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Towards a pedagogy of grounded mobilities.
Full text linkWalking and embodiment, groundedness and mobilities are the key pedagogical and research creation strategies that emerge as key findings from this book and from the focus of this chapter, which also addresses the significance of visualisation across artforms, perspectives, publics and dimensionality. Within the broader context of the book, research and practices in walking (Solnit, 2000; Gros, 2015; O’ Rourke, 2016) and concerns with diverse trajectories for mobility (Cresswell, 2006; Urry, 2011, Snepvangers, Davis & Taylor, 2017) have been foregrounded through the concerns of the various authors. For example: ecological art/science collaborations in remote locations, contemplative art practices and artmaking and the analysis of walking in cinematic representations in south east Asia, sit actively alongside innovative participatory work with a range of diverse audiences. The sensorial and ecological aspects of walking as pedagogy are also central to the work of many new materialist scholars, especially with regard to the agency of participants and the role of data gathering, analysis and presentation. Coole and Frost (2010) for example in referring to a resurgence of interest a what they call a critical new materialism (p.27) highlight how power develops and practically manages ‘embodied subjectivities’ which extend beyond human subjectivities to other non-human and material objects and networks. They particularly highlight sociologies of everyday life and, significantly for the work in this book, focus on phenomenologies of the ordinary alongside critical geographies of space (Coole & Frost, 2010, p. 27-28). Through the lens of exploring how walking and in some cases sitting strategies inform visual and performative practices, production and political interrogation have been articulated as a central concern of the authors’ in this volume. What is now the task of this chapter is an examination of the potentiality of prioritising embodied pedagogies as “ learning encounters”, visualised, envisaged and embodied using arts-based research methodologies. Fundamental questions about visual and embodied practice have been developed through both singular and collaborative responses to walking and visually derived scopic regimes of practice as engaged with systems of inquiry
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Cyberdrama and forms of youth engagement
No full textWhat kinds of engagement might be possible for young people through the creation and experience of a cyberdrama? How do you create a cyberdrama? These were the questions that underpinned the process for creating the cyberdrama www.cleo-missing.com – a drama that was created to be experienced through a fully mediated form on the Internet. The background for this project involved: exploring the context for creating a web-based cyberdrama with young people; defining cyberdrama, the nature of the work and possible processes and forms; and examining the notion of engagement, looking for possible links between aspects of the aesthetic and the immersive. The process of creating the drama utilised aspects of process drama, a form emerging from the field of drama education as one that offers up huge potential for the creation of on-line interactive drama. The project research suggests that the context for experiencing the work through the Internet means that the experience of “diversion” needs to be considered and is much more likely for many users than that of “immersion”. This is particularly so in view of the ways many young people use the Internet, with common interactions taking on aspects of Bakhtin’s “carnival” (a subversive or alternative order). The experience for participants in creating the drama was characterised by a number of features, but engagement seemed particularly strong when aspects of control were involved or possible. The framing of this experience through the use of various recording technologies was of key significance to this experience of engagement; the possibility of creating a presence that may affirm a participant’s sense of existence seems to engage participants solidly in the process. The research also suggested that for those creating drama on-line the use of a fairly linear narrative structure may still be desirable, and that the more significant experiences of engagement occur when a number of pleasures are experienced in combination.\ud
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The findings of this research may be of relevance to those interesting in exploring the possibilities of creating drama with young people utilising mediated forms
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Transforming dialogues about research with embodied and walking pedagogies in art, education and the cultural sphere
Full text linkThis chapter introduces the book and highlights the significance of research and practice focussed on embodied and walking pedagogies with learning and pedagogical implications. Case studies of practice, interaction and the sensibilities afforded by diverse conceptions of mobility and affective relations will be discussed. Using new methodologies and scholarship, issues of movement and mobilities as research method imply that social phenomena can be analysed differently with regard
to worldly sensibilities, affordances and interactivity. The primacy of connectedness, contemplation and relationships are situated within provocations and critically responsive disruptions to everyday experience, typically organised around an event. Embodiment and performativity have important psycho-social and ethical dimensions when engaged with participants, audiences and sensory environments which will be explored using examples from a range of projects and programs. Historical and contemporary perspectives inform a range of visual-spatio-temporal scenarios to
anticipate innovative research creation and observational strategies. An interest in bridging artistic and scientific media and research recording methodologies across sonic, visual and embodied practice informs the transformative potential of these exemplars/projects about arts based research creation. Re-imagining situations of learning through movement together with groundedness emerge as important concepts as pedagogy and transformative learning is re-envisaged in the 21st century. The everyday acts of walking and the human reality of embodiment are often taken for granted, but in recent times these ancient practices have been newly appreciated. This is especially so in relation to research and scholarship with new technologies and approaches across multiple domains. These reveal enhanced possibilities and greater awareness of what it means to know, for how we come to know and what might be possible through pedagogies to enable others to come to know. It is perhaps worth noting that realisations regarding the limitations of past paradigms of knowing have arisen from widely divergent fields from the post-humanist, post-positivist through to those grounded in traditional positivist research such as neuroscience. Such a diversity of work has drawn attention to the flesh and blood physicality of the human experience, the grounded nature of the loftiest of abstract thoughts, and the interplay of the visual and the material, thinking and feeling in being, becoming and transforming
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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