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poeMS: an exploration of poetry as a way to communicate lived experiences of multiple sclerosis
Get PDFThis study examines whether poetry written by people with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be a useful form for reflecting on their illness experiences. Much recent illness writing comprises prose narratives conforming to either the restitution or quest tropes (Frank, 2013), however these models may be unhelpful for people with MS because of their focus on cure or their moral imperative to personal growth. Poetry is increasingly used by social science researchers to present participant interview data and facilitate different ways of knowing than traditional prose texts. This research takes the novel approach of exploring poems written in the study by participants with MS.
Nine people living with relapse-remitting, primary progressive or secondary progressive MS were recruited to the online study through MS charity websites and social media. They participated in one initial semi-structured interview about their MS experiences, and then took part in four group poetry workshops. The researcher also has MS and the methods of data creation were designed to be collaborative. Follow up semi-structured interviews were conducted so participants could reflect on their study experiences. Four contacts of the original participants were also recruited into the study. These ‘reader participants’, who did not have MS, read some of their contacts’ study poems and participated in one semi-structured interview about the experience.
Holistic discourse analysis of poems and spoken interview and workshop data was guided by Bakhtin (1984, 1986) and Gee (2014). This analysis identified three key themes in participants’ poems and spoken data: being MS patients in relation to medical teams; MS in the workplace; and social impacts of MS. Further analysis revealed the obstacles faced by participants in these different settings and illuminated the ways in which they constructed their identities in order to negotiate or minimise these challenges. Participants’ poetic inquiries incorporated phenomenological, social and political reflections in both narrative and non-narrative poems. Participants derived positive outcomes from working collaboratively together in poetry workshops and also from sharing their poems with each other, me, and a small number of their family, friends or carers. I conclude that poetry offers a novel method for people living with MS to contribute to personal and academic discourse on health and disability
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
Within and beyond ‘The Field’- artful entanglements with each other and what matters
No full textInvited talk at Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at Edinburgh University
Westwood and Linnell trace the arc of an ongoing inquiry, in collaboration with other human and non-human actors, from their 2007 exhibition with Suzanne Perry and Josephine Pretorius (see Linnell, Perry, Pretorius and Westwood, 2019) through to their current collaborations, together and apart. They note how the agency of materials and places becomes increasingly insistent in their work
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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