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Review of “Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem” by Zain Abdullah
No full textThis article aims to review the book with the title of Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem by Zain Abdullah. Abdullah’s (2010) Mec Black Mecca ’adds to the growing body of literature on Islam influenced by the post-modernists\u27 challenges to neo-Orientalist Western representations of Islam (Al Azmeh 1993: 140). They are called for a historicized and contextualized view of Islam and Muslims, steering away from essentializing identity politics. Abdullah\u27s (2010) thick ethnography, or as he describes it, "narrative style," presents a variety of anecdotes and experiences along gendered, class, and generational lines, with a common Muslim orientation towards environment and experiences
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
The Digital Domain of Hope: New Zealanders and Australians Aging With Parkinson's Disease on Facebook
No full textFull Text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.Parkinson’s Disease is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases in older populations, second only to Alzheimer’s. There is no cure, but treatment, by medication, and physical and speech therapy, can help manage some symptoms. Nonetheless, it is generally characterized by uncertainty; uncertainty in symptoms, as they appear piecemeal; in the efficacy of emergent clinical treatments; and in scientific research on the future for Parkinson’s Disease. This thesis about a group of older people (65 and over) with Parkinson’s Disease in New Zealand and Australia, and how they deal with this uncertainty in their communications online. Drawing on semi-structured Zoom interviews with 15 people with Parkinson’s and two carers, all of whom are active in online Parkinson’s discussion groups, and textual analysis of 5 interviewees’ posts, I investigate how this group make sense of and act towards their futures. I suggest that for people with Parkinson’s on New Zealand and Australia Facebook groups, hope is often embodied through the stance of “Being Proactive.” “Being Proactive” is a culturally and historically situated mode of knowing and acting in and on one’s body, between embodied, scientific and clinical knowledges, that draws on neoliberal ideas of individual responsibility, local notions of good humour, and an emphasis on sharing and sharedness. The values encapsulated in “Being Proactive,” I argue, are constitutive of membership in the Facebook groups for people with Parkinson’s in New Zealand and Australia, defining the ways in which one acts and is recognized as a member in the groups. It is through defining, sharing, redefining, and embodying these ideals that people with Parkinson’s construct hope on the Facebook groups in the active sense, as something one does, rather than hope as something intangible that one imagines. Despite providing a model for hope and meaningful personhood in the face of neurodegenerative illness, however, the emphasis on “Being Proactive” is exclusive; to view “Being Proactive” as constitutive of membership also highlights its boundary-making implications. Indeed, in the same way that many people in New Zealand and Australia do not have reliable access to digital technologies or the internet, hope, in the way it is defined in these groups, is not equally accessible
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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