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Don't be a square: a search for a democratic public space
No full textThe square is a symbolic place for democracy. It is a space where manifestations and
speeches are held, but also an everyday arena where people from different classes,
backgrounds and cultures meet, interact and observe. Here, societal conflicts and
injustices are made visible. The current values of society determine the definition of
the good city and thereby also determines who has access to, and agency to impact
public space. Our work has shown that the democratic functions of public space are
being displaced for the benefit of economic profit.
Through an extensive analysis of the historical, societal and political context
that frames the design of public space, we have gained an understanding of the forces
that shape it. We use the local square Skanstorget as a case study to make visible
how the values of society impact the design of public space and the consequences
this has for the citizens of Gothenburg.
Skanstorget has had a richness of functions and a strong identity as a square
in Gothenburg. It was first marked by its military presence, fields, pastureland, and
market gardens. When it was later transformed into a square it was used as a commercial
site as well as a central space for political movements. In 2018 a competition
for developing Skanstorget was advertised, the programme for the design was a
dense housing block covering almost the entire square. The process surrounding
the transformation of Skanstorget has been filled with conflict, and in many ways
it effectively examplifies the issues embedded in the development of public space
today.
Most people that we talk to about Skanstorget comment: ”but it’s just a parking
lot without any use anyway”, referring to a deserted, non-human space in the
middle of the city. The connection to its history has been lost and with-it people’s
ability to imagine alternatives. As a conclusion to our work, we present an alternative
design proposal that includes the values and perspectives that we feel are missing
or have been lost, to help the citizens reconnect to history and visualise alternative
futures for Skanstorget.
The result of our work is a design proposal that is based on the conclusions
drawn from our background work and analysis. This proposal aims to open up for a
discussion about what Skanstorget could be. We present a senario where elements are
added to the square to make it more usable, social, and accessible. We add elements
for selfprogramming to make it possible for the citizens to be part of shaping the
space. The design propasal also attempts to make history more accessible by using
referenses from the past, both in terms of physical elemensts - like the markethall,
and through social functions, like the markets and space for expression
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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