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Networking constructions of gender and constructing gender networks : considering definitions of women in the British Cervical Screening Programme
No full textIn this chapter, the author traces how she has used Actor Network Theory (ANT) and how she has developed the approach through its application to the Cervical Screening Programme (CSP). She demonstrates ways in which her feels ANT might be a useful tool for feminists approaching science. For feminists, the object of science has been consistently coded as ‘woman’, hence woman has received the same treatment. The author suggests that feminist approaches and ANT, as diverse as they both are in their own right, appear to have similar theoretical developmental trajectories expressing analogous ambivalences and facing the same dilemmas, at this historical moment. Using ANT terminology, the British government could be seen to have simplified and juxtaposed a series of entities into a network of associations that make up the CSP. ANT looks at science and society as co-evolving from the definition and positioning of non-human and human entities into a network of associations - an actor network
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
What does infrastructuring look like in STS? When?:Workshop Report
No full textThe workshop was organized at the EASST2018 Conference to take stock of empirical insights and conceptual developments around the notion of infrastructuring in STS. We report on the collective process that aimed to critically map and disentangle assumptions, identify blind spots, and chart the varied uses of the notion in STS. By using a hands-on approach inspired by Participatory Design, the workshop contributes to the quest for new ways of thinking and inventing, in addition to proposing formats where collective conceptual experimentation could take place in cross-disciplinary settings
What does infrastructuring look like in STS? When?:Workshop Report
No full textThe workshop was organized at the EASST2018 Conference to take stock of empirical insights and conceptual developments around the notion of infrastructuring in STS. We report on the collective process that aimed to critically map and disentangle assumptions, identify blind spots, and chart the varied uses of the notion in STS. By using a hands-on approach inspired by Participatory Design, the workshop contributes to the quest for new ways of thinking and inventing, in addition to proposing formats where collective conceptual experimentation could take place in cross-disciplinary settings
Practices of care in the recovery assemblage: an empirical study of drug services in Liverpool and Athens
Get PDFPractices of care in the recovery assemblage: an empirical study of drug services in Liverpool and Athens
Author: Eleni Theodoropoulou
This thesis empirically explores the practices of care emerging in two drug recovery services: Genie in the Gutter (Liverpool) and 18 ano (Athens). Thinking with the Deleuzo-Guattarian assemblage, I follow the flows of the service-users’ desires, from their initial encounter with substances to the transformations enabled through their encounter with the recovery assemblage. Throughout this complex and non-linear narrative, the focus is not on the consumption of substances, nor on abstention, but on the body’s desire to increase its power of acting, and accordingly on the encounters and connections that enhance or block the flow of this desire. Following this line of thought, I argue that it is not the lack of the substance that holds the recovery assemblage together, but the production of connections that enhance a body’s power of acting. Therefore, recovery becomes a practice of collective care, entangled with a body’s capacity to affect and be affected.
The oral (interviews) and visual (photovoice) methods deployed are connection-building devices, specifically producing, enhancing and accounting for the connection built between the two fieldsites, between the researcher and the services, and the researcher and the service-users. The data produced drive the unpacking of the human and nonhuman encounters that constitute the recovery assemblage in all its complexity.
Overall, the aim of this thesis is to methodologically and empirically demonstrate that policy can be practised otherwise. The outcome of the analysis of the lived experiences of the service-users is a call for the dismissal of policy as an intervention coming from outside, and its reconstitution as a practice, emerging organically through the affective relations produced inside the recovery assemblage. I argue that the practices of care unfolded in this account are policy in practice. Furthermore, by closely attending to the affective relationships produced in the recovery assemblage, we can enhance our understanding of drug using realities, of the desires invested in drug use and recovery, and of the ways in which societies fail those whose desires clash with established systems of thought. Finally, this thesis contributes to the sociology of health and illness by expanding the body of work that mobilises Deleuze to empirically challenge wellbeing as a stable state and individual matter
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
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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