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Book review: Statelessness: a modern history by Mira L. Siegelberg
No full textIn Statelessness: A Modern History, Mira L. Siegelberg traces the emergence and codification of statelessness – the condition of not possessing citizenship and the rights and benefits attached to it in any state – and its impact on the boundaries of the interstate order during, in between and following the First and Second World Wars. This is a compelling and impressive contribution that demonstrates how statelessness intertwines with other foundational political concepts, such as sovereignty, citizenship and human rights, and invites readers to think about the predicament of stateless people today, writes Isadora Dullaert
Credentialisation of identification: how digital ID wallets shape digital identification, citizenship and power
Get PDFThis dissertation looks at the European Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet: an app that will store digital versions of identity documents, as well as other information- ranging from social security numbers to supermarket loyalty cards - and aims to put citizens in control of these personal data. Specifically, the dissertation investigates the technological arrangement, Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) technology, that underpins this wallet, illustrating that this set of technologies and ideas that was originally developed for the internet found its way to the heart of state-backed identification practices in the European Union. In light of this shift, the dissertation investigates how the wallet shapes digital citizenship, as well as the new power dynamics that it brings about. In so doing, it aims to elucidate the shifting sites of power in contemporary governance.
While the dissertation situates itself in two main sociological literatures, digital sociology and political sociology, it also borrows from science and technology studies. Drawing on interviews, field work at industry events and documentary research, the dissertation argues that the shift to a wallet-based identification system is not just technological; it also signifies an important societal change, which will have real implications for how identification is ‘done’, and how citizens gain access to services. The dissertation develops the concept of ‘credentialisation’ to analyse how the wallet turns different and previously separate parts of people’s lives into ‘verifiable’ information. As this information is subsequently brought together in one wallet, this signifies the collapse of different social institutions and roles into one technical system. This, the dissertation argues, has significant consequences, because 1.) it produces a new subject- a ‘user-citizen’ - who is supposed to be tech-savvy and responsible, and has to decide (to an extent) on the terms of their own datafication, and 2.) it instantiates new power dynamics around identification, as there is simultaneous competition over and collaboration between state and corporate actors concerning the design of digital ID wallets. One of the first in-depth studies on this topic, this dissertation contributes to the literature on digital identification and digital citizenship, demonstrating that state-issued identification is changing, as the credentialisation of identification gives rise to new technologies, new digital citizens, and new power dynamics
Book review: Statelessness: a modern history by Mira L. Siegelberg
No full textIn Statelessness: A Modern History, Mira L. Siegelberg traces the emergence and codification of statelessness – the condition of not possessing citizenship and the rights and benefits attached to it in any state – and its impact on the boundaries of the interstate order during, in between and following the First and Second World Wars. This is a compelling and impressive contribution that demonstrates how statelessness intertwines with other foundational political concepts, such as sovereignty, citizenship and human rights, and invites readers to think about the predicament of stateless people today, writes Isadora Dullaert. Statelessness: A Modern History. Mira L. Siegelberg. Harvard University Press. 2020
Book review: The digital border: migration, technology, power by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou
No full textIn The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou explore how digital technologies are shaping experiences of migration today, focusing particularly on the 2015 European migration ‘crisis’. This accessible and beautifully written book avoids totalising visions and opens up space for nuance and change, showing how the border could be imagined differently if we want it to be, writes Isadora Dullaert. The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power. Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou. NYU Press. 2022
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
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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