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Well-being rather than well-having: a critical analysis of sharing economy discourses in the Chinese context
Full text linkThe sharing economy, which is an Internet-mediated economic model based on sharing practices, presents the potential to reshape nature-society interactions with relevance for leading to transformative change for environmental and social aspects of sustainability. It is widely presented as a model leading to environmentally sustainable pathways through reduced resource use and reduced levels of consumption and an increased use of idle assets, while also promoting social sustainability through rebuilding social relationships and enabling wider and more equitable access to resources. Given its recent emergence, the sharing economy concept is actively being debated, shaped and framed by a wide array of social actors. These discursive constructions have implications for the wider social practices of the sharing economy. Through firstly conducting a literature review, current understandings of the sharing economy are presented and their relevance for the Chinese context outlined. Further, a critical discourse analysis following Fairclough’s methodology is carried out in order to analyse the dialectical relations between discourse and wider social and economic developments and processes of change. In particular, I analyse how the sharing economy is discursively constructed in the Chinese context by the political, corporate, academic and public discourse fields and how these discursive constructions are redefining the Chinese economic growth discourse. The findings of my analysis of the political discourse on the sharing economy in the Chinese context suggest that discursive constructions of the sharing economy do not contribute to the transformative potential the sharing economy presents for environmental and social aspects of sustainability, but instead are utilized to advance and uphold the reformist sustainable development construct of ecological civilisation to guide China’s future green development path. The findings of my analysis of the corporate, academic and public discourses on the sharing economy in the Chinese context indicate that this discursive framing is not being challenged, but maintained by the analysed corporate discourse and only partly challenged by the analysed academic discourse. The analysed public discourse on the sharing economy in the Chinese context is shown to more challenge the discursive framing of the sharing economy as a supportive function of the Chinese ecological civilisation construct than to reproduce it. These findings showcase the importance of fostering critical language awareness, which can help in identifying constraining forces on discursive constructions that work to avert transformative changes for sustainability. Critical language awareness can thus enable us to become aware of how discursive constructions shape approaches to sustainability challenges
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
Support Services for Student-Business Collaboration
Full text linkDer Best-Practice-Bericht untersucht, wie zwischengeschaltete Organisationen herausfordernde Kooperationen zwischen Studenten und Unternehmen (Student-Business Collaborations (SBCs)) unterstützen, um Studenten und Unternehmen bei der Bewältigung realer Herausforderungen im Bereich der Nachhaltigkeit zu helfen. Diese Intermediäre arbeiten als externe Organisationen, interne Universitätsstrukturen oder als hybride Partnerschaften. Es besteht eine große Nachfrage nach Vermittlungsdiensten, aber finanzielle Zwänge und mangelndes Bewusstsein können den Zugang einschränken. Das akademische Personal bevorzugt die Unterstützung durch die Universität, weil sie bequem und kompetent ist. Zu den künftigen Erfordernissen gehören formalisierte Unterstützungsstrukturen, bessere Evaluierungsmethoden, verbesserte Rekrutierung von Partnern, technische Infrastruktur, PR- und Marketingdienste sowie Plattformen für den Wissensaustausch. Der Bericht hebt auch acht Best-Practice-Beispiele für Unterstützungsdienste hervor, die auf Innovation, Einbeziehung von Interessengruppen und Nachhaltigkeit beruhen. Die Schlüsseldaten wurden durch Interviews und Desktop Research gesammelt
Guidelines for Developing Support Services and Infrastructures for Student-Business Challenges
Full text linkDieses Ergebnis liefert Leitlinien für die Gestaltung und Skalierung effektiver Infrastrukturen und Vermittlungsdienste zur Unterstützung internationaler Student-Business-Challenges (SBCs). Es skizziert Strategien zur Stärkung hochschulinterner Strukturen, zur Förderung regionaler Kooperationen und zum Ausbau globaler Partnerschaften, um die langfristige Nachhaltigkeit dieser Initiativen zu gewährleisten. Zu den Schlüsselbereichen gehören die Einbettung von Challenge-based Learning (CBL) in institutionelle Strategien, die Zuweisung von Ressourcen und die Implementierung von Wirkungsmanagement-Rahmenwerken. Außerdem wird die Rolle regionaler und nationaler Allianzen bei der Ausweitung von SBCs hervorgehoben und die Internationalisierung durch die Entwicklung grenzüberschreitender Kooperationen und die Zusammenarbeit mit professionellen Vermittlern zur Bereitstellung spezialisierter Unterstützungsdienste betont. Durch die Behandlung dieser Aspekte dient das Ergebnis als strategischer Fahrplan für Institutionen und Akteure, die skalierbare und effektive Unterstützungsstrukturen für internationale Student-Business-Challenges aufbauen wollen
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
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