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Publication date: 6 May 2014

Jodi Kaufmann

This is a cautionary tale. In previous research on male-to-female transsexuals, the author's analysis was too knowing, detached, and full of authorial superiority. In other words…

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Purpose

This is a cautionary tale. In previous research on male-to-female transsexuals, the author's analysis was too knowing, detached, and full of authorial superiority. In other words, it was too masculine. The paper aims to discuss theses issues.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, the author brings to the fore the deleterious effects of the masculinist method. The author then writes a palinode in order to allow masculinity and male to be performed and un/tethered differently by and on different bodies and different subjects.

Findings

The paper concludes with a discussion of how a masculinist method emerged and its consequences.

Originality/value

This is a revised look at the author's previous work on the subject.

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Qualitative Research Journal, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1443-9883

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Publication date: 1 June 2001

Valeda Frances Dent, Wendy Hall, Stephen Harris, Jessie Hey and Kirk Martinez

Hybrid libraries provide multiple ways to access information in various formats, normally within a common information framework. The eLib project MALIBU (MAnaging the Hybrid…

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Hybrid libraries provide multiple ways to access information in various formats, normally within a common information framework. The eLib project MALIBU (MAnaging the Hybrid LIbrary for the Benefit of Users) focuses on the development of models, both prototypic and theoretic, for management and organisation of the hybrid library. This article describes the agent technology used for the MALIBU prototype search engine that allows for the search and retrieval of information from disparate resources.

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VINE, vol. 31 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0305-5728

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Publication date: 1 October 2006

Tony Hey and Jessie Hey

The purpose of this article is to explain the nature of the “e‐Science’ revolution in twenty‐first century scientific research and its consequences for the library community.

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Purpose

The purpose of this article is to explain the nature of the “e‐Science’ revolution in twenty‐first century scientific research and its consequences for the library community.

Design/methodology/approach

The concepts of e‐Science are illustrated by a discussion of the CombeChem, eBank and SmartTea projects. The issue of open access is then discussed with reference to arXiv, PubMed Central and EPrints. The challenges these trends present to the library community are discussed in the context of the TARDis project and the University of Southampton Research Repository.

Findings

Increasingly academics will need to collaborate in multidisciplinary teams distributed across several sites in order to address the next generation of scientific problems. In addition, new high‐throughput devices, high‐resolution surveys and sensor networks will result in an increase in scientific data collected by several orders of magnitude. To analyze, federate and mine this data will require collaboration between scientists and computer scientists; to organize, curate and preserve this data will require collaboration between scientists and librarians. A vital part of the developing research infrastructure will be digital repositories containing both publications and data.

Originality/value

The paper provides a synthesis of e‐Science concepts, the question of open access to the results of scientific research, and a changing attitude towards academic publishing and communication. The paper offers a new perspective on coming demands on the library and is of special interest to librarians with strategic tasks.

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 July 2006

Pauline Simpson and Jessie Hey

To provide an overview of how open access (OA) repositories have grown to take a premier place in the e‐research knowledge cycle and offer Southampton's route from project to…

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Purpose

To provide an overview of how open access (OA) repositories have grown to take a premier place in the e‐research knowledge cycle and offer Southampton's route from project to sustainable institutional repository.

Design/methodology/approach

The evolution of institutional repositories and OA is outlined raising questions of multiplicity of repository choice for the researcher. A case study of the University of Southampton research repository (e‐Prints Soton) route to sustainability is explored with a description of a new project that will contribute to e‐research by linking text and data.

Findings

A model for IR sustainability.

Originality/value

The TARDis project was one of the first IRs to achieve central university funding in the UK. Combined with increased visibility and citation, the research assessment exercise route has become the “hook” on which a number of IRs are basing their business models.

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Program, vol. 40 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0033-0337

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Publication date: 1 January 1997

Ben Jeapes

The Electronic Library recently received a disappointed e‐mail asking why the journal, with a title like that, wasn't available electronically. A very good question, which is only…

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The Electronic Library recently received a disappointed e‐mail asking why the journal, with a title like that, wasn't available electronically. A very good question, which is only partially answered by the fact that the journal is 15 years old and came into the world when the Internet was half its present age and a fraction of its size, CDs were an embryonic technology and the World Wide Web just didn't exist. E‐journals are now here to stay and any publisher worth its salt is looking at how its publications, too, can be made available in this manner. There is inevitably a very large element of keeping up with the neighbours involved — no one wants to seem to lag behind the competition — and too many companies plainly are not flunking the matter through before launching their electronic products. We have no desire to go broke or to launch an unviable product in the name of progress, and perhaps that is why we have so far erred on the side of caution: but believe me, we are working on it.

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The Electronic Library, vol. 15 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-0473

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Publication date: 27 December 2013

Amy M. Sorensen

This chapter explores the social production of disablement, or disability as a process, and the effect of institutionalized administrative definitions of disability.

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Purpose

This chapter explores the social production of disablement, or disability as a process, and the effect of institutionalized administrative definitions of disability.

Methodology/approach

This research is based on 12 in-depth interviews with male construction workers in the southeastern United States.

Findings

The intersections of age, gender, and class are implicated in the production of occupational disablement. In addition, the power of definition residing with administrative entities plays an important role in how workers come to understand disability and disablement, ultimately affecting their ability to be self-advocates. This study also suggests that current conceptualizations of disability are not adequate for these participants whose experiences of disablement highlight its processual nature.

