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COVID-Calls discussions - Hosted by Scott Gabriel Knowles - every weekday
No full textDescription: COVID-Calls discussions are streamed on YouTube Live, and archived on the Slow Disaster Podcast here: https://soundcloud.com/scott-knowles-433708957 Scott Gabriel Knowles is the host. He is a professor of history at Drexel University--he studies disasters worldwide. Email him at: [email protected] He is the host of COVID-Calls, a discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with disaster experts held every weekday at 5pm EST. What IS COVIDCalls? https://phillymag.com/news/2020/08/15/scot..
Atoms for peace in Brussels and Osaka: World’s Fairs and the shaping of Japanese attitudes to nuclear power
No full text누가 재난을 이야기하는가: 세월호 재난조사위원회의 과학, 물질, 유가족
No full text학위논문(석사) - 한국과학기술원 : 과학기술정책대학원, 2023.2,[iii, 112 p. :]A disaster investigation commission is a public institution that investigates, collects, processes, and analyzes materials at the after-disaster site to produce stories and knowledge. The investigation has been commonly understood to be an area exclusive to science and technology experts. However, various non-experts, including disaster victims and bereaved families are also involved in the disaster investigation process. Despite their significance, how disaster investigation commissions and non-experts meet in the investigation process is lack description. This thesis takes the South Korean Sewol Investigation Commission (SIC), which operated from 2017 to 2018, as a case study to see how bereaved families dealt with materials at the site of the disaster investigation. In order to analyze bereaved families’ experiences and knowledge, this thesis analyzed oral testimonial books of bereaved families. Original interviews with families and relevant experts were also conducted. In addition, related materials such as archival documents and images of bereaved family organizations, proceedings of investigation commissions, governmental documents, historical archives, and newspaper articles were reviewed. This study shows that disaster knowledge of the disaster investigation commission and the identities of bereaved families are mutually formed as creating disaster memory together. This implies that a scientific investigation process has limitations if only authorized scientific experts participate. This study documents a case where bereaved families co-produced knowledge with, but mostly worked in parallel to, authorized disaster experts. Their special status as bereaved family members contributed to a new mode of knowledge, and they also introduced previously unexamined materials to a disaster investigation. It marks a turning point in the history of Korean disaster science.한국과학기술원 :과학기술정책대학원
Parution : World’s Fairs in the Cold War - A. P. Molella, S. G. Knowles
No full textWorld’s Fairs in the Cold War. Science, Technology, and the Culture of Progress - Arthur P. Molella, Scott Gabriel Knowles 302 Pages. ISBN : 9780822945789 Résumé The post–World War II science-based technological revolution inevitably found its way into almost all international expositions with displays on atomic energy, space exploration, transportation, communications, and computers. Major advancements in Cold War science and technology helped to shape new visions of utopian futures, the sto..
Journal of Disaster Studies: An Inaugural Discussion
No full textScott Gabriel Knowles The many conversations that led to the creation of this journal stretch back five years or more, on multiple continents, in conferences and workshops and field schools and hallway chats and text messages. A consensus was gathering among disaster researchers that we would like to create a new space for discovery and exchange. Disaster studies is an interdisciplinary meeting ground, not a field per se, and disaster studies scholars are members of many different communities simultaneously. This is a strength of disaster studies as an analytical engine—it absorbs and applies multiple methods, casework, geographies, and temporalities in the pursuit of making sense of disaster as a social process. In founding the journal, we pulled together nine members of an editorial collective to steward the work, and in this inaugural issue we decided it might serve readers well to hear from this collective to gain some insight into our backgrounds and aspirations for this scholarly venture. The following is a con?versation among the members of the collective. In the time since this discussion took place Sulfikar Amir has joined the editorial board and Kaira Zoe Canete has joined the editorial collective. The text has been edited for clarity</p
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
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