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Lasting impressions
No full textWe chose to start this closing chapter with our own personal vignettes, written independently and without discussion. Our hope was that three distinctly positioned reflections would emerge; yes, we anticipated a small amount of overlap, but given our different backgrounds and stages in life we felt certain that their differences would be far more pronounced that their similarities. Reading over them as a collective, however, we were struck by one significant commonality: all three of us had struggled to really name ‘that’ moment, that precise point of change
Travel and imagination : an invitation
No full textThere is always a risk when we venture onto new theoretical terrain that we will forget some of the important things we learnt elsewhere. In our calls for a retheorization of the imagination together with travel, then, we want to be explicit with our intentions to bring with us that critical work we have already commenced upon elsewhere that parries with issues of power, ideology, politics and social justice. Those narratives of inequality that we see and deal with in everyday lives can follow us into our imaginative travels, too; those divisions and asymmetries that align and spring from identities defined around gender, sex, religion, age, health, class and ethnicity. It can be, when all said and done, as decidedly undemocratic as anywhere else, as fragile and dissonant. Our invitation to travel and imagination is, then, a cautiously optimistic one
Exploring travel and transformation
No full textThis volume intends to build upon emerging work looking at transformative travel in order to provide a catalyst for a multi- and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to explore travel and transformation in a contemporary context. While the volume itself is not a comprehensive exploration of these issues (this would be impossible to achieve), we hope it whets the appetite and provides a springboard for exciting, colourful and creative new avenues of enquiry under the banner of travel and transformation
Travel and representation : past, present, future
No full textTravel and Representation is a timely volume of essays that explores and re-examines the various convergences between literature, art, photography, television, cinema and travel. The essays do so in a way that appreciates the entanglement of representations and travel at a juncture in theoretical work that recognizes the limits of representation, things that lie outside of representation and the continuing power of representation. The emphasis is on the myriad ways travelers/scholars employ representation in their writing/analyses as they re-think the intersections between travelers, fields of representation, imagination, emotions and corporeal experiences in the past, the present and the future
Reimagining travel and imagination
No full textWhen an individual embarks upon a journey they do so in possession of a unique subjectivity informed by a multitude of experiences leading up to that particular moment in time. They usually, though not always, depart from a 'home environment' in which they have been travelling in various ways (physically, virtually, communicatively, imaginatively) from birth, albeit to varying degrees (Lean 20l2a). As such, each individual traveller carries with them a quite unique experiential baggage, which can spark, inform and limit their imaginings in innumerable and unpredictable ways. This becomes even more complex when one considers that the spaces, places and landscapes through which we travel are themselves mobile, shaped by various flows of people, information, ideas, representations and objects, both historical and contemporary (Leed 1991, Rojek and Urry 1997). This multitude of catalysts may resonate with the traveller in a variety of ways, linking with past experiences and memories, to inform and stimulate the traveller's imagination. What is more, places are in a constant state of flux (Coleman and Crang 2002, Cresswell 2002, Brerenholdt et al. 2004). Both familiarity and difference abound, and while the physical journey may be somewhat easy to map, the mental voyage is a rather more unpredictable and unbounded affair
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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