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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
Overalls: Functional, Political, Fashionable
No full textThe essay investigates the material uses and symbolic meanings of overalls through the differing notions of functional and political, masculine and feminine, and subversive and fashionable. Moreover, the comparative analysis covers its topic both historically and geographically. In their flatness and overall economy of style, overalls are an extremely simple garment, but precisely due to such characteristics they were equally appropriated by the Russian Constructivists in the 1920s and the Italian Futurist Thayaht in 1919. Historically, women started to wear overalls on the factory floor during World War One. On woman, this sexually neutral garment symbolized a technological progress, and even became a fashionable item. Functional and technologically advanced, the space suit is the ultimate overalls. In the 1960s, it was white and silver. Courrèges cleverly translated the 1960s space-craze into a range of stamped mirror-disc overalls. In fact, from the 1920s, categories such as functionality, simplicity and comfort increasingly migrated from the austere world of Utopia into the field of fashion. As a modernist phenomenon itself, but unburdened by any messianic programs or manifestos, fashion both readjusted and transferred utopian ideas into the everyday. Its commercial nature enabled fashion and its practitioners not only to envisage new outfits in geometric shapes, but also to efficiently produce them, and sell them either as elitist clothes or mass sportswear
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
The unmilitary appearance of the 1916 rebels
No full textThis chapter explores the self-presentation techniques of rebels in the 1916 uprising in Dublin. I use witness accounts, photographs and documents from the period to consider how the rebellion was embodied. As events unfolded on the streets of Dublin, the military strategy of the insurgents altered; they went in and out of uniform as the situation demanded it. But this was not an isolated instance of improvised soldiering. The image of the urban guerrilla warrior that emerged on the streets of Dublin in 1916 later inspired revolutionary groups in other regions, particularly with the rise of separatist militancy in the 1930s
Making 1916:Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising
No full textThe 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain, and declared - though unsuccessfully in the short term – an independent state. Credited with inspiring independence movements in other former colonies, the Rising has been the subject of histories from the political to the literary. Yet, the rich variety of objects and images associated with the Rising – from buttons and medals to souvenir postcards – have not formed a focus of academic research. This volume of essays will examine the material and visual culture of the Rising to consider how these illuminate changing ways of engaging with and understanding this iconic event. Family keepsakes such as autograph books from Frongoch internment camp, informal souvenirs such as pieces of rubble from Dublin’s General Post Office, and ‘official’ souvenirs such as photo booklets each played a significant role in the construction of individual and collective memory. In placing material and visual culture centre stage, this book will examine how the spaces, objects and images associated with the Rising are caught up in processes of identity production in both public and private space as changing socio-political conditions generated new understandings of 1916 and its aftermath. It addresses the ‘things’ of 1916 not as mere illustrations of history, but as having agency and effect on material practices central to contested concepts of identity and the creation of social memory
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