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The Capability Approach in intercultural virtual exchange: investigating potential capabilities and functionings. A case study
Full text linkThe purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate whether Virtual Exchange promotes social justice globally by equipping its participants with new capabilities and opportunities. Virtual Exchange is considered here as a representative form of intercultural education, and this study constitutes the first attempt to apply the Capability Approach to assess its outcomes. Semi‑structured interviews were conducted with ten alumni from different countries to explore what new capabilities they gained through this experience, what new goals (functionings) they developed, and whether their awareness of global social justice issues increased. Thematic analysis of the collected data revealed four main themes related to capabilities: cultural awareness, connections with people met through the programme, communication skills, and personal development. An additional theme also emerged regarding the restrictions on capabilities. Three themes related to functionings were identified: further education, involvement in the organisational aspects of intercultural education programmes, and the expansion of personal horizons through applications to other projects and scholarships or considering moving abroad. Most participants reported that the Virtual Exchange experience increased their awareness of global social justice issues, however, they did not share any concrete actions taken, suggesting that the impact was largely theoretical. The study concludes that Virtual Exchange holds potential as a tool for promoting global social justice by fostering the development of capabilities and functionings. However, further research is needed to determine whether this increased awareness translates into sustained action and to address the limitations of the present study
Closing the gender data gap with young women and smartphones in Bangladesh? An anticolonial feminist investigation
Full text linkSince the 1970s, gender inequality has been a priority issue for international development organisations. Solutions put forward to address this concern over the years have varied, ranging from grassroots movements to neoliberal institutions investing in women as 'smart economics' (Cornwall et al., 2008). In more recent years, and in line with the rise of ICT4D (ICTs for Development), mainstream development institutions have heralded the ‘gender data revolution’ as the key to unlocking equality between men and women. The UN, World Bank, Gates Foundation and others have all declared that “progress on gender equality depends upon our collective ability to close 'the gender data gap'” (Fuentes and Cookson, 2020: p.881). The central premise of this gender data gap discourse is that formulating effective strategies to overcome gender inequalities in the majority world is being held back by a lack of relevant information about women’s lives. This constructs a reality in which gender equality is contingent on rigorous, complete gender data – i.e. that 'closing the gender data gap' necessarily precedes, and leads to, 'closing the gender gap'. Yet despite the sudden popularity of this discourse, and the significant funding and attention that it has generated, the gender data gap and efforts to surmount it have received scant scholarly attention. In particular, how exactly gathering 'new' data on gender issues leads to the transformation of gendered power relations in lower-income contexts remains unexamined. Anticolonial feminist theories, such as postcolonial and decolonial feminisms, have long provided a critical lens through which to analyse international development projects that target women in the majority world. However, whilst the field of ‘data feminism’, which takes a critical feminist approach to the issue of data, is growing, there is as of yet little scholarship that applies anticolonial feminist theory to help critically investigate the gender data for development furore, and none that specifically addresses the central claim that 'closing the gender data gap' unequivocally leads to 'closing the gender gap'. This thesis addresses these empirical and theoretical research gaps through an anticolonial feminist examination of a project seeking to close gender data and gender gaps – Girl Effect's TEGA (Technology Enabled Girl Ambassador) programme in Bangladesh. Through an anticolonial feminist analysis of six months of participant observation, interview and participatory action workshop data gathered whilst participating in the TEGA Bangladesh project, this thesis finds that the 'gender data gap' logic, of which TEGA is exemplary, is flawed. Whilst development projects such as TEGA may state that “to create meaningful change for girls we need to close the global gender data gap” (Girl Effect, n.d.), from an anticolonial feminist perspective the 'gender data revolution' can be critiqued as maintaining the status quo whilst appearing to advance revolutionary change. This is because in reality gender data for development projects, such as TEGA, perpetuate the techno-solutionist, instrumental, top-down 'development' that has dominated the sector since the 1940s, and are thus driven by the priorities and needs of development organisations and their funders, rather than the majority world young women they seek to serve. The thesis concludes by arguing that an anticolonial feminist approach could enable gender data projects such as TEGA to better close 'the gender data gap' and the 'gender gap'. This would, however, entail a radical re- envisioning of 'development' as a process of positive change led by and for majority world communities themselves, alongside overturning the neocolonial global power hierarchies that are responsible for the unequal conditions which development seeks to fix in the first place
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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