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Characterisation and leitmotif: archetypal imageries in Malaysian festival tv advertisements
No full textMalaysian film industry in transformation: challenges and potential
No full textThe aim of this paper is to discuss the challenges and potentials of the Malaysian film industry from the perspective of the industry players such as filmmakers and producers. Malaysian film industry is a relatively small industry that caters to the need of a population of only about 27.5 millions. In the context of globalization, this small local market presents a challenge for the government in promoting the industry as part of a creative industry with great economic potential. With the influx of films from abroad, especially from Hollywood, the industry is struggling to the hilt to survive, as the bigger portion of the audience prefers Hollywood to local productions. For the government, one way of achieving this is to promote local films at the international level. To understand this situation from inside the industry itself, this paper, using data from in-depth interviews with 10 industry players, discusses the challenges faced by the respondents and how they perceive the potential of Malaysian films to travel globally
Retrieving trends and issues of penyiaran/broadcasting in Malaysian parliamentary debates from 1957 to 2018: a culturomics approach
No full textThe traditional concept of broadcasting is gradually becoming a misnomer due to technological transformations as epitomized by media convergence. Past studies on broadcasting in Malaysia often employed historical perspectives, policy analysis and technology impact frameworks. Thus far, no study has been carried out tracing Malaysian broadcasting issues over six decades. The knowledge of how penyiaran/broadcasting is debated in Parliament over time provides insights into the changing concerns in broadcasting throughout history in Malaysian context from the perspectives of the policy makers. The objectives of this research are to identify: 1) The frequency of the words penyiaran and broadcasting in Malaysian Hansard2) Patterns related to penyiaran/broadcasting in Malaysian Hansard2) Some issues as reflected by the patterns generated by the n-gram. This research employs both quantitative and qualitative approaches to analyze Malaysian Hansard Corpus (MHC) with about 157 million words from Parliament 1 (1959) to Parliament 13 (2018). Using AntConc software, culturomics is the quantitative approach that provides a tool to turn cultural patterns into empirical data. The pattern is generated in the form of an n-gram. The collocations retrieved help to identify the contexts of the issues and provide data for qualitative textual analysis. The main finding of this research is that the words penyiaran/broadcasting have lost its utility due to media convergence. The impact of the study is that it evokes ontological enquiry useful for media scholars, lawmakers and media practitioners to understand the changing conception of broadcasting so that more adaptive approaches and policies can be legislated
Exploring gender issues associated with wanita/woman and perempuan/woman in Malaysian parliamentary debates: a culturomic approach
No full text2) To identify the unique trend or pattern of the usage of these two lexical item
In conversation: Dain Said on Bunohan, creative filmmaking and the Malaysian film industry
No full textDain Said\u27s name is synonymous with Bunohan, his second feature ilm that has won several awards, both locally and internationally. This conversation with Dain Said pivots around several matters or issues, namely, the critical relection of Bunohan itself, the creative process of ilmmaking and the Malaysian ilm industry in general
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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