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Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng)
No full textWang, SH. 2014. Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng). Journal of Cultural Geography, 31(3), 350-353
Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng)
No full textWang, SH. 2014. Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng). Journal of Cultural Geography, 31(3), 350-353
Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng)
No full textWang, SH. 2014. Review of "The Changs Next Door to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California" (W Cheng). Journal of Cultural Geography, 31(3), 350-353
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 Three Waves of Globalization: Winds of Change in Professional, Institutional and Academic Genres
No full textGlobalization, often been described in terms of the spatio-temporal processes of change which underpin a transformation in the organization of human affairs by linking together and expanding human activities across regions and continents, is said to have started as long ago as the end of the 15th century. This first wave of globalization was subsequently followed by two more ones and further to the third wave of globalization, that began after 2000, the world has become smaller. In fact, technological innovations have sharply increased the availability of new modes and channels of communication, thus substantially improving the sharing of knowledge and information all around the world, and prompting both the emergence of new ‘globalizing genres’ and the implementation of a series of adaptations to the existing ones, in an attempt to guarantee the success and survival of different genres in an era which celebrates the need for a ‘global reach’.
In order to investigate these ‘winds of change’ in generic studies, the present volume will combine a historical perspective with a detailed survey of different contemporary discourses and genres situated in an array of contexts of interaction. Accordingly, the empirically informed analysis will not only focus on the textual, intertextual and interdiscursive features, but also on the institutional, organizational, professional and socio-cultural settings, namely all those aspects which show how genres reflect changing disciplinary and professional cultures.
As a consequence, and in line with the multi-faceted nature of genre, different reading paths can be identified in the present volume. On the one hand it is possible to make a distinction between professional, institutional and academic contexts. On the other hand, the concept of change will also be investigated by focusing on oral, written and web-mediated genres. All in all, throughout the volume, the different reading paths will aim at highlighting the influence of the three waves of globalization on genre evolution, thus contributing to providing evidence in favour of the homogenization or fragmentation hypothesis, namely as to whether new ‘global genres’ are outnumbering or are outnumbered by the proliferation of a myriad of new, customized genres
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
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