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Institutional Approach to E-commerce: An Integrated Framework for Pakistan
Get PDFPakistan needs to knit itself into global information economy in order to ensure economic development. E-commerce is the essential tool through which this objective can be met. Currently, the economy is in a transition, the span of which needs to be shortened in order to meet the global challenges in the coming years. An institutional approach is essential to develop e-commerce. An appropriate institutional framework will shorten the time span of the transition period and will ensure a smooth transition to information economy. It will provide an effective and efficient use of the existing institutional infrastructure and development of new institutions. It calls for close coordination between the government, industry, and international organisations.
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
Analysis of Hamid Mawlana's Thoughts on Islamic Communication Theory
No full textThis paper explores Islamic communication theory developed by Hamid Mowlana (1979, 1993, 2007). The analysis includes the context of the emergence of a discourse on Islamic communication in the academic realm and the elaboration and criticism of the substance of Hamid Mowlana’s Islamic communication theory. Using the literature study method, the author found that the emergence of Islamic communication theory was motivated by the meeting of two streams of criticism of Western science, namely the criticism of Islamic intellectuals against the paradigm of Western social science (and therefore, against western modernization); and the tendency towards international communication studies by emphasizing the DE westernization approach, motivated by the cultural turn in the development of the social sciences. Hamid Mowlana formulated Islamic communication theory by proposing the concept of tabligh initially developed from his studies of communication practices and systems in Iran, especially around the period before and after the revolution. Tabligh, besides being a theory, is also an ethic and is based on five fundamental principles: Tauhid, Amar ma’ruf nahi munkar, Ummah, Taqwa, and Amanah. Hamid Mowlana’s Islamic communication theory has its weaknesses, especially in its basic assumptions about Islamic exceptionalism and the singularity of Islamic and Western civilizations
What is not available online is not worth reading?
Get PDFThis short article discusses an emerging trend in the information-seeking behaviour of scientists, i.e. mere reliance on online information. Based on a study of physicists and astronomers, this article shows that more scientists now assume that if articles are of enough quality and significance, they must be available online and vice versa. Though still in a low minority, a number of scientists believe that what is not available online is not worth the effort to obtain it
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
SULTAN HAMID II: DIBALIK LAYAR LAMBANG GARUDA TENGGELAM DALAM SEJARAH
Get PDFRumusan masalah yang diajukan dalam penelitian ini adalah menguak tentang siapa sebenarnya Sultan Hamid II. Hingga saat ini Sultan Hamid II menjadi bahan perdebatan dalam kalangan sejarawan. Sultan Hamid II merupakan sosok tokoh yang sangat misterius karena sampai saat ini keberadaan beliau seolah tenggelam dalam sejarah. Adapun untuk menguak keberadaan tokoh ini peneliti penulis menggunakan metode sejarah. Ada empat tahapan dalam metode sejarah, yaitu heuristik, kritik sumber, interpretasi, dan historiografi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keberadaan Sultan Hamid II tenggelam dalam sejarah akibat pro dan kontra bagi kalangan sejarawan. Satu sisi Sultan Hamid II merupakan sosok sumbangsih pemikiran terhadap bangsa Indonesia. Tapi di sisi lain Sultan Hamid II merupakan sosok seorang pemberontak. Perdebatan ini kini belum usai masing-masing mengkalaim dan punya data dan argumen masing-masing. Sampai saat ini belum menemukan sebuah titik temu untuk mengakui keberadaan Sultan Hamid II apakah sebagai pahlawan atau sebagai penghianat
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Get PDFThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
PROJECTION OF EXPLOITATION AND WOMEN OPPRESSION IN THE POETRY OF HAMID KHAN
Get PDFThis paper focuses on the theme of exploitation and women oppression foregrounded in the poetry of Hamid Khan. In a patriarchal society such as India and Pakistan, it often happens that women are deprived of their basic rights. While analysing the poetry of Hamid Khan, the scholar has found the issue of women oppression foregrounded in the following poems: N.A. Reflections, Circus Girl, Dualism, Winter, Deodasi, The Stranger. In this stylistic analysis only the tools of foregrounded were applied, i.e. deviation and parallelism. Moreover, the poems that projected the issue of women oppression and exploitation are given in the appendix
Teori Interpretasi Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd
Get PDFThis paper describes the thought of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on the theory of interpretation/method of interpretation of the al-Qur’an, the discussion of which is the study of descriptive-analitif. In the method, Nasr Hamid seeks to reveal the meaning and significance (maghza) with the meaning of "unspeakable". Nasr Hamid distinguish these three terms. Meaning is what is represented by the text or in the sense that letting the text speak about himself. then from that meaning discussed with conditions / context that surrounds a reader. Therefore, the meaning of the static nature as it contains a textual-historical significance (historical meaning), and the dynamic nature of significance according to the horizon of each reader.Tulisan ini mendeskripsikan pemikiran Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd tentang teori interpretasi/metode penafsiran terhadap al-Qur’an, dengan pembahasan yang bersifat telaah diskriptif-analitif. Dalam metodenya, Nasr Hamid berusaha untuk mengungkap makna dan signifikansi (maghza) yang kemudian memunculkan makna “yang tak terkatakan”. Nasr Hamid membedakan ketiga istilah tersebut. Makna adalah makna yang direpresentasikan oleh teks atau dalam artian bahwa membiarkan teks berbicara tentang dirinya sendiri. kemudian dari makna tersebut didialogkan dengan kondisi/konteks yang mengitari seorang reader. Karena itu, makna sifatnya statis karena memuat makna tekstual-historis (historical meaning), dan signifikansi sifatnya dinamis sesuai dengan horizon masing-masing pembaca
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