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Public Comment: Using Critique-like Mediating Artifacts to Democratize Discourse at City Council Meetings
Full text linkAre local governments designed for equitable citizen participation? While civic engagement aims to empower citizens and support representative governance, barriers to participation can hinder those outcomes. City council meetings, key venues for public input, pose specific challenges such as long durations, dense content, and intimidating formalities. These issues disproportionately affect Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012), who frequently report feeling underinformed or having limited time to engage. This thesis explores how city council meetings might use multimodal mediating artifacts, inspired by design critique practices, to make public discourse more accessible for Gen Z adults.
Grounded in activity theory and Habermas’ public sphere theory, this research frames city council meetings as dynamic systems of discourse, where a citizen’s ability to contribute depends on the tools available to mediate communication. The author introduces multimodal mediating artifacts as unique instruments that utilize more than one mode of communication simultaneously for greater accessibility. To address the communication challenges within city council meetings, the author also turns to another structured form of discourse: the design critique. Contemporary critique practices, in particular, provide intentional, participatory frameworks for exchanging feedback that challenge traditional power dynamics. In this thesis, critique is used as an inspirational model for supporting inclusive, equitable public discourse.
Using Fayetteville, Arkansas’s city council meetings as a case study, this research identifies obstacles to participation through auto-ethnography, interviews, and observational analysis. These methods inform the design of a multimodal intervention encompassing a digital platform with touchscreen interfaces in and around the meeting environment. Drawing from critique structures, these interventions introduce new channels for engagement that are informal, asynchronous, and multimodal. Features are designed with Gen Z in mind, leveraging their comfort with digital communication and screen-based interaction, to build awareness for local issues and reduce knowledge barriers to participation. Ultimately, the work envisions how city council meetings could better support diverse audiences and how multimodal mediation tools can invite and inform civic participation
Public Comment: Using Critique-like Mediating Artifacts to Democratize Discourse at City Council Meetings
Full text linkAre local governments designed for equitable citizen participation? While civic engagement aims to empower citizens and support representative governance, barriers to participation can hinder those outcomes. City council meetings, key venues for public input, pose specific challenges such as long durations, dense content, and intimidating formalities. These issues disproportionately affect Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012), who frequently report feeling underinformed or having limited time to engage. This thesis explores how city council meetings might use multimodal mediating artifacts, inspired by design critique practices, to make public discourse more accessible for Gen Z adults.
Grounded in activity theory and Habermas’ public sphere theory, this research frames city council meetings as dynamic systems of discourse, where a citizen’s ability to contribute depends on the tools available to mediate communication. The author introduces multimodal mediating artifacts as unique instruments that utilize more than one mode of communication simultaneously for greater accessibility. To address the communication challenges within city council meetings, the author also turns to another structured form of discourse: the design critique. Contemporary critique practices, in particular, provide intentional, participatory frameworks for exchanging feedback that challenge traditional power dynamics. In this thesis, critique is used as an inspirational model for supporting inclusive, equitable public discourse.
Using Fayetteville, Arkansas’s city council meetings as a case study, this research identifies obstacles to participation through auto-ethnography, interviews, and observational analysis. These methods inform the design of a multimodal intervention encompassing a digital platform with touchscreen interfaces in and around the meeting environment. Drawing from critique structures, these interventions introduce new channels for engagement that are informal, asynchronous, and multimodal. Features are designed with Gen Z in mind, leveraging their comfort with digital communication and screen-based interaction, to build awareness for local issues and reduce knowledge barriers to participation. Ultimately, the work envisions how city council meetings could better support diverse audiences and how multimodal mediation tools can invite and inform civic participation
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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