Implications

“Becoming” disabled, constricted activities outside of those defined by Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) or Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs), and activity limitation due to significant pain and discomfort are all issues that should be addressed in disability conceptualization.

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Disability and Intersecting Statuses
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78350-157-1

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Publication date: 26 November 2021

Jessie Lauren Stein

This chapter extends Henri Lefebvre's writings on rhythm to explore how time, space, power and difference articulate themselves in the uneven social relations of intercultural…

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This chapter extends Henri Lefebvre's writings on rhythm to explore how time, space, power and difference articulate themselves in the uneven social relations of intercultural space. Taking Lefebvre's ‘Seen From the Window’ chapter as a theme, I propose a variation of rhythmanalysis which interrogates the politics of copresence at a dance party in Munich, Germany. Plug in Beats is a participatory party – songs are selected by the crowd through a karaoke-like process. The monthly event was initiated in 2015 when a refugee camp was installed near an arts and cultural center. The party creates a space for dialogue between new migrants and established locals occupying a wide range of social positions. I look at the implications of rhythm for studying intercultural dance through a rhythmanalysis of one party in June 2018. The methodological approach is framed around the embodied multisensory participant observation advocated by Lefebvre; however, the analysis draws on additional ethnographic data from interviews, audio recordings, Shazam (a song identification app) and video footage. I propose a relational rhythmanalysis which engages the historical and geographic power dynamics at work in music, dancing and in the party space. Such an approach, I argue, reveals how participants negotiate and sometimes reconfigure social relations of difference through rhythm itself. While there are limits to the questions that rhythmanalysis allows the researcher to ask and answer, it is a valuable means to engage how power and difference work – and might be more equitably reworked – in migrant-receiving and otherwise heterogeneous spaces.

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Rhythmanalysis
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-83909-973-1

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Publication date: 8 April 2020

Markus Ellmer, Astrid Reichel and Sebastian T. Naderer

The purpose of this paper is to generate insights into how multinational companies (MNCs) promote global mobility in their Employer Branding (EB) messages on Facebook.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to generate insights into how multinational companies (MNCs) promote global mobility in their Employer Branding (EB) messages on Facebook.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors analyzed 13.340 EB messages found on the Facebook career pages of 30 major MNCs (10 of each in the US, UK and Germany) drawing on a methodological approach combining Grounded Theory and text-mining.

Findings

Building on the perspective of psychological contracts as sensitizing concept, the analysis of the overall sample reveals a range of core themes in EB messages across all MNCs studied. With regards to global mobility, MNCs emphasize relational, i.e. socio-emotional, contents, particularly, highlighting opportunities of experience and personal development. While global mobility is an overall marginal theme, German MNCs extensively promote global mobility, whereas US- and UK-based MNCs do not explicitly make it a subject of their messages. The findings are discussed in the light of institutional theory.

Originality/value

Despite mega-trend, little is known about social media EB, especially when it comes to the contents that MNCs communicate to (potential) employees. Applying an innovative methodological approach, the authors offer insights into these contents. Discussing the findings in the light of institutional theory, it is concluded that promoting global mobility in socio-emotional terms seems of high importance to reduce uncertainties associated with living and working abroad. This might help firms to hire internationally mobile employees, especially in countries where job mobility is generally low.

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International Journal of Manpower, vol. 42 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-7720

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Publication date: 1 December 1956

E.G. ELLIS

THERE WAS A TIME, gentle reader, and not so very long ago either, when the lubricant business was very much simpler than it is to‐day ; or at least as we understand it to be from…

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THERE WAS A TIME, gentle reader, and not so very long ago either, when the lubricant business was very much simpler than it is to‐day ; or at least as we understand it to be from our reading of the technical press. Our childlike and trusting mind is often puzzled, by the amount of erudite scientific effort devoted to problems which we, in our happy ignorance, believed to have been solved long before either we or the boffins were born. And if the years have not brought wisdom we have at least acquired a certain low cunning, whereby we usually manage to get by. Alas, this was not so with our well‐meaning, bright eyed, clean‐souled little friend Albert at the time of which we write.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 8 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 23 February 2016

Ana Campos-Holland, Brooke Dinsmore and Jasmine Kelekay

This paper introduces two methodological innovations for qualitative research. We apply these innovations to holistically understand youth peer cultures and improve…

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Purpose

This paper introduces two methodological innovations for qualitative research. We apply these innovations to holistically understand youth peer cultures and improve participant-driven qualitative methodology.

Methodology/approach

It moves the methodological frontier forward by blending technology with the “go-along” approach used by ethnographers to prioritize participants’ perspectives and experiences within their socio-cultural contexts.

Findings

We introduce the youth-centered and participant-driven virtual tours, including a neighborhood tour using Google Maps designed to explore how youth navigate their socio-spatial environments (n = 64; 10–17 year-olds; 2013) and a social media tour designed to explore how youth navigate their networked publics (n = 50; 10–17 year-olds; 2013), both in relation to their local peer cultures.

Originality/value

Applicable to a wide range of research populations, the Google Maps tour and the social media tour give the qualitative researcher additional tools to conduct participant-driven research into youths’ socio-cultural worlds. These two innovations help to address challenges in youth research as well as qualitative research more broadly. We find, for example, that the “go-along” aspect of the virtual tour minimizes the perceived threat of the researcher’s adult status and brings youth participants’ perspectives and experiences to the center of inquiry in the study of local peer cultures.

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Communication and Information Technologies Annual
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78560-785-1

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