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La utilidad de la Teoría del Actor-Red para el estudio de la comunicación pública de las ciencias. Una aproximación teórico-metodológica
No full textThe objective of this article is to present a theoretical-methodological proposal for the approach to science communication processes in which university institutions intervene where teaching, research and transfer activities are carried out.
The work arises from a more general reflection that recovers the notion of border, and whose object of study is the communication of the social sciences and humanities in the Interdisciplinary Programs of the University of Buenos Aires, created between 2007 and 2012 and still in force.
Due to the heterogeneity of the phenomenon and the assumptions that define the research problem, the proposal follows the Actor-Network Theory regarding its broad conception of actant and the assembly of socio-technical networks (Latour, 2008), and recovers contributions by Karin Knorr Cetina (2005) regarding the study of scientific knowledge as "constructed".
The methodological design flexibly combines different qualitative methods (ethnographic record, in-depth interviews, document analysis, among others) and data collection tools.
The central argument is that the value of the perspective I propose lies in its contribution to the visibility and analysis of the contributing role played by heterogeneous actors involved in the processes of situated production of knowledge and its communicability (Naidorf, Riccono, Alonso; 2020). In this sense, I believe that it may be a complementary approach to other more extended ones.El objetivo de este artículo consiste en presentar una propuesta teórico-metodológica para el abordaje de procesos de comunicación de la ciencia en los que intervienen instituciones universitarias donde se desarrollan actividades de docencia, investigación y transferencia.
El trabajo surge de una reflexión más general que recupera la noción de frontera, y que tiene como objeto de estudio la comunicación de las ciencias sociales y humanidades en los Programas Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, creados entre 2007 y 2012 y aún vigentes.
Debido a la heterogeneidad del fenómeno y a los supuestos que definen el problema de investigación, la propuesta sigue la Teoría del Actor-Red en lo referido a su concepción amplia de actante y al ensamblado de redes socio-técnicas (Latour, 2008), y recupera aportes de Karin Knorr Cetina (2005) en lo que respecta al estudio de los conocimientos científicos como “construidos”.
El diseño metodológico combina de modo flexible distintos métodos cualitativos (registro etnográfico, entrevistas en profundidad, análisis de documentos, entre otros) y herramientas de recolección de datos.
El argumento central es que el valor de la perspectiva que se propone radica en su contribución para la visibilización y el análisis del rol coadyuvante que desempeñan actores heterogéneos involucrados en los procesos de producción situada de conocimientos y su comunicabilidad (Naidorf, Riccono, Alonso; 2020). En este sentido, considero que puede resultar un abordaje complementario a otros más extendidos
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
La comunicación de conocimientos científicos en los Programas Interdisciplinarios de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Un estudio sobre el rol de la institución como actor-red en el espacio público
No full textThis article presents an analysis of the institutional role of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) in processes of science communication generated within its Interdisciplinary Programs (PIUBA), created between 2007 and 2012 and still active. It explores the participation of UBA as a mediator in the task of democratizing knowledge. What forms does it take in participating as an actor? What strategies does it deploy to communicate knowledge in inter and transdisciplinary production? And what strategies does it deploy to communicate knowledge in inter- and transdisciplinary production? The analysis focuses on identifying actions, limitations and capacities developed by three group formations that define UBA as an actor in the public space: affiliation, branding and connecting vessels. The theoretical framework problematizes the frontier notion based on the definition of “actor” proposed by the Actor-Network Theory. The methodological strategy is qualitative and based on the interpretative analysis of discursive content. The fieldwork involved the collection of secondary sources, in-depth interviews and non-participant observation of activities.Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma análise do papel institucional da Universidade de Buenos Aires (UBA) nos processos de comunicação do conhecimento gerado em seus Programas interdisciplinares (PIUBA), criados entre 2007 e 2012 e ainda em vigor. Explora a participação da instituição como mediadora na tarefa de democratização do conhecimento: que formas assume para participar como ator? Que estratégias aplica para comunicar o conhecimento na produção inter e transdisciplinar? A análise se concentra na identificação de ações, limitações e capacidades desenvolvidas por três formações de grupo que definem a instituição como um ator no espaço público: afiliação, marca e vasos de conexão. A estrutura teórica problematiza a noção de fronteira com base na definição de ator proposta pela Teoria Ator-Rede. A estratégia metodológica é qualitativa e se baseia na análise interpretativa do conteúdo discursivo. O trabalho de campo envolveu a coleta de fontes secundárias, entrevistas em profundidade e observação não-participante das atividades.Este artículo presenta los resultados de un análisis sobre el rol institucional de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) en procesos de comunicación de los conocimientos generados en sus Programas Interdisciplinarios (PIUBA), creados entre 2007 y 2012 y aún vigentes. Indaga sobre la participación de la institución como mediador en la tarea de democratizar los conocimientos. ¿Qué formas asume al participar como actor? ¿Qué estrategias despliega para comunicar los conocimientos en la producción inter y transdisciplinaria? El análisis se centra en identificar acciones, limitaciones y capacidades desarrolladas por tres formaciones de grupo que definen a la institución como actor en el espacio público: la filiación, la marca y los vasos conectores. El marco teórico problematiza la noción frontera a partir de la definición de actor propuesta por la teoría del actor-red. La estrategia metodológica es cualitativa y se basa en el análisis interpretativo de contenido discursivo. El trabajo de campo involucró el relevamiento de fuentes secundarias, la realización de entrevistas en profundidad y la observación no participante de actividades
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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