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Extraordinary Rendition
No full textExtraordinary Rendition, a collaboration between artists Tim Guthrie and Doug Hayko, is a multi-space installation that will divides an exhibition space into four distinct rooms. The installation includes a performance (Interrogation Room with performers throughout the exhibit), a wall of surveillance monitors showing various videos along with a large video projection (Surveillance Room) juxtaposed with a group of traditional portraits rendered simply in graphite on paper (Gallery Room). At the opposite end of the gallery from the surveillance and interrogation rooms is a fourth room where kids are removed from the violence of the performance, where ironically, they watch an equally violent cartoon. While visitors contemplate the work in the Gallery Room, surveillance cameras attached to the frames above the drawings simultaneously record their re/actions. These videos display live on monitors in the Surveillance Room and digitally download to an online database for future examination and analysis. During the entire opening reception, there is a performance in the Interrogation Room that takes place while other performers circulate in areas throughout the entire exhibition space
The Museum of Alternative History
No full textThis exhibition is about that effort to change education curricula around the country. It is about a fake, revised and twisted history. It is a show about opinions supplanting facts … about personal beliefs being forced onto others. It is an exhibition about alternate explanations for the nature of the world and universe, and alternate histories contrary to … well … history. Think of this exhibition as something like a Natural History Museum. It will evolve over several installations during the next few years, the first of which was at RNG gallery in May of 2013
Blessed to be a Witness Backpack Journalism in Uganda
No full textThe Jesuit value of being men and women for and with others is the very heart of Creighton’s Backpack Journalism project, a collaboration between the Department of Theology and Department of Journalism, Media and Computing. Led by Dr. John O’Keefe of Theology and Dr. Carol Zuegner and Tim Guthrie from JM&C, 14 students traveled to northern Uganda to produce an awardwinning film, “Mato Oput (Justice & Reconciliation).” The filmmaking is part of a five-week summer course that immerses students from a variety of majors first into a weeklong boot camp of learning how to shoot and edit video, write blogs and stories. They also learn about and discuss the elements of social justice and the Catholic Church. Armed with that knowledge and backpacks brimming with tripods, cameras and sound equipment, the students traveled to Uganda to explore the efforts of the Catholic Church to build justice, peace and reconciliation after a civil war that lasted more than 20 years. The experience is a transformative one. Sophomore Hannah O’Keefe says witnessing firsthand the heartbreaking struggles of the people changed her: “Although I saw the horrifying effects of extreme poverty and civil war, I also found myself surrounded by inspiring and hopeful people working for a better future. I think it is safe to say that, thanks to the people I encountered on the other side of the world, I am one step closer to truly being a woman for other and have a reinvigorated thirst to seek justice.
Lights, Camera, Theology
No full textFollowing the Jesuit value of being men and women for and with others and a journalistic value of bearing witness, a theology professor, a graphic design professor/video artist and a journalism professor joined forces for a different kind of learning experience for undergraduate students. The course, called Backpack Journalism in the Dominican Republic, was a faculty-led, five-week, summer international experience made up of two parts: theology and journalism. The first two weeks in Omaha and then 11 days based at the ILAC Center in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The theology component introduced the Church in Latin America and the Dominican Republic as well as how the Church was transformed by Vatican II, specifically through the Council’s affirmation that Scripture enjoins us to work for the Kingdom of God. The journalistic component came in practical applications of learning how to write feature stories, how to blog and how to shoot and edit a video documentary as well as the power of journalism to tell stories that make a difference. The nine students spent a busy two weeks studying theology and learning to write journalistically and to shoot and edit video. The students and professors then spent 11 days in the Dominican Republic. The theology and journalism came together in using journalistic tools to help tell the story of how one man, Pedro Almonte, a Catholic deacon, is driven by his faith and his belief that the Church has a responsibility to work for and with the poor. The students shot and edited footage for a mini-documentary on the work Almonte has done for more than 20 years to help the people of Cien Fuegos – a sprawling slum next to the garbage dump in Santiago, Dominican Republic – better their lives through soup kitchens, education programs and neighborhood groups that stand up to crime and violence or work to stop environmental degradatio
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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