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Going Wi-Fi in Canada: Municipal, and Community Initiatives
No full textSubsequently published as: Powell, Alison and Leslie Regan Shade (2006) “Going WiFi in Canada: Municipal and Community Initiatives,” Government Information Quarterly.Several municipalities in Canada have explored deploying Wi-Fi for community
economic development – for both businesses and touristic applications, and for municipal
policing and other services – such as remote monitoring of parking meters and the automation of other services. Toronto’s Chief Information Officer, John Davies has
been monitoring policy debates in Philadelphia over their municipal Wi-Fi initiatives to see whether their proposed service offerings can be replicated in Toronto and fit it within their ‘e-city’ vision. Many municipal Wi-Fi projects are the result of private-public partnerships where private companies receive a license to distribute wireless internet signals to citizens.Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Initiative on the New Economy Public Outreach Grant; Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN)
Going Wi-Fi in Canada: Municipal, and Community Initiatives
Full text linkSubsequently published as: Powell, Alison and Leslie Regan Shade (2006) “Going WiFi in Canada: Municipal and Community Initiatives,” Government Information Quarterly.Several municipalities in Canada have explored deploying Wi-Fi for community
economic development – for both businesses and touristic applications, and for municipal
policing and other services – such as remote monitoring of parking meters and the automation of other services. Toronto’s Chief Information Officer, John Davies has
been monitoring policy debates in Philadelphia over their municipal Wi-Fi initiatives to see whether their proposed service offerings can be replicated in Toronto and fit it within their ‘e-city’ vision. Many municipal Wi-Fi projects are the result of private-public partnerships where private companies receive a license to distribute wireless internet signals to citizens.Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Initiative on the New Economy Public Outreach Grant; Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN)
"Last Mile" or Local Innovation?: Canadian Perspectives on Community Wireless Networking as Civic Participation
Full text linkPreviously presented as: Powell, Alison (2006) ‘’Last Mile’ or Local Innovation?
Canadian Perspectives on Community Wireless Networking as Civic Participation,’ Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, September 30.In the rush to solicit corporate bids for WiFi coverage, North American municipalities
may be overlooking the capacity of existing community wireless networking (CWN) projects to not only provide WiFi service, but to mobilize civic participation. CWNs, where citizens experiment with, install, and maintain information infrastructures based on
802.11x wireless equipment, may be providing new opportunities for participation in civic life, including developing innovative technical and economic solutions to local
problems, developing WiFi as a platform for community media, and mobilizing new spaces for political advocacy. The data presented in this paper assesses four Canadian urban CWNs: Montréal’s Île Sans Fil, WirelessToronto, Vancouver-based British
Columbia Wireless Networking Society and the newly-formed Ottawa Gatineau Wi-Fi. The adaptation of each of these groups to their local policy and technical environments reveals the importance of local, grassroots players in the WiFi universe, as both innovators and policy-makers. Canadian CWNs provide good examples of how grassroots innovation can emerge in competition and cooperation with other types of service provision. Furthermore, the activities of these CWNs underline the importance of
safeguarding the network and policy spaces that allow communities to flourish.Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) - Initiative on the New Economy Public Outreach Grant; Canadian Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN)
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
Automation, algorithms, and politics| bots and political influence: a sociotechnical investigation of social network capital
No full textThis study explains how bots interact with human users and influence conversational networks on Twitter. We analyze a high-stakes political environment, the UK general election of May 2015, asking human volunteers to tweet from purpose-made Twitter accounts—half of which had bots attached—during three events: the last Prime Minister’s Question Time before Parliament was dissolved (#PMQs), the first leadership interviews of the campaign (#BattleForNumber10), and the BBC Question Time broadcast of the same evening (#BBCQT). Based on previous work, our expectation was that our intervention would make a significant difference to the evolving network, but we found that the bots we used had very little effect on the conversation network at all. There are economic, social, and temporal factors that impact how a user of bots can influence political conversations. Future research needs to account for these forms of capital when assessing the impact of bots on political discussions
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