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Review of Matthew Beaumont, The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle
No full textReview of Matthew Beaumont, The Spectre of Utopia: Utopian and Science Fictions at the Fin de Siècle, Peter Lang, 2011, pp. xii + 307, £40
Book review: nightwalking: a nocturnal history of London by Matthew Beaumont
No full textNightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London offers a literary portrait of nighttime London, the writers who have wandered the city after sunset and the people they encountered on their walks. Matthew Beaumont offers an alternative account of the city streets through the prism of its historical ‘nightwalkers’, uncovering hidden topographies of nocturnal London. This is an excellent book offering a wealth of research conveyed with passion, finds Penny Montague
Book Review: Review of Matthew Beaumont, The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City
No full textIn the introduction to his engaging new book The Walker, Matthew Beaumont discusses how some people have perceived ‘walking and wandering’ as ‘nothing less than a spiritual vocation’ (6). However, contemporary urban walking is under threat. Beaumont believes that ‘authoritarian mechanisms’ (11), such as networked surveillance devices, the capitalist privatisation of public space, and the omnipresence of smartphones are making it increasingly difficult to access the creative, emancipating, and spiritual dimensions of walking in the city. For Beaumont, pedestrians are ‘best placed to grasp not only the city’s alienating but also its liberating possibilities’ (19). The Walker scrutinises nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American literature (with one chapter on a French text) to create ‘a series of profiles’ (18) of the various ways in which representations of walking are intimately connected with the attempt to understand capitalist modernity and its effects on urban residents.This book review is published as Withers, J., Review of Matthew Beaumont, The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City. The Wellsian, 44 (2021): 58-60. http://hgwellssociety.com/wellsian/. Posted with permission
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
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