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Alien Registration- Stewart, Emma M. (Houlton, Aroostook County)
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Leisure activities in the outdoors: Learning, developing and challenging
No full textThe benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation). These benefits include the development of: health and wellbeing; social skills; leadership and facilitation skills; personal, emotional and reflective abilities; confidence and identity creation.
Drawing on a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides for learning, developing and challenging. The authors in this collection challenge dominant discourses of outdoor leisure through their selection of outdoor activities, theoretical approaches and modes of representation. All offer fresh insights and thinking into how leisure in the outdoors can be understood. The book covers a range of outdoor conceptualisations that challenge the reader to think deeply and broadly about the common threads which bind the broad field of outdoor leisure together. The experiences explored in this book range from suburban outdoors to wild places, surfing to mindful reflection, and trail walking to Nordic skiing, and encompass a broad spectrum of people
Walking the talk in outdoor recreation research: The theory and practice of the mobile interview on the Port Hills, Christchurch, New Zealand
No full textBackground: This presentation focuses on the theoretical foundation and practical application of walking as a research method. Walking interviews have been used as a research tool for some time, particularly in the field
of human geography (Jones, et al., 2008), and have proven very effective in revealing human connections to place which more traditional stationary face-to-face interviews have found difficult (MacKay et al, 2017). Place
meanings are co-constructed between people and the physical locations themselves, and the practice of walking forges deep understandings of the people and places we research (Wylie, 2006). It has been claimed that walking interviews enable a meaningful and shared encounter with place, which includes a range of embodied and sensory experiences, “and thus has the potential to generate rich, sometimes evaluative, accounts of situated life experience and the dynamics and biographies of place” (Mackay et al, 2018, p. 2).
Approach: To enable an exploration of the utility of walking interviews in the field of outdoor recreation research, the presentation draws on a project examining how outdoor educators (n=8) engage with the Port Hills in Christchurch as place, both in their personal lives as well as in their teaching practice. The data gathering and analysis phases of the research are shared to further explain how this method can provide rich and valuable insights for outdoor recreation researchers.
Significance: Surprisingly, mobile methods such as walking interviews are rarely utilised in outdoor recreation research. Following Carpiano (2009), we argue that walking interviews enable researchers to study local areas
such as the Port Hills with specific social, cultural, or historical contexts, and to develop or refine theories that are grounded in the lived experiences of the participants
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
Abstract
No full textThe book begins with a series of chapters that on the face of it speak in many ways to the outdoor recreation trope. They are focused around the link between outdoor leisure and wellbeing. In addition, they are strongly linked to the dominant imagery of outdoor recreation as male and white dominated. Yet a second glance begins to show significant challenges to this being raised through all of these chapters. The second chapter, by Nick Davies, talks about the diversity of recreational walking preferences and experiences, and is situated within Stebbins's (2017) concept of serious leisure. In doing so, it recognizes the need to and value of seeing walking as broadly defined rather than constraining it to a macho imagery of the 'serious' (in a machismo sense rather than Stebbins' concept)
Abstract
No full textThis chapter provides summary of key themes that are relevant to outdoor leisure as presented in the book. The researchers hope that the study disrupts the status quo assumptions of privileged outdoor leisure participation. The editors recognize the in need of a seismic shift toward inclusive, equitable and just discourses and practices in this period where 'being outdoors', and the reprieve and rejuvenation these experiences afford us, are in desperate need
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
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