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Hands, fingers and iPads
No full textNew touchscreen technologies have drawn attention to the materiality of literate behaviour. Reflecting on the concept of handiness, this chapter looks at meaning making as a kind of ‘engaged material consciousness’ (Sennett 2009) that depends upon but always exceeds the complex coordinations of hand and eye. Interrogating empirical materials gathered in a study of iPads in the early years, it shows young children and the adults that care for them engaged in complex negotiations and interactions that continually remake literacy, technology and learnin
The case of the iPad
No full textThis chapter offers a critical perspective on the uptake of mobile technologies in education by interweaving personal stories with multiple theoretical perspectives. Through a series of provocations, readers are invited to consider ideas that problematize mobility and access, introduce and rework environmental concerns and question the impact of software architecture, algorithms and coding. The chapter details areas that have so far been absent from work at the intersection of literacy and technology and in so doing outlines areas that are rich with possibility for further research.
Dueto back problems I’ve always avoided using laptops more than absolutely necessary and my large hands mean I’m all fingers and thumbs when I use my smartphone so I’ve never really grown to love it. MyiPadthough is much more of a friend, part of the family even, following me from office to lounge to kitchen to office and coming on trips and outings. Its black articulated case is practical but gives nothing away. When I fold it back though an image springs to life, a forgotten world. It’s aphototaken early one sunny morning at the Fairy Glen near Uig on the Isle of Skye. It makes me smile everytimeI see it and remember the surprise of stumbling across this eerie place tucked away from Skye’s more obvious highlights. I’ve had the iPad for maybe four years now, it’s a reconditioned iPad 2. I’ve recently heard that Apple are going to stop updating the operating system for iPad 2 s. How long until mine ceases to function with the apps I use and it goes to join all the other discarded devices and chargers that clutter my home
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
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