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Mobilizing and mediatizing Middle Eastern Diasporas
No full textThe Arab uprisings in 2010—2011 have fostered new movements of immigrants from Middle Eastern countries to Europe and the US, leaving a region characterized by political instability, economic deterioration, civil war, and new authoritarianism. This introductory chapter presents the situation in the Middle East and the subsequent reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporas. Asking how these diasporas connect to, and interact with, their country of origin, the chapter outlines the concepts of political mobilization and diasporic media that together make the framework that guides all the contributions to this book
Diasporic political communication among Arabs in Europe: from online campaigning to friendship networks
No full textThis chapter is based on a collective research project run by four scholars at Copenhagen University. The focus of the work is on the political communication of Arab diasporic communities in Europe originating from Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, and Tunisia. The aim of this chapter is to theorize the aspects of political communication among the Arab diaspora. The empirical data were collected through interviews and observations in several European countries: the UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey. The analysis has shown that political communication in the diaspora revolves around the interaction of the diaspora members on three levels: the country of origin, the country of residence, and international associations. Based on these three levels of interaction, this chapter has outlined five key aspects of political communication practiced by Arab diasporic communities in Europe: involvement in political parties, association establishment, online campaigning, friendship networks, and international activism
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
Beirut from ‘October Revolution’ of 2019 to the 4th August Explosion in 2020:Transnational Solidarity, Social Media and Affective Communities
No full textThis chapter examines the online media communication of Lebanese musicians over the time span of a year, covering the start of the Lebanese revolution on October 17, 2019, through to October 2020, the aftermath of the devastating explosion in the port on August 4 of the same year. It argues that digital media communication platforms serve as carriers of a central affective dimension that intertwines the material, political, social and sonic worlds which enable a new form of politics of solidarity to emerge from the interplay between online–offline worlds. Digital media platforms are central in four main aspects. The chapter combines three main methodological tools. Fieldwork research (Beirut, November–December 2019) and digital ethnography (2020) combine two different types of ethnographic data, interviews and analysis of social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, of individual musicians and artists (Youmna Saba, Fadi Tabbal etc.), grassroots organisations (Impact Lebanon, Beirut Musicians Fund etc.), and wider publics. Last, it relies on literature from the fields of ethnomusicology (Tsioulakis, 2020; O'Brian Bernini, 2017; Swedenburg, 1996, 2011), digital media and cultures (Moreno Almeida, 2017a, b; Papacharissi, 2010; Pink, 2016), and sociology and international politics (Bryant & Daniel, 2019; Bayat, 2013; Majeed, 2019a, 2020; Mouawad & Baumann, 2017) to provide an in-depth discussion of this sensitive topic
Digital diaspora:The case of Farkhunda and Afghan women’s resistance
No full textIn this chapter we discuss communication that is political in nature among members of the Afghan diaspora in Denmark, and what social media platforms afford in terms of this communication and its implications. We combine fieldwork, interviews across generations and an (auto)ethnographic approach on the one hand, with aggregated twitter data across larger numbers and across countries on the other. We thus bring together the experiential scale and big data on political communication around this specific case, focusing on how gender politics is invoked by various stakeholders and for various ends across Afghanistan and in diaspora. We start from a specific event: the killing of the woman Farkhunda Malikzada, falsely accused of having burned the Qur’an in Kabul in 2015. Both old and new media figure in this horrific case. Videos of the event were filmed on smartphones and shared on the internet, journalistic coverage appeared in traditional media outlets, and civil society protests were mobilized in large part through social media. As the case went viral, images and hashtags circulated in social media, while demonstrations and vigils happened on the ground across the Afghan diaspora in the three largest Danish cities and across the world’s Afghan diaspora. Tangible political outcomes in terms of new legislation and implementation of policies around women’s rights in Afghanistan did not ensue. The platform of social media, however, has only become more important for Afghans in diaspora and in Afghanistan fighting for women’s rights and position in society. The Taliban takeover in August 2021 augmented this further.</p
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