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Cultural Neighbourhoods and Coproductions in South East Europe and Beyond 4th Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures
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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
Television representations of the neighbourhood, nostalgia, and cultural memory
Full text linkΗ θεματική της γειτονιάς αποτέλεσε από νωρίς τη βάση για την ανάπτυξη σεναρίων στην ελληνικήμικρή οθόνη. Εστιάζοντας σε μια εβδομαδιαία σειρά της κρατικής τηλεόρασης (ERT), το άρθροαυτό θα προσπαθήσει να αναδείξει τους τρόπους με τους οποίους η ελληνική τηλεόραση θυμάται τοπρόσφατο παρελθόν της μεταπολίτευσης. Ποια ιστορικά γεγονότα γίνονται μέρος της τηλεοπτικήςπλοκής και της ανάπτυξης των χαρακτήρων; Είναι η νοσταλγία μέρος της πολιτισμικής μνήμης πουδιαμορφώνει ένα κοινό τόπο για τη διαμόρφωση ενός τηλεοπτικού κοινού και ποια στοιχεία τηναποτυπώνουν; Πώς η διεθνικότητα των τηλεοπτικών σειρών παράγει γειτονιές εκτός συνόρων;The theme of neighborhood was from an early stage the basis for the development of scripts onthe Greek ΤV. Focusing on a weekly series produced by the Greek Public BroadcastingCooperation (ERT), this article will attempt to highlight the ways in which Greek televisionremembers the recent post-junta past. What historical events become part of the TV plot andcharacter development? Is nostalgia part of the cultural memory that forms a common groundfor the formation of a television audience, and what elements generate it? How does thetransnational circulation of television series and market produce TV neighborhoods beyondborders
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
Pearls are a girl's best friends: nostalgia and its discontents in the life-stories of two Georgian women
Full text linkNatela remembers her femininity as an expression of a long Georgian national tradition that seems to be threatened by a new, market-oriented order. On the contrary, Dela is determined to take advantage of the emerging need for luxury goods and fashion trends among the female consumers in modern Tbilisi. My paper will focus on the life stories of these two Georgian women and will try to postulate how the generational differences have affected the perceptions of their past and future in Georgia. Which are the emerging social spaces where they feel included or excluded and why? How do personal or family memories interact with national history? In which ways are these memories materialized though material culture? To what degree do social and economic changes lead to reassessment of the value, economic and emotional, attached to material culture? Based on a multi-dimensional understanding of memory, the reference to the Georgian past for these two women is not a nostalgic journey to an uncontested time which is often the case in an official national history. They are both culturally aware agents that seem to challenge to different degrees and for different reasons the linearity of time and space, negotiating in this way the idea of a biography. Taking as start point these two life stories, I examine how the theme of nostalgia does not necessarily allude to a frozen in memory past, but it interacts with a real effort of assessing the present conditions of living and articulates complaints or desires for the future
City Museums and Local Integration Policies: The Case of the Volos City Museum
Full text linkCity museums tend to be identified with the gradual democratisation of memory against nationalist and essentialist discourses through the pluralisation of histories included in their collections. My paper examines the context in which the Volos City Museum was conceived, constructed and opened in 2015. The EU’s gradual decentralization and its connection to the diversification of European societies through migration, made necessary the integration of immigrants at the local level. These changes had an impact on Volos and were stepping-stones for the foundation of the museum. This paper is based on fieldwork linked to the new museum’s opening, as well as an examination of its activities and agenda.Les musées de la ville ont tendance à intégrer dans leurs collections la pluralisation des histoires et à contribuer ainsi à une démocratisation progressive de la mémoire, à l’opposé de discours nationalistes et essentialistes. Mon article examine le contexte dans lequel le musée de la ville de Volos a été conçu, construit et a ouvert ses portes en 2015. La décentralisation progressive de l’Union européenne, en lien avec la diversification des sociétés européennes par la migration, a fait de l’intégration des immigrés au niveau local une nécessité. Ces changements ont eu un impact sur la ville de Volos et ont conduit à la fondation du musée. L’article est basé sur un travail de terrain dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche lié à l’ouverture du nouveau musée et sur un examen des activités et de l’agenda du musée
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