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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
Extending the Inner Touch: Intimations of Digital Secondary Literacy in McLuhan and Ong
No full textThis paper examines the psychic effects of digital environments by re-evaluating the work of Walter Ong and, especially, Marshall McLuhan in the context of Aristotelian and Thomist psychology. The paper argues that, due to the high-definition logical stress of computer technologies, the digital environment obsolesces the psychic attitudes implicated in what McLuhan described as the electronic retrieval of “acoustic space.” In contrast to, what Walter Ong termed, the “secondary orality” of radio and television, I argue that digital technology constitutes an environment of “secondary literacy,” a term that Ong introduced in his later years but did not develop. In order to understand the new sensory and psychological ratios constituted by digital environments, I examine McLuhan’s interpretation of the “primary literacy” of the medieval scribal environment as grounded in the doctrine of the common sense or “sensus communis.” Through evaluating Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ association of the common sense with tactility, I argue that the “secondary literacy” of the digital environment extends the medieval sense of “inner tactility”—or the manner in which experience is generated based on the interface between sensory perception and intellectual judgment. Finally, by arguing that the digital environment simulates a multiplicity of “lifeworlds” or “object-environments” based on ratios of “inner tactility,” I examine some fundamental ways in which the hermeneutic methods of Ong and McLuhan presage the phenomenology of secondary literacy
The New Explorations Journal and Its Supplementary Blog: newexplorations.net
No full textThe supplementary blog and its relationship to NExJ is described. It will be hosted on the newexplorations.net Web site
The Intellective Touch: A Phenomenology of Digital Modernism
No full textThis dissertation re-examines the methods of existential phenomenology and media ecology by situating both within the aesthetics of “digital modernism,” which, following the media scholar Marshall McLuhan, I employ as an “anti-environment” to reveal the psychic and sensory attitudes engendered by the digital media environment. Drawing on McLuhan’s reading of the cultural environment constituted by electric media as – what the media ecologist Walter Ong famously labeled – “secondary orality,” I argue that the environment constituted by digital media is more profitably understood as “secondary literacy,” a term that Ong employed but did not develop. In contrast to the “secondary orality” of the electric environment, which, according to both Ong and McLuhan, retrieves the psychic attitudes associated with pre-literate tribalism, I characterize the “secondary literacy” of the digital environment as retrieving the psychic attitudes associated with ancient Greek and medieval manuscript literacy. Through contextualizing the interpretive attitudes of Husserl’s phenomenology and McLuhan’s media ecology within the primary literacy of medieval manuscript culture, I argue that both may function as important theoretical lenses, through which the attitudes of digital secondary literacy can be uncovered. On the basis of this theoretical integration, through which I analyze the artistic work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Christopher Alexander, and Anton Webern, I re-evaluate McLuhan’s use of modernist aesthetics as an anti-environment to the electric environment so as to position modernist aesthetics as an anti-environment to the digital environment.Ph.D
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
The Intellective Touch: A Phenomenology of Digital Modernism
Full text linkThis dissertation re-examines the methods of existential phenomenology and media ecology by situating both within the aesthetics of “digital modernism,” which, following the media scholar Marshall McLuhan, I employ as an “anti-environment” to reveal the psychic and sensory attitudes engendered by the digital media environment. Drawing on McLuhan’s reading of the cultural environment constituted by electric media as – what the media ecologist Walter Ong famously labeled – “secondary orality,” I argue that the environment constituted by digital media is more profitably understood as “secondary literacy,” a term that Ong employed but did not develop. In contrast to the “secondary orality” of the electric environment, which, according to both Ong and McLuhan, retrieves the psychic attitudes associated with pre-literate tribalism, I characterize the “secondary literacy” of the digital environment as retrieving the psychic attitudes associated with ancient Greek and medieval manuscript literacy. Through contextualizing the interpretive attitudes of Husserl’s phenomenology and McLuhan’s media ecology within the primary literacy of medieval manuscript culture, I argue that both may function as important theoretical lenses, through which the attitudes of digital secondary literacy can be uncovered. On the basis of this theoretical integration, through which I analyze the artistic work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, Christopher Alexander, and Anton Webern, I re-evaluate McLuhan’s use of modernist aesthetics as an anti-environment to the electric environment so as to position modernist aesthetics as an anti-environment to the digital environment.Ph.D
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
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