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The role of information and communication technologies in sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts in Nigeria 2006-2014
Full text linkConflict has been an integral part of Nigerian political life and has served as a catalyst for a progressive Nigerian society. From the precolonial era to the current period of democratization, conflict has also been a means through which dissident movements have influenced govenment policies, reform and change. The media served as a tool for dissident movements who use the medium to communicate or as a means for archiving their goals. Yet, in-spite of the widespread presence of mainstream media, the uses of the media for conflict mobilizations experienced some limits especially those involving state control, monopoly and other socio-political and economic drawbacks. Since the transition to democracy in 1999, the country has witnessed a surge of conflict. This conflict has been influenced by new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which emerged alongside the transition. The study explores two kinds of conflict emerging in Nigeria: sociopolitical and ethnoreligious. Although, there have been many studies considering the impact of ICTs on social movements emerging especially within western scholarship, so far, few discussions offer a cross-comparison of both dynan1ics of conflict about the role of new ICTs in Nigeria. The thesis draws on three case studies: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram, and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). These cases provide a lens for examining conflict mobilization among movements in Nigeria. The study draws on the Cyberconflict framework, which harnesses the elements of the resource mobilization, media and conflict theories used to understand computer mediated conflicts across the globe. The study employs a qualitative paradigm. This includes both primary and secondary data collection techniques (semi-structured interviews, a synthesis of audiovisual and textual data online and analysis of existing research). A thematic analysis guides the method used to map an understanding of the role of lCTs during conflict mobilization of the three movements. In considering the role of new ICTs in conflict mobilizations the findings contribute to existing knowledge by bridging the gap in the literature on digital activism as a field of study, the examination of ICTs in three political movements of various ideological underpinnings in a single country, and in a developing non-Western context. The findings correspond to the sociopolitical and ethnoreligious components of the Cyberconflict, but also reveal outcomes crucial to the Nigerian national contex
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 role of information and communication technologies in sociopolitical and ethnoreligious conflicts in Nigeria 2006-2014
Full text linkConflict has been an integral part of Nigerian political life and has served as a catalyst for a progressive Nigerian society. From the precolonial era to the current period of democratization, conflict has also been a means through which dissident movements have influenced govenment policies, reform and change. The media served as a tool for dissident movements who use the medium to communicate or as a means for archiving their goals. Yet, in-spite of the widespread presence of mainstream media, the uses of the media for conflict mobilizations experienced some limits especially those involving state control, monopoly and other socio-political and economic drawbacks. Since the transition to democracy in 1999, the country has witnessed a surge of conflict. This conflict has been influenced by new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), which emerged alongside the transition. The study explores two kinds of conflict emerging in Nigeria: sociopolitical and ethnoreligious. Although, there have been many studies considering the impact of ICTs on social movements emerging especially within western scholarship, so far, few discussions offer a cross-comparison of both dynan1ics of conflict about the role of new ICTs in Nigeria. The thesis draws on three case studies: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram, and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). These cases provide a lens for examining conflict mobilization among movements in Nigeria. The study draws on the Cyberconflict framework, which harnesses the elements of the resource mobilization, media and conflict theories used to understand computer mediated conflicts across the globe. The study employs a qualitative paradigm. This includes both primary and secondary data collection techniques (semi-structured interviews, a synthesis of audiovisual and textual data online and analysis of existing research). A thematic analysis guides the method used to map an understanding of the role of lCTs during conflict mobilization of the three movements. In considering the role of new ICTs in conflict mobilizations the findings contribute to existing knowledge by bridging the gap in the literature on digital activism as a field of study, the examination of ICTs in three political movements of various ideological underpinnings in a single country, and in a developing non-Western context. The findings correspond to the sociopolitical and ethnoreligious components of the Cyberconflict, but also reveal outcomes crucial to the Nigerian national contex
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
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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