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Using Radio for Advocacy and Communication of Issues Affecting Farm Communities in Zimbabwe
No full textThe field of communication for development has been marked by shifts in paradigms from the top-down/mechanistic approaches that emerged in the 1950s to the participatory/bottom-up approaches of the later periods. Despite the paradigm shifts, the faith in the power of the media to influence development has not died down. The research Using Radio for Advocacy and Communication of Issues Affecting Farm Communities in Zimbabwe adds to the body of literature on alternate episodes of faith and doubt in the power of the media in development that characterize intellectual discourse on communication for development.
Through a triangulation of both qualitative and quantitative research methods, this study looks at the extent to which radio remains useful in communication and advocacy for the development of marginalized communities, the farm communities in Zimbabwe. The research is based on a case study of the radio programme sponsored by an NGO, which is broadcast on national radio.
The research findings indicate that radio remains a popular medium with communities and development actors that still see it to be useful in dissemination of development messages. The challenge that lies ahead of using radio for development in the era of democracy is how to integrate and adapt it to participatory and empowerment models of communication, which build the capacities of the marginalized people. The radio programme studied in this research has been found to be relying more on top-down approaches than participatory methods.
Overall, there remains the need to make radio more interactive for it to fit into the participatory methods, which are the more appropriate route to take in the present era
FARM COMMUNITIES IN ZIMBABWE: Using radio for advocacy and communication
Get PDFThe aim of my research was to assess the use radio for advocacy and communication in community development, focusing on radio as a medium, radio audience behaviour in farm communities, issues affecting farm communities, advocacy and communication of the issues through radio, and power dynamics in programme production. The study attempted to do so by answering the overall question ‘how and why radio?’
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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