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The socioethical concerns associated with Indigenous Oceanic cultural heritage materials
No full textThe rise of postcolonial theories in the 1970s did not yield much influence in the then practice of humanities computing, but following the mass-scale digitisations of cultural heritage materials over the past thirty years questions of Indigenous agency and the colonial roots of the digital cultural record have become more urgent than ever. This thesis operates within the area of postcolonial digital humanities and seeks to explore three questions. The first regards the socioethical concerns associated with the digitisation of Indigenous cultural heritage materials originating in Oceania, a geographic region which is peripheral on digital humanities maps but at the same time paradigmatic for exploration due to its cultural, political and linguistic diversity and multiple histories of colonial plundering. The second question investigates the extent to which global cultural heritage institutions digitise collections originating in Oceania in a culturally responsive manner, whereas the third focuses on the actions that digitising institutions can take in order to improve their websites from a decolonising perspective. The analysis that has been conducted on relevant literature and digitisation websites has resulted in an outline of theoretical concerns that should be taken into consideration prior to digitisation, as well as an assessment of existing digitisation activities and recommendations for improvement.
Stories of initiation for the modern age: explorations of textual and theatrical fantasy in Jules Verne’s Voyage à travers l’impossible and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials
Get PDFWhile the theatrical works of Jules Verne have gathered some critical attention
over recent years, the text of the Voyage à travers l’Impossible has remained an obscure
space in the author’s oeuvre or deemed unworthy by Vernian scholars. Jules Verne has
predominantly been seen as a writer of adventure novels whereas the fantastic elements
in his work have commonly been overlooked by critics. This thesis examines the ways in
which the Voyage à travers l’Impossible amalgamates ideas that are representative not
only of the Vernian work in general but also of the pre-freudian spirit of the nineteenth
century. By viewing the play within the context of theatrical fantasy, this thesis opens up
new paths of analysis in the genre. Part of this endeavour consists of a comparison with
a seemingly disparate text: Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, which, similarly to
Verne’s play, facilitates an exploration of the function of fantasy both in literary and
theatrical terms as it was first adapted for the stage in 2003. During the course of this
thesis I offer an analysis of the trilogy and proceed to cover new ground by comparing
this to an analysis of the adapted text.
For the purpose of my examination I establish a connection between the two texts
by regarding the Voyage à travers l’Impossible and His Dark Materials as dominated by
the literary motif of initiation according to the model introduced by Vernian specialist
Simone Vierne. I subsequently interweave an array of theories on fantasy,
psychoanalysis, topography and the body as part of my analysis of the literary fantastic.
Texts by Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Tzvetan Todorov, Irène Bessière, Mircea
Eliade, Judith Butler and Vernian critics such as William Butcher are amply used in my
readings of Verne and Pullman before I proceed to examine their relevance to the
theatrical experience of the fantastic.
An analysis of the adaptation of His Dark Materials offers the opportunity for
fresh critical insights by creating new perspectives on the function of fantasy in its
fluctuation from page to stage and vice-versa. It is through these different perspectives
that I revisit old questions and introduce new ones such as the difference between
fantasy and the fantastic, their regressive or progressive character, the modification of
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fantastic elements on the passage from the literary to the theatrical and from
pre-modernism to post-modernism. Basing my analysis on stories of initiation, I suggest
that fantasy evades exclusive association with either progress or regress and only
remains faithful to the notions of passage and blurring of frontiers
Ηθική και Ψυχολογία κατά τον Πέτρο Βράιλα-Αρμένη [Petros Brailas-Armenis on Ethics and Psychology]
No full textΗθική και Ψυχολογία κατά τον Πέτρο Βράιλα-Αρμένη [Petros Brailas-Armenis on Ethics and Psychology]
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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
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