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Thinking in the High-Speed Society: What thinking can mean in our time
No full textInspired by Heidegger's lecture series What Is Called Thinking?, this thesis begins by exploring the fundamental question, "What is called thinking?" Heidegger’s approach is not to define thinking but to inquire into what calls us to think. We expand upon this ontological perspective by examining how thinking might manifest in what we term the "high-speed society," a concept derived from Hartmut Rosa’s sociological analysis of modern acceleration. The primary research question guiding this thesis is thus: What can thinking be in a high-speed society? To address this question, we first draw upon Rosa’s Alienation and Acceleration (2014) and Marina Garcés’ New Radical Enlightenment (2017), using their critiques of contemporary societal structures as a foundation for analyzing how thinking is constrained and shaped by modern institutions. From this starting point, we move to Donna J. Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble (2016), where we engage with her speculative and fabulative approach to thinking, emphasizing its epistemological and creative potential. Unlike Heidegger, who asks what thinking is in an ontological sense, Haraway’s question — “What can thinking possibly mean in the civilization in which we find ourselves in?” — is more focused on how thinking can be used to create new stories and possibilities for the future. Throughout the thesis, we identify six key analytical themes that shape our exploration of thinking in a high-speed society: ambiguity, temporality, narratives, institutions, the interplay of literature, philosophy, and science, and technology. These themes serve as lenses through which we engage with Haraway’s work, synthesizing insights from Rosa, Garcés, and Heidegger. We argue that while Rosa and Garcés primarily critique contemporary society, Haraway offers a constructive vision for how speculative thinking can foster more sustainable and meaningful ways of living, even within the constraints of a high-speed, technologically driven world. In the concluding chapter, we return to the motif introduced in the opening reference to Sangen om Larsen, with its refrain, “It was supposed to be so good, but then it was actually bad.” We interpret this as a call for renewed attention to the emancipatory potential of thinking, not only as a diagnostic tool but as a creative and speculative practice that can reshape our narratives and our worlds.<br/
Misinformation and polarisation in a political context
No full textThis study examines the role of social media, most notably X (formerly Twitter), and its rolein relation to the spread of misinformation, heightening polarisation, and threateningdemocratic values.Focusing on social medias role leading up to the Capitol Storming, January 6, 2021, theresearch highlights how digital platforms facilitate the rapid spreading of emotionallycharged and misleading content. Misinformation, amplified by the attention economy, thriveson content that provokes strong reactions, such as urgency and anger, which promotesengagement and visibility.The findings highlight the erosion of deliberative democracy, as misinformation dominatespublic discourse, suppressing fact-based dialogue and promoting ideological content. Socialmedia’s algorithms are designed to prioritise engagement over accuracy, further exacerbatingthese dynamics by amplifying divisive and false content, and deepening polarisation. Thisproject concludes that the spread of misinformation through social media poses a significantchallenge to democratic governance, necessitating critical reforms to digital platforms and adeeper understanding of semiotics role in shaping public perception
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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