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How to study global religious movements?
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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
Shaping autism self-advocates’ identities through the neurodiversity movement
Get PDF1 online resource (iii, 63 pages)Includes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).This thesis examines how and why the neurodiversity paradigm and movement influence autistic people’s identities as they participate in autism self-advocacy activity. The neurodiversity paradigm dictates that autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions are the result of neurodiversity, or the natural variations of human brain development. In turn, the neurodiversity movement aligns with the social model of disability, stating that autistic people are not directly disabled by their neurological differences, but rather by the general lack of accommodations provided by their society. By participating in self-advocacy groups, autistic people can thus view their autism as something that makes them unique rather than something that is inherently wrong. This thesis will thereby examine how continual involvement in autism self-advocacy activity allows autistic people to negotiate and practice their neurodivergent identities as a way of resisting stigmatizing views of autism that still prevail
among society
Toponomy and cultural landscape in central Cape Breton, Unama’kik, and Cheap Breattain
Get PDF1 online resource (iii, 72 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour)Includes abstract and appendices.Includes bibliographical references (pages 68-70).This thesis examines the relationship between toponomy and cultural landscape of Mi'kmaw and non-Indigenous populations in historical Cape Breton. The goal is to demonstrate the ways in which place names are indicative of identity, social relationships, and power dynamics. This paper engages in analyses involving cultural landscape anthropology, examining the various theoretical approaches involved in assessing the ways Mi'kmaw and settler groups associated and named the landscape. A historiographical analysis of prolific record-keepers and maps that contain toponymic information for this region was completed. This thesis explores the processes in which bias and cultural power is expressed through the ways maps, dictionaries, and place name records are kept. An intensive analysis of Baptist missionary Silas Rand as well as an examination of his records and other maps demonstrates the validity and applicability of certain records to the study of toponomy and cultural landscape. Further, the theory and historiographical components of this thesis will serve to demonstrate the interconnected nature of place names and culture within Central Cape Breton through several case studies. Through this information, an in-depth place name analysis of the toponyms of Cape Breton, Unama'kik, and Cheap Breattain has been completed. The various omissions, replacements, and retention of place names are demonstrative of the fluidity of culture landscape and the ways in which power is exerted between and within populations
Public engagement with historical burying grounds in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Get PDF1 online resource (iv, 46 pages) : illustrations (some colour)Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-46).This thesis examines public engagement with three historical burying grounds in downtown Halifax, Nova Scotia: The Old Burying Ground, the Poor House burying ground, and St. Peter’s Cemetery. The research question was inspired by a significant event in 1958 where the Downtown Merchants Association proposed to turn the Old Burying Ground into a parking lot (McGuire 1990). This was met by serious opposition from the public, even with the promise by the Merchants Association to provide a suitable monument on the site to acknowledge its history and significance. This is important because it does not appear that the other cemeteries received the same opposition as they underwent transformations in the twentieth century, such as the construction of a library and the paving of a parking lot. Through the use of newspaper articles from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, modern news coverage, social media comments and news article comments, I provide a timeline of events related to the sites. Through this timeline, I explore notable themes and similarities of how people have expressed opinions and interests in the burying grounds from the nineteenth century to present. The results of this research suggests that the reasons for maintaining and memorializing the Old Burying Ground in comparison to its neighbours is related to the level of preservation the site holds and its military associations, but also the larger ideas of power that dominate the site
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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