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The Business of Holidays
No full text" Holiday celebrations in the United States are a surprisingly strong force behind the country's $3 trillion retail economy. From New Year's diets to Festivus-flavored ice cream, Presidents' Day car sales to Independence Day barbecues, Hanukkah cards to Kwanzaa candles, the social and material culture of holidays has been transformed into a finely tuned marketing extravaganza. Contemporary holiday rites showcase a particularly American obsession with celebration--and the shopping, decoration, card sending, feasting, drinking, and advertising that goes along with it. This witty and satirical look at thirty-three of our most loved (and hated) holidays explores the history and the traditions, the kitsch and the color, of the business of holidays. " -- Back cove
"Boys' love, cosplay, and androgynous idols," edited by Maud Lavin, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao
No full textReview of Lavin, Maud, Ling Yang, and Jing Jamie Zhao, eds. 2017. Boys’ love, cosplay, and androgynous idols: Queer fan cultures in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. Hardcover $60.00/£47.00 (256p), ISBN 9789888390809
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
Cosplay, Cuteness, and Weiniang:The Queered Ke’ai of MaleCosplayers as “Fake Girls”
No full textThis paper analyzes gender performativity in the form of cross-dressing cuteness through cosplaying by a popular male-cosplaying-female fan group “Ailisi Weiniang Tuan (Alice Cos Group)” based in China. Drawing from cute studies, gender/queer studies, and fan studies, this paper examines the phenomenon of fake girls as a venue of redefining the boundaries of identity and gender using cosplaying and the notion of cuteness to achieve queerness to address the issue of gender performativity through queered cuteness in today’s China
Desiring Queer, Negotiating Normal:Denise Ho (HOCC) Fandom before and after the Coming-Out
Get PDFThis chapter explores the entanglement and tension between the desire of queer and struggle with normativities in the fandom of Denise Wan-See Ho (a.k.a. HOCC), one of the few celebrities in the East Asian Chinese-language entertainment industry to have come out as a lesbian in public. By adopting ‘queer’ and ‘normal’ as analytical tools, I contextualise the queer fan culture of HOCC before and after her coming-out by demonstrating the interplay among fans’ lived experience, sexual cultures in Hong Kong, and global information flows. Data for this study are drawn from semi-structured interviews and participant observation conducted between 2009 and 2014 with a total of 29 self-identified fans of HOCC in Hong Kong with diverse age, education background, gender, and sexual orientation. Under the strategic alliance of the postcolonial government, patriarchal Chinese family, and religion, which has powerfully shaped sexual cultures and reinforced heteronormative values in Hong Kong, HOCC fans have struggled when negotiating HOCC’s gender and sexuality and their own. Before HOCC’s coming-out in November 2012, queer reading was celebrated but precariously negotiated. Although fans enjoyed queer reading and playing with the ambivalence in HOCC’s sexuality, they were self-disciplined in both online and offline discussions out of fear of jeopardising HOCC’s career. The gossips and HOCC’s coming-out in 2012 were significant in reshaping the queer fan culture. While HOCC’s coming-out could be regarded as related to discontent with heteronormative dominance and oppression of tongzhi in Hong Kong, her fans shifted their attention to negotiating her lesbian embodiment. The anxiety over the “proper” embodiment of a lesbian and “correct” representation of the tongzhi movement demonstrated the complex relations between heteronormativity and normalisation in queer politics, as well as the new emerging homonormative codes in queer fan culture. The quest for normal has therefore fostered the homonormative understanding of queer. This chapter concludes that HOCC fans in Hong Kong, who are situated within macrostructural and micropolitical forces, desire to be queer by transgressing normal and paradoxically desire to be normal by tactically negotiating the limits of queer
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