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Surfers, lifeguards and new voices: A short history of beach writing in Australia
No full textEllison, ER ORCiD: 0000-0002-0865-950XThe Australian continent is a place of diverse landscapes. The outback, frequently considered an impenetrable space, captured the imagination of British colonisers. But ultimately, Australia is an island surrounded by coastline. Most Australians live along the coast; however, academic research often pays more attention to the outback. This chapter captures a short history of beach writing in Australia. From early poems like Adam Gordon Lindsay’s ‘The Swimmer’, to the writings of Tim Winton, and via Puberty Blues, beach writing has more depth than is otherwise considered. As such, this chapter provides an informative review of the key milestones of beach writing in Australia
Sculpture by the sea: A visual essay
No full textEllison, ER ORCiD: 0000-0002-0865-950XSculpture by the Sea is a sculpture festival that originated in Australia over twenty years ago. Now an iconic part of the landscape in its three locations (Bondi Beach and Cottesloe in Australia; Aarhaus in Denmark), the festival is arguably the biggest example of temporary, site-specific installations in the country. The two Australian locations are beachside and the beach landscape plays an integral role in the curation, interpretation and experience of these festivals. This chapter takes the form of a visual essay in which we reflect on our experiences of two specific festivals—Bondi Beach in 2016 and Cottesloe in 2018. The text and images are integrated to represent the research process as observers, documenters and researchers within the site
Writing the Australian beach: Texts, sites, events and people
No full textBrien, DL ORCiD: 0000-0002-9005-3645; Ellison, ER ORCiD: 0000-0002-0865-950XAustralian national identity has a long history of being intrinsically tied with the landscape. The Australian beach is a popular tourist destination, a part of the everyday life of many residents and an iconic symbol of international significance. Considering the ongoing influence of key Australian authors with wide international readerships who regularly write about the beach, as well as the prominence of the beach in a range of other cultural texts, including television, film and advertising, it is clear that the beach—as site, image and idea—continues to play a significant role in Australian culture. This chapter establishes the context of this edited collection, outlines its theoretical framework, and introduces its contributions
Australian beach soccer: Tracing paradoxical narratives
No full textEllison, ER ORCiD: 0000-0002-0865-950X; Lastella, AM ORCiD: 0000-0003-1793-3811For many Australians, the beach is key to leisure and pleasure, an integral part of their culture, and a symbol of their national sporting identity. There is ample evidence across a history of iconic sporting competitions, including, for instance, the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Football, or soccer, is the world’s most popular game. It has a simplicity that allows it to be played almost anywhere, even on the beach. In a country where recreational and professional sporting activities thrived, the story of beach soccer is an anomaly. This chapter considers the sport’s rapid growth outside Australia and seeks to understand why the local version has not realised a greater presence on the beaches of a self-proclaimed sporting nation’s landscape
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
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
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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