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Dormancy of Social Media Sites among Nigerian Youths
No full textThe purpose of this study is to investigate why youths abandon social media sites. Adopting
the Google document as instrument of data collection, the study investigates on why
Nigerian youths abandon or render some of their social media sites inactive from 398 youths
(18-35 years). The study found that most youths (92.9%), many of whom are on four social
media sites, are active on social media platforms which they use regularly. Findings further
reveal that that a reason they abandon their SMPs is due to friendliness of new platformsand they discard a platform by simply anonymising their profile by changing their
photographs or by simply leaving their account without necessarily deleting them. The study
concludes that use of social media among the youths has come to stay. It recommends
among other things that existing social media sites should always upgrade their
functionality to enable them to withstand emerging ones with more endearing features
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
EVALUATION OF NEWSPAPER FRAMING AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF NIGERIA'S SEVENTH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY (2011-2014)
No full textThis study evaluates newspaper framing and public perception of Nigeria’s seventh National Assembly (2011-2014). This inquiry is informed by the fact that literature is lacking on textual analysis of newspaper coverage of the Nigerian National Assembly and the extent to which newspaper coverage shape public perception. The thesis employs mixed-methods of qualitative content analysis and survey. Its target population is in two folds - all Nigerian dailies and the educated civil servants. The researcher purposively samples five dailies and 592 respondents. Findings show that newspapers adopt a different pattern of frames like morality, attribution of responsibility, consequence, conflict/human interest and conspiracy frames in covering Nigeria’s seventh National Assembly. In addition, most respondents (45%) perceive Nigeria’s seventh National Assembly negatively as a corrupt, unpatriotic and irresponsible legislature. Most respondents (39%) disagree that the way newspapers frame stories influence their perception of Nigeria’s seventh National Assembly. The study concludes that news framing minimally shapes the way people perceive the Nigerian National Assembly. Based on strength of the findings, the study recommends among other things that the National Assembly should be more committed and responsible for restoring or building confidence in the public whose positive perception of National Assembly is eroded. The study also recommends the need for the news writers to be more critical with their reports so as to be able to significantly influence the way the public perceive the legislature
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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