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Exploring the role of context models in memory-building: the completion of informative voids and the re-organisation of narratives in second-hand memories
Get PDFThe transmission of memory after traumatic collective events (such as armed conflicts) always involves a discursive re-construction from a present viewpoint. In the case of new generations who have no direct memories of the conflict, a variety of contextual factors can interfere in the process of meaning-making. In this paper, we explore some of the discursive strategies employed by youngsters in order to fill in informational voids or to manage discourses that seem contradictory with their current context or pre-established belief systems when re-building narratives about violent conflicts in their community. Oral data collected from eight in-depth interviews with adolescents belonging to the first post-conflict generation in the Basque Country was analysed, combining theories from Memory Studies and theoretical-methodological approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis. Four types of rearrangement of information were identified during the interviews: all speakers drew on contextual information and pre-established mental models in order to fill in informational gaps, even if the resulting narratives sometimes altered the original meaning. Evidence suggests that remembering is a discursive practice strongly influenced by the current context and situation of the speaker, which would offer an explanation as to why collective memory changes with each generation.Peer ReviewedInformation Seeking in Context (ISIC), Berlin, September 26 - 29, 202
La representación de los presos vascos en la prensa española (2011-2016)
No full textTreball de fi de màster en Estudis del Discurs: Comunicació, Societat i AprenentatgeEste estudio analiza la cobertura de los principales medios españoles sobre el conflicto vasco en su etapa post-armada, centrándose especialmente en los modelos mentales que promueven cuando tratan sobre los presos del conflicto político. Explora los razonamientos que legitiman el encarcelamiento después de que ETA anunciara, en octubre de 2011, el fin de sus atentados. Observa cómo los medios despliegan un cuadrado ideológico polarizando los intereses de los presos/ny la izquierda independentista vasca por un lado (el exogrupo), y los intereses del Estado Español y la sociedad española por el Otro (endogrupo), reforzado por la presentación negativa del otro y la autopresentación positiva. Los presos son generalmente presentados como victimarios y culpables, mientras que el conflicto en sí es percibido como una situación de enfrentamiento donde ETA es el objetivo a reducir; y la paz, como un escenario que implica irremediablemente la victoria (militar y discursiva) del endogrupo. Finalmente, se comparan las observaciones del análisis con los principios del Periodismo de Paz, concluyendo que los medios españoles no promueven modelos mentales que promueven la empatía y la reconciliación.This study analyzes the coverage of the two main Spanish newspapers about the Basque conflict after its armed phase, focusing on the construction of mental models when dealing with the question about the prisoners of political conflict. It explores the arguments that legitimize the imprisonment after the armed organization ETA announced the end of its attacks on October 2011. This study found that the media display an ideological square, polarizing the interests of prisoners and the Basque independentist left on one side (the outgroup), and the interests of the Spanish state and the Spanish society on the other (the ingroup), intensified by the negative presentation of the other and positive self-presentation. Prisoners are usually presented as victimizers and guilty; therefore, mental models that oppose their freedom are easily activated. The conflict itself is perceived as a confrontational situation where ETA is the aim to eliminate; and peace, as a scenario which inevitably means the victory (military and discursive) of the ingroup over the outgroup. Finally, the observations of the analysis are compared with the principles of Peace Journalism, concluding that the Spanish media do not promote mental models that evoke empathy and reconciliation between the different actors involved in the conflict
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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