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Digital Disidentifications: Affective Circuits of Meme Exchange, Viral Counterpublics, and Queer Ironic Consumption
Get PDFMy dissertation, “Digital Disidentifications: Affective Circuits of Meme Exchange, Viral Counterpublics, and Queer Ironic Consumption” confronts obstacles and contentions in contemporary feminist praxis that arise in digital spaces such as racial appropriation, whitewashing, political activism, and call out culture. My research demonstrates how online discourse and the circulation of internet memes provide unique objects of analysis in cultural theory, namely affective circuits of digital exchange and queer models of media consumption and reception. I analyze digital meme-scapes that disrupt understandings of contemporary gender and race relationships. I employ a theoretical frame of “digital disidentifications” drawing on José Esteban Muñoz (1999) and apply the multiple uses of Muñoz’s heuristic to digital counterpublics, the analysis of new “archives,” questions of representational correctness, and humor as a resistance strategy within online spaces. Considering how queer digital communities coalesce through racialized and gendered imagery and online media, I argue that application of Muñoz’s analysis of subcultural performance can be adapted to fit the events I define as constituting digital disidentificatory practice.
I take new media theories and rework them through an intersectional feminist lens specifically to highlight the creation and movement of memes in my dissertation. The theoretical frames I use in my research position contemporary memes within larger contextual frames and media genealogies such as studies of popular culture, music, film, and television studies. In these ways, my dissertation participates in an ongoing conversation about viewership, spectatorship, race, and gender, while applying new media theories to objects that have not yet been analyzed
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Staking Our Claim: Self-Making, World-Making and Survival in Trans-Authored Narratives
Get PDFThis interdisciplinary dissertation, titled “Staking Our Claim: Self-Making, World-Making and Survival in Trans-Authored Narratives,” analyzes transness as a concept and its expression in trans-authored memoirs, poetry, and fiction. In it, I develop a trans forager methodology to underline the narrative tropes through which transness has been made legible in the 20th- and 21st-century Global North. I argue that the context of white supremacy, imperialism, ableism, and anti-Blackness through which transness came to be in 1950s America has shaped how we understand transness as a self-centered project motivated by negative affect. My research is here invested in proposing a different story of transness, one told through the centering of diverse and oft under-represented trans of color perspectives. Chapter One, “Neoliberal Autobiographies: White-Washed Histories and The Making of the Respectable Trans Subject,” centers Chase Joynt’s 2022 movie Framing Agnes and new archival research into Harold Garfinkel’s ethnomethodological study in the 1950s. It highlights the heteropatriarchal, ableist, and white supremacist biases that led Garfinkel to select Agnes as the case study for his research on gender, because of her adherence to white-centric understandings of femininity, and by extension her ability to make claim to respectable whiteness, while other interviewees, due to their non-normative racial, sexual, or disabled identity, were discarded. This in turn influenced the trans history one typically remembers in the West and the narrative tropes circulated by popular trans autobiographies. In Chapter Two, “Trans Evidence of Being: Autobiographical Self-Determination as Collective Practice of Survival,” I examine early newspaper coverage and self-writings by Black trans women such as Carlett Angianlee Brown, Delisa Newton, Sharon Davis, and Ceyenne Doroshow to propose a counter-narrative to Chapter 1. I highlight here an understanding of transness as a relational identity geared towards care work, solidarity, and community-building, and underline how these autobiographies are used to resist any individualistic project and instead strive towards collective survival. My third chapter, “Anti-Death and the Ethics of Poeliving: Trans Poetics and the Language of Collective Survival,” proposes a comparative study of contemporary US and Nazi Germany by examining the poetics of survival employed and theorized by contemporary trans-of-color poets such as Ryka Aoki, Caleb Luna, or jaye simpson, and trans people who lived in Nazi-controlled Europe, such as Ovida Delect, Lucy Salani, or Liddy Bacroff. I centrally use Delect’s deployment of poetry as anti-death and ethical conceptualization of poeliving to highlight poetry as a technique of struggle against the atmospheric violence that surrounds trans-of-color life. In Chapter Four, “Dreaming the Past; Remembering the Future: Apocalyptical Relationality, Oniric Transtopia and Relational Transness in Trans Fiction and Speculation,” I focus on how science-fiction and speculation are used by trans-of-color authors and performers for world-making and self-making. I identify specific narrative orientations such as oniric transtopia, dis/utopia, and apocalyptical relationality as tools used to propose a communal understanding of transness that goes beyond the here, the now, and the human.
Through these chapters, my intervention is not to merely add trans and trans-of-color perspectives to our fields but to make them central and fully embrace the restructuring of thought that trans orientations to life, being, time, and writing require of us
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
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
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Queer Traffic: Sex, Panic, Free Trade
Get PDFIn Queer Traffic, Jennifer Tyburczy traces how sexual dissidents across the Mexico-Canada-US borderlands transport the objects and experiences that nourish their sexual and social lives. She situates the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a pivot point in the formation of panics aimed at stamping out these outlaw sex practices. Highlighting NAFTA’s erotic investments in hetero- and homonormativity, racial capitalism, markets of dispossession, and neocolonialism, Tyburczy directly engages with art, activism, and archives to revisit the struggles of people who invented circuits of sexual exchange through four decades of violence and criminalization. In conversing with actors from bureaucrats to pornographers and in studying choreographies, social movements, and street vocabularies, she examines an array of tactics that undermine the market logics of trade law and policy. Dreaming of other forms of living that go beyond mere survival, Queer Traffic guides us through the renegade pathways that circumvent the seemingly endless reach of free-trade capitalism toward other routes to pleasure.
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the generous support of the University of California Libraries
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