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Regulating and monitoring online activities of public service broadcasters: The case of Switzerland
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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
A political scientist's contribution to the comparative study of media systems in Europe: a response to Hallin and Mancini
No full textThe chapter provides an overview of the development of theoretical approaches to comparing media systems since Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm’s classic Four Theories of the Press (1956) and in particular provides a critique of Hallin and Mancini’s Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (2004). The paper accepts that their typology makes a very important scholarly contribution to the systematic comparative study of the relationship between media systems, society and politics. However, it identifies some key weaknesses. In particular, it argues that media systems are not so easily fitted into identifiable models, arguing that they are often more ‘sui generis’ than Hallin and Mancini have allowed. The paper suggests, therefore, that rather than expend time and energy on producing neat typologies, it is better to explore in depth a more comprehensive range of salient political, legal and economic variables that bear on the media system. It applauds Hallin and Mancini’s history-informed approach but suggests that historical institutionalist (HI) theory from political science might be more explicitly employed for the study of the relationship between often highly idiosyncratic national media systems and the socio-cultural and political system in which they embedded
A political scientist's contribution to the comparative study of media systems in Europe: a response to Hallin and Mancini
No full textThe chapter provides an overview of the development of theoretical approaches to comparing media systems since Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm’s classic Four Theories of the Press (1956) and in particular provides a critique of Hallin and Mancini’s Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics (2004). The paper accepts that their typology makes a very important scholarly contribution to the systematic comparative study of the relationship between media systems, society and politics. However, it identifies some key weaknesses. In particular, it argues that media systems are not so easily fitted into identifiable models, arguing that they are often more ‘sui generis’ than Hallin and Mancini have allowed. The paper suggests, therefore, that rather than expend time and energy on producing neat typologies, it is better to explore in depth a more comprehensive range of salient political, legal and economic variables that bear on the media system. It applauds Hallin and Mancini’s history-informed approach but suggests that historical institutionalist (HI) theory from political science might be more explicitly employed for the study of the relationship between often highly idiosyncratic national media systems and the socio-cultural and political system in which they embedded
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
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