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Online or on paper? An analysis of opinions
No full textThe question facing the editors of New Technology in the Human Services was whether it was the right time for the journal to go on-line via a web browser. It seemed ironic that as more and more journals move to on-line versions NTHS should stay in paper format only, given that its topic is the use of communications and information technology in the human services. This is an analysis of two small surveys one on-line and one paper based
Social work and information and communication technologies: the tortoise and the hare?
No full textBoth social welfare and learning delivery are changing, but they do not mirror each other in terms of their progress. The Human Services have been undergoing a business redesign process but have taken limited account of the role of communication and information technologies for training; or for external networking purposes. The more traditional tertiary education institutions have been integrating C&IT by harnessing it, but for traditional teaching methodologies and could be in danger of losing their students to more progressive teaching and learning businesses. This paper explores the impact of communication and information technologies (C&IT) on human service teaching and learning
Information and communication technologies
No full textThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Work provides a concise guide to 400 topics relevant to the practice of social work in the 21st Century. It brings together 250 top authors and covers all service user groups
Understanding mobility exclusion and investigating the possibility of promoting inclusion through virtual mobility
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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
Social work in a digital society
No full textThis chapter will:Conceptualise social work as taking place within the ‘digital society’Explore how information and communication technology impacts on the individual, families and communities Argue that technological change has irretrievably altered the nature of the social world, and hence practitioners need to understand it
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