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Our Methodological Challenges and Solutions
No full textHow did audiences across the world respond to the films of The Lord of the Rings? The book presents findings from the largest film audience project ever undertaken, drawing from 25,000 questionnaire responses and a wide array of other materials. Contributors use these materials to explore a series of widely speculated questions: why is film fantasy important to different kinds of viewers? Through marketing, previews and reviews, debates and cultural chatter, how are audiences prepared for a film like this? How did fans of the book respond to its adaptation on screen? How do people choose their favorite characters? How was the films’ reception shaped by different national and cultural contexts? The answers to these questions shed fresh light on the extraordinary popularity of The Lord of the Rings and provide important new insights into the global reception of cinema in the twenty-first century
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Next episode : the story of video streaming viewership in India
No full textThis dissertation is an inquiry into viewership practices in India to demonstrate how watching video streaming media has added new layers into what being a viewer means. The digital video landscape is made up of a network of over-the-top (OTT) platforms showcasing texts and video sharing websites like YouTube hosting paratexts such as advertisements and trailers. In this study, I use these YouTube videos uploaded by the official channels of OTT platforms as the site of research. I study viewer comments on these videos to examine viewership practices and the concept of the “interactive viewer”. In four chapters, I explore the content, rationale, method, and temporality of OTT viewership in India. Chapter 1 demonstrates that OTT platforms use language as a tool to segment viewers into linguistically-determined target groups, and examines how viewers choose to define themselves. Chapter 2 shows that viewers craft their own viewership rationale at the intersection of desires and identity alignment. Chapter 3 delineates viewership methods and shows that digital viewership is informed by the transmediality of the internet. Chapter 4 uses viewer discussions about timing and duration to explore ideas of visibility and invisibility in digital viewership. Together, the chapters comment on how regional identity, choice of media languages, viewer location etc. shape digital viewership in India. Using the four prongs of analysis, I draw two conclusions about the interactive viewer. First, they function within a viewer network where choices and desires are informed by what others watch, do not watch and have access to. Second, digital viewers are self-reflexive because of the unique feature of seeing their own viewership in practice in their OTT profile watching history, OTT customized suggestions and YouTube comments. Interactivity is a core feature of digital viewership. Viewers care enough about their viewership to talk about it, argue for it and defend it. In this dissertation we listen in to understand what viewership means to viewers.Arts, Faculty ofAsian Studies, Department ofGraduat
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
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