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Digitally performing Wester Hailes: A framework for creative placemaking
Full text linkThis PhD investigates how creative placemaking can be facilitated by digital media tools. Since its establishment as a discipline in 2010, there is a need for new practical methods and frameworks to ensure the success of creative placemaking in practice (Courage & McKeown, 2019). To date, there has been limited research on the use of digital media tools in creative placemaking practice. This thesis asks: • How can digital media tools facilitate creative placemaking? • In what ways can digital media tools support community agency in the representation of place? • What conceptual framework will support creative placemaking with digital media tools? Drawing on critical heritage, digital storytelling and place theory, this thesis demonstrates the affordances of these practices as a means of sharing individual and collective constructs of knowledge about a community’s local area. This research undertook a participatory approach through the design of a ‘Digi-Mapping’ workshop with 101 local primary school children in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh. Over the course of six two-hour sessions, participants created an interactive talking map of meaningful places in their local area. Methods of psychogeography and map-making were employed in the sessions. Data was gathered through video observation, participant-created artefacts, and summative evaluation. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes of how participants engaged with the digital media tools. The main findings from the data reveal that digital media tools facilitate creative placemaking by affording participants a new way of appropriating their own cultural knowledge and performing meaning of their local area. These types of expressions also create a rich polyvocality when unpacking discourse around meaningful places. The contribution of this research is a guiding framework based around ‘4Ps’: Participatory, Polyvocal, Performative and Playful. The ‘4Ps’ framework provides creative placemaking practitioners who are non-experts in digital media tools a means for ensuring the tools used align with the goals of creative placemaking
Participatory Explorations in the Techno- Spiritual
No full textThis exploratory paper presents a pilot study conducted with 64 undergraduate students at Edinburgh Napier University in November 2023. The aim of this study was to understand how people who do not necessarily identify as religious engaged in what they saw as spiritual and or faith-based practices and how those participants saw technology playing a role now, and in the future of these experiences. The pilot study is part of a series of initial investigations to understand two key areas: What do modern practices around religion, faith and spirituality look like? How could technology support modern engagement and new interactive experiences with contemporary faith and spiritual practices
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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