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Reverse Engineering und die Archäologie der fließenden Materialien. Eine Antwort auf den Beitrag von Gabriel Moshenska
No full textFirst of all, thanks to Gabriel Moshenska for raising such interesting questions regarding the relationship between reverse engineering and archaeology. His paper does an excellent job in setting out similarities and alignments between the two sets of practices, opening up the topic for further discussion. The author takes us a certain distance along a path of comparison, equips us with some well-honed ideas to carry with us, and then leaves it up to us to make of them what we will, or take them in whatever direction we choose. In picking up the challenge thus laid down, I will argue that archaeologists do indeed reverse engineer after a fashion, and that this not only has important implications for our understanding of archaeological inference: more than that, reverse engineering has potential to be of practical use to archaeologists in their investigation of specific types of material evidence, which I will go on to discuss
Kommentar zu Gabriel Moshenska: Reverse Engineering und die Archäologie der modernen Welt
No full textGabriel Moshenska sets out an argument for the utility of applying the theories and practices of “reverse engineering” to archaeological work. Reverse engineering involves taking objects apart in order to understand the design processes that were in play to create the object. Within contemporary industrial production reverse engineering allows product replication. When a product comes to market, competitors can reverse engineer it in order to design their own versions. It is, therefore, a key practice of market competition. In this article Moshenska is interested in the ways in which reverse engineering might reveal some of the human and more-than-human messiness of these processes, in the never-smooth tacit knowledges at play. His contention is that similarities in the aims, methods and intended outcomes of archaeology and reverse engineering make it a productive space in which to work with and understand, in particular, modern technological artefacts
Comments on Gabriel Moshenska: ‘Ethics and Ethical Critique in the Archaeology of Modern Conflict’
No full textPublishing with UCL Press: an author’s perspective
No full textThis blog post was written by Gabriel Moshenska, Senior Lecturer in Public Archaeology at UCL.
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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
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
Lectio praecursoria: The Furthest Past. Historiography and the Conceptual History of Stone Age Archaeology in Finland, c. 1700–1940
No full textFM Liisa Kunnaksen väitöskirja The Furthest Past. Historiography and the Conceptual History of Stone Age Archaeology in Finland, c. 1700–1940 tarkastettiin Helsingin yliopistossa 19.6.2024. Vastaväittäjänä toimi apulaisprofessori Gabriel Moshenska (University College London) ja kustoksena apulaisprofessori Kristin Ilves. Väitöskirja on julkaistu Helsingin yliopiston sarjassa Dissertationes Universitatis Helsingiensis. Julkaisemme Kunnaksen lectio praecursorian
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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