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Scott Mackenzie & Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.), Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
No full textA review of the book: Scott Mackenzie & Anna Westerståhl Stenport (eds.), Films on Ice: Cinemas of the Arctic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015
1826: Colin Scott Mackenzie (German binoculars)
No full textColin Scott Mackenzie, my father’s older brother, joined the Ross Mountain Battery (RMB), Territorial Force, of the 4th Highland Mountain Brigade in 1909 on his 16th birthday. This was the earliest date he was allowed to join and earlier than normal because he was a ‘boy bugler’. The Ross Mountain Battery (RMB) was based in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.Mountain batteries were light artillery able only to fire 10lb shells, but they were supremely mobile and remarkably accurate. They could quickly be taken apart and carried by horses or mules to wherever they were needed – often enough the men themselves could manhandle the guns into the final positions. In modern times mortars have largely usurped their role.Colin Scott, like most of the ‘originals’, had just returned from the 1914 Annual Camp with the RMB when he was called up on the very outbreak of war. He was at both Gallipoli landings, Cape Helles and Sulva Bay, and formed part of the battery rear-guard at the latter’s evacuation. I remember him telling me that the evacuation with no loss of life was no miracle; armies can’t move quietly. The Turks knew perfectly well their uninvited guests were leaving and didn’t want them to change their mind by firing at them. He also said the soldiers were short of everything except corned beef which they sucked from the tin (it became fluid in the heat) before the swarms of flies could get at it.Colin Scott also fought throughout the Sinai campaign, but was invalided home in late 1916 when he had already been ‘time expired’ for some years. He spent some time in hospital in the UK and then returned to his interrupted law studies, eventually becoming Procurator Fiscal for the Western Isles. In the Second World War he was 2i/c the Lewis Battalion of the Home Guard.</p
Introduction: What are Arctic Cinemas?
No full textIn their “Introduction,” Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerståhl Stenport coin a new rubric within World Cinema called “Arctic Cinemas.” They position different forms of Arctic filmmaking, whose interrelations are often overlooked to uncover a counter-history that reveals the complexity of Arctic moving image representation. Films on Ice is the first book to present a transnational and global range of Arctic film and moving image practices, addressing the great cinematic diversity of representation and production practices in the region. Engendering a dialogue between insiders and outsiders, the book’s examples are drawn from three distinct but interrelated groups: 1) films made by Arctic residents, but mostly seen in the South through film festivals, specialty TV channels, and the Internet; 2) films made outside the Arctic, typically by outsiders, and viewed mostly in the South and; 3) films made and viewed by Arctic residents through narrowcast, broadcast, digital streaming, and alternative venues.</p
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No full textText input for mobile or handheld devices is a flourishing research area. This article begins with a brief history of the emergence and impact of mobile computers and mobile communications devices. Key factors in conducting sound evaluations of new technologies for mobile text entry are presented, including methodology and experiment design. Important factors to consider are identified and elaborated, such as focus of attention, text creation versus text copy tasks, novice versus expert performance, quantitative versus qualitative measures, and the speed–accuracy trade-off. An exciting area within mobile text entry is the combined use of Fitts ’ law and a language corpus to model, and subsequently optimize, a text entry technique. The model is described, along with examples for a variety of soft keyboards as well as the telephone keypad. A survey of mobile text entry techniques, both in research papers and in commercial products, is presented. I. Scott MacKenzie is a computer scientist with an interest in human–compute
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
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