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Penglibatan ahli komuniti dalam program pembangunan komuniti: satu kajian ke atas program homestay di Kedah
No full textPenglibatan ahli komuniti di dalam apa jua program pembangunan, termasuk program pembangunan pelancongan, merupakan pemacu dalam usaha mencapai kelestarian pembangunan. Namun begitu, terdapat kelopongan mengenai bagaimana sebenarnya penglibatan ahli komuniti di peringkat akar umbi. Artikel ini membincangkan ciri-ciri penglibatan ahli komuniti dalam program yang dirangka untuk pembangunan komuniti berdasarkan dapatan kajian yang dijalankan terhadap dua program homestay di Kedah. Kajian ini menghasilkan satu model untuk membantu kita memahami faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi penglibatan ahli komuniti dalam program pembangunan komuniti
Power Through Tourism: A Blessing on Mahsuri's Eighth Generation in Langkawi?
Get PDFOne of the frameworks used in earlier studies to understand residents’ attitudes towards tourism development is based on social exchange theory. Basically, this framework explains that residents will have positive attitudes towards tourism if they feel that tourism gives them more benefits than costs. This study proposed that social
exchange theory alone cannot sufficiently explain residents’ attitudes towards tourism. A literature review indicated that power plays a role in the exchange between residents and tourism; thus it was proposed that power might play a role in determining residents’ attitudes.
In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with thirty residents from the ‘power’ group (those who had certain resources that would allow them to take advantage
of the opportunities offered by tourism) and sixteen residents from the ‘no-power’ group (those who had no resources that would allow them to take advantage of the opportunities offered by tourism). An interview guide based on a conceptual framework established from literature reviewed was used during each interview. These data were then analyzed qualitatively to explore the contribution of power in explaining residents’ attitudes towards tourism.
Findings reveal that social exchange theory is useful in examining residents’ attitudes towards tourism -- during their exchange with tourism, residents indeed based their attitudes on their evaluations of the impacts. Power does not appear to affect residents’ evaluations of these impacts directly. Instead, residents’ general values (about
religion, culture, equity, resources, and the environment), their dependence on tourism, and their ability and willingness to adapt seem to have more direct influence on the evaluation of impacts than power. Study results are expected to be useful to researchers with interests in expanding conceptualizations on the understanding of residents’ attitudes towards tourism. The results are also useful to tourism planners with interests in understanding issues that arise due to tourism development
Conceptualizing the Role of Leadership, Community Support, and Entrepreneurship Skill in the Performance of Community-Based Rural Homestay (CBRH) Programme in Malaysia
No full textExchanges Between Residents and Tourism Development
No full textThis qualitative study focused on utilizing a combination of social exchange and power theories to explain exchanges that occur between residents of Langkawi and tourism development on the island. The guiding question for this inquiry was "what role does power play in social exchanges that occur between residents and tourism development?" Findings revealed that social exchange is useful in examining residents' attitudes towards tourism as residents indeed based their attitudes on the evaluation of the returns that they receive from the exchanges. More importantly, the findings indicated that residents' general values, their dependence on tourism, and their ability and willingness to adapt moderated the influence of power an residents' evaluation of tourism impacts.
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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