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Parallel Worlds: ‘This is How I Remember it … This is How it Was. It Could Have Happened to Anyone’
No full textThe opportunity for this research was provided by my links through
employment within the shopfitting industry over a period of approximately ten
years, during which time I have investigated the relationship between formal
employment law and the practical application in the lives of the workers. In the
process I have learned a great deal about the industry through the ‘stories’ told
by the workers themselves concerning their occupational experiences. The
stories often involve disputes between those who perceive others to be
‘outsiders’ to their own group. I employ the concept of embodying agency
when referring to the activity and experience of shopfitters within their own
‘insider’ world, and introduce the term structuring agency to identify outsider
groups according to the narrative presentations of the respondents. These
descriptions are contingent upon the relationship between the narrator and
listener group in the present, and also upon ‘remembered’ associations from the
historical and recent past, which may be skilfully combined to produce a
coherent narrative. The narrative itself then forms part of the ‘remembered’
history of the group, and serves to consolidate a person’s position as an insider
or outsider according to his accrual of shopfitting capital, earned through
storytelling expertise (Dilks, 2003)
Asa Briggs Lecture: Communications, the Commonwealth and the Future
No full textThe Inaugural Commonwealth Lecture (since renamed to the Asa Briggs lecture) delivered in The Middleton Hall of The Universily of Hull on 10 May 1994, by Professor David Dilks, Vice Chancellor, The University of Hull
Prazmowska (Anita). Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front.
No full textDilks David N. Prazmowska (Anita). Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 68, fasc. 4, 1990. Histoire - Geschiedenis. pp. 1050-1052
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
Scene Recognition: How and Why?
No full textPresented on December 4, 2017 at 11:15 a.m. in the Krone Engineered Biosystems Building, Room 1005.Daniel D. Dilks received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, after which he became a Postdoctoral Fellow, and later a Research Fellow, in the Kanwisher Laboratory at MIT. He joined the Emory faculty in September 2013. His research focuses on three big questions about human vision: i) How is the visual cortex functionally organized?, ii) How does this functional organization get wired up in development?, and iii) Once wired up, how does visual cortex change in adulthood?Runtime: 51:35 minutesOur ability to perceive the visual environment is remarkable: we can recognize a place or “scene” (e.g., a kitchen, a beach, Georgia Tech) within a fraction of a second – even if we have never seen that particular place before (Potter, 1976) – and almost simultaneously use that information to seamlessly navigate. Given the ecological importance of scene recognition, it is perhaps not surprising then that particular regions of the human brain are specialized for processing visual scene information: the parahippocampal place area (PPA) (Epstein & Kanwisher, 1998), the retrosplenial complex (RSC) (Aguirre & D’Esposito, 1999), and the occipital place area (OPA) (Dilks et al., 2013). While the exact function each of these regions plays in scene processing remains unknown, it is currently believed that the scene processing system as a whole (comprised of the three scene-selective cortical regions) is a monolithic system in the service of navigation. However, in this talk, I will present multiple lines of evidence challenging the pervasive theory that all three scene-selective cortical regions serve the purpose of navigation. Instead, I propose that scene processing is comprised of two distinct pathways: one responsible for navigation, including RSC and OPA, and another responsible for scene categorization (e.g., recognizing a scene as a kitchen, a beach, Georgia Tech), including PPA
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
Parallel Worlds: Narrative ‘Versions’ and Cultural Exchange in an Occupational Environment
No full textThe concept of ‘narrativity’ has emerged as a powerful communicative device
employed by workers for the creation and maintenance of group identity in
transient occupational situations. This paper explores the negotiation of
identity and practice by workers in the shopfitting industry as they move
between ‘parallel worlds’ according to differentiation by gender, ethnicity and
age. The nature and authenticity of narrativity as a research device is examined,
and the most prominent narrative themes are discussed in terms of their
usefulness as boundary ‘markers’. It is argued that narratives serve a dual
purpose by providing the means for capital accrual within the occupational
environment, and for the dissemination of collective knowledge within and
between parallel worlds. The substantive relation of ‘truth’ to the ‘event’
described in narratives depends to an extent upon the actual, or the perceived’
nature of the relationship between the narrator and the listener. The
presentation of different ‘versions’ is considered as a means of achieving
temporary rapport between groups and individuals whose identities are
constantly changing, and the ability of various agents to adapt their
presentation in order to negotiate a balance of power is examined
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
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