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Writing your thesis.
Get PDFIntroduction, Post-positivist approaches to research, Sourcing information for your thesis
Changing Culture.
Get PDFThere are outsiders always. These stars -
These iron inklings of an Irish january,
Whose light happened
Thousands of years before
Our pain did: they are, they always have been
Outside history.
Eavan Boland ( 1944-
Experiencing Transculturalism.
Get PDFThose working at the grass roots in any project have a range of wisdom
that often remains unrecognised and untapped. It appeared impor tant
to redress this common imbalance and to express something of the experience
and views of those most involved in transcultural experiences.
In order to connect with something of this richness a group of members
involved in transcultural congregations were invited to respond to six
questions about their Church's story of multicultural development.
The respondents were selected for the range and depth of their experience
in the field as well as for the variety of their cultural backgrounds.
Some of the respondents were ministers or leaders, others described themselves
as ordinary local Church members. The congregations in which
they were involved reflected many differences, coming from a variety of
denominational backgrounds and were located in a wide range of differing
contexts. All were situated in Ireland, some in urban or suburban
areas, others in towns or villages, scattered throughout the country
This chapter tries to encapsulate the respondents' reactions in a way
which honours their experience. As well as giving a 'voice' to those most
deeply involved in this area of transcultural development, it also seemed
imperative to reflect the wide variety of views expressed as well as to note
commonality of thought and experience where this existed.
Not all those invited to respond did so, and of those who did, not all
answered each question. Responses are, however, characterised by aremarkable
degree of reflectiveness and insight. Many are profoundly challenging
of the respondents themselves and indicate a very high level of
both personal awareness and honesty. A number of responses are also
quite challenging of the Church structures and of the larger denominational
systems. Some question sensitive issues s~ch as existing structures
of power, leadership and tradition. Others share very personal aspects of
their own journey. All speak for themselves; their views are not necessarily
those of others in their congregation or their denomination. Instead,
they are stories of a story. If there is an emergent commo~ theme it may
be to suggest that the creation of transcultural community provokes a
questioning of the assumed status quo in all sorts of unexpected and
frequently uncomfortable ways.
To preserve a sense of privacy for both respond~nts an~ t~~ congregations
involved, responses are not credited to part1cular 1nd1V1duals or
congregations
The Trauma of Cultural Displacement.
Get PDFIt is important to address the multi-faceted nature of the trauma of displacement and the challenges of rebuilding life in a foreign culture if we are to gain insights into the processes involved in building culturally diverse
community
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
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