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Donner une voix aux Inuits urbains: "Photovoice" comme une pratique de multilittératie dans la construction d’identité et de savoirs transfrontaliers
No full textRésuméCet article présente des résultats d’un projet de recherche ethnographique et collaboratif s’intéressant aux pratiques multimodales de littératie auprès de la communauté Inuit urbaine à Ottawa. Conçue comme un projet de recherche-action l’étude a été menée par des chercheurs universitaires en collaboration avec le programme de littératie familiale attaché au centre d’enfants Inuit à Ottawa (OICC). Cette recherche porte sur la méthode « Photovoice » et sa mise en pratique dans le contexte de la communauté Inuit urbaine. Notre recherche poursuit deux objectifs. Le premier consiste à explorer la façon dont « Photovoice » a été appropriée par la communauté Inuit urbaine comme un moyen de stimuler la réflexion sur l’expérience de migration transfrontalière et la création d’identités Inuit urbaines. Le deuxième cherche à reconnaître la méthode « Photovoice » comme une pratique sociale de littératie et à évaluer sa place comme méthodologie de recherche au sein des New Literacy Studies. Nos résultats de recherche suggérons que « Photovoice » en tant que méthode promouvant la multilittératie peut servir d’outil de réflexion et d’apprentissage dans le contexte communautaire des Inuits urbains ainsi que dans d’autres contextes.This paper reports on a collaborative, action-based research project exploring multimodal literacy practices among urban Inuit in Ottawa. Working in the context of the family literacy program of the Ottawa Inuit Children’s centre, we examine two “Photovoice” activities conducted by Inuit children, youth, and adults in 2009 and 2010. The goals of this examination are twofold: 1) to explore “Photovoice” as a multimodal literacy activity, and its appropriation by urban Inuit as a means to creatively explore, reflect upon, and represent aspects of urban Inuit identity and experiences; and 2) to situate “Photovoice” methodologically and theoretically in the realm of New Literacy Studies, which sees literacy as a social and cultural practice, rather than a set of discrete linguistic skills to be taught, learnt, and acquired. In this way, “Photovoice”, drawing on the visual, oral, and scriptural modes, is seen as an ideal type of literacy activity in community-based educative contexts, such as urban Inuit in Ottawa, with wider application across contexts
"Chaque objet raconte une histoire" - Les pratiques de littératie chez des Inuit en milieu urbain
No full textRésumé: Ce texte traite du concept de "littératie de mobilité" et explore le cas des Inuit urbains à Ottawa au Canada, à titre d’exemple d’une communauté indigène trans-nationale. Le texte met en évidence des pratiques de littératie telles que conçues par la communauté Inuit au sein d’un centre communautaire (OICC, Ottawa Inuit Children Centre). L’étude met l’accent sur le rôle des objets dans des interactions au sein d’évènements de littératie et interroge le potentiel d’objets pour retracer des trajectoires de migration et relier différents mondes de vie. Cette étude se veut une contribution aux New Literacy Studies et propose une forme d’analyse innovante qui peut servir à éclairer les processus de migration et leur impact sur les pratiques locales de littératie. En misant sur le contexte de la communauté Inuit urbaine, notre étude met en lumière les pratiques d’une communauté autochtone qui partagent des concepts et repères culturels différents par rapport à beaucoup de cultures occidentales, ce qui soulève plus généralement des questions par rapport à la notion de littératie.The text explores the concept of “literacy of mobility” and looks at urban Inuit in Ottawa/Canada as a case study of a trans-national indigenous community. The text illuminates literacy practices generated by the Inuit community in the context of an Inuit community centre, the Ottawa Inuit Children Centre (OICC). The study examines in particular the role of objects in interactions which are embedded in literacy practices, and investigates their potential for retracing migrant trajectories and connecting different institutional and life worlds. This study contributes to the field of New Literacy Studies and presents a novel approach into understanding the processes of migration and locally generated literacy practices. Focusing on Urban Inuit, this study examines an indigenous community whose cultural foundation differs from many Western cultures. This poses questions for what counts as literacy
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
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