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Deborah Lupton, Digital sociology
No full textIn Digital Sociology, Deborah Lupton discusses how digital technologies have been incorporated into social contexts, institutions, and notions of selfhood and embodiment. The author argues that we now live in a digital society, and this poses urgent challenges to sociological theory and practice. The said claim is supported by an assessment of recent debates, theoretical approaches, and empirical studies directly associated with the social, cultural, and political dimensions of digital technologies. Lupton defines digital sociology in terms of both professional digital practices and analyses focusing on technology use and digital data, making explicit connections to other areas of knowledge, namely, digital anthropology, cultural studies, mass communication, and media studies. Lupton also expresses her own project of a self-reflective and critical digital sociology that pays close attention to the ways in which such technologies confront academic sociology in professional, epistemological, and methodological terms
Deborah Lupton, Digital sociology
No full textIn Digital Sociology, Deborah Lupton discusses how digital technologies have been incorporated into social contexts, institutions, and notions of selfhood and embodiment. The author argues that we now live in a digital society, and this poses urgent challenges to sociological theory and practice. The said claim is supported by an assessment of recent debates, theoretical approaches, and empirical studies directly associated with the social, cultural, and political dimensions of digital technologies. Lupton defines digital sociology in terms of both professional digital practices and analyses focusing on technology use and digital data, making explicit connections to other areas of knowledge, namely, digital anthropology, cultural studies, mass communication, and media studies. Lupton also expresses her own project of a self-reflective and critical digital sociology that pays close attention to the ways in which such technologies confront academic sociology in professional, epistemological, and methodological terms
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
Making a name for Anonymous. Digital culture , anonymous publics and transgressie subjectivities
Full text linkRecently, researchers from various domains of social sciences have been particularly concerned with the social, cultural, and political impacts of digital media. To give an account of the specific processes behind the formation of Anonymous, I develop a microsociological framework for the analysis of disembodied global forms – anchoring such forms in intersubjective reciprocity. In order to move beyond interpretative sociology’s emphasis on language as society’s integrative function, I privileged the dimensions of temporality, rhythms and patterns. I also focused on how “disembodied” internet collectives are enacted and assembled within computer screens, terminals, and the digital networks that connect them. My analysis takes into account those temporalities, projections and reflections, which point to the non-symbolic components of mediated sociality. Those dynamic interconnections behind the Anonymous collective are approached through the notions of publics, networks or even swarms.Recientemente, investigadores de diversos campos de las ciencias sociales se han enfocado en los impactos sociales, culturales y políticos de los medios digitales. Para dar cuenta de los procesos específicos detrás de la formación de Anonymous, yo desarrollo un marco microsociológico para el análisis de formas globales “desencarnadas” de sociabilidad, anclando estas formas en la reciprocidad intersubjetiva mediada. Para ir más allá del énfasis en el lenguaje como función integrativa de la sociedad de la sociología interpretativa, privilegié las dimensiones de la temporalidad, los ritmos y los patrones en mi análisis. También me enfoqué a ver cómo los colectivos de Internet "desencarnados" se construyen en pantallas de computadora, terminales y las redes digitales que los conectan. Mi análisis tiene en cuenta esas temporalidades, proyecciones y reflexiones, que apuntan a los componentes no simbólicos de la socialidad mediada. Esas interconexiones dinámicas detrás del colectivo Anónimo se acercan a través de las nociones de públicos, redes y enjambres.Recentment, investigadors de diversos camps de les ciències socials s'han enfocat en els impactes socials, culturals i polítics dels mitjans digitals. Per donar compte dels processos específics darrere de la formació d'Anonymous, jo desenvolupament un marc miocrosociològic per a l'anàlisi de formes globals "desencarnades" de sociabilitat, ancorant aquestes formes en la reciprocitat intersubjectiva intervinguda. Per anar més enllà de l'èmfasi en el llenguatge com a funció integrativa de la societat de la sociologia interpretativa, privilegiï les dimensions de la temporalitat, els ritmes i els patrons en la meva anàlisi. També vaig focalitzar a veure com els col·lectius d'Internet "desencarnats" es construeixen en pantalles d'ordinador, terminals i les xarxes digitals que els connecten. La meva anàlisi té en compte aquestes temporalitats, projeccions i reflexions, que apunten als components no simbòlics de la socialitat intervinguda. Aquestes interconnexions dinàmiques darrere del col·lectiu Anònim s'acosten a través de les nocions de públics, xarxes i eixams
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
Ciência aberta: produção de conhecimento científico na sociedade em rede
Full text linkEste trabalho aborda as práticas e representações dos investigadores nacionais face a formas abertas de fazer Ciência e, mais concretamente, quais as posições relativas das relativamente a essas questões. Procura-se compreender como os investigadores se relacionam com a utilização das novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) no trabalho científico, com a disponibilização de dados e outros conteúdos científicos na Internet, e com a publicação de artigos em regime Open Access. Como enquadramento da pesquisa, procedeu-se à análise da Ciência e das suas recentes transformações, bem como da acção dos cientistas no seu contexto institucional. Este estudo tem lugar numa época em que, por um lado, o acesso ao conhecimento científico é potenciado pelas TIC e, por outro, o estreitar de relações entre a Academia e a Indústria levou a um maior nível de apropriação privada de conhecimento científico.This work deals with the practices and representations of national researchers towards the open ways of doing Science and, more specifically, how research areas have different relative positions regarding these questions. It tries to understand how researchers relate to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the scientific work, the disclosure of data and scientific knowledge on the Internet, and the publication of articles in the Open Access regime. In order to frame the research, Science, its recent transformations, and the scientists’ action in their institutional context are analyzed. This study takes place at a time in which, on one hand, ICT promote the access to scientific knowledge and, on the other hand, the tightening of relations between Industry and Academia has led to a greater level of private appropriation of scientific knowledge
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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