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Replication data for: Chatting at Church: Information Diffusion through Religious Networks
No full textMurphy, David M. A., Nourani, Vesall, and Lee, David R., (2022) “Chatting at Church: Information Diffusion through Religious Networks.” Review of Economics and Statistics 104:3, 449–464
Murphy, David (Oral History Interview)
No full textDr. David Murphy was a student at Saint Mary's University between 1962 and 1966, and was the quarterback of the Huskies football team who were the first Saint Mary's team to win the Atlantic Bowl in 1964. He eventually became a surgeon, but stayed very involved in Saint Mary's sports throughout his career. In 1973 Murphy took on the job as offensive coordinator for the Huskies in addition to beginning his surgery practice in Halifax, and again helped Saint Mary's achieve its first Vanier Cup. Murphy also served on the Board of Governors for two years, and after his retirement from surgery practice, served as SMU's Director of Athletics.Main topics include: athletics at Saint Mary's in the 1960s; Coach Bob Hayes; Americans studying at Saint Mary's in the 1960s; the Bluenose Football Conference; the growing administrative challenges of university athletics; difference in coaching styles and sports culture between the '60s and today
Replication Data for: Sobriety, Social Capital, and Village Network Structures
No full textReplication Data for: Sobriety, Social Capital, and Village Network Structure
Revising the classics : opening up the archives of African cinema
No full textThe long journey that has led to the present volume began almost a decade ago when we started planning for the inaugural Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival (www.africa-in-motion.org.uk), at Filmhouse in Edinburgh, which took place in October 2006. The complete programme for the festival consisted of twenty-five films from all over Africa (shorts, documentaries, and feature films from the 1950s to the 2000s), and was designed to give audiences a sense of the aesthetic diversity and richness of filmmaking across the African continent. However, if part of our motivation stemmed from a desire to reveal the geographical range of African cinema, we were also particularly anxious to provide greater historical depth to our audience's understanding of film in Africa, and it was with this aim that we embarked on a research project - generously funded by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council - which allowed us to curate a series of 'Lost African Classics' as part of the first AiM
Introduction: revising the classics: opening up the archives of African cinema
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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
The Performance of Pan-Africanism: Staging the African Renaissance at the First World Festival of Negro Arts
Full text linkFirst paragraph: On 30 March 1966, the Senegalese poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor ascended the steps of the National Assembly in Dakar, which stands at the heart of the Plateau, the gleaming white city built by the French colonial authorities at the start of the twentieth century to act as the administrative centre of its vast West African Empire. Senegal had freed itself from French colonial rule in 1960, and here it was, just six years later, proclaiming itself as temporary capital of black civilization at the launch of the First World Festival of Negro Arts. The festival proper would not begin for two days. Senghor was in fact at the National Assembly to launch a colloquium on ‘The Function of Negro Art in the life of and for the people’, which would run from 30 March-8 April. That Senegal should hand over its legislative chamber for more than a week to writers, performers, artists and scholars to discuss the significance of art in the emerging post-imperial world was entirely in keeping with the central role that Senghor attributed to culture and the arts.1 Culture was not merely rhetorically significant, for Senghor apparently backed up his words with hard cash: various sources estimate that up to 25% of the national budget was devoted to the arts in the early years after independence (see Harney 2004: 49)
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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