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In Search of Self: A Study of Queer Arab Women in the United States Post-Migration
Full text linkThe following thesis explores the conditions that lead queer Arab women to migrate from their Arab country of origin and how their lives unfold while living in the United States. The framework of this thesis is comprised of literature involving transnational sexualities, queer Middle Eastern studies, queer diaspora and migration, transnational queer of color critique, and queer ethnography. Methods used to obtain data include autoethnography, conducting interviews with queer Arab women in diaspora, and analyzing survey data completed by the same aforementioned population. Common themes of this content analysis include coming out discourses, womanhood in Arab culture, and visibility in the Arab world. Conclusions of this research indicate that queer Arab women in diaspora experience dissonance in longing for representation and visibility while also feeling shame and fear in coming out of the closet
“Queer Femme Sporty Jewess”: Hey Alma Classifieds and the Construction of Jewish Collective Identity
No full textHey Alma (@hey.alma), a Jewish cultural publication with an Instagram account with over 150,000 followers, began posting followers’ personal ads over a year ago. This article analyzes the ways in which Hey Alma classifieds carve out a space of and for not only subversive resistance of personal identity at the margins of mainstream, but also a specific construction of what it means to be Jewish. Using the framework of “collective identity” that theorizes about the process and tension in creating a shared and interactive sense of “us” (against an explicit or implicit “them”), including a moral, intellectual, and emotional connection to a larger group, this article explores how a progressive, even radical, youth-based Jewish collective identity is formed—and contested and transformed—through these personals, the captions, and the comments from followers. By defying gender and sexual binaries and norms, and fusing traditional Jewish cultural signifiers, Hey Alma classifieds work to contest a static and uniform Jewish collective identity. Moreover, social media as a space for this formation and contestation of collective identity is crucial to this process. As a noninstitutional space disconnected from the physical places connected to Judaism, Hey Alma offers social interaction where young Jewish users collectively negotiate meanings (of gender, sexuality, nationality, Jewish identity) more generally through the affordances of social media and Instagram more specifically: visibility, persistence, editability, and association. In this way, Hey Alma’s classifieds on Instagram work as an imagined community, and a space for the development of a contemporary youth-based Jewish collective identity
Politics as Unusual: Washington, DC Hardcore Punk 1979-1983 and the Politics of Sound
Full text linkDuring the creative and influential years between 1979 and 1983, hardcore punk was not only born -- a mutated sonic stepchild of rock n' roll, British and American punk -- but also evolved into a uncompromising and resounding paradigm of and for DC youth. Through the revelatory music of DC hardcore bands like Bad Brains, Teen Idles, Minor Threat, State of Alert, Government Issue and Faith a new formulation of sound, and a new articulation of youth, arose: one that was angry, loud, fast, and minimalistic. With a total of only ten albums between all five bands in a mere five years, DC hardcore cemented a small yet significant subculture and scene.
This project considers two major components of this music: aesthetics and the social politics that stem from those aesthetics. By examining the way music communicates -- facets like timbre, melody, rhythm, pitch, volume and dissonance -- while simultaneously incorporating an analysis of hardcore's social context -- including the history of music's cultural canons, as well as the specific socioeconomic, racial and gendered milieu in which music is generated, communicated and responded to --this dissertation attempts to understand how hardcore punk conveys messages of social and cultural politics, expressly representations of race, class and gender. In doing so, this project looks at how DC hardcore (re)contextualizes and (re)imagines the social and political meanings created by and from sound
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
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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