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Brewery Tour and Book Discussion of A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
No full textNEW DATE--Thursday, May 10, 2018! The Friends of the Library will host an excursion to the Great Lakes Brewing Co. for a tour of their iconic microbrewery. After the tour, Frank Klaus, Friends of the Library President, will lead a book discussion of A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Lunch will follow at the Brewpub. Lunch is not included in the fee. Attendees will be billed separately; a 20% gratuity will be automatically added.
Attendees can shop in the Gift Shop after lunch.
Transportation to and from the Brewery will be provided. Boarding begins at 9:30. The van will leave CSU at 9:45 am. Return time is appx 3:00 pm.
About the Book
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical period. — Amazon.com.
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Parantava tee, imperialistinen Coca-Cola: Vuosituhansien juomat
No full textKirja-arvostelu:
Tom Standage: Kuusi lasillista historiaa. Suomentanut Jaana Iso-Markku (alkuperäisteos: A History of World in 6 Glasses). Edita 2006. 285 s
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
The future of the Internet
No full textAcccording to The Economist magazine the Internet is at risk of losing its universality and openness. Tom Standage, the magazine\u27s digital editor, believes the threat comes from three separate directions.
 
The good and bad history lessons of social media
No full textThis report on our first Media Agenda Talk of the season by The Economist’s Tom Standage, is by Polis intern Meg Charlton. Follow @PolisLSE for live tweets from the talks
Social media: myths from the first 2000 years
No full textThe Economist’s Tom Standage is first up in Polis’ Media Agenda Talks lecture series – his book Writing On the Wall, a history of social media is reviewed here by Polis reporter Kyle Bowe
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