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Understanding Tattoos from the Indonesian Underground Music Scene of the Surabaya Region
Full text linkThis study analyses the functions and meanings of tattoos in the specific social and cultural
context of the underground musicians and fans in urban East Java.
The research methodology is based on qualitative data and uses ethnographic and social
science methods. The ethnographic component comes from participation in music events,
gatherings and visits to the target community in their homes and public places. The focus is
on the analysis of the visual data in their particular contexts and draws from detailed
knowledge of literature pertaining to existing international research about tattoos from a
variety of perspectives. In particular, the individual explanatory narratives are considered to
account for the icons, symbols and typography patterns, to understand the broader
vocabularies of tattoos that are followed in the subculture of underground music in Indonesia.
This research revealed that tattoos and tattooing practices among Java-based underground
music subcultures were mostly still based on mutual co-operation, as shown by how some of
the underground musicians and fans became the volunteer media of tattooing practices for
their fellow tattoo apprentices. This kind of activity seems to strengthen their social
interactions. From an analogical perspective, we can see the body as the site where they
create those relationships. I call this phenomenon the social body event, a celebration of
togetherness and unity, flowing dynamically in the form of the production of tattoos. Other
findings were that tattoos also became a projection of their spiritual journeys, personal
identity, as well as the group identity, in cases where there was a shift in the meaning of
tattoos over time. The local preferences of tattoos and the tattooing process also involve local
spiritual conceptions, such as the tattoo positioning on the body representing good or evil.
Also, some subjects acquired tattoos after experiencing dreams. This phenomenon shows that
some youngsters still believe that dreams can convey a supernatural message or a sign of a
particular event in their life. Tattoo and tattooing practices in the underground music scene
reflect the vigorous bond between inside and outside the self, the music scene, and the wider
range of society. It is also clear how global tattoos can influence, in terms of tattoo styles and
motifs. This research adds to the existing body of research and knowledge of both subcultures
and body art in the Indonesian context
Dreams, legends, spirituality and miracles: understanding tattoo narratives among contemporary urban men in Java Island, Indonesia
Full text linkThis article examines the relationship between dreams and tattooing in
the context of the spiritual beliefs in Indonesia. Based on interviews
and ethnographic study in the Island of Java, we highlight the
importance of dreams, their perceived meanings and significance for
male individuals, who have tattooed their bodies with dreamed
imagery. Interviews revealed narratives which arise from the tattoos
themselves and we relate them to myth, belief and legends familiar
to the Javanese; these draw upon religious faith and also more
atavistic mystical beliefs. An important source is the Javanese legend
of Nyai Roro Kidul, a narrative often seen to legitimise political,
royal and magical power. Dream expressions also draw upon popular
visual culture as part of a dynamic and ongoing evolution of an
embodied discourse of belief. Our case studies reveal that tattooing
can be part of the broader mediation of belief in the supernatural
where older beliefs can intervene in new domains and contexts for
expression
Fungsi dan makna tanda pada Tato di tubuh para narapidana dan tahanan di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Klas IIA Yogyakarta
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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
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