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Paul Kwiatkowski’s And Every Day Was Overcast and Redefining Young Adult Literature
Get PDFThis paper seeks to reframe what is considered to be legitimate sexual content for teens and, by extension, to redefine the boundaries of what is considered to be Young Adult Literature. Using And Every Day Was Overcast, a semi-autobiographical illustrated novel written by Paul Kwiatkowski, as an example of a book that captures the lived-experience of teens, yet has been deemed unsuitable for a teen readership, the author argues that conventional definitions of Young Adult Literature are too restrictive, reinforce problematic cultural ideals, and limit the reading experiences of teens. This paper acknowledges that librarians have a place in the line of production and distribution of books and contribute to the legitimization of content and knowledge, both accepted and controversial. Scholars such as Jeanie Austin (2016) have pushed for a centering of library practice on the lived-experience of teens, which recognizes teens as experts on their own lives and aids in abating problematic approaches to adolescence that guide teens towards what adults think they ought to become. The author suggests that when classifying fiction there are only two essential characteristics of Young Adult Literature: that the text is “Written About Teens” and “Written in a Teen Voice”. Redefining the boundaries of Young Adult Literature in this way and using it in daily practice is one of the ways in which librarians can begin to transform YA Literature into a genre that better reflects the lived-experience of teens and legitimize the inclusion of important works of literature in the Young Adult canon which may have otherwise been excluded
Facilitating Student-Authored Papers in LIS Education Research: A Case Study from the LIS Classroom
No full textThis paper describes the process and tools used to facilitate a collaborative student-authored paper that was recently published as a short communication in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). This paper is written by the instructor of the course and provides direction to other LIS instructors on how to successfully facilitate publishable quality student-authored papers as an in-class activity using online collaborative teaching tools.
Cet article décrit le processus et les outils utilisés pour faciliter un article collaboratif co-écrit par des étudiants, récemment publié sous forme de brève communication dans le Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS). Cet article est rédigé par l\u27instructeur du cours et fournit des directives aux autres instructeurs de LIS sur la façon de faciliter avec succès des articles de qualité publiables et co-rédigés par des étudiants en tant qu\u27activité en classe à l\u27aide d\u27outils d\u27enseignement collaboratif en ligne. Il est particulièrement pertinent pour les cours ou les projets qui incluent des sujets de justice sociale
Reading for Alternatives: The Experiences of Young Women Who Read Sexuality-Themed Fiction Online
No full textThis paper examines the reading experiences and practices of young women who read sexualitythemed Young Adult Literature online. The findings of this study reveal that young women tend to seek out fiction in online spaces when they have reading interests or questions about sexuality that are not addressed in conventional Young Adult Literature. These readers reported that, from an early age, they sought out literature online that had explicit sexual content or focused on nonnormative topics such as LGBTQ relationships. They also identified comments sections as a significant aspect of their online reading experience which led to a sense of belonging to a reading community that is transparent, supportive and constructive about topics of sexuality.Cet article examine les expériences de lecture et les pratiques des jeunes femmes qui lisent en ligne de la littérature pour adultes à thème sexuel. Les résultats de cette étude révèlent que les jeunes femmes ont tendance à chercher de la fiction dans les espaces en ligne lorsque leurs intérêts de lecture ou leurs questions sur la sexualité ne sont pas abordés dans la littérature pour jeune adulte conventionnelle. Ces lectrices ont signalé que, dès leur plus jeune âge, elles ont cherché de la documentation en ligne ayant un contenu sexuel explicite ou axée sur des sujets non normatifs tels que les relations LGBTQ. Elles ont également identifié les sections de commentaires comme un aspect important de leur expérience de lecture en ligne, ce qui a conduit à un sentiment d\u27appartenance à une communauté de lecture qui est transparente, aidante et constructive sur les sujets de sexualité
Young Women Encountering Information on Sexuality in Young Adult Literature
No full textThis paper investigates Young Adult (YA) Literature as a source of information on sexuality for young women readers. The data for this study is derived from semi-structured interviews (Seidman, 2006) that were conducted with 11 female participants. Six major categories of information on sexuality were found within the interview data: sexual acts, types of relationships, relationship realities, strategies for dealing with relationship problems, sexual abuse, and consent. These findings provide empirical evidence that YA Literature can act as a valuable source of information on sexuality and may promote the sexual agency and well-being of young people, especially young women
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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