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Turned off tap : how rejection of town water is a metaphor for community identity in Maryborough, Victoria
No full text“Don’t drink the water!” is a catchcry that has long been a defining characteristic of the country town of Maryborough in Central Victoria, Australia. Typically, the Maryborough community describes town water as unpalatable, corrosive, potentially perilous to public health, and unequivocally “bad.” Conversely, rainwater, commercially bottled water, and water bodies in landscape are represented in local discourse as pure, trusted, and “good.” The community’s bifurcated water culture intensified during the Millennium Drought of 1997-2009, when low surface water inflows resulted in deterioration and reduction of the Maryborough and District Water Supply System. Central Highlands Region Water Corporation responded to these circumstances by integrating reverse osmosis salt reduction into the Maryborough water treatment plant in 2017, meanwhile promoting the benefits of purer, softer, and more palatable town water in a community information campaign. This thesis focuses on the nexus between water consumption and community identity in Maryborough, which is one of the most disadvantaged postcodes in the State of Victoria. The first aim of this thesis is to investigate whether the Maryborough community changed its established water practices to consume town water after reverse osmosis was incorporated into the local water treatment plant. The second aim of the thesis is to understand Central Highlands Water’s approach to engaging the Maryborough community to consume tap water. The thesis synthesises these two aims by analysing how understanding water consumption as an emblem of community identity is essential to developing effective community engagement. Drawing on original fieldwork data, framed by a social constructivist paradigm, the thesis addresses two interconnected questions: (1) How is community identity encoded in water consumption practices? (2) How can an understanding of the co-constitutionality of water and community assist a water utility to develop effective community engagement strategies and gain a social licence to operate? The theoretical framework builds on Consumer Culture Theory to explore the manifestation of community identity within the water market. Extant literature from multiple disciplines informs the analysis, including humanities and social science dimensions of water, concepts of place-based community identity, social practice theory, consumer resistance and brand avoidance theories, paradigms of participatory water governance, and analyses of social licence to operate. The empirical research employs a qualitative methodology, with fieldwork conducted in Maryborough including in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a cross-section of the community; reflective water diaries; photography; and observational research. A focus group was convened with Central Highlands Water staff members to consider the relationship between social dimensions of water and design of more inclusive community engagement methods. The research findings reveal social meanings encoded in water are metaphors for community identity in Maryborough. Water consumption practices signify inter-generational disadvantage, belonging to community and place, distrust of authoritative bodies, and a desire for agency. Further research findings show it is imperative that water utilities develop a thorough understanding of the social dimensions of water consumption before embarking on campaigns to engage disadvantaged communities. This requires debunking notions that disadvantaged communities are hard-to-reach, and achieving a level of connection with communities that leads to water utilities being granted social licence to operate. The steps to achieving effective participatory governance in a disadvantaged community are represented in a framework, which could serve as a practical guide to water utilities aspiring to establish best practice in inclusive community engagement.Doctor of Philosoph
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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