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Introduction: foundations of the theory and practice of global media and communication policy
No full textMapping Global Media Policy: concepts, frameworks, methods
No full textIt is now recognized by scholars, policymakers and media activists that the environment in which media and communication policy is “made” is undergoing profound transformations. Trying to track, describe and analyze these transformations poses a stimulating challenge, particularly to scholars who see their work as an intervention in policy debates. This article seeks to address what we see as the most difficult yet necessary first steps towards meeting this challenge: defining the boundaries of what we actually mean by “global media policy”, providing a conceptualization of global media policy as a domain, elaborating a consistent analytical framework, and addressing methodological implications.
The conceptual framework that we lay out here is part of a Global Media Policy (GMP) mapping project that has been developed within the context of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), with a view to addressing the many issues faced by researchers and practitioners, as well as policy-makers and advocates operating in this domain. In this article we present an overview of the conceptual journey through which the GMP mapping project has evolved
Actors and Interactions in Global Communication Governance: the Heuristic Potential of a Network Approach
No full textThis chapter addresses the policy implications of this complexity and suggests a specific standpoint through which it can be examined, theorized and empirically explored. We start by briefly addressing the theoretical and empirical shortcomings of a concept that has recently characterized much of the discourse surrounding media and communication policies: multi-stakeholderism. We contend that this concept is inadequate in that it does not enable us to grasp the essence of GCG as a domain. We do this by offering examples from the GCG field to show how a diversity of actors, combined with dynamics of processes, produce uncertainty and complexity at different levels that must be properly investigated. We then discuss why a network approach to the study of GCG may prove fruitful towards a better understanding of how GCG is structured. Using a short review of former applications of a network approach to governing mechanisms, we outline the heuristic potential of this approach. Finally, we bring our theoretical reflection one step further and propose that in order to empirically investigate the global networked governance of communication, it may be useful to look at different kinds of (complementary) networks through appropriate methodologies. In our concluding remarks, we explore directions in which the proposed theoretical-methodological framework could be applied
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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