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Digital data funerals
No full textThis chapter considers the disposal of digital artefacts that are reshaping the materialities of death through the case study of digital data funeral workshops. It addresses the gap in technological development, governmental and corporate privacy policy, and socialised mourning related to network materiality. The artistic practice described explores how memory and residues of the dead are entangled in the case of digital data and its afterlife. Ultimately, it investigates how memory and technical objects are entangled in the context of networked data archiving, and the potential of erasure as a method of inquiry towards the exploration of this theme
Posthumous Performance and Digital Resurrection: From Science Fiction to Startups
No full textThis chapter examines the promotional discourse deployed by three of the futuristic start-up companies-LivesOn, Eterni.me and Humai. It compares with several notable science fiction (SF) texts in two levels which explore the underlying presumptions and broader cultural and social ramifications of these companies succeeding in achieving digital resurrection. First, to ask what presumptions are being made about contemporary personhood, culture and death. Second, mapping what future issues the success of these start-ups might actually provoke. Notably, the Black Mirror series revisited the theme of digital life after death in the third season, the first on the streaming service Netflix. Many of the SF stories which have followed in Frankenstein's wake explore the complex social, ethical and political questions of technology being a conduit to a form of reincarnation. These stories are especially important today as digital resurrection becomes a sales pitch for new tech start-ups
The political ecology of MasterChef Australia: negotiating sustainability in food television production
No full textThe sustainability of food production, distribution and consumption is becoming increasingly pressing in everyday life. While the representation of environmental issues has been the main focus of debates in media studies, this thesis investigates how practices of television production shape discourses of ethical consumption, animal welfare, and food waste. As one of the most popular programs about food with substantial influence on purchasing habits, MasterChef Australia occupies a powerful place in the Australian food media landscape. Based on qualitative interviews with producers, this study specifically addresses the dimensions in which they negotiate issues of food politics in their daily work. This thesis combines Actor-Network Theory with pragmatic sociology of critique to understand the food values of media professionals. Results reveal that the Coles supermarket chain was a crucial component of the production, which determined many aspects of the program’s environmental politics. The program may be reformed in the direction of sustainability, so long as this conforms with the needs of program sponsors. The inclusion and exclusion of particular ingredients, animal cruelty, and accessibility were key areas where informants were sensitive to food politics. The management of surplus food in the production, which would otherwise be wasted and therefore exacerbate issues of food security in Australia, is demonstrated to be a domain where producers’ may be harnessed to concerns of sustainability. At present food waste, a crucial issue for sustainability more generally, was negotiated through the recruitment of specific actors rather than challenging the premises of the program’s design. The production’s response to food politics is generally one of silently shifting suppliers: operating largely through market signals rather than explicitly criticizing other modes of production. It is here that the program’s “aspirational” aesthetic provides a kind of political anesthetic, numbing the production a more explicit engagement with issues of food politics
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
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