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The variety of student experience, investigating the complex dynamics of undergraduate learning in Russell and non-Russell universities in England
No full textWright et al. 2019. Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective.
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Wright et al. 2019. Enacting the University: Danish University Reform in an Ethnographic Perspective. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer
CouchSurfing & Connectivity: Theorizing the Hybrid Collective Through an International Hospitality Network
Full text linkThis research examines global, hybrid sociality through the framework of Couchsurfing, an international hospitality network connecting travelers to potential hosts, visitors, and traveling companions. Couchsurfers are tourists but not just in the traditional sense. While many members are choosing some of the same travel sites that fall into the typical tourist sojourn, they also realize that these experiences can be enhanced through participation in hospitality networks and the subsequent human connections afforded as a result of membership. In a sense Couchsurfers are engaging in social capital building that is available to them as a result of this intimate, interpersonal, virtual and physical connectivity. CouchSurfing exists not only across online/offline boundaries but also at the intersection of global/local, grassroots/corporate, and public/private spaces. A multi-sited ethnography set across four trans-continental CS communities examines the features of the collective, practices, and member identity. Ethnographic fieldwork in the active city groups of Philadelphia, Osaka, Munich, and Dublin will also be combined with a broad survey and analysis of the online discourse. A multi-layered and mixed methods approach offers a more complete examination of a Couchsurfing as a quintessential example of hybrid sociality and poses important questions about global, mediated space.Ph.D., Communication, Culture, and Media -- Drexel University, 201
Inside Mathforum.org: analysis of an internet-based education community
No full textInside Mathforum.org is an ethnographic study of how digital media transform the learning contexts of both teachers and students of mathematics
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
Investigating the way we see the upskirt: The social and legal implications of gendered surveillance online
No full textThis dissertation examines the concept of gendered surveillance and the ways that gendered language is used to produce and maintain it, through the practice of nonconsensual image capture (NCIC). To do this I employed several qualitative methodologies focusing on the terms upskirt and revenge porn, including qualitative semi-structured interviews, discourse analysis, and feminist discourse analysis. I examined both legal writing and practice through the interview process, and conducted discourse analyses to examine the term upskirt in everyday use forms on the social media platform of Instagram, and the discourse of comments on two celebrity gossip blogs. The Instagram data was collected through the capture of the hashtag #upskirt, and the discourse analysis was collected in the form of comments from two moderated commenting communities from each communities’ respective posts on a celebrity upskirt image. The anonymous interview participants include 11 practicing and/or academic attorneys from across the United States and Europe. I suggest that both the term and the metaphoric use of upskirt in language represents a reduction of personhood, that positions women and girls into a particular way of being seen or watched, that also creates heteronormative discursive limitations, in both the legal system and everyday life.Ph.D., Communication, Culture, and Media -- Drexel University, 201
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
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