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The development path of WeChat: Social, political and ethical challenges
No full textChina boasts the world’s largest social media market, which is vastly differentfrom her Western counterparts. WeChat by Tencent, QQ and Weibo are at the forefront of the growing market—aiming to benefit from the surge in social media membership. Much of the focus, however, has been on examining and expanding their technological portfolio which further gives rise to a number of concerns. As WeChat continues to grow, politicians and dissidents alike are voicing their fears that security officials are able to track users’ everyday movements via the voice-messaging service that WeChat offers. As such, both users and the authorities alike deem WeChat as a brewing threat due to the possibility of surveillance—which perhaps explains why the frequency of WeChat-related crimes has greatly increased. This research therefore focuses on the ramifications of WeChat’s growth on institutional policy and social development, alongside the ethical challenges that may arise. The trajectory of WeChat’s development will consequently be analysed—considering its early growth and the impact that governmental policies have had in shaping China’s social media evolution. Ultimately, the study endeavours to implicate the complexity of social media in China compared to the West—offering an alternative model to account for the changing power dynamics behind China’s digital business environment
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
Alibaba: Jack Ma's unique growth strategy and the future of its global development in the Chinese digital business industry
No full textChina’s B2B businesses have gained immensely from the surge in social media users—with Alibaba, who have been at the forefront of the movement, benefitting the greatest. When compared to typical Western B2B companies, Alibaba has pursued a unique growth strategy—in line with the Chinese business ethos, through maintaining strong relations with the government as well as their gradual transition into the manufacturing sector. This research will therefore investigate Alibaba’s growth strategies through the lens of Chinese traditional norms to discern whether their development phases are exclusive to Alibaba, or whether it can be emulated by emerging e-commerce firms, also. Thus, Alibaba’s early business decisions will be compared to that of their Western digital business counterparts, analysing which factors shaped their successes, whether it be their development strategies or Ma’s own persona. Ultimately, Alibaba’s global status in the e-commerce industry going forward will be assessed to determine the relative likelihood of their future growth initiatives—addressing in the process whether their standing as the global leader of online business is temporary or whether it will fundamentally change the course of the industry
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
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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