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Introduction : untaming comics memory
No full textAfter providing an overview of current research on memory and on comics, this introduction suggests considering “comics memory” together, rather than separately as comics and memory or memory in comics since the chapters in this volume reflect on the multiple relationships between comics as a medium for memory and the memory of comics as a medium. To better understand the complexity of comics memory, which transcends categories such as individual and collective memory, styles and archives are proposed as two interlaced trajectories for studying comics memory. Particular emphasis is placed on the concepts of polygraphy (Thierry Smolderen), graphiation (Philippe Marion), and rogue archives (Abigail De Kosnik) to better understand comics memory on multiple levels, ranging from the drawn line to physical and symbolic archives
Coda : a user guide to comics memory
No full textThis brief conclusion summarizes how memory in comics has been investigated through broad but intertwined understandings of both styles and archives in the volume. It also offers a guide to the variegated terrain of comics memory while also highlighting topics calling for further research
A chamber of echo : on the post-comics of Ilan Manouach
Get PDFThis chapter presents the work and trajectory of conceptual comics artist Ilan Manouach. Focusing on points of convergence between theory, practice, and technology, it suggests that Manouach's work experiments with ways of 'withdrawing' or 'undrawing' the traditional author from the body of work in order to produce unsettling experiences that qualify as an expansion, extrapolation, or deviation from comics culture
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
Collecter/dessiner : fragments et anti-narration dans la bande dessinée contemporaine
Get PDFSouvent revendiquée comme un art du fragment, la bande dessinée demande de raconter avec des bribes et des morceaux. De plus en plus, il ne s’agit plus seulement de découper une page et d’agencer ses images fragmentées, mais également de manipuler des fragments déjà préexistants. Cette communication s’attachera à évoquer ce large phénomène en se penchant sur la zone grise entre les gestes de collecte et de création, en proposant une petite archéologie de cette poétique du remix afin de mieux comprendre les processus matériels qui la composent et l’histoire dans lequel s’ancre ces usages
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