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STS and its Challenging Obligations: Pablo Schyfter Talks with Donald MacKenzie
No full textIn a wide-ranging interview, Donald MacKenzie and Pablo Schyfter discuss the former’s entry into science and technology studies (STS), the trajectory of the field since then, and his perspectives on its character today. MacKenzie recalls his discovery of STS through political activism, and his subsequent experiences at the young Edinburgh Science Studies Unit. He reflects on the field’s development and defining moments of transition, divergence and accomplishment. In reflecting on the field’s abilities, MacKenzie also considers STS’s potential for activism and intervention, and the challenges that accompany attempts to influence those things that it studies. Most importantly, he discusses the moral obligations and responsibilities that accompany engagement with controversial topics, like his own work studying nuclear weaponry and financial markets. In his reflection piece, Schyfter focuses on the notion of obligations, and expands MacKenzie’s views to discuss methodological, epistemic and critical duties. Schyfter suggests that ultimately STS is obliged to pursue complication and enable useful discomfort
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No full textD. Mackenzie Wallace ; vom Verf. durchges., durch ein Kapitel über geheime Gesellschaften in Russland vermehrte dt. Ausg., nach der 7. Aufl. des Orig. übers. von Ernst RöttgerOriginaltitel: Russi
Donald MacKenzie, 65, of Cornville, is leaving Sunday for a 2,000-mile kayaking
No full textDonald MacKenzie, 65, of Cornville, is leaving Sunday for a 2,000-mile kayaking trip through 10 European countries. MacKenzie\u27s son John, 42, is accompanying him on the trip, which is expected to take three months. Details
Donald MacKenzie, 65, of Cornville, is leaving Sunday for a 2,000-mile kayaking
No full textDonald MacKenzie, 65, of Cornville, is leaving Sunday for a 2,000-mile kayaking trip through 10 European countries. MacKenzie\u27s son John, 42, is accompanying him on the trip, which is expected to take three months. Details
Book Review: <i>Do economists make markets? On the performativity of economics</i>, edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu:On the performativity of economics
No full textDo economists make markets? On the performativity of economics, edited by Donald MacKenzie, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu. published by Princeton University Press, 2007, 371 pages.Book review by Matthias KlaesVol 25, issue 3 (2009): Economics and Philosoph
Lieutenant-Colonel Donald Mackenzie and the 48th Highlanders of Canada: A Study in Battalion Command and Officer Progression
No full textLieutenant-Colonel Donald Mackenzie was the commanding officer of the 48th Highlanders of Canada from June 1944 until his death in April 1945. He had been a lieutenant in the militia when the war broke out. His chain of command quickly made him a company commander, then sent him away from the unit to gain valuable staff training and experience. Although lacking combat leadership experience, he rejoined the 48th Highlanders in Italy, became the battalion’s second-in-command, and, after only five months, took over as the commanding officer at the age of twenty-nine. Mackenzie’s experience provides valuable insight into the challenges faced by infantry battalion commanders. Additionally, by considering Mackenzie’s progression in comparison with the career paths of other potential commanding officers within the unit, we can see the challenges faced by one battalion as it attempted to promote from within and develop its officers
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
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