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In measure of the world: Advancing a kinaesthetic rhetoric
No full textThis dissertation grounds the relationship between rhetoric and movement, focusing on how the confluence of the two can be used to address both technical projects and broader social concerns. I answer the questions how is transportation rhetorical? and what might such an understanding mean for both large technical projects and for the fields of rhetoric and professional writing? Specifically, I address how movement is involved in rhetoric and how rhetoric plays a role in regimes of human mobility. This dissertation develops a theory of kinaesthetic rhetoric using classical rhetoric, current critical theory, modern and historical examples, and a lengthy case study of my participation in a postcar mobility project called Electric Purdue on Demand (EPOD). Chapters focus on relationships between Aristotle\u27s definition of movement and posthumanism, interfaces and metaphors, logistics and delivery, design and navigation, and actor-network theory and phenomenology
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“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era
No full textIn the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s response to the “post-truth” era failed to ask the question: “for whom is this the post-truth era?” This thesis attends to this question by examining how the concept of science, broadly conceived, is employed in political rhetoric and defended in the post-truth moment. I look closely at the philosophical history on the nature of truth and discuss previous debates on the social nature of science to inform the creation of a critical lens that exposes ignored perspectives that conflict with the popular understanding of science as always positive, always in the pursuit of progress. I argue that utilizing a perspectival approach to understanding rhetorical events in the post-truth era—namely, the 2017 March for Science—demonstrates the falsity of the notion that the post-truth moment is new, and that such a contention is based upon an immense amount of privilege. In making this assertion, I call for a broad critique and reconsideration of the ontological foundations by which we evaluate truth claims and suggest that rhetoricians and compositions engage in practices informed by Susana Priest’s concept of critical science literacy that may be used both in science and public writing curricula
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
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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