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reMEDIAL NATURE: Medicinal Efficacy in Images and Words
No full textImages of various media formats that depict a relation between nature, health, and knowledge (science)
Encoded Panacea: Infographics about Natural Medicines at the Crossroads between Communication, Innovation and Utopia
No full textBy focusing on a corpus of 10 visualization tools and 40 infographics designed to provide information about natural medicines and indigenous remedies, the main aim of this paper is to explore the role of pictorial representations as encounter and tension points between artificiality and naturality. While these specific digital outputs are conceived to present data about imagined, at times utopic, potentialities of nature, inadvertently they also articulate the paradoxical relation that exists between imaginaries, technology and ideas about innovation. Infographics are expected to convey information, but they can also disguise advertisement techniques and tactics that tap into and create (un)existing markets for products that reflect modern times anxieties. Alternatively, infographics can be conceived as heuristic attempts to render visible underrepresented or silenced epistemic communities and knowledge practices overlooked by hegemonic prevalent systems.sponsorship: The project reMEDIAL NATURE : Medicinal Efficacy in Images and
Words has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship grant agreement No. 101026198. (European Commission|101026198)status: Published onlin
Mediating Fatigue: From Promotional Material of Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s to Statistical Maps of Brain Dysfunction in Present-Day Neuroimaging Research
No full textThis chapter examines how different kinds of images have been deployed in disparate medical contexts to render long-term fatigue—an elusive and quintessentially intangible pathological physical and mental condition—visually communicable and epistemically explorable in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. First, by focusing on two disparate case studies, we intend to perform in-depth analyses of select context-specific uses of images in mediating the production and dissemination of biomedical knowledge of fatigue in different historical contexts. Second, through such an unusual juxtaposition of two mutually independent case studies, each written by a separate author, we want to exemplify the heterogeneity of context-specific functions that diverse images have fulfilled in the medical discourse on fatigue. To achieve this twofold aim, we selected two case studies from different historical periods and medical contexts, characterized by different conceptual framings of fatigue and the use of different types of images, whose separate analyses necessitated employing two different methodological approaches
Mediating Fatigue: From Promotional Material of Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s to Statistical Maps of Brain Dysfunction in Present-Day Neuroimaging Research
No full textThis chapter examines how different kinds of images have been deployed in disparate medical contexts to render long-term fatigue—an elusive and quintessentially intangible pathological physical and mental condition—visually communicable and epistemically explorable in the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. First, by focusing on two disparate case studies, we intend to perform in-depth analyses of select context-specific uses of images in mediating the production and dissemination of biomedical knowledge of fatigue in different historical contexts. Second, through such an unusual juxtaposition of two mutually independent case studies, each written by a separate author, we want to exemplify the heterogeneity of context-specific functions that diverse images have fulfilled in the medical discourse on fatigue. To achieve this twofold aim, we selected two case studies from different historical periods and medical contexts, characterized by different conceptual framings of fatigue and the use of different types of images, whose separate analyses necessitated employing two different methodological approaches
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
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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