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McAllister, Laura Robinson
No full textOral history interview with Laura Robinson McAllister regarding life in Kanab, Utah. Interview performed by Suzi Montgomery for the Southern Utah Oral History Project
Laura Robinson: a Brazilianist communication scholar from abroad
No full textEntrevista com a pesquisadora norte-americana Laura Robinson, que fala de seus interesses de pesquisa e das parcerias que têm estabelecido com investigadores brasileiros.Interview with the American researcher Laura Robinson, who talks about his research interests and partnerships that have established with Brazilian researchers
Venture Labor| Foreword to Critical Commentary on Venture Labor
No full textAt the International Communication Association’s 2014 conference in Seattle, Washington, along with other panelists, Laura Robinson, Jeremy Schulz, Alice E. Marwick, Nicole S. Cohen, C. W. Anderson, Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Enda Brophy, and Gina Neff presented their work across two panels, respectively entitled “Venture Labor: Work and ‘The Good Life’” and “Laboring for the ‘Good (Part of Your) Life.’” After the conference, panelists synthesized their conclusions. Critical commentary was invited from a range of prominent international scholars: Paul Hirsch, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ofer Sharone, Barry Wellman, Dimitrina Dimitrova, Tsahi Hayat, Guang Ying Mo, Beverly Wellman, and Antonio Casilli
The Life and Diaries of Laura Robinson Sills
No full textQueen’s University Archives has in its holdings a rich primary source for a study of an early twentieth-century rural woman’s experience of an unsuccessful marriage dating from the time before federal divorce laws were put into effect in 1968. Laura Robinson Sills, from Sandhurst, Ontario, recorded her life in diaries over a 45-year period (1901-1945). Until the diaries were introduced to our class, Professor Straznicky’s Life Writing seminar, they had not been researched and had only been read by Herbert Clarence Burleigh, the genealogist and collector who donated the documents to Queen’s. I will describe the diaries and their provenance and discuss their value for a study of early- to mid-20th- century marriage law and customs in Ontario. Using the Robinson Sills diary as a primary source of information, my presentation will include a timeline of Laura’s marriage, an analysis of how her marriage adheres to and deviates from social norms of the time, and an investigation into her writing method. I will also consider and interpret the diary entries to examine the way in which she records, shares, or does not share, the personal details of her life. Overall, my presentation will explore an important aspect of the social and legal context of the Robinson Sills diary, its material format, and the author’s mode of writing in order to reveal the emotional and social experience of one early-twentieth-century rural Ontario marriage. This will be the first public research presentation on the Robinson Sills Diary.
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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