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Hilgers, Mathieu. — Une ethnographie à l’échelle de la ville
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L’objectif de ce livre est, comme l’indique le titre, de construire une ethnographie à l’échelle de la ville en partant du cas de Koudougou au Burkina Faso1. La thèse de l’auteur peut se résumer facilement : la ville de Koudougou forme un collectif d’appartenance, une notion proche de celle de « communauté imaginée » ; celui-ci est construit autour de trois axes de représentation, à savoir l’urbanité, l’autochtonie et la réputation de la ville dans l’espace national ; ces représentations constituent des ordres de grandeur, ou des principes de distinction sociale, qui se manifestent en situation. Pour étoffer cette thèse, M. Hilgers part de l’analyse approfondie de trois situations qui, dans la mesure où elles touchent l’ensemble de ses habitants, manifestent cette appartenance commune à la ville. Il s’agit de l’opération de lotissement de l’agglomération, des conflits autour de l’histoire de la ville, et de la protestation qui a fait suite à l’affaire Zongo
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
Intimités et inimitiés du religieux et du politique en Afrique,
No full textThe objective of this special issue of Civilisations is to shed a new light on the multiple relations between religion and processes of democratization in Africa. In the Semi-Authoritarian regimes under analysis, the political role played by religious movements appears to be growing, but does not seem univocal. Whether they oppose the power, criticize or legitimize it, these religious movements provide a growing symbolical support to the local people and help them analyze and interpret the political and social worlds. Nevertheless, their growing diversity and gradual breaking into a mosaique makes it complicated to carry out a very precise analysis of their political tendencies and impact. Is the establishment of a possible connection between social position, production and reception of religious ideologies one useful methodological way to clarify the relations of intimacy and enmity between religion and policy? In order to provide a number of answers, the articles of this special issue depart from case studies that illustrate the general mechanisms that shape the relations between religion and policy
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
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