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Sustainable eParticipation Through Lightweight Democracy?
No full textInternational audienceSustainable eParticipation is defined as participation projects that last and become part of the democratic process. Many eParticipation projects fail in this regard. The eParticipation literature presents many studies and test, but few report on the aspects that can make tools and initiatives sustainable over time. The past decade’s rise of populist rhetoric and populist parties in the west shows the urgency of finding good answers to the question of sustainability in eParticipation. In this paper, we argue that lightweight eParticipation initiatives, with low demands on time and effort from citizens, can contribute to sustainable eParticipation. We test this assumption through an evaluation of a Norwegian eParticipation system for low-threshold rapid feedback. Our findings indicate that while the system showed promise and was well received, there were still issues with sustainability, especially related to strategy and financing
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
Trust In E-Government Adoption in Sub Saharan Africa: Understanding Trust in E -Government Adoption by Citizens (Tertiary Students) Of Ghana
Get PDFElectronic government is changing the way governments operate, and nations across the globe are beginning on an e-Government journey to provide online services to citizens. This aim of this research is to study the level of trust of e - government by Ghanaians and how it results in its adoption. To assess whether individuals trust e-government and how trust in e-government influences intention to use, a nine-construct model is proposed. The approach was tested using 200 survey questionnaires distributed to Ghanaian tertiary students who utilize e-government. To support the quantitative data, a semi-structured interview was also undertaken.
According to the findings, Ghanaians trust their e-government, and trust in e-government has a strong effect on intention to use, and therefore adoption. The findings also show that Ghanaians trust e-government when they find it beneficial, and the website's quality is excellent. Familiarity with e-government had no significant impact on trust
Trust In E-Government Adoption in Sub Saharan Africa: Understanding Trust in E -Government Adoption by Citizens (Tertiary Students) Of Ghana
No full textElectronic government is changing the way governments operate, and nations across the globe are beginning on an e-Government journey to provide online services to citizens. This aim of this research is to study the level of trust of e - government by Ghanaians and how it results in its adoption. To assess whether individuals trust e-government and how trust in e-government influences intention to use, a nine-construct model is proposed. The approach was tested using 200 survey questionnaires distributed to Ghanaian tertiary students who utilize e-government. To support the quantitative data, a semi-structured interview was also undertaken.
According to the findings, Ghanaians trust their e-government, and trust in e-government has a strong effect on intention to use, and therefore adoption. The findings also show that Ghanaians trust e-government when they find it beneficial, and the website's quality is excellent. Familiarity with e-government had no significant impact on trust
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