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From erotic capital to erotic knowledge: body, gender and sexuality as symbolic skills in phone sex work
No full textIn this chapter, I’ll discuss the concept of erotic capital and sexual capitalizing in the case of phone sex workers selling sex to male costumers, by looking to the micro-discursive practices and strategies workers use to successfully manage the call with the clients. By virtue of the absence of the physical body, in phone sex, workers have to translate the sexual and/or emotional intercourse in a competent narrative that fits clients needs and desires and whose success or failure (both in economic and interactional terms) depends on their professional ability to discursively mobilize the suitable corporeal, sexual and gender resources that makes the clients feel the interaction as “real”, despite the mediation of the phone
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
Conclusion: Wages and Inclusive Growth
No full textWhen we set out to produce this book, we had four broad questions in mind. What is the wages crisis? Why is it happening? Why does it matter? And what should we do about it?
The first two questions were addressed by the various chapters of this book — although given the complexity and multidimensionality of the wages crisis, there is obviously room for further research and dialogue to refine those explanations. The last question — what to do about it — is one to which we return below. But before that, it may be helpful to revisit the third question, in light of the rich and varied contributions to this collection: why does it matter that we have a wages crisis in Australia, and why should it demand the attention of policy makers and the public at large
The Wages Crisis in Australia: What It Is and What to Do About It
No full textWhy is it happening? Why does it matter? And what should we do about it?Written in non-technical terms for a general audience, the essays in this book offer many insights into one of Australia's most pressing economic and social issues
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
What's Causing the Wages Slowdown?
No full textIn this chapter we review some of the factors that seem likely to have contributed to the unusual weakness in Australian wage growth since 2013. Our focus is on the institutions and rules governing the labour market, which as Thomas Piketty notes are important in understanding the ‘dynamics of wage inequality’ in any society. The discussion here should be seen as a preface to some of the more detailed treatments that appear in later chapters. (It also assumes a passing acquaintance with the current system of labour regulation in Australia
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