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Yazoo Revisited with filmmaker David Rae Morris
No full textYazoo Revisited, filmmaker David Rae Morris\u27 portrait of a Mississippi Delta town as it moved through social change in the aftermath of school integration, is discussed by Morris, Charles Ross, director of the African-American Studies program at Ole Miss, and David Sansing, professor emeritus of history
Introduction
Get PDFEditor David Rae introduces the papers of volume 11 with a short description of each
Conversations with Friends and Family
No full textWelcome by Charles Reagan Wilson. Wayne Flynt and David Rae Morris in conversation with Stephen Monro
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
My Mississippi
No full textNonfiction by Willie Morris, Photographs by David Rae Morris University Press of Mississippi (Hardcover, $40.00, ISBN: 1578061938, 11/2000) The distinguished Mississippi writer Willie Morris (who died last year) was editor-in-chief of Harper\u27s magazine in the 1960s, a period he wrote about in his fascinating memoir New York Days (1993). He was also the author, more recently, of a pair of sensitive pet books, My Dog Skip (1995) and Spit McGee (1999). Regardless of the time Morris spent away from Mississippi, it was a place that always remained in his heart. His last book, written in his characteristically limpid, lyrical prose, offers a heartfelt appreciation of his home state, a place often dismissed as poor and backward by outlanders, Morris\u27 term for non-Mississippians. This is not a defensive recitation of Mississippi\u27s virtues nor is it a whitewash of its less-than-attractive features. First, Morris wants the reader to understand the state\u27s beauty― physically beautiful in the most fundamental and indwelling way, [in that] it never leaves you. Then, with both pride and understanding, he brings into sharp focus Mississippi\u27s peculiar tensions and ambivalence and also its passions― we are a singular people, he says of his native folk. The second half of the book is an album of full-color photographs taken by Morris\u27 son, a professional photojournalist. These shots informally capture ordinary moments in the lives of Mississippians, from a young couple standing next to their truck with their new baby in their arms to a group of local citizens hanging out in front of the main store in a small town. Together, the text and the photographs showcase Mississippians doing what they do best―being themselves completely without artifice. ―Brad Hooper. Booklist. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reservedhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1221/thumbnail.jp
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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