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AI3SD Video: Writing a CV
No full textThis talk forms part of the Skills4Scientists Series which has been organised as a joint venture between the Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery Network+ (AI3SD) and the Physical Sciences Data-Science Service (PSDS). This series ran over summer 2021 and aims to educate and improve scientists skills in a range of areas including research data management, python, version control, ethics, and career development. This series is primarily aimed at final year undergraduates / early stage PhD students. This video was the first talk in the Skills4Scientists #6 - Careers 1 Session, which focussed on on several areas of careers advice that will be useful to you as you complete your studies and begin your careers
The problem of identifying misogynist language on Twitter (and other online social spaces)
No full textThe reception of education reforms through the Blogosphere
No full textTeachers and other Edu-professionals in the United Kingdom are a professional body charged with educating each generation of children from birth to age 18, and beyond to Higher Education (HE). Over the last 10 years or so, they have formed a significant community in the blogosphere.This paper presents an exploration of the Edu-blogosphere in order to gain a better understanding of the topics discussed, and how reforms instigated by the government are received. This is particularly important as the Secretary of State for Education appointed in 2010, Michael Gove, introduced a number of reforms which were wide-ranging and not always well received by the Edu-community. The blogs of some of them contributed to an eventual change in policy. The challenges of harvesting and analysing the data on such a large scale requires semi-automated approaches; however, it is not sufficient to use such tools and techniques ‘out of the box’. Here, we present a methodology that draws on the specialist domain knowledge of the researchers, as well as a robust approach to evaluating the parameters of the selected algorithms. Attention has also been paid to the cleaning and pre-processing of the data, in particular the generation of a bespoke list of stopwords. A review of the existing literature provided a list of seven categories to classify the blogs, using semi-supervised learning. This was followed by topic modelling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Both methods present challenges, discussed in this paper. This approach represents the first part of the original contribution of this work: the combination of the analysis of a community – research rooted in the Social Sciences - using tools from Computer Science. Following the application of the methodology on blog posts written by the Edu-community, a discourse focused on professionalpractice, sharing resources, and discussing a wide range of topics was revealed. There was also a noticeable spike in the number of blogs focusing on the impact of the Education reforms mentioned above. The richness of the discourse in the Edu-community is presented as the second original contribution of this research. This methodology is promising for the analysis of other blog communities. Challenges and proposals for further work include adding blog post titles, comments and author tags to the data; and combining the data with tweets made by those members of the community that are identifiable on Twitter
Collaborative social learning: rewards and challenges in mainstream higher education
No full textThis paper introduces the theoretical framework and design rationale for an innovative undergraduate module entitled “Living and Working on the Web” at the University of Southampton. The module design is based on the principles of collaborative social learning and the co-construction of knowledge. At the workshop a model of best practice will be presented, featuring a ‘blog-comment-reflect-feedback’ cycle, which has derived from the synthesis of relevant literature and which will be reflected upon through an informal content analysis of the students’ blogs
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
The ethics of mixed reality games
No full textMixed Reality (MR) Games integrate digital elements with real world places. In doing so they change those places, with important ethical implications. We present a synthesis of 8 existing frameworks on MR Ethics to establish a set of ethical issues for MR Games, and a qualitative analysis of interviews with 17 MR Game Designers to define the strategic approaches they use to address them. We identify 26 ethical issues over 5 dimensions: Claim Rights, Duty of Care, Social Justice, Privacy, and Control; and 59 separate tactics forming 13 strategic approaches over three areas: Design, Participant Management, and Logistics. Mapping these to codes of ethics from the ACM and IEEE we show that the strategies can be seen as methods for behaving ethically within the context of MR Game development, although many strategies rest on the virtues of individual designers and their critical engagement with an ongoing ethical process
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