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Hierdie woorde en sinne het ek iewers geërf : reflecting on Afrikaner identity through intertextuality in Johnny is nie dood nie (Olwagen 2017) and Kanarie (Olwagen 2018)
Get PDFDissertation (MA (Drama))--University of Pretoria, 2023.The research study focuses on configurations of filmic intertextuality in Christiaan Lugones’s feature films Johnny is nie dood nie (2017) and Kanarie (2018), and examines how they enable audiences of the films to reflect on an Afrikaner cultural identity. In this pursuit, the study examines the concept of a cultural identity by considering it as informed through socio-anthropological processes of cultural memory. The study describes cultural memory as operating within a network of culturally significant texts, which a community uses to recall and stabilise their cultural identity. Consequently, the study is able to describe intertextuality as a process through which texts interact within a cultural memory and inform a cultural identity. By establishing cultural memory as the functional link between intertextuality and cultural identity, the study creates a conceptual framework with which to describe the filmic intertextuality that Christiaan Olwagen uses in his films Johnny is nie dood nie and Kanarie. The study then applies this conceptual framework for intertextuality in a textual analysis of Johnny is nie dood nie and Kanarie, with a specific focus on scenes that utilise the formal filmic techniques of tableaux vivant compositions, filmic music, and direct address as techniques of intertextuality. Informed by the textual analysis of the films, the study then illustrates how Olwagen uses intertextuality to draw from a cultural memory of apartheid and thus reflect on the evolution of an Afrikaner cultural identity.DramaMA (Drama)Unrestricte
Intersections and Productive Tensions Between Posthumanism and Open Education Philosophies Toward Facilitating Embodied ODeL Pedagogies
No full textOpen Distance e-Learning (ODeL) frameworks aim to promote greater social justice and the democratisation of knowledge. However, much of the field remains grounded in mind-body dualism (Cartesian), a legacy of humanist philosophy. This division is particularly problematic for ODeL in South Africa, since the concept of anthropos (human) has historically excluded certain bodies, reinforcing inequality. Posthumanist philosophy challenges anthropocentrism by decentring the ‘human’ and promoting an ethics of entanglement. While some critique decentring the human as a failure to address social justice, posthumanism offers becoming-minoritarian— reclaiming the individual from the exclusionary humanist norms.
This paper examines how posthumanism can reshape current ODeL pedagogies; recognising the body-mind and multisensory learning as integral to ‘openness’. Through posthumanist-informed openness (i.e. post-dual and postanthropos), ODeL institutions in South Africa can reconceptualise Ubuntu in ways that more effectively address social injustice, knowledge de/colonisation and Eurocentric pedagogies. This paper is fully conceptual and theoretical, highlighting the enabling macro-level nature of ODeL pedagogy, advocating for inclusive and sustainable approaches to open education. This paper also proposes possibilities for further, empirical research on posthuman-informed, Ubuntu-aligned pedagogies for ODeL institutions in South Africa.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Changing Mindsets for Inclusive Open Education
Paper ID: 747
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
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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