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What is conjured when we talk about the everyday lives of gay men?
Full text linkThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents examples of how being gay infuses his professional, social, and married life, offering a rich narrative of the centrality of gayness in his intra- and inter-personal relationships. It provides a rare insight into school life from the perspective of a teacher and articulates feelings that will resonate with a number of gay men beyond a professional perspective. The book also presents an element of Christianity in focus in a predominantly Buddhist country. It focuses on the concept of ‘ordinary privileges’ to construct the main argument about the parallels between someone’s ethnic background and someone’s sexual orientation/gay identity when navigating systems that favour whiteness and heterosexuality. The book also provides some reflective accounts of the writing process itself and how contributors navigated their autoethnographic research.</p
Notes on the contributors' experiences
Full text linkWritten by the editors, the chapter ‘Notes on the contributor’s experiences’ is informed by the authors’ experiences of writing their autoethnographic texts. Drawing on transcripts of Zoom conversations with the contributors, the chapter explores three key aspects of writing the book: how the contributors conceptualised ‘the everyday’; the ethical concerns they encountered during sometimes highly personal research, how they resolved them; and aspects of craft, or how their writing process looked in everyday practice. What arises is a bridging of disciplinary and methodological divisions in a reflective account of the contributor’s autoethnographic writing process.</p
Conclusion
Full text linkThis introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides the view that being gay is a personal, social, and cultural phenomenon that has multiple implications in people’s lives. It demonstrates that being gay goes beyond discourses of sexuality and gender and reaches to realms of political, socio-economic, religious, legal, psychological, and global significance. Some stories narrated might resonate with other LGBTQIA+ people’s experiences of feeling, exploring, and struggling for being part of a population that has been discriminated against, disadvantaged, colonised, and often oversimplified and understood only in terms of our desire. Studies that used to see gay life as a progression of stages with particular milestones and used those models to explain and predict gay men’s sexual behaviour are now finding in qualitative studies voices from the inside; voices from the native experts who might not find themselves represented in those studies.</p
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
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