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The Ebb and Flow of Ideas in Nation-Building: The Tumultuous Run of "The Times of Vietnam"
Full text linkGoing 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
Propaganda images and manufacturing consent in "Free" Vietnam, 1950-1963
Full text linkPropaganda was necessary to sustaining American action in Vietnam and a major obstacle to successful action; it represented a deliberate attempt to manipulate the political environment but was often subverted or transformed by that environment; it was developed to solve problems, but it created new ones that demanded new solutions. Propaganda drove America toward more effort to solve the problems it had created. Unlike previous studies related to propaganda and Vietnam that consider propaganda types or organizations in isolation, this dissertation attempts to reconcile the interrelated phenomena of propaganda and their contexts into a single comprehensive story. The story that emerges is how Cold War propaganda was applied to Indochina and Vietnam, how that propaganda defined problems and solutions, and how those definitions created a political environment that demanded the march towards the Vietnam War.
This dissertation is not only an examination of American actions, however. The anticommunist Vietnamese political context must be considered as well. It was a crucial part of the American political environment concerning Vietnam, while also being a casualty of American propaganda and the consequences of the propaganda’s oversimplifications. The two political contexts were inextricably linked, especially because the propaganda of both nations bled back and forth between each other. Both the United States and Vietnamese anticommunists created propaganda geared mostly toward manufacturing consent in America, not Vietnam. Anticommunist Vietnamese and Americans’ lack of interest in pursuing policies that were actually attractive and sellable to the majority of Vietnamese people only exacerbated the problem and made political failure in South Vietnam all the more likely.
United States propaganda had insisted that America was helping Vietnam to develop democracy and freedom, even though that was patently not the case when working with the French. The United States called for a so-called third force that could be an alternative to colonialism and communism, even as it supported colonialism. When the obstacle of their French allies was finally gone in 1954, the United States thought it found that democratic, nation-building alternative in Ngo Dinh Diem. For both Americans and anti-communist Vietnamese, Diem appeared to be a way out of the dilemmas of the Indochina War and the Cold War in Indochina. They built up the overly optimistic image of Diem as a champion of democracy even as the untruth of it was becoming obvious. That miracle image of Diem, however, survived for some time until outside political circumstances shifted against it. As the weaknesses of Diem’s rule and the propaganda that supported it were exposed, Diem’s government descended into a more clearly authoritarian direction, buttressed by nothing other than coercion and American assistance. The naked repression of the regime, its relative ineffectiveness, and the perhaps exaggerated perception of the repression threatened the Kennedy Administration’s Cold War image at home in America, in South Vietnam, and around the world. That damage, particularly after the embarrassments of the Buddhist crisis in 1963, led the Kennedy Administration to abandon Diem. The resulting coup and assassination of Diem ended the political crisis and its fundamental threat to America’s propaganda image, but it did not solve America’s deeper problems in Vietnam. In fact, it helped to perpetuate them and repeat them, leading to the Vietnam War. With the long-term political failure of the destruction of the imagined Diem miracle, America turned more and more toward achieving its propaganda-defined goal of a Vietnam that aligned with American ideals through the use of military force
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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