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Drømmer om en ny normal
Get PDFDrømmer om en ny normal er et utforskende diplomprosjekt om fremtid, med konkret fokus på klesbransjen og vårt forhold til klær. Utgangspunktet for oppgaven var min frustrasjon over å vite at vår livsstil bidrar negativt i klimakrisen: Vi blir fortalt at radikal endring trengs raskt, men ikke hvorfra endringen skal komme, eller hva den innebærer for livene våre.
Oppgavens leveranse er ikke et løsningsforslag, men en samling av ideer for å skape samtale og se muligheter i klesbransjens fastsatte struktur. Ideene er designet som oversettelser av teori om fremtiden: Hver for seg gir de innblikk i et fiktivt samfunn som har skapt alternativer til den destruktive klesindustrien. Oppgavens hensikt er å formidle muligheter for endring og utfordre det klesbransjen i dag definerer som mulig.
Ideene jeg har laget befinner seg i et samfunn som praktiserer, støtter og tilbyr tjenester som skal dekke klesbrukernes klesbehov, samtidig som global klesproduksjon trapper ned. Offentligeog private aktører jobber sammen om sin felles visjon; klær på jordens premisser.submittedVersio
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
Z Futures
No full textZ Futures - The struggle of disconnecting in a hyperconnected world is a diploma project that aims to spark a debate and encourage critical reflections regarding digital media overuse.
We are living in an age where smartphones have become our constant companions and the pressure of constantly keeping up has strongly influenced our lives. Accordingly, excessive use of digital media might significantly impact one’s mental health. This is especially applicable for Generation Z, the first generation to grow up with widespread usage of smartphones.
Despite hyperconnectivity being an issue at a societal level, the individuals are often expected to deal with the pressures by themselves. The aim of this diploma project is to facilitate discussions with youth, as well as people working with youth, regarding digital media overuse and questioning where the responsibility lies.
In order to start conversations and reflection processes, we have designed a set of ten speculative objects. Discussions around these artefacts can help us collectively define a preferable future, better understand the present and highlight the importance of this issue.
With this project, we also want to contribute to the design practice itself by illustrating how speculative and experimental design methods can be used for research purposes.submittedVersio
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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