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Digital Ecologies of Youth Mental Health: Apps, Therapeutic Publics and Pedagogy as Affective Arrangements
Full text linkIn this paper, we offer a new conceptual approach to analyzing the interrelations between formal and informal pedagogical sites for learning about youth mental (ill) health with a specific focus on digital health technologies. Our approach builds on an understanding of public pedagogy to examine the pedagogical modes of address (Ellsworth 1997) that are (i) produced through ‘expert’ discourses of mental health literacy for young people; and (ii) include digital practices created by young people as they seek to publicly address mental ill health through social media platforms. We trace the pedagogic modes of address that are evident in examples of digital mental health practices and the creation of what we call therapeutic publics. Through an analysis of mental health apps, we examine how these modes of address are implicated in the affective process of learning about mental (ill) health, and the affective arrangements through which embodied distress is rendered culturally intelligible. In doing so, we situate the use of individual mental health apps within a broader digital ecology that is mediated by therapeutic expertise and offer original contributions to the theorization of public pedagogy
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
The Discursive Construction of Gendered Leadership within the Amalgamated State Football Federations in Australia
No full textOver the last decade major changes have occurred within the governance of Australian sport with new policy directions embracing the amalgamation of the women’s and men’s organisations. This change has provided the impetus for this thesis which examines the amalgamation process as an historical moment in the professionalisation of football as a third sector sport organisation in Australia. The research employs a qualitative methodology, within a sociological and feminist poststructuralist approach, to critically examine the discourses and power relations within the male-dominated culture of football federations that govern opportunities for women in leadership. My research began in 2006 with the Senate Inquiry ‘About time! Women in Sport and Recreation in Australia’, that identified how women continue to be under-represented in the decision making structures of sport organisations. More recently the changing public discourse about leadership and gender in Australia recognises that business imperatives and an increase in women in leadership roles can be complementary. In response, to the business imperatives and the persistent inequities in sport leadership this research critically examines how in the post-amalgamation context gender equity and women in leadership is discursively produced within policy and organisational strategies within the governance of football.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Appreciating Relational Knowledge Management within the Queensland Music festival
No full textEffective knowledge management can provide a competitive advantage for festival organisations. Conventional knowledge management approaches to event and festival studies have identified documenting and storing knowledge in databases, checklists and evaluation reports. Drawing upon new insights in the knowledge management literature, I focus on the relational and practice-based dimension of knowledge management and apply an Appreciative Inquiry approach.
In this thesis, I argue that relational knowledge management is storied, embodied and practised by organisational members throughout the entire festival life cycle. Festival organisers can hence benefit from understanding the importance of creating and maintaining a culture where all members of the organisation are able to collaborate and engage in meaning-making. Within the complex festival environment, however,
time is limited for building a shared understanding among the team (permanent and seasonal staff, volunteers, board members, contractors and artists). A practice-based understanding of knowledge management therefore emphasises the history, context, and culture within which festival members perform their roles, engage in their work practices and co-create the festival experience.
The Queensland Music Festival (QMF), the case study for this project, is a professionally run and highly successful festival organisation both in terms of creative output as well as internal operational strategies. This study therefore addresses the question of how the Queensland Music Festival’s approach to knowledge management contributes to its success as a festival organisation. The research employs an interpretive, reflexive methodology and ethnographic methods. I make visible stories and narratives of success and highlight how these strengths can be used to further enhance the success of the organisation. Underpinned by an Appreciative Inquiry approach and social constructionist understanding of knowledge management, I identify the knowledge management practices and power/knowledge relations that shape the festival organisation.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Becoming-Roller Derby: Women, Sport, and the Affects of Power
No full textThis project is centrally concerned with (re)writing and (re)conceptualising a feminist cultural imaginary for sport and physical culture. Focusing on roller derby as a ‘new’ sport played predominantly by women, I examine the various affects in circulation, both on and off the track, and what these affects do. Thinking through affects, I highlight the processes of transformation that women undergo through roller derby and the challenges of sustaining this kind of cultural space into the future. In doing so, I have written of women in their multiplicity, drawing on post-structural conceptualisations of subjectivity and recent socio-cultural theorising of affects. I acknowledge the challenges of women coming together to pursue a shared goal, yet the project is a hopeful one, in which I offer alternatives to reductionist thinking or biological determinism.
Conceptualisations of sport and leisure as ‘empowering’ or necessarily ‘resistant’ for women are questioned throughout this thesis. This questioning grounds my analysis in women’s bodies as they experience roller derby: as they skate, move, fall, bruise and break; and as they form friendships, allies and ‘enemies’, and feel love, joy and pleasure. Privileging women’s bodies throughout this thesis enables a focus on the affective realm of experience, rather than just the interpretive. A focus on affects tells a different story of sport and physical culture, one that is more generous in taking into account bodies sexed as female and their particular challenges in embodying power.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel ManagementGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
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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