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"First David R. Maines research award given"
No full textNews article"Scott R. Harris, assistant professor of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at St. Louis University, won the inaugural David R. Maines Narrative Research Award with his paper, "Naturalist and Constructionist Approaches to Equality in Marriage." The award is named after an OU professor and the chair of Oakland's Sociology and Anthropology departments.
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
Anthropology of the memorial: observations and reflections on American cultural rituals associated with death
No full textDieser Beitrag befasst sich mit zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Todesritualen, konkreter mit der Kultur des Gedenkens. Hierzu greife ich auf den Vorschlag von David R. MAINES zurück, Erzählungen zu verwenden, um soziale (und für die Anthropologie relevante) Ereignisse zu untersuchen.
In Bezug auf Gedenken und Gedenkstätten gibt es spezifische soziale Erwartungen, es gibt Rituale, über Tote nur Gutes zu berichten, Rituale von Trauer. Bekannte und Familienangehörige kommen zusammen und sprechen über die Verstorbenen. Fremde treffen einander infolge ihrer Verbindung zu dem oder der Toten. Jede Kultur hat ein eigenes Set an Ritualen und Regeln, Tote zu ehren und an sie zu denken; mir geht es um diejenigen in Nordamerika.
Hierzu nutze ich einen autoethnografischen Ansatz, um mich den eigenen inneren Ritualen des Abschiednehmens von einer verstorbenen Freundin und früheren Geliebten zu nähern. Ich beschäftige mich auch mit der Frage, wie ein solcher Zugang festgehalten und präsentiert werden kann und diskutiere Qualitätskriterien für autobiografische Studien.This paper is a meditation on contemporary rituals in the United States associated with death—in this case, the memorial. The essay addresses David R. MAINES' advocacy of using narrative to address a social (and anthropological) event. There are social expectations at memorials, rituals of talking good about the deceased, rituals of grief. Friends and family come together to communicate about the deceased. Strangers connect by their mutual connection to the dead. Every culture has its own set of rituals and rules when it comes to honoring and admiring the dead; this one is American. From an autoethnographical approach, the author reveals his own inner ritual, a personal memory, of a friend and former lover who has passed. The author discusses the processes of recording dialogue and experience via memory, and the criteria for quality in this autoethnography.Este artículo es una meditación sobre los rituales contemporáneos en los Estados Unidos asociados con la muerte, en este caso, el memorial. El ensayo aborda el alegato de David R. MAINES sobre el uso de la narrativa para hacer frente a un evento social (y antropológico). Hay expectativas sociales en los memoriales, los rituales del hablar bien sobre los fallecidos, los rituales de duelo. Amigos y familiares se reúnen para hablar acerca de los fallecidos. Los extraños se conectan por su mutua relación con los muertos. Cada cultura tiene su propio conjunto de rituales y reglas cuando se trata de honrar a los muertos y admirarlos, aquí se aborda la americana. Desde un enfoque autoetnográfico, el autor revela su propio ritual interior, una memoria personal, de un amigo y ex amante que ha muerto. El autor analiza los procesos del diálogo de recuerdo y la experiencia a través de la memoria, y los criterios de calidad en esta autoetnografía
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
Anthropology of the Memorial: Observations and Reflections on American Cultural Rituals Associated with Death
No full textThis paper is a meditation on contemporary rituals in the United States associated with death—in this case, the memorial. The essay addresses David R. MAINES' advocacy of using narrative to address a social (and anthropological) event. There are social expectations at memorials, rituals of talking good about the deceased, rituals of grief. Friends and family come together to communicate about the deceased. Strangers connect by their mutual connection to the dead. Every culture has its own set of rituals and rules when it comes to honoring and admiring the dead; this one is American. From an autoethnographical approach, the author reveals his own inner ritual, a personal memory, of a friend and former lover who has passed. The author discusses the processes of recording dialogue and experience via memory, and the criteria for quality in this autoethnography.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs09036
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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