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Writing for the Childhood Police: An Academic's Adventures in Children's Publishing
No full textAfter some years as an academic specialist in children's literature, I published my first novel for children. I'm planning to discuss how my experiences as an author changed my ideas about what children's literature is and about how it functions, with a special focus on how the \"children\" imagined as readers by people in publishing help to shape both specific books and what gets published generally
The Invention of Childhood by Children's Literature
No full textAn invited keynote address at the biennial conference of the Children's Book Council of Australia, Canberra, Australia, May, 2000. (published as \"Inventing Childhood.\" The Third Millennium: Read On! proceedings of the Fifth National Conference of the Children's Book Council of Australia. Canberra: Children's Book Council of Australia, 2000. 37-43.
The Mirror Staged: Pictures of Babies in Baby Books
No full textThis talk focuses on the many "baby books" currently available that consist of pictures of babies, and considers how these pictures might represent replications or restagings of Jacques Lacan's mirror stage—that key moment in psychic development when a baby views its image in the mirror and understands that the image is in some sense itself, but also, a more perfect version of itself, an "ideal I" which the baby then strives to emulate. Viewed as re-stagings of the mirror stage, the images in baby books seem to offer their young viewers images of babies to identify with and see as what they ought to be themselves. As products of the marketplace, these books represent currently powerful cultural ideas about babyhood, so an exploration of them and a close look at the kinds of pictures found in them should reveal much about what they are telling their implied baby reader/viewers (and the adults who read along with them) about what it now means to be a baby, and about what is now the right kind of baby to be
Something Fishy Going On: Child Readers and Narrative Literacy
No full textHow children learn to understand stories, involving a consideration of a number of picture books about fish.An invited keynote address at the Conference on Children's Literature Center for Børnelitteratur, Copenhagen, Denmark, November, 2001.A later version of this piece appeared as:\"Something Fishy Going On: Child Readers and Narrative Literacy.\" Crossing the Boundaries. Ed. Geoff Bull. Prentice Hall (Pearson Education Australia), 2002. 3-16
Becoming What You Eat: Identifying with Food in Children's Picture Books
No full textThe inaugural Gryphon Lecture, sponsored by The Center for Children's Books at The Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The Trowbridge Office for American Literature, Culture, and Society, The Center for Advanced Study, and the department of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Il, March 2005. A discussion of children's picture books featuring edible characters, such as Chris Raschka's Arlene Sardine and Toby Speed and Barry Root's Brave Potatoes, in the context of theories of identification in the reading process and its effect on child readers
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
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