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Making and Using Technology: Shifting toward Possibility and Vision
Full text linkThe problem this article addresses is that we excel at making tools and technologies, yet the things we build and how we build them are often harmful to humanity and the environment. Examples from rocket and chemical technologies show that we continue to use technologies in the wrong way. We build rockets that take us to the moon, yet we use rocket technology to build missiles that attack and kill others. We build chemical compounds to power engines, yet we use chemical technology to create pesticides that cause illnesses. This article suggests that we move beyond building and using technologies in ways that are harmful to humanity and the environment. The research aims to consider whether we can move beyond being makers. It considers whether we can better recognize the possibilities of what things can be made and how we can build and use them. The research further considers that we create visions based on those possibilities. These visions could help guide us toward pathways that are more beneficial to humankind and our planet. The article examines the concepts of possibility and vision from writers such as Thoreau, Gibran, and Huxley. The research considers literature that discusses humanity in the context of making, possibility, and vision. From this research, the article hopes to show that we can understand the possibilities in things and ourselves. Through this understanding, we may create visions that lead us to make the right things while building and using them in the right ways
Reclaiming a Participation: Our Everyday Experiences of Art, Sacredness, and Creativity
No full textThis dissertation shows that we have neglected our everyday experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity and that our everyday lives benefit when we participate in those experiences. The dissertation further shows that we can reclaim this participation so that our everyday lives are more interesting and meaningful. This dissertation considers the concepts of reclaiming and participation and how these concepts apply to ways we can experience art, sacredness, and creativity in our everyday lives. It investigates the aspect of everydayness in our daily, ordinary lives. It explores the concept of everyday creativity, how it has been ignored, and how each of us is creative throughout the day. The dissertation describes how our everyday lives are filled with experiences of sacred things and places. It explores our appreciation of art and the ordinary things in our everyday world and examines the authenticity in our own selves and our everyday experiences. It then considers how our experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity interpenetrate one another in our daily lives. It also investigates how our actions may enable us to have a greater awareness and understanding of the everyday experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity and how these actions allow us to reclaim a participation in those experiences
Reclaiming a Participation: Our Everyday Experiences of Art, Sacredness, and Creativity
No full textThis dissertation shows that we have neglected our everyday experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity and that our everyday lives benefit when we participate in those experiences. The dissertation further shows that we can reclaim this participation so that our everyday lives are more interesting and meaningful. This dissertation considers the concepts of reclaiming and participation and how these concepts apply to ways we can experience art, sacredness, and creativity in our everyday lives. It investigates the aspect of everydayness in our daily, ordinary lives. It explores the concept of everyday creativity, how it has been ignored, and how each of us is creative throughout the day. The dissertation describes how our everyday lives are filled with experiences of sacred things and places. It explores our appreciation of art and the ordinary things in our everyday world and examines the authenticity in our own selves and our everyday experiences. It then considers how our experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity interpenetrate one another in our daily lives. It also investigates how our actions may enable us to have a greater awareness and understanding of the everyday experiences of art, sacredness, and creativity and how these actions allow us to reclaim a participation in those experiences
Paths of My Development in the CCT Program
Full text linkThis paper shows the development of a view of personal transformation and social transformation, and the creation of art that depicts that view through courses in the Critical and Creative Thinking program at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. The paper is a focus on the courses and their impact on the view and the associated art, rather than an analysis of the view and art. Since the program is centered around critical and creative thinking, the paper also describes how thinking in critical and creative ways benefits a project of vision and art. Self-reflection is also an important component of the program, and that activity finds its way into the development of the view as well. A summary of the view of personal and social transformation is provided, as well as a summary of the digital art and comic art that depicts it. The paper finishes with a description of the expected audiences, and the envisaged steps to move that view and art forward. The purpose of the paper is to be more than a description of how a view of personal and social change, and its associated art, could be created in a specific academic program. The creation of that view and art could occur in other programs and arise in informal situations as well. The steps and process shown in this paper are provided as examples of ways of developing a view and creating art that depicts it. The paper does not build an argument for a specific path for a view or for art. Instead, it describes a landscape where spaces of critical thinking and creative perspectives existed to enable a critical view and a creative art to arise
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
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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