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Realities of Graphic Novels: An Interview with Frederick Aldama
Full text linkThe trend about producing and reading graphic novels has grown since the late twentieth century. These books with comic backgrounds seem to have a miraculous energy. They have been even appealing to unenthusiastic readers. They tempt people of different age groups, races and genders. They are also used for teaching ESL courses, e-learning activities, designing reality games, and teaching creative writing. If you talk to its followers, you may get the feedback that graphic novels can fulfil your demands and dreams from writing your assignments to taking you to the moon. Although many researchers have investigated the benefits of graphic novels, many faculties and librarians are still reluctant to include graphic novels in their curricula. Perhaps it is simply the attitude of many teachers and librarians that graphic novels look like a comic book, and simply are not “real” books. They have too few words, too many pictures, and lack quality to be seriously considered as literature. In the following, I, Ruzbeh Babaee, did an interview with Distinguished Professor Frederick Luis Aldama on realities of graphic novels.Aldama is a distinguished scholar and Professor of English at The Ohio State University, United States. In the departments of English and Spanish & Portuguese he is involved in teaching courses on US Latino and Latin American cultural phenomena, literature, film, music, video games, and comic books. He has founded and directed the White House Hispanic Bright Spot awarded LASER/Latino and Latin American Space for Enrichment Research. Professor Aldama won the Ohio Education Summit Award for Founding & Directing LASER in 2016. In April 2017, Aldama was awarded OSU’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and inducted into the Academy of Teaching. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 30 books, including his first book of fiction/graphic fiction, Long Stories Cut Short: Fictions from the Borderlands.</jats:p
Variation of dystopian control systems in selected novels by Huxley, Vonnegut, and Delillo
Full text linkDuring a time of emergence of new technologies, six outstanding pieces of dystopian fiction appeared from three unconventional writers: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, and Ape and Essence; Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and Slaughterhouse-Five; and Don DeLillo’s White Noise, and Cosmopolis. The present thesis investigates the dystopian essence of these narratives from the perspectives of technological advances and human manipulation. It is an exploration of the ways in which these texts represent the formation of dystopia and the manipulation of human being through technological developments in cyborg culture from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. My reading of dystopia is an investigation of well established critical materials by such scholars as Tom Moylan, Chad Walsh, Mark R. Hillegas, M. Keith Booker, and Erika Gottlieb among some others. Throughout the analysis, I highlight human manipulation via technology in these six dystopias through the theories of Donna Haraway, Michele Foucault, Katherine Hayles, Dani Cavallaro, Norbert Wiener, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. This study examines chronologically the idea of human manipulation in cyborg culture that promised us utopia through a combination of the human and the nonhuman, or humans and machines. But, the utopian desires of cyborg culture have led to dystopian societies in which human dignity is devalued. In this study, I consider human manipulation through biopower (disciplinary systems), cybernetics, and cyberspace as postmodern control systems that have trapped human beings in technological, mechanized, and simulated environments. I also attempt to show the variations in technological dystopian societies in selected dystopian narratives. I examine Huxley’s selected dystopian novels via the concept of biopower that manipulates people and turns them into docile bodies with disciplined minds. I investigate Huxley’s Brave New World and Ape and Essence to show how mind manipulation will guarantee and reinforce body manipulation. For Huxley, in order to convert human beings into docile productive bodies, their minds must believe in the righteousness of the actions of the body. Moreover, I propose cybernetics as a significant control system while investigating and understanding dystopian fiction. In this study, I examine the ways in which individuals in the dystopian societies of Player Piano and Slaughterhouse-Five are manipulated and exploited via cybernetics in the mid twentieth century. Cybernetics marginalizes human beings and turns them into intelligent machines and thoughtless consumer bodies. Cybernetics imposes a quite different kind of control over individuals. It is not a form of control that directly confines freedom of action; instead it is a subtle electronic control that affects human mind. Furthermore, I suggest that DeLillo’s White Noise and Comopolis are dystopian narratives about human body control in cyberspace in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. DeLillo demonstrates that the visible world is generated via a hidden informational world. He also suggests this invisible informational world is influenced by the visible world. Therefore, technology can manipulate the body based on particular cultural requirements. DeLillo shows that cyberspace creates simulation and hyperreality in order to entrap the human body. For DeLillo, in cyberspace people become disembodied and enmeshed into pattern, access, megalomania and paranoid schizophrenia
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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