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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
Conflict and seduction in the public sphere
Get PDFIn a critical but sympathetic reading of Habermas’s work (1984, 1987a, 1987b, 2003), Luke Goode (2005) recently sought to rework his theory of deliberative democracy in an age of mediated and increasingly digital public spheres. Taking a different approach, Alan McKee (2005) challenged the culture- and class-bound strictures of Habermasian rationalism, instead pursuing a more radically pluralist account of postmodern public spheres. The editors of this special section of Media, Culture & Society invited us to discuss our differing approaches to the public sphere. Goode holds that the institutional bases of contemporary public spheres (political parties, educational institutions or public media) remain of critical importance, albeit in the context of a kaleidoscopic array of unofficial and informal micro-publics, both localized and de-territorialized. In contrast, McKee sustains a ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ toward the official, hegemonic institutions of the public sphere since they tend to exclude and delegitimize discourses and practices that challenge their polite middle-class norms.\ud
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McKee’s recent research has focused on sexual cultures, particularly among youth (McKee, 2011). Goode’s recent work has examined new social media spaces, particularly in relation to news and public debate (e.g. Goode, 2009; Goode et al., 2011). Consequently, our discussion turned to a domain which links our interests: after Goode discussed some of his recent research on (in)civility on YouTube as a new media public sphere, McKee challenged him to consider the case of pornographic websites modelled on social media sites.1 He identifies a greater degree of ‘civility’ in these pornographic sibling sites than on YouTube, requiring careful consideration of what constitutes a ‘public sphere’ in contemporary digital culture. Such sites represent an environment that shatters the opposition of public and private interest, affording public engagement on matters of the body, of intimacy, of gender politics, of pleasure and desire – said by many critics to be ruled out of court in Habermasian theory. Such environments also trouble traditional binaries between the cognitive and the affective, and between the performative and the deliberative.\ud
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In what follows we explore the differences between our approaches in the form of a dialogue. As is often the case, our approaches seemed less at odds after engaging in conversation than may have initially appeared. But important differences of emphasis remain
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
Media Representations of Intimacy with Artificial Intelligence
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This thesis explores the ways in which media representations of intimate relationships with artificial intelligence affect people’s views on such relationships. Artificial intelligence is predicted to fulfil increasingly personal and intimate roles, such as in child and elderly care and to provide romantic or sexual pleasure through increasingly sophisticated sex robots, dating simulation apps or holographic girlfriend simulators. In the ‘real-world’, those entering romantic or sexual relationships with technology are gaining public recognition, with careful consideration given to individual happiness and the benefits of using technology to mitigate social issues relating to loneliness. Chapters One and Two aim to show how non-fiction media portrayals are crucial in promoting (or impacting) the integration with AI into different sections of society, intimate or otherwise. Chapters Three, Four and Five aim to display how science fiction uses motifs of love and freedom to foster an emotion-led belief that objects of our desire are ‘real.’ Her and Blade Runner 2049 in particular, depict seamless integration romance with AI into their worlds – worlds which share characteristics with our own. By depicting romance with AI as viable, and perhaps attractive, the films can be used as a platform for imagining future integration of intimacy with AI
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Media evolution and reform politics in China : a case of Guangdong
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Since the beginning of reform toward the end of 1970s, the role and function of Chinese media have been redefined--altering and in many cases, radically changing the governance of the monolithic party state. This evolution has been implemented in part by the adoption of both capitalistic market competition, as well as Western journalistic methods, bringing a communist China closer to the West in economic practice and also in the public's view of a more democratic society. The development of a competitive media market, and consequently a public sphere, a factor contributing significantly to the emergence of democratic politics in Western Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, emerged in a similar fashion in China. In contrast with the previous age, in which media served the role of broadcast mouthpiece of the state, commercialisation of media not only brought diversification in public opinion but also resulted in far-reaching changes at the national policy level. The development of mass communication in an increasingly opened market pushed the Chinese media to conglomerate, resulting in a transition from isolated symbolic power to a more active role in the national and international media arena. The forefront of China's reform is best represented by Guangdong, where a partially emancipated press served as a crucial forum in which reformers and conservatives engaged in public debate. In coping with such an inexorable transformation of the media, the party also transformed. The uniqueness of this transformation lies in the fusion of free market practices and flexible governance based on communism. The integration of these two antagonistic systems has proved to be able to produce an economic base upon which an undemocratic government seems to be justified. It is not yet clear whether such a model is sustainable, particularly as modem communications continue to nurture the environment for an integrated international civil society. However, this thesis argues that since a common free market has commercialised, diversified and globalised the Chinese media, so long as China keeps its door open, this market force will continue to transform them; in the same vein, since Chinese politics has considerably loosened in its control of the media and to a great extent, opted to adapt to a newly-emerged symbolic environment, it too will converge on a roughly common target, that is: democracy
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