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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
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
Chronic com-position in ethnographic research
No full textInternational audienceThis paper is grounded in the ethnographic study with(in) chronic patients organization in Russia – Russian Multiple Sclerosis Society [RuMSS]. I advocate for an embodied approach to chronic patients’ movement in STS accounts. Movement of knowledge, spaceshifts, concerns, emotions, chemical reactions,capital, and power. I question how to move along in ethnographic research? How to maintain different movements in a mutually nourishing way? What are the prompts for moving with different rhythms, directions, memories, and relations? I discuss a concept of com-position - based on my movements with(in) RuMSS from 2016. I start with tracing the process of embodying patients’ movement which puts an ethnographer in com-position (position together) with affects, sensations, demands, remorses, pains,stillnesses, exercises, which are already at place. Doing rehabilitative yoga, making art together, aiding with going to the toilet in non-accessible places, translating. Com-position always means change and mutation. It is never on time - always too late. And its traces stay at place. I continue by discussing instances in com-position: waiting for openings, staying available, resisting to analyze prior to deep listening. Pausing is a mode of patient activism from which ethnographers can learn: of researching chronically ill body, tuning in with illness rhythms, looking for openings to stage a media appearance. Com-posing creates places for patients - not in terms of place-making, but as fitting in, saving life resources, fixing, maintaining what is at place to compose with
Disability Studies and the quest for a clean model : Looking for seams in the space between the Global South and Global North
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Workshop "Imagine European Food Futures: International workshop on speculative and participatory methods in food research and action"
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The touch of salt: On time and embodiment in food practices related to excessive salt consumption
No full textInternational audienceFood consumption is an inescapable maintenance practice. Entangled with socio-demographic, socio-cultural, environmental and techno-scientific transitions (Poulain, 2021), food practices enact care (or not) and embody imagination for possible futures. This manifests in the orders of sensing (Voß and Guggenheim, 2019) and valuing (Heut’s and Mol, 2013), as well as in techno-scientific desires and public policies related to food security, palatability, and public health (El Bilali, 2020; Gorski & Roberto, 2015).This paper presents work-in-progress within a research project exploring excessive consumption of salt/sodium in France. I propose an alternative approach to the WHO (2013) strategy for global salt intake reduction by 2025, attending to salt intake as an embodiment of care, embedded in different timescapes. My findings are grounded in ethnographic observations in 13 households, two public workshops at the House of Youth and Culture in an underprivileged neighbourhood, and a collective experiment with a feminist association ‘Talk to Them’, all in Toulouse and surroundings. I situate salt practices in specific time-space configurations (snacking while working, cooking dinner at home, etc.) and attend to the embodied ways of knowing, such as tasting and touching. The latter being an explorative and slow mode of knowing, requiring time and continuous oscillation between touching and being touched (Myers & Dumit, 2011).I propose that caring for salt is a work-intensive embodied practice, which articulates the contradiction of maintenance time (tinkering, cooking, eating) and production time (working, inventing, reformulating). Within this practice, the two meanings of salt emerge: ‘for the pleasure of eating’ and ‘as a danger for health’. These are associated with two salt temporalities: ‘fast salt’ (invisible, hidden in transformed products, emerging from ‘not having time’) and ‘slow salt’ (available for seeing and touching, absorbing time). I conclude by reflecting how touch offers emancipatory potential in food practices research
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
À la recherche de méthodes « à partir du corps » : Le « manger ensemble » comme collaboration ethnographique et création collective des sens
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Dance Your PhD finalist 2023. Patient organisations VS Multiple Sclerosis
No full textDanssertation for Dance Your PhD 2023. Social Science category.Based upon the PhD thesis "CHRONIC COM-POSITION WORK: Embodying patient organisation and patient improvisation within Russian Multiple Sclerosis Society" by Alexandra ENDALTSEVA, Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (CEMS/EHESS-CNRS), France. Advisors: Isabelle Ville & Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent.Acknowledgements:Dance and improvisation: ICI ToulouseMusic: Loop, Trad & Emmaus : Rondeau, mon Ange (Mazurka)Data: Russian MS Societ
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