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El fantasma de Colón: El turismo, el arte y la identidad nacional en las Bahamas
No full textIan Gregory Strachan (1969-), Bahamian writer, Chair of English Studies at College of the Bahamas, author of God's Angry Babies (1997) and Paradise and Plantation (2002).
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
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
Paradise and Plantation: The economy of Caribbean discourse
No full textThe first concern of this study is to trace the evolution of the idea of the Caribbean as Paradise and to identify those circumstances which have made the region ideal for such a conception. The second is to examine the relationship between the representation of the Caribbean as a Paradise and the material reality of the Plantation. An investigation into the ways Paradise and Plantation rebuff/reinforce each other on the level of metaphor will also be carried out. Third, the dissertation seeks to explain how the heritage of Caribbean paradise discourse affects the economic, social and cultural life of Caribbeans today. More specifically, it considers the dynamics of tourism, its status as an extension of the plantation system, and its role as a propagator and exploiter of the paradise myth. Finally, this dissertation strives to identify an economy of Caribbean discourse which is shaped by the controlling metaphors Paradise and Plantation , and the ideologies (colonizing and decolonizing) which have deployed them for the past five hundred years. The objective is to prove that Caribbean discourse, whether generated by colonizer or colonized, has been affected by notions of the region\u27s value, the value of its people. Chapter One, Paradise and Imperialism, traces the evolution of the Caribbean is paradise metaphor between the fifteenth and late eighteenth centuries, using texts like Columbus\u27 Journal and Defoe\u27s Robinson Crusoe as signposts. Chapter Two, Emancipation and the Caribbean Wasteland, analyzes the shifts in Caribbean discourse which took place after Emancipation, when the region was no longer figured as a paradise but as a wasteland of unproductiveness, and at the turn of the century, when this unproductiveness transformed the region into a paradise once again. Chapter Three, Paradise is Plantation uses the Bahamian case as an example of the role tourism (the modern paradise business) plays throughout the post-independent Caribbean. Chapter Four, Another Eden, examines the native response to the imperialist discourse of paradise and plantation via the theory and practice of its leading poet and playwright, Derek Walcott
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