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Social Interactional Understandings in Investigating Family Practices of Digital Media Use
No full textThis chapter discusses the theoretical and methodological understandings that underpin research investigating the interactions of children and parents around digital media use in family contexts. The chapter first provides an overview of the research that explores family interactions in relation to digital media use and issues, and outlines how family interactions provide both opportunities and constraints for technological engagement, socialisation and participating in family life. Specific attention is directed to those studies that explore children’s participation in digital technologies through the theoretical lenses of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. These approaches examine in fine detail the participants’ moment-by-moment talk and actions (including multimodal actions) as they engage with each other and with digital media. The chapter next explores the methodological considerations that underpin family interactions in digital media contexts. It briefly discusses the ethical considerations of undertaking research involving children in the private contexts of the home and engaging in data collection that involves video recordings of family interactions with digital media. Finally, the chapter concludes with some challenges and opportunities for social interaction research that involve family interactions around digital media
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
Single mothers' worries: Phenomenological approach to mothers' worries and parental support in Finland
No full textSingle mother families need special attention from the society. This study is interested in how the society
takes into consideration single mothers` worries. The goal of the study is to answer to the following
questions: How do single mothers experience motherhood? What kinds of worries do single mothers
experience as mothers? What kind of experiences do single mothers have of getting parental support in the
areas of their worries?
In this study, a hermeneutic phenomenological approach is used. The study describes and interprets the
single mothers` experienced worries and explains how the mothers understand motherhood and parental
support from their perspective. The mini focus group interviews were conducted in November 2019 in an
organization which organizes family work particularly for single mothers in Finland. The purpose of the mini
focus group is to understand participants` perspectives. The data was then analyzed and arranged into
themes according to the phenomenological principals.
The interviewed Finnish mothers see motherhood as a gift which gives meaning to their life. This study
shows that they worry about having all responsibility alone, their financial situation, their own well-being,
their children growing without a father and their family model being different from nuclear families. Mothers
experience that family policy supports them in their financial situation and in their own well-being. The peer
support from other single mothers eases their feeling of isolation. Family workers support mothers in
practical ways. Confidential, informal and long-term relationships with the family workers are appreciated.
Grandparents give mothers social support, but their ability and willingness to help mothers varies a lot. The
results of this study show that the society needs to make sure that all parents get social support, all family
models are treated equally and single mothers can attend working life
Single mothers' worries: Phenomenological approach to mothers' worries and parental support in Finland
Full text linkMaster i sosialfagSingle mother families need special attention from the society. This study is interested in how the society
takes into consideration single mothers` worries. The goal of the study is to answer to the following
questions: How do single mothers experience motherhood? What kinds of worries do single mothers
experience as mothers? What kind of experiences do single mothers have of getting parental support in the
areas of their worries?
In this study, a hermeneutic phenomenological approach is used. The study describes and interprets the
single mothers` experienced worries and explains how the mothers understand motherhood and parental
support from their perspective. The mini focus group interviews were conducted in November 2019 in an
organization which organizes family work particularly for single mothers in Finland. The purpose of the mini
focus group is to understand participants` perspectives. The data was then analyzed and arranged into
themes according to the phenomenological principals.
The interviewed Finnish mothers see motherhood as a gift which gives meaning to their life. This study
shows that they worry about having all responsibility alone, their financial situation, their own well-being,
their children growing without a father and their family model being different from nuclear families. Mothers
experience that family policy supports them in their financial situation and in their own well-being. The peer
support from other single mothers eases their feeling of isolation. Family workers support mothers in
practical ways. Confidential, informal and long-term relationships with the family workers are appreciated.
Grandparents give mothers social support, but their ability and willingness to help mothers varies a lot. The
results of this study show that the society needs to make sure that all parents get social support, all family
models are treated equally and single mothers can attend working life.publishedVersio
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
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