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Training Bilingual Journalists: Toward Inclusion of U.S. Spanish Varieties in Bilingual News Media
No full textThis study analyzed how the tension between the use of standard Spanish versus U.S varieties of Spanish shows in the teaching of bilingual journalism in higher education and in the publishing practices of bilingual news media in the United States. The study examined how this tension impact Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) students that aspire to use their bilingualism in the professional field. This qualitative study drew on autoethnography and ethnography methods. The participants included students enrolled in the bilingual journalism program at San Francisco State University as well as the program's instructors, and editors of four bilingual news media publications. All the participants were interviewed, and in the case of students, some assignments were incorporated into the analysis. Field notes from class observation and personal teaching notes were also part of the data collection. Thematic analysis and discourse analysis were used in combination to analyze data. A key theoretical insight from this study is the identification of a vicious cycle of linguistic marginalization and exclusion that affects SHL students. This cycle is perpetuated and reinforced by both bilingual instructors in higher education and editors in bilingual news media. It begins with the racialized experiences SHL students face in their early schooling, which have lasting effects on their Spanish language development and self-confidence. At the university level, Spanish courses designed for heritage speakers tend to emphasize standardized language use, promoting the idea there is a single correct way to speak and write Spanish, devaluing the U.S. Spanish variety. This standardization further marginalizes students unfamiliar with that linguistic norm. The same logic extends to media institutions, where reporters are expected to use a formal,standardized register when covering Spanish-speaking and bilingual communities, continuing the cycle of linguistic exclusion. The study has pedagogical implications for any bilingual program in higher education that value student bilingualism and seek to amplify the voices of undeserved or underrepresented communities, particularly in fields such as journalism. There are also implications for bilingual news media outlets targeting a growing population of people speaking U.S. Spanish varieties and wanting to stay connected with their heritage language through community journalism.https://doi.org/10.46569/76537b12
The Labor of Literature: Democracy and Literary Culture in Modern Chile. By Jane D. Griffin. Amherst and Boston: U of Massachusetts P, 2016, p. 218, 85.00.
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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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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