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Run the World. Het vermeende spanningsveld tussen feminisme en hedendaagse popmuziek
No full textRecently more and more female pop stars started to declare to be feminists. Singer Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is one of them. During her VMA performance in 2014 she made a significant feminist statement while performing her song ***Flawless, standing in front of a giant luminous FEMINIST sign. A lot of critique on this statement followed. Although Beyoncé is claiming to be a feminist, she has been putting a lot of emphasis on her body, looks and sexuality, in both her music and her videos. Therefore, the current study examines how Beyoncés feminist claim can be interpreted through theories about (modern) feminism and sexualization in pop culture, and thereby how these subjects intertwine and contradict. It analyses how core values in pop culture like authenticity, image, sexuality, tone of voice, context, commerciality, and personal autonomy are used in creating a personal message like Beyoncé does. The research focuses! on Beyon cé as an artist, her career, and her newest self-titled album including the song ***Flawless. Statements made by Beyoncé in her music and in the media are being examined to discover how they can be seen in the light of feminism. She claims a certain integrity, authenticity and sincerity in her message by focusing on a personal feel, independence and autonomy in her music and working life (by using documentaries and videos). These aspects make Beyoncé’s message supposedly valuable. Alongside other artists like Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande, Beyoncé popularizes a controversial subject within modern culture. The study reveals that Beyoncé’s feminism fits well within modern, third-wave feminism, even though her message is sometimes very contradicting. Focusing on subjects like personal experience, body image, self-acceptance, sexual freedom and approachability, Beyoncé brings feminism to the masses and re-evaluates common (sexual) standards
Enjoy Right Now. Het spanningsveld tussen nieuwe media en de kernwaarden van clubcultuur
No full textDe clubscene is tegenwoordig verdeeld in twee kampen: de ene groep zet volop feestfotografie, aftermovies en social media in als marketingmiddel, terwijl anderen juist alle draagbare technologie op feesten wil verbannen. Er worden binnen clubcultuur online en offline debatten gevoerd over hoe nieuwe media afbreuk doen aan de ideologie van clubcultuur. Dit onderzoek is erop gericht om in kaart te brengen hoe nieuwe media zorgen voor een spanningsveld tussen de kernwaarden van clubcultuur en de nachtelijke praktijk op de dansvloer. Er wordt onderzocht hoe waarden als vrijheid, escapisme, collectiviteit en hedonisme passen in een mediarijke clubomgeving en hoe nieuwe media het functioneren van clubcultuur beïnvloeden. De nadruk ligt op clubs en festivals in de Benelux en Duitsland (Berlijn) in de periode 2010 tot 2014
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
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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