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Mukerji Chandra, From graven images. Patterns of modern materialism.
No full textFabiani Jean-Louis. Mukerji Chandra, From graven images. Patterns of modern materialism.. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1986, 27-3. Sociologie de l'art et de la littérature, sous la direction de Jean-Claude Chamboredon et Pierre-Michel Menger. pp. 565-568
La culture populaire. Repères bibliographiques
No full textMukerji Chandra, Schudson Michael. La culture populaire. Repères bibliographiques. In: Politix, vol. 4, n°13, Premier trimestre 1991. Le populaire et le politique (1) - Les usages populaires du politique, sous la direction de Annie Collovald et Frédéric Sawicki. pp. 21-34
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Turning the Tables: Nightlife, DJing, and the Rise of Digital DJ Technologies
Full text linkDJ culture experienced a crisis as it underwent rapid changes in its tools, practices, and communities in the 2000s, a process that is still unfolding in 2015. Historically, DJing as a musical and cultural practice shifted the emphasis of recorded music playback from a one-way flow of information to a multifaceted conversation between DJ and vinyl, turntables, mixer, dancers, and the urban environment. As a consequence, the significance of the DJ was not merely the ability to weave recorded songs, but the fact that he or she connected bodies, sounds and technology in an urban ecology, creating exciting new musical experiences. However, the rapid rise of digital DJ technologies in the 2000s brought with it many new tools and formats, and economic revitalization has increasingly turned to DJ-driven nighttime entertainment. These forces have raised questions about what DJing means, who belongs in the community, and how to legitimize its practices.This dissertation analyzes an artistic community as it navigates dramatic changes in its world, and considers the processes by which DJs contribute to, respond to, and reshape new technologies. It threads histories of nightlife’s transgressive symbolism and DJ culture’s privileging of irreverent remix into more recent controversies over what tools, techniques, and performance choices make some DJs more legitimate than others in the DJ world. Drawing from over a decade of research and participation in the DJ world, as well as dozens of interviews and observations, I examine the perspectives of those DJs who embrace new technologies as well as those who problematize the rise of digital DJing. The study offers a nuanced theorization of artistic practice and technology adoption that emphasizes the role of DJing’s history, as well as the situated ways that communities define themselves in moments of flux
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Performing the Slaughterhouse: Making Meaning and Worlds in Daily Practice
Full text linkThis dissertation is an ethnography of the kill floor – the small concrete room where animals are killed and dismembered – in small U.S. slaughterhouses. From 2010-2014, I visited two dozen slaughterhouses and meat businesses, spending time with people and animals, asking questions, helping out, and trying to answer one overarching question: How is meaning made in practice?To answer this question, I take three different analytic approaches: In the first section, I work as an anthropologist. I focus on the details of daily work in a slaughterhouse to understand how boundaries (between life and death, clean and dirty, inside and outside, animal and human) are made. Here I build on work in anthropology that seeks to understand the core frameworks that organize our cultural worlds. I argue that these core frameworks, and difference more broadly, are not fixed entities but are made through daily practice.In the second section I focus on how bodies make meaning and become meaningful. I articulate a theory of embodied knowledge located not only in human bodies, but in animals, microbes, body parts and tissues. I contribute to interdisciplinary conversations on how cognition is distributed, and to feminist theories of how bodies come to matter.In the third section, my analysis is sociological. I focus on shared cultural meanings, exploring how human relationships, feelings and actions carve out social worlds. I gather stories on and off the kill floor to explore how lives, livelihoods, and worlds are made in practice. I argue that seemingly intractable differences across cultural communities are located in the same core urges. Our hopes and fears for the future congeal in the present as political commitments.Over the course of the project, I offer a novel analysis of the nature of difference, the nature of knowledge, and the nature of socio-political worlds. I argue that difference, knowledge, and the worlds we live in are all made through daily practice, and through interactions between humans, non-humans and things. Meaning is made through bodies, movement, action, interaction, cuts, marks, repetition, and agreement
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
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