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Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture
No full textOver recent years, Arabic popular culture has become a focal point of West Asian and North African studies. Most of the new research dealing with it concentrates on the ‘popular’ as opposed to an intellectual ‘high’ culture far from the harsh and hierarchically organized reality many Arabic-speaking societies face today. Popular cultural practices are thus seen as a rejection of the elite and a stance against those who have ‘something to loose’ within paralyzed and conservative communities. Albeit not denying the subversive political potential associated with these practices, this volume intends to take a more nuanced and broader perspective. Arabic popular culture might engage with emancipatory claims, but it might as easily follow the capitalist rulebook of global marketing. It might fight against oppressive authorities, yet it can equally become their symbol.
Approaches to Arabic Popular Culture therefore closely looks at the aesthetic implications of a topic ranging from Lebanese hip hop over Algerian pop novels to jihadi chants in the ‘Islamic State’ as well as from Egyptian mahraganāt music over sarcastic stories about hash dens and time travel in downtown Cairo to Saudi-Arabian YouTube-influencers. Thus, the theoretical scope widens and the reader is taken on a delightful journey to the unsettling pleasures of contemporary Arabic art and culture
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
Digital Media Literacy in the Arabic Classroom
No full textMasterarbeit, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 2020Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht, ob und wie Medienbildung im Arabischunterricht umgesetzt wird und wie man sie weiterhin fördern kann. Zu Beginn wird zwischen Medienkunde und Medienkompetenz differenziert und die Relevanz beider für den schulischen Fremdsprachenunterricht anhand Vorgaben der Kultusministerkonferenz erörtert. Daraufhin werden Lehrpläne für den schulischen Arabischunterricht aus den USA, Kanada, Australien, Frankreich und Deutschland in Bezug auf die Integration von Medienbildung und die Ausbildung konkreter Medienkompetenzen analysiert. Anschließend werden Beispiele aus der Unterrichtspraxis, vorrangig aus dem amerikanischen universitären Bereich, vorgestellt und verschiedene Sprachlernplattformen hinsichtlich ihrer Eignung für die Verwendung im Arabischunterricht miteinander verglichen. Zuletzt wird eine Unterrichtseinheit für den Arabischunterricht am Gymnasium dargestellt, die die Grundlagen der Medienbildung und Mediennutzung sowie die Zielsetzungen des schulischen Fremdsprachenunterrichts miteinander verbindet. Die vorliegende Arbeit schlussfolgert, dass Medienbildung im Arabischunterricht stärker gefördert werden muss und dass es dazu vor allem einer adäquaten Aus- und Weiterbildung für Lehrkräfte bedarf. Zudem wird festgestellt, dass im Unterricht die Mediennutzung priorisiert wird, ohne der kritischen Reflexion über diese Medien genug Beachtung zu schenken.
The study at hand investigates to what extent digital media literacy plays a role in teaching Arabic and how it can be promoted further. It differentiates between the critical evaluation of digital media and their actual usage in the classroom and illustrates the importance of both aspects in language teaching. This is followed by an analysis of existing Arabic curricula from the USA, Canada, Australia, France and Germany with regard to the integration of digital media literacy principles. The study subsequently discusses examples of the application of digital media in Arabic teaching from various, mostly American universities and then continues with a comparison of existing digital learning tools for Arabic and their potential benefits for classroom teaching. Finally, a sample lesson plan is presented to illustrate how the critical evaluation of digital media and their utilization can be meaningfully connected to specific language goals. The study finds that digital media literacy must be developed further in the Arabic classroom and that in order to so, a more adequate training for teachers is needed. Moreover, it becomes clear that while digital media are frequently used in the classroom, their potential benefits and dangers are rarely considered or discussed
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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