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Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings
No full textThis lesson uses word embeddings and clustering algorithms in Python to identify groups of similar documents in a corpus of approximately 9,000 academic abstracts. It will teach you the basics of dimensionality reduction for extracting structure from a large corpus and how to evaluate your results
The Counterculture Icon: From Beat to Punk
No full textOf the three famous Beat writers, William Burroughs was the only one who could have held serious interest to the Punks of the 1970s. Burroughs was anti-spiritual voice within a spiritual school; a satirist who used obscenity as he used heroin – to drill down into rather than up and out of human cruelty. To musicians like Lou Reed, David Bowie and Patti Smith, seeking new countercultural positions at the come down end of the hippie trip, he was an example of how to challenge the establishment while refusing the con of pop cultural political idealism. To the generation who came after these three path-breakers, younger and necessarily more dramatic in their rejection of “peace and love”, “flower power” and all the slogans and values Burroughs’ friend Ginsberg had coined in the counterculture, this be-hatted older gentleman in glasses and a three-piece turned out to be a credible tonic to the fogginess and hypocrisy the punks diagnosed in “corporate rock and roll”. This article explores Burroughs' extraordinary influence on punk music as a means of understanding the history of 20th century popular countercultures and shedding light on the state of 'countercultural' expression today
Break Out Session: Unlearning Mastery in Digital Scholarship: Labor, Failure, and the Art of Troubleshooting
No full textThis talk will explore challenges and opportunities for digital scholarship projects to bridge the divide between research and pedagogy, ensuring equitable labor distributions, realistic attitudes towards failure, and an anti-ableist approach to digital literacy. Drawing from experience as doctoral student and teacher of cultural studies and critical theory at the City University of New York, and as a Council of Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow in Temple University Libraries’s Digital Scholarship Center (recently renamed the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio) during a pivotal moment in the library’s transformation and relocation, Alex Wermer-Colan will reflect on under-examined elements of digital scholarship relevant both to academic libraries and departments. Two ongoing projects to digitize and innovate digital exhibitions and data visualizations of under-represented archival materials in Temple’s Special Collections, known as the SF Nexus and The Virtual Blockson, will serve as the primary case studies. From these projects, this talk will extrapolate broader guidelines and principles for prioritizing issues often neglected in the scholarly debate around the “digital humanities,” most notably accessibility in new media interfaces, labor contingency in DH research, and viable models of library service and classroom pedagogy involving digital technology. This talk aims, along the way, to demystify the intimidating aura that gathers around successful DH projects, tools, and methods, opening up space to operationalize theoretical and technical strategies for ensuring digital pedagogy and research can be useful and inspiring for beginner and advanced practitioners alike
The Virtual Blockson: Immersive Technologies for Teaching Primary Source Literacy on the African Diaspora
Get PDFBy overviewing a collaborative project between Temple University’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, the Loretta C. Duckworth Scholars Studio, and local Philadelphia educators, this essay explores how experimentation with immersive technology can enhance the work of librarians and teachers seeking to teach primary source literacy. As a recreation of the space and the experience of visiting the Blockson Collection through interactive game-play and multimedia 3D content, the Virtual Blockson aims to combat black erasure from the historical record and school curricula, introducing students to the roles they can play in history’s creation and preservation. This essay will highlight the Virtual Blockson’s design for integrating the Society of American Archivists’ Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy, as well as the Common Core standards for historical understanding and critical thinking. Digital humanities projects that remediate special collections with interactive spatial simulations can offer promising opportunities to contextualize and explore the imbrication of primary source and digital literacies for marginalized communities.Temple University. Librarie
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
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