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Rubin, Jon: Moscone\u27s character
No full textJon Rubin: A lot of us, as I said, came out of the McGovern campaign which was anti-war so again there was a shared – this was a 60’s thing – philosophy and a shared cultural orientation and a shared political orientation, and kind of a connection that not everybody who was not of our generation exactly understood. And I don’t know if people actually understand it today. Those of us who grew up in the 60’s, not better but there was a connection that people shared. There was the notion at a certain point if you had long hair, you were against the war, etc., etc. You’re sort of pushing against the mainstream, and that there’s a tacit agreement among people who are involved in that that there’s a commitment to each other; some kind of commitment to help each other and to be, in some way, righteous about things that George very much embodied and conducted, and allowed us to feel. So it was like we were doing exactly what we wanted to do exactly where we wanted to do it for somebody that we loved and admired who appreciated what we were doing, and who could join us and laugh with us and who we’d sincerely and thoroughly and completely believed as we did and would do what he said he was gonna do when he got elected
Rubin, Jon: Moscone being forgotten
No full textJon Rubin: I think that George has been forgotten. There are some stories that are easier to tell. Sometimes you tell the easy story, and the more nuanced story is lost. And George was an important and notable figure, and notable and wonderful guy, and he needs to be remembered for who he was. The tragedy of the end of his life should not define his life; that’s just the end of his life. It’s a tragedy, and there’s no question about it, but I think the lessons of his life are more important than the lessons of his death. And so whatever part I can take in telling that story and making sure that it’s out there to whatever extent it is out there… It’s a privilege to do it, it’s an honor, it’s a labor of love, and I’m delighted to be doin’ it
Rubin, Jon: Moscone\u27s humanitarian tendencies
No full textJon Rubin: It’s true that George brought diversity to City Hall, and of course his administration was tragically cut short and all that which we know, but he brought a certain kind of humanity into City Hall that was desperately needed right then because the Alioto years. I was not here for the vast majority of the Alioto years, but Joe Alioto was a brilliant, brilliant charismatic man, but his mind was on economic development. His mind was on tax base and business, and a prosperous community to the extent that humanity sometimes – not that he wasn’t a humanitarian, he was. He was a poet, really a renaissance man but – the sense of the need to consider the least of us was lost in the interest of kind of the “rising tide lifts all boats” was the philosophy. George came in and he said, “Look, I understand that some people have a beef. Just because they don’t look like me or they don’t have anything or they’re complaining about something, it doesn’t mean that they’re less than I am or that they shouldn’t be listened to or something else or that whatever it is they’re complaining about isn’t real. That we have to think beyond just what’s good for business is good for everybody, and I think that he was really a trailblazer in bringing that spirit into the politics of San Francisco, and in many ways into the politics of the nation. Those of us who participated in the campaign, and people who participated in the thousand days of the Moscone administration remember not only the man and all that, but the way in which seeds were planted at that time that came up even though there was a ten year period where things kinda went backwards a little bit, but a lot of things that we now take for granted – and this is a cliché, we at least take for granted as things to strive for if we haven’t accomplished them – the notion of affordable housing, the notion of affordable rental stock, the notion of personal rights and all these things were essentially nascent at that time. And George gave all of these interests something around which to coalesce and to help humanize politics. He was an intensely human guy. I mean, if nothing else he was a human being
Rubin, Jon: Issues between San Francisco\u27s communities
No full textJon Rubin: When I got into the Moscone campaign the issues that were at hand were all about the tension between what was called downtown east of Twin Peaks – corporate downtown, hotels, etc., Chamber of Commerce – and the developing new communities – whether it was the Black community, Gay community, Hispanic community, Chinese community – all of which found that they were getting squeezed and there were a lot of people coming in as a result of the Haight, people coming back from Vietnam, and everything else that San Francisco was becoming a place that was growing and changing. There was no longer a space for dialogue. And the tension that the young people coming in and the people who were thinking about things like rent-control, affordable housing, neighborhood representation, the need to reassert minority participation, English as a second language, all of those things that were not reflected in the economic development driven political philosophy of the Alioto people and the people who had come before
Taking COIL Virtual Exchange to Scale:2004-2020
Full text linkThe case studies upon which this chapter was built were predominantly written during 2020, based upon the Rubin and Guth survey data drawn from the 2018–2019 university academic year and additional data provided by the six case study contributors in 2020. Our analysis began during the latter part of 2020 and was completed by mid-2021, while the effects of the pandemic on the growth of COIL were becoming increasingly evident. We have updated the course number data through the academic year 2020–2021 for the cases presented. Additionally, there are sidebars from some of the contributors discussing what took place at their institution since the COVID-19 pandemic struck
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
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