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(Co-)constructing community-identity: pro-innocent voices in the Meredith Kercher murder case
No full textThis case has sparked much controversy online and offline among people who believed that Knox and Sollecito were innocent (pro-innocent), and people who were convinced they perpetrated the crime (pro-guilt). Within a framework of critical discourse and social media studies, the chapter discusses the patterns of socialization as presented by individual voices of pro-innocent participants: the representation of the ‘default other’ (the pro-guilt community); the individual positioning of pro-innocent campaigners within and towards their online community; their attitudes vis-à-vis Knox and Sollecito and their representation of the context of the murder and trials (Perugia and Italy). Due to the degree of social commitment and online activism, the personal level of identification with the cause is inextricably portrayed by the participants as intertwined and overlapping with the relational and collective levels of representation
Identity Representation of Plants in Relation to Humans and the Lifescape
Full text linkWhereas plants are essential in sustaining life, their representation in ecolinguistics and multimodal discourse studies is as yet underexplored. This chapter presents findings of an ongoing research project investigating how plants are represented in texts promoting environmental protection. Within the framework of ecolinguistics, critical discourse studies and multimodality, the study addresses the following questions: How are plants represented in connection with the environment they belong to and contribute to creating? How are plants represented in relation to humans and other animals? The data selected for analysis are influential and agenda-setting reports by authoritative international institutions and two short environmental videos. Drawing on Social Actor methodology, the study reflects on how it can be adapted and applied in written and multimodal texts for plant participants that lead life, move, act and establish relations in ways that are often imperceptible to humans and often neglected or misinterpreted in human discourse
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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