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Physical and virtual spaces among the Palestinian diaspora in Malmö
No full textThrough the construction of a Palestinian diasporic topography of Malmö, this chapter focuses on the interrelationship of multiple spaces of action and interaction of Palestinians, locally and transnationally. In addition, given the different identifications and migration trajectories of Malmö Palestinians (originating in the West Bank, Gaza but also Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and beyond, as well as belonging to different generational groups) it seeks to address a number of questions such as: i. What is the nature of the transnational networks that Palestinians create in Sweden? ii. What importance does the Swedish local and national political context have on the emergence of a sense of Palestinianess? iii. How do transnational (especially virtual) connections impact on local imaginations of Palestinianness? iv. What kind of identities and interactions are (re)produced through new media? v. To what extent are these virtual spaces conducive to creating Palestinian diasporic divisions in a Swedish public space, such as Malmö?
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
Migration, Transnational Families, and New Communication Technologies
No full textIn this chapter, I will address the intersection between migration and new communication technologies. Drawing on a bottom‐up approach that puts migrant experiences at the heart of the analysis, the chapter observes how migrants use social and mobile media in the context of their everyday, transnational lives. The first part of the chapter surveys studies that have reported on the different ways in which new communication technologies are involved in a range of transnational practices such as information‐seeking, social networks and social capital, visibility and activism, and belonging. In the second part, I focus on one key theme of transnational migration, namely the ways in which members of transnational families care for each other at a distance using new media. The case of transnational communication in the family context also provides an opportunity to explore the cumulative and long‐term consequences of new communication technologies for the phenomenon of migration as a whole
Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe
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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
Consumers or citizens? Practices of cultural consumption of Latin American immigrants in Spain
Get PDFEl presente trabajo2 analiza el fenómeno migratorio de la población latinoamericana en Europa, específicamente en España, centrando su atención en las dinámicas y los rasgos que caracterizan el consumo comunicacional y cultural que esta población, en tanto diáspora, efectúa en su nuevo contexto vivencial, marcado por el vínculo entre lo local y lo global.Comun. Midia Consumo, Sao Paulo 14(41), 53-83. (2017)1806-498
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