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Visualising Africa in Chinese posters 1950-1980
No full textThis paper examines the depictions and portrayal of Africa and Africans in China during the period when that country moved to establish diplomatic relations across the continent – the foundation of what would become Africa-China relations today. Chinese posters were early forms of mass visual interaction with (the image of) foreign nationals. They reflect how Chinese society viewed itself in relation to others as it developed an awareness of the international through domestic mobilization. This study investigates how Africa and Africans are depicted in Chinese posters and how they shaped and/or reflected discourses of the period. It also examines the motivations behind the inclusion of Africans in Chinese posters, arguing that this had a largely domestic rationale. By historicizing Chinese posters in the meaning-making process of the image of Africa in 20th century China, this paper concludes that posters negotiated public opinion by defining friend and foe, were more about China and her cold war entanglements than about Africa, and simultaneously challenges and reinforces some widely held stereotypes about the continent
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
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
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
Knowledge production and circulation of Africa in modern China
No full textThis dissertation examines knowledge production about Africa in modern China from the late
nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It analyzes how and why ideas of Africa and
Africans have been produced and circulated in popular periodicals, propaganda posters, music
iconography and documentary films. It explores continuities and fractures in the meaning-making
processes of Africa in China and presents a study of dialogues and negotiations between
sameness and difference, self and other, fractures and continuities, and past and present.
Examining how ideas about Africa have been produced and circulated in various social spaces
in China, this dissertation uses discursive, cultural, and historical methods to investigate how and
why this African presence helped condition and was conditioned by dominant narratives of the
time. Knowledge about Africa in China is rooted in global, transnational, and transregional
movements of people, goods, and ideas. These meaning-making pathways have responded to,
challenged, or replicated colonial and imperial tropes and have been shaped by political and
ideological shifts in modern China.
In using the case of Africa in China, this research contributes to the expanding fields of Global
China and Global Africa by investigating transregional imaginaries of Africa in China. It provides a
comprehensive examination of the processes of knowledge production, knowledge circulation,
motivations, and contexts. The material analyzed here makes an empirical contribution through
its combination of textual, visual, and audiovisual material. It engages with the issues underlying
the interactions between Chinese and African communities and attempts a theoretical and
methodological reframing of knowledge and inquiry in modern times.
This dissertation thus contributes to a growing body of work centering on peoples and
cultures in Africa–China relations. Underlying currents for scholarships on race and racialization
of blacks in the Chinese context, this research argues against the notion that distinct political eras
introduced and abolished racialized categorizations in China. It shows that a change in political
eras did not cancel racial understandings. Instead, they were unified in a coherent narrative that
involved, challenged, or responded to global circulations of ideas as they pertained to Africa. In
this regard, this project also contributes to a wider understanding of contemporary Africa–China
relations at a moment when these relations face challenges brought about by geopolitical and
global health crises which contribute to shaping contemporary and future Africa–China relations.published_or_final_versionModern Languages and CulturesDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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