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Die Entwicklung der deutschsprachigen Soziologie im Spiegel des wissenschaftlichen Verlagswesens
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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
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
Holisms of communication
Full text linkA central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of filmed interactions between people. The techniques employed in such analysis first took on a recognizably modern form in the 1970s, but their roots go back to the earliest days of motion picture technology in the late nineteenth century. This book presents original essays accompanied by written responses which together create a dialogue exploring early efforts at audio-visual sequence analysis and their common goal to capture the "whole" of the communicative situation. The first three chapters of this volume look at the film-based research of Gestalt psychologists in Berlin as well as psychologists in the orbit of Karl and Charlotte Bühler in Vienna in the first decades of the twentieth century. Most of these figures – along with many other Central European scholars of this era – were driven into exile in the United States after the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s. This scientific migration led to the cross-pollination of communication studies in America, an outcome visible in the leading project in interaction research of the mid-twentieth century, the Natural History of an Interview. The following two chapters examine this project in its historical context. The volume closes with a critical edition of a treasure from the archives: the transcript of a speech delivered by Ray Birdwhistell, a key participant in the Natural History of an Interview project and founder of kinesics
¿Listos para irritarse? Para sensibilizar los métodos de la investigación cualitativa en la comunicación intercultural por medio de la teoría post-colonial
Full text linkIn der Forschung zur interkulturellen Kommunikation werden Phänomene unzulänglicher Übersetzung kulturell geprägter Artikulation – im Alltag, aber auch in Forschungssituationen – meist als Problem konzipiert. Das Gelingen interkultureller Kommunikation wird dabei zum erstrebenswerten Ziel. Vor dem Hintergrund postkolonialer Theorie geht der vorliegende Beitrag davon aus, dass kommunikative Irritationen im Rahmen qualitativer Forschung Ausdruck eines widerständigen Potenzials von Beforschten sein können, ihre Identität jenseits diskursiver Zuschreibungen zu verhandeln. Dieses Potenzial, so die These, kann in eine produktive Irritation des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses umgesetzt werden.
Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Frage nach den Ressourcen qualitativer Forschung gestellt, dem widerständigen Potenzial von Beforschten in den verschiedenen Phasen des Forschungsprozesses Rechnung zu tragen. Anhand ausgewählter Arbeiten aus dem Bereich der qualitativen Forschung werden einige Strategien einer sinnvollen Übersetzung postkolonialer Einsichten in den Forschungsprozess vorgestellt.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901426In academic research on intercultural communication, imperfect translation of culturally shaped articulation is usually conceived of as a problem—be it in scientific settings or in everyday-life. The success of intercultural communication thus becomes the desired goal. Against the background of post-colonial theory, the present contribution rests on the assumption that communicative irritation in the framework of qualitative research can be an expression of the research subjects' resistive potential to negotiate their identities beyond the limits of discursive attributes. The author holds that this potential can be transformed into a fruitful irritation of the scientific discourse itself.
Based on these arguments, qualitative research is required to allow for the resistive potential of research subjects throughout the different stages of the research process. With reference to selected qualitative works, some strategies will be sketched to employ post-colonial ideas to qualitative research.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0901426La investigación de la comunicación intercultural suele tratar, muchas veces como problema, la imperfecta traducción de la articulación cultural – sea en la vida cotidiana o en situaciones de investigación. El éxito de la comunicación intercultural se convierte así en el objetivo deseado. Basándose en la teoría post-colonial este artículo parte de que el concepto de la irritación comunicativa en la investigación cualitativa puede ser una expresión del potencial de resistencia de las personas investigadas para negociar su propia identidad más allá de los límites de atributos discursivos. El autor sostiene que este potencial se puede transformar en una irritación fructífera del discurso científico mismo. De ahí se plantea que la investigación cualitativa requiere del potencial de resistencia de las personas investigadas a través de las diferentes etapas del proceso de la investigación. Con ayuda de trabajos escogidos del campo de la investigación cualitativa se describen algunas estrategias para emplear ideas post-coloniales en la investigación cualitativa.
URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs090142
The early history of audio-visual sequence analysis
Full text linkA central pillar of contemporary communication research is the analysis of filmed interactions between people. The techniques employed in such analysis first took on a recognizably modern form in the 1970s, but their roots go back to the earliest days of motion picture technology in the late nineteenth century. This book presents original essays accompanied by written responses which together create a dialogue exploring early efforts at audio-visual sequence analysis and their common goal to capture the "whole" of the communicative situation.
The first three chapters of this volume look at the film-based research of Gestalt psychologists in Berlin as well as psychologists in the orbit of Karl and Charlotte Bühler in Vienna in the first decades of the twentieth century. Most of these figures – along with many other Central European scholars of this era – were driven into exile in the United States after the rise of National Socialism in the 1930s. This scientific migration led to the cross-pollination of communication studies in America, an outcome visible in the leading project in interaction research of the mid-twentieth century, the Natural History of an Interview. The following two chapters examine this project in its historical context. The volume closes with a critical edition of a treasure from the archives: the transcript of a speech delivered by Ray Birdwhistell, a key participant in the Natural History of an Interview project and founder of kinesics
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