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On a century of the invisible
No full textSimone de Beauvoir alludes to the anatomic visibility and invisibility of men's and
women's sexual organs respectively, and connects these thoughts with socially produced differences
between men and women. Women's private parts are inside and 'invisible', whereas the male penis is
not only visible but immediately graspable and almost soliciting active attention. Just like their bodily
pudenda (private parts), women in arts and architecture are therefore often passive and the subject of the
work of art rather than the author thereof, for example.
By initially taking a look at fin-de-siècle Vienna and the world of art and architecture surrounding Adolf
Loos, this contribution discusses the changes regarding the way women are perceived in the
architectural and artistic discourse during the past 100 years. It critically debates women as the subjects
in arts and architecture, but also whether the requirements these have to satisfy in order to even enter the
discourse have changed over the past century. When Adolf Loos published the photograph of the
bedroom for his child-woman wife Lina, which he had designed shortly after they married, he publicly
exposed a certain, rather passive (fictional) image of her. After their breakup, Lina commissioned Loos
to reconstruct her bedroom in the new apartment. Again, photographs of the design survived but they
show another image of Lina, one, which maybe she herself wanted to stage.
Subsidized contemporary housing projects in Vienna want to proliferate and accommodate a variety of
family forms and socio-cultural roles. By looking at some contemporary examples, for example by
SUPERBLOCK architects, the last part of the contribution will analyze the contemporary reflection of
how women are perceived and included into or excluded from the architectural discourse
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
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
Private Spaces: Experience of Privacy, Space, and its Boundaries after the Digital Revolution
No full textWalls create spatial sequences, connecting and separating spaces and the people experiencing them. In doing so, spatial organization traditionally plays an important role in creating or disturbing privacy. With the advent of the so-called digital revolution however, many disciplines focus on a kind of privacy that does not seem to have any spatial connotations: privacy of the web for example. One result is that traditional theories of privacy are being increasingly questioned. The current essay joins this discussion from the point of view of architectural theory. In this discipline, widely accepted phenomenological space concepts basing on Husserl and Merleau-Ponty, which acquire their meaning from the active behavior and multimodal perception of the animate form of human subjects, depend on direct experience of physical landmarks and their placement. In the mean time experience of coded information about space, mediated by a mobile phone for instance, has also become an issue in the way we perceive, experience, and enact space. Consider two banal examples of how the widespread use of digital devices and applications has changed the way public and private spaces are established in everyday life. If you are looking for WLAN access at an airport, you might gravitate towards a big crowd of people. Sometimes, a high density of people translates into the quintessential public space but in this case chances are the travelers are either waiting for the boarding of the plane or simply hanging around because they get the best Internet reception at that location. On the other hand, if one sits alone in a café and wants to enjoy a cappuccino in peace, it is a good idea to appear preoccupied with the mobile phone. Most people will regard the phone as a "do not disturb" sign. The task of this essay is to take a close look at new notions of space that these practices propose, uncovering their impact on boundaries and consequently on spatial practices such as privacy. Taking Irwin Altman's traditional privacy regulation theory and Daniel Solove's more recent taxonomy of privacy as starting points, the aim is to argue for the urgent need to rethink privacy such that it will accommodate a new experience between subjects and private space, which goes beyond mere control of access to the self
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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