschillende vormen, doelgroepen, niveaus en processen van seksualisering onderscheiden? Als we de media, cultuurcritici, academici en seksuologen mogen geloven dan heeft seksualisering de laatste decennia een hoge vlucht genomen. Maar is ‘seksualisering’ wel zo nieuw? In de grote meerderheid van publicaties over dit thema wordt voornamelijk gewezen op de schadelijke effecten van ‘seksualisering.’ Maar kan seksualisering ook positieve effecten hebben? Wie bekritiseert seksualisering en waarom? Zijn er mensen die het verwelkomen? En om welke redenen dan wel? Is onze moderne samenleving nu daadwerkelijk meer geseksualiseerd dan vroeger? En hoe uit zich dat dan? Welke mechanismen en actoren spelen een rol bij seksualisering? Wat zijn de maatschappelijke en individuele gevolgen ervan en hoe daarmee omgaan? Hoe seksualisering evalueren? Wat zegt een groeiende seksualisering over ons, onze samenleving en cultuur? Het is op dit soort vragen dat ik in deze bijdrage een antwoord probeer te formuleren of de discussie zal proberen weer te geven.
Ik wil zo een aanzet geven tot een genuanceerde, inzichtelijke en bredere kijk op het brede fenomeen seksualisering. Ik hoop hierdoor ten minste aannemelijk te maken dat er behalve negatieve aspecten ook positieve elementen in het seksualiseringverhaal kunnen worden geduid
Defining 'The University: ' From 'Ivory Tower' to 'Convenience Store'
No full textRecent changes in the organisation and financing of universities affecting both their research and their teaching mission have provoked intense debate on how the university should be organised, echoing Edward Shills’ call for ‘saving its soul.’ Figuring predominantly in these discussions are ‘definitions’ of what a university really is.
In this paper some of these discussion on the nature of the university will be analysed from the viewpoint of analytical ethics. Charles S. Stevenson developed a model for analysing moral discourse and discussion that is highly informative when applied to the discussion on the nature of the university. I will argue that in many cases persuasive definitions are central to the discussion. The applicability of other insight from the analysis of moral discussion - e.g. his distinction between agreement/disagreement in belief and attitude - will be explored. From this we can conclude that the battle for the university is a moral discussion, and that ‘the university’ behaves like a moral term
Conflicting Models of the University: Traditionalist and Innovative Views and the Semantic Horizon of 'The University'
No full textIn the first part of this chapter I provide an analysis of the claim that 'the university is in crisis.' This claim, so it turns out, cannot be rephrased as 'a lot of universities are experiencing serious difficulties.' The first claim is of a more evaluative nature, while the second claim is of a more factual nature. In the remainder of this chapter I flesh out two oppositional viewpoints on 'the university.' The Traditional viewpoint starts out from an articulation of an 'idea of the university.' The Innovative viewpoint is based on a more empirically informed view on the history, evolution and characteristics of (existing) universities. The two views are compared along the following dimensions: research, teaching, service to society, the professor, the student and the institution. Both views, although opposed, can be located within the 'semantic horizon' of the concept of the university
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
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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