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Knowledge
No full textOBJECTIVESThis chapter provides readers with insights and engagement activities to help students:1. Understand the value and power of knowledge as opposed to data or information2. Challenge what is taken for granted, and differentiate between critical thinking and critique3. Explain why an improvement cannot be counted as an innovation4. Illustrate how creativity is intimately connected to life and leads to new ways of thinking and collaborating5. Critically examine who is part of their various network
Feline Saviours : Nekonomics, Stray Agency and the Kawaiification of Heritage Tourism in Japan
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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
Nature experiences, hedonistic joy, true travel, or something totally different?
No full textLähestyn raideliikennettä Lapissa ja Lappiin matkailun näkökulmasta muutamasta eri suunnasta. Ensinnäkin tuon esille junan ja matkailun historialliset kytkökset Suomessa ja kansainvälisesti. Samalla käsittelen lyhyesti yhtä matkailun ikuisuusongelmaa, kysymystä ”matkailijasta” ja ”turistista”. Sen jälkeen pureudun matkailijoiden motivaatioihin, joihin myös artikkelin nimi viittaa. Sen yhteydessä esitän lyhyesti teorian ”matkailun kokonaisjärjestelmästä”, joka yksinkertaisuudessaan selittää teoreettisesti, miten matkailua voidaan tutkia, kehittää ja ymmärtää. Matkailun kokonaisjärjestelmän avulla voidaan myös oivallisesti tarkastella Lapin matkailun nykyisiä haasteita. Artikkelin kolmannessa osassa keskityn uusiutuviin ja uusiutumattomiin luonnonvaroihin sekä lentokoneiden riippuvuuteen öljystä – junat sitä vastoin voivat käyttää monia erilaisia energiamuotoja. Neljännessä osassa tuon esille eräitä Lapin alueiden erityspiirteitä matkailun kannalta, jotka on hyvä tiedostaa raideliikennettä kehitettäessä ja suunniteltaessa. Artikkelin lopussa teen yhteenvedon edellä todetusta ja esitän sen pohjalta muutamia mahdollisuuksia, joita raideliikenteen kehittäminen tuo Lapin matkailulle
Tourist attractions:from object to narrative
No full textTourist attractions constitute the metaphorical ‘heart’ of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective nature of identity, memory, narrative and performance in the tourist experience to find new ways of analysing and managing tourist attractions. The book will appeal to researchers and students in tourism and destination management and heritage and indigenous tourism
Imaginations of travellers and realities of museums
No full textSeuraavassa kuvaan museotoimintaa, uutta museologiaa ja matkailunähtävyyksienmenestystekijöitä. Millä tavalla matkailijoille ja paikallisille voi tarjota onnistuneen museokäynnin? Museoille tulee aina olemaan tarvetta, ja varsinkin matkailijat haluavat tietää enemmän kohteista, joissa he käyvät. Vastatakseen tähän tarpeeseen museotoimijat joutuvat harkitsemaan, kenelle tarjontansa esittää ja mikä tämän kohderyhmän ennakko-odotus elämyksestä on
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
Teaching-research nexus in tourism, hospitality and event studies
No full textI was happy to accept the task when I was asked to write a chapter on the teaching–research nexus in tourism studies. Through my career as a teacher in the fields of tourism, hospitality and events (which I will hereafter refer to as TH&E studies as I consider them to be an integral whole) I have been reflecting on that nexus. I have pondered upon what it means for myself, how I collect material for courses, how I use my own research to back up syllabi, and how I reflect and publish on teaching and learning practices. My current work, as director for an institute constituted of three TH&E departments in three organizations, where I coordinate the departments’ strategies and operations, is very much related to this same nexus. The institute’s stated aim is to carry out teaching, research and services in the field of TH&E. Whilst this on the surface sounds like a straightforward aim, the reality is far from it, because those words mean different things to the stakeholders in the different organizations. Here I am not simply talking about organizational cultures or differences in opinion, but I am talking about crucial differences in what it means ‘to teach’, ‘to research’ and ‘to provide services’, depending on what type of TH&E organization is in question. I will therefore analyze what these concepts can mean, and how these meanings alter people’s practices.The empirical case, and the context this chapter acts within, will take you to northern Finland, to Lapland – the region of the European Union that is mostly north of the Arctic Circle. The case study is an institute based in Lapland, and the legislation and organizational context will be Finnish – but the implications I highlight are global in their reach, and I will show why this subjective case is a good proxy for the larger context. The ‘teaching–research nexus – TRN’ (Angelo and Asmar, 2005) carries within it assumptions about teaching and learning that takes place as an outcome of research conducted, but also much more than that. A nexus is a theoretical concept which presumes that there are two separate entities that relate to one another through ‘a complex series of connections’(Crowther, 1995, p. 782). How they relate to one another, and what sort of implications this has on curricula created, and on teaching practices, is what I will focus on.If you are a reader accustomed to management texts then you might at times bedissatisfied with the freedoms I am taking in addressing you in person, and in talking about myself in the first person – but let us immediately clarify that epistemologically the ‘truth’, the data, and the new knowledge this chapter will provide in no way differ from ones that would be written in a pseudo-scientificthird-person tense – I would still be writing it, and you would still be reading it, regardless of whether it is stated openly or not
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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