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Positioning Kenya in the German Schlager: A case of Roger Whittaker’s Himmel und Heimat
Get PDFRoger Whittaker offers in his music a chance for transnational dialogue, aesthetically addressing the polarized tensions surrounding borders, identity, foreignness, and otherness. His fusion of German-style Schlager with narrative elements from pre- and post-independent Kenya provides a unique perspective on the intersection of Kenyan, and German discourses, and beyond. Whittaker\u27s works serve as an exemplary conduit for exploring the minimized musical landscape of Schlager and its reception, offering a rich field for unpacking cultural hybridity in music This paper attempts to position Roger Whittaker’s Himmel und Heimat as integral to understanding multiculturalism within global north and global south discourses and how it was heavily influenced by his experiences while in Kenya. It also unveils the richness of culture and history, embedded in the German Folk music which has received little attention, especially as it relates to multiculturalism. This approach reveals how Kenya and Africa by extension was and still is (being) perceived within the German imagination and beyond
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
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Discursive Constructions Of Homosexuality In Kenya: A Corpus-Driven Discourse Analysis Of The German Press
No full text(Recent) legislations surrounding LGBTQ+ discourses in Kenya and beyond have invited visibility and coverage from both local and international media outlets. Building on studies that examine LGBTQ+ social justice and human rights, this study analyzes how German Newspapers in particular frame news surrounding homosexuality in Kenya. In this study, I use LexisNexis, a corpus data source to source newspapers that thematize Homosexualität in Kenia between 2014 to 2024 and then I apply Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Van Dijk, to interpret and analyze the results through a macrostructural perspective. The study quantitatively employs a corpus-based analysis, in which Sketch engine, a corpus linguistic tool is used to determine concordances, collocations, and keyword analysis. The study borrows from qualitative theories in which the concepts of Representation by Stuart Hall and the Frankfurt school theory by Theodore Adorno are applied. The results highlight the dominance and intersection of discourses such as the prevalence of homophobia, Western influence, the discursive positioning of Uganda and South Africa, and the reporting of a collective Africa. The study is relevant in unraveling the discursive strategies that inform and shape how the state of homosexuality in Kenya is reported about from a German newspaper perspective. It is necessary to examine German media perspectives of homosexuality in Kenya to gain a more nuanced and historical understanding of how these discursive patterns of German witnessing about Africa get made/remade in media contexts
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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