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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
The Lau of Malaita Revisited: A Revolution of Dance in the Lau Lagoon, Solomon Islands
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Digitizing Other Economies:A Critical Review
Full text linkContemporary hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, agriculturalists and, on a much smaller scale, feudalists are threatened continuously by dominant (post-)industrial, often capitalist, economies. The latter perpetually seek to dominate the former through colonialism and development, violent resource extraction, and the more insidious effects of environmental change. Multidisciplinary research on digital economic transformations postulates that the global spread of digital technologies—designed largely by and for industrial capitalists’ needs and values—accelerates these domination processes. This research on data colonialism or digital capitalism has generated extensive, valuable insights into how technological designs constrain users’ choices. However, there is one major blind spot: Empirically, this research has engaged, primarily, with ‘inter-capitalist struggles’ focusing on contexts dominated by industrial-capitalist and, occasionally, industrial-command and mixed-market economic systems and values. Contemporary other economies and inter economic struggles are largely missing, even though, especially ethnographic, research has demonstrated the resilience of other economic systems and values in response to various industrial and industrial-capitalist colonization and domination attempts.<br/
The Magic of New Technologies: A Crisis of Digitization in the Solomon Islands?
No full textInternational audienceIn the past decade the Solomon Islands experienced a period of rapid digitization. A telecommunications monopoly ended which increased the affordability of (smart) phones. They spread quickly throughout the urban centre of Honiara and the rural hinterlands. At the same time state-building projects have focused on introducing computerized systems for government information management, especially for financial, auditing and electoral purposes. In addition, digital citizens, netizens, have had a vibrant existence on Facebook for several years. This massive and multidimensional digitization of information in the Solomon has been surprising not only in how quickly many Solomon Islanders have become digitally literate but also in an emergent iteration of Kastom magic that accounts for the world of new technologies ranging from paper-based currencies to the operations of 'high-tech' machines. Digital information processes have made many Solomon Islanders feel more vulnerable to malevolent, supernatural threats. This paper explores the role of magic associated with new technologies in navigating this critical juncture of the adoption of digital technologies in the Solomon Islands
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
Grounding netnography: tapping into the Noosphere of the Solomon Islands
No full textInternational audienceFor most of its history the noosphere - the geological epoch of human cognition - of the Solomon Islands has been in the immaterial form of oral traditions. Material tracings of such thought exist in the limited work of folklorists, the archeological record and some modes of communication such as 'talking drums' and conch trumpets which continue to this day. This has radically changed with the introduction and recent widespread accessibility of digital technologies, especially but not only in the form of mobile phones. By using an object-centric approach to all media - digital and analog - collected in Gwou'ulu Village, Malaita, and in the capital city, Honiara, during a one year period of ethnographic fieldwork the purpose of this paper is to examine the human-computer interface holistically looking at on-line and on-site experiences with digital culture in Solomon Islands today. In this context I will specifically discuss the methodological implications of 'on-line only' and/or 'on-site only' ethnography in comparison to a grounded netnographic approach. I argue that the advent and rapid adoption of digital communication technologies in the Solomon Islands represents an explosion of data relevant to any seemingly 'on-site only' research. It constitutes an imperative on the part of researchers to look at the world through the heterogeneity of experiences with digital information communication technologies and media. The digital divide is not one gulf to bridge but a nuanced and complex "zomia" of chasms particular to the context being studied
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