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Sharon Webb, 1969 Miss Homecoming Candidate
No full textSharon Webb was a student at Jacksonville State University in the late 1960s. She was a 1969 Miss Homecoming queen candidate. Shown she stands inside Bibb Graves Hall. (circa October 20, 1969)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/20120/thumbnail.jp
“Digital Archives in Communities – Practice and Preservation” : a Summary (or at least an attempt)
No full textBlog post published by the Digital Preservation Coalition. The blog is a summary of the event organised by Dr. Sharon Webb, 'Digital Archives in Communities - Practice and Preservation', a two day event related to Webb's British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018)
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“Digital Archives in Communities – Practice and Preservation” : a Summary (or at least an attempt)
No full textBlog post published by the Digital Preservation Coalition. The blog is a summary of the event organised by Dr. Sharon Webb, 'Digital Archives in Communities - Practice and Preservation', a two day event related to Webb's British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018)
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
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Building a Feminist Chatbot - Workshop and Collaboration
No full textIn 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways.
In early 2020, Reanimating Data team members worked with the Feminist Approaches to Computational Technology Network (FACT//), founded by Sharon Webb and Cecile Chevalier. RAD teamed up with FACT on their CHASE funded training programme to see how we might create an alternative means into the WRAP dataset by creating a 'feminist chatbot'.
The workshops were led by Suze Shardlow (Women Who Code London). The group not only learned basic programming skills but also reflected on what it might mean to share and interrogate these feminist interviews from the past. What kinds of questions are feasible and ethical? What might constitute an answer? The chat bot was introduced at the launching of the archive at an event at Manchester Central Reference Library in March 2020 where we also crowd-sourced potential questions that the chat bot could be programmed to answer.
This item includes (i) the questions generated at this event; (ii) the code generated for the chat bot; (iii) two blog posts reflecting on the development of a feminist chat bot: 'A feminist chat bot?' and 'Feminist chat bot 2: front /back, questions/ answers; now/then'.</p
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
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Queer codebreakers 2.0
No full text‘Queer Codebreakers’ was a response to an open call for proposals stemming from a collaboration between the Sussex Humanities Lab (Sharon Webb), Queer in Brighton (Lesley Wood and David Sheppeard) and Laurence Hill, former Director of Brighton Digital Festival. The call for proposals asked for work that explored the social, political and cultural implications and impacts of technology on the archive. It looked for submissions that reinvented the way in which oral histories and archival material is represented, to move beyond the grid-based design of most digital archives. Applicants were required to incorporate content from the QIB oral history collection and were asked to be sensitive to the topics and subjects raised in the interviews. The initial exhibition piece, Queer Codebreakers 1.0, developed by computational artists in response to this call, was funded by Sharon Webb's British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018-19). As an installation piece, QC 1.0 experimented with how oral history testimonies are presented to the public and explored ways to engage the community in their collective narratives and stories. QC 1.0 showcased at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, for 4 days in February 2019. A year later, QC 2.0 was redeveloped and launched during LGBT History month 2020 as part of the ‘Queer the Pier’ exhibition at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (UK).</p
Queer codebreakers 2.0
No full text‘Queer Codebreakers’ was a response to an open call for proposals stemming from a collaboration between the Sussex Humanities Lab (Sharon Webb), Queer in Brighton (Lesley Wood and David Sheppeard) and Laurence Hill, former Director of Brighton Digital Festival. The call for proposals asked for work that explored the social, political and cultural implications and impacts of technology on the archive. It looked for submissions that reinvented the way in which oral histories and archival material is represented, to move beyond the grid-based design of most digital archives. Applicants were required to incorporate content from the QIB oral history collection and were asked to be sensitive to the topics and subjects raised in the interviews. The initial exhibition piece, Queer Codebreakers 1.0, developed by computational artists in response to this call, was funded by Sharon Webb's British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2018-19). As an installation piece, QC 1.0 experimented with how oral history testimonies are presented to the public and explored ways to engage the community in their collective narratives and stories. QC 1.0 showcased at the Jubilee Library, Brighton, for 4 days in February 2019. A year later, QC 2.0 was redeveloped and launched during LGBT History month 2020 as part of the ‘Queer the Pier’ exhibition at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (UK)
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