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The role of dynamic capabilities in co-creation of value for a digital business
Get PDFMini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.pt2019Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)MBAUnrestricte
An art-based autoethnographic exploration of ritual as identity formation
Get PDFDissertation (MA Fine Arts)--University of Pretoria, 2018.No abstractVisual ArtsMA Fine ArtsUnrestricte
Exhibition Review: Art, access and agency - art sites of enabling
No full textThe group exhibition You don’t say, is based around a third-year Fine Arts project completed at the University of Pretoria under the guidance and teachings of Johan Thom in collaboration with the South African conceptual artist Willem Boshoff. The works of other year groups, ranging from second-year to Master’s level, also form part of the exhibition as a way to broaden the conversation across different levels of students and their relative perspectives. The exhibition included more than twenty selected individual young artists\u27 works shown alongside three related works of art by Boshoff: Ash (2018), Elm (2021), and Oak (2021)
Prospects and problems of transforming universities in South Africa, with special reference to the right to be an African university
No full textThesis (Ph.D. (Sociology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2004Refer to the documen
Repurposing the university in Africa against an explicit racist epistemology
Get PDFThe university in Africa is, historically speaking, a function of its colonial history and this has had severe implications for knowledge production and the nature of such knowledge in Africa. Logically, the Europeans classified themselves as fully human and, therefore, they declared humanity to be in its greatest perfection in the race of whites. The thesis advanced in this essay is that while it is indisputable that European epistemology constitutes a pyramid of knowledge, it is equally valid that African epistemology also independently and rightfully includes another pyramid of knowledge. Thus, this conceptual essay, which methodologically uses desktop research, looks at the prospects and challenges of reasonably reversing epistemicide as an ethical imperative for epistemic liberation with social justice as a necessary complement for repurposing the African university for the renewal of the continent. Towards this objective, Africans will need to dispense with their status anxiety or worries stemming from considerations of what Western academic orthodoxy would think, especially in light of deceptions that repurposing the university to be relevant to the African condition will lower standards and assertions that efforts at indigenisation offer nocreative breathing space
The rhetoric of transformation in South African higher education: realities, myths and contestations
No full textThis article argues that the establishment of higher education in South Africa was part of the grand colonial project. However, with the inauguration of a democratic dispensation such incongruent institutions had to undergo re-orientation in order to suit and be relevant to the imperatives of a new society. In light of this, the paper looks at the contestations around the critical issue of transformation of higher education by comparing four major theories in terms of their rhetorical pronouncements and representations. Having identified a more suitable theory in terms of its explanatory power, the paper concludes that it is no longer justifiably acceptable for the Western epistemological paradigm and institutional cultures to retain primacy and dominance in the new South Africa
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
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