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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
Gut Feelings: The Special Effects Body at the Limits of Taste
Get PDFThis dissertation centers spectacular displays of the body and its component parts in horror and exploitation film. Working against the prevailing discourses of immateriality attached to the discussion of digital effects in critical, fan, and even academic conversations, this dissertation focuses on the materiality of both practically and digitally produced special effects bodies. I argue that these corporeal spectacles are visceral in every sense of the word—as hybrid assemblages of the bodily bits of humans and animals that intersect with technics, in their preoccupation with the revelation of what lies beneath, and in their reliance on bodily interaction between themselves and sensing bodies offscreen for their affective charge. By taking these spectacular assemblages of biology and technology as my object, I analyze and contextualize the material, affective, and experiential dimensions of our bodily engagement with these assemblages; violence, death, and decay as it relates to biological and technological structures; and ethical and practical questions raised by the lives and deaths of these constructed beings. As a guiding heuristic and a means of rerouting media experiences beyond sight and cognition, this project argues for the potentialities of the gut as a knowing, feeling, and even imagining system. I propose the concept of the enteric imaginary as an intervention that centers the hyper-presence of the gut—its experiential, emotive, and image-generating capacities—in the affective dimensions of bodily special effects, reinscribes the importance of biological matter within both digital and analogue scapes, and seeks to broaden both our understanding of what constitutes possible embodied engagements with the digital beyond simply cognition, as well as what “counts” as cognition.
This dissertation foregrounds the critical role of disgust, taste, ingestion, digestion, and excretion in the varied modes of engagement (pleasurable and otherwise) and cultural meaning-making applied to special effects bodies, and to the films and contexts in which they appear. Taking inspiration from Siegfried Zielinski’s media anarchaeological model, this project utilizes a promiscuous scope in selecting case studies from a wide array of media contexts, and grounds this admittedly chaotic approach by organizing these varied objects around a guiding figure in each chapter: the écorché, the wolfman, the cannibal, and the revenant
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
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Laughter Out of Place Popular Comedy Across Bengal and Bombay After Partition
No full textThe Partition of India in 1947 has been a recurrent subject of scholarly inquiry. Trauma, memory, and gendered silence dominate the critical frameworks for studying the immediate and longue durée effects of an event that took two million lives and displaced more than twenty million people. In cinema and media studies, post-Partition melodramas of individual suffering that allegorize displacement, dispossession, and sectarian violence have attracted most critical attention. My dissertation argues that the genre of popular comedy offers a new aperture for the cultural historiography of this period. The influx of East Bengali refugees to Calcutta and its outskirts, along with the expulsion of Muslims from West Bengal, newly annexed to India, to East Pakistan, produced an unprecedented sociopolitical vortex. In addition to the state’s political indifference towards their rehabilitation, the East Bengali refugees had to endure sociocultural disdain from West Bengalis despite shared ethnolinguistic identities. Partition-induced migration also had a tectonic impact on the media industries of Bengal and Bombay. The Bengali industry in Calcutta, having lost half of its linguistic audience due to new borders, plunged into financial crises. The availability of East Bengali comedians, who had arrived in Calcutta because of Partition, as cheap creative labor, led to comedy’s emergence as a culture industrial form. Meanwhile, Bombay cinema saw many Muslim artists depart for Pakistan, a lacuna partly filled by Bengali creative labor from Calcutta, some of whom became decisive in shaping the comic form in Hindi cinema. These shifts inform the historical groundings of my dissertation. It addresses two common historiographic attitudes towards popular comedy—its relegation in film historiography to “comic relief” and the dismissal of post-Partition comedy as “caricatural”—to facilitate a tracing of its myriad mediations across media industries (Bengal and Bombay) and media forms (film, radio, and theater). The common thread that runs across these mediations—where media institutions, textual forms, and publics remain entangled—is the affective refrain of being out of place. This dissertation, across various chapters, narrates how such refrains bind the political stakes and the aesthetic imaginations into unsettling forms of laughter.Conducting extensive research in Pune and Kolkata, I have used my reading and writing proficiency in Bengali, Hindi, and English to look at national and regional state archives on cinema and broadcast radio, private archives of theater, and personal archives of the comedians. I have also interviewed a number of family members of these comedians, whose advanced age speaks to the urgency of this project. These interviews, along with archival materials of different languages, scales, intentions, and scopes, assemble the scattered fragments of a generic practice whose cultural urgency continues to fly under the historiographic radar. Bringing them together, my dissertation seeks to bring out the implicit conversations between the cultural production of these comedies, the relevant media institutions and infrastructures, the creative singularities of the comedians, and their reflexive understanding of media cultures and ecologies intimated in their writings and interviews. Shuttling between Bengal and Bombay, and cutting across film, radio, and theater, I delineate how popular comedy proposes a media historiography where texts, subjects, authors, and institutions remain perennially unsettled within the post-Partition sensorium. With almost no previous scholarship on a body of generic expressions that remains a vital presence in popular cultural memory, this dissertation aims to establish both an archive of popular comedy and an uncharted historiographic trajectory of popular culture in South Asia
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
Moral dilemmas in Khaled Hosseini's And the Mountains Echoed
Get PDFKhaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed explores the intricacies of human relationships and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters, highlighting the complexities of sacrifice, love, and guilt. This paper examines key moral conflicts within the novel, including Saboor's decision to give away his daughter, Pari, in the hopes of securing a better life for her, Nila Wahdati’s emotional detachment as an adoptive mother, Parwana's betrayal of her sister Masooma, and Nabi’s role in separating Pari from her brother Abdullah. Each character’s decision underscores the tension between personal desires, familial duties, and the harsh realities of life. The novel illustrates that moral dilemmas often arise in the gray areas of human experience, where well-meaning actions can lead to unintended harm. Through these complex choices, Hosseini presents a profound exploration of how individual actions shape the lives of others and reverberate across generations.
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Indian Documentary Studies: Contours of a Field
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