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Walking the Space Between: Identity and Māori/Pākehā.
Get PDFThe article reviews the book "Walking the Space Between: Identity and Māori/Pākehā," by Melinda Webber
Polycultural capital and the Pasifika second generation : negotiating identities in diasporic spaces : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
Get PDFThis research examines the ways in which the Pasifika second generation who have
grown up in Aotearoa are operating culturally and explores the conditions in which
they construct identities. The study took a positive deviance approach focusing on
existing strengths within the Pasifika generation and learning from success.
Taking a sequential explanatory mixed-methods approach, the project analysed data
from the Youth2000 Survey, which included over one thousand Pasifika participants
(n=1114). This showed that pride in Pasifika identities, reporting that Pasifika values
were still important, feeling accepted by other people within one’s own ethnic group
and outside it, and continuing to speak Pasifika languages were all associated
positively with advantageous health, educational or wellbeing variables. Individual
interviews with fourteen high-achieving, second generation Pasifika professionals,
further explored connections between identity, acceptance and belonging.
Second generation participants talked about performing identities across many spaces
of symbolic interaction where they were called into relation with multiple others.
These were local, cross-cultural, national and transnational relational spaces made
possible via migration, diaspora, and relocation resulting in complex negotiations of
sameness and difference. In these spaces they encountered competing narratives about
who Pasifika peoples ought to be.
The diasporic second generation often had to negotiate belonging from beyond the
limits of what was validated as having most symbolic authority. Symbolic struggle
and the politics of cultural reproduction came to the fore, as did the contested nature of
Pasifika imaginaries. Identifications were further complicated by demands for crosscultural
coherence and legibility across spaces, and shifting politics of recognition.
Polycultural capital was coined to describe the ability to accumulate culturally diverse
symbolic resources, negotiate between them and strategically deploy different cultural
resources in contextually specific and advantageous ways. Performing strategic
essentialism, strategic ignorance, strategic hybridity, dialogic distance, and bridging,
were just some of the patterns identified. Manulua describes an aesthetic of shifting
multidimensional cultural resolutions across many spaces in-between
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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