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Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Qualitative Research: Methodological Reflections on a Pilot Study
No full textL’INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE PER POTENZIARE LA RICERCA QUALITATIVA: RIFLESSIONI METODOLOGICHE SU UNO STUDIO PILOTAAbstractQualitative analysis is essential in research across diverse fields, offering in-depth insights that often cannot be captured through quantitative methods. However, managing large volumes of qualitative data presents challenges, including its labour intensive nature and the potential for interpretive biases. In this study, we introduce and show a methodology step by step that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) in the analysis of qualitative data, with a focus on textual responses extracted from survey questions. Specifically, our approach employs AI techniques, utilizing Word2Vec for word embedding extraction and K-Means clustering to streamline the analysis of qualitative textual data, while ultimately integrating the researcher’s interpretation of the identified clusters to improve the relevance of the analysis. Moreover, the present article discusses the relevance and significance of this approach as well as its ethical and methodological challenges by means of an empirical illustration taken from a study on teachers’ sensemaking regarding a range of different educational activities
Archetypes Geared for War: Conversations with Leucò by Cesare Pavese
Full text linkAbstractIn Cesare Pavese’ work, war is inevitable. Men are ineluctably doomed to clash and fight, some to end victoriously, most, however, to succumb. It was, in fact, in war-stricken Italy that Pavese first conceived his Dialoghi con Leucò (Conversations with Leucò). His first Dialogue, Le streghe (The Witches), was already finished by December 13, 1945, barely three months after the end of the war. Plausibly inspired by his reading of Lucian’s Dialogues, Leopardi’s Operette morali (Moral Essays) and Hemingway’s The First Forty-Nine Stories, this was the book that Pavese left on the bedside table of his hotel room in Turin in 1950 in which he committed suicide after several earlier attempts. The Conversations deal with the meaning of destiny and investigate the horrors of violence and war. This article provides a critical analysis of several Conversations to emphasize their significance for Pavese’s work and untimely end
Global Paternity Leave as a DEI Initiative in Four Multinational Corporations
No full textAbstractStudies of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in corporations typically involve ethnic minorities or women. In this case study, however, the focus is on men, and a new DEI policy implemented successfully in four multinational corporations (MNCs), namely, paternity leave rights with global applicability. The MNCs’ rationale for introducing this policy, and the perception of it by male employees who have taken such leave are explored mainly through interviews. These fathers are working for one of the MNCs and based in the UK, the US, Brazil and Australia. The aim of the case study is twofold: (i) contribute new insights into how the MNCs discursively justify the global policy, and (ii) develop a contextual framework explaining the MNCs’ successful implementation, which involves both discursive and practical action. In terms of underlying corporate DEI discourses, they mainly emphasise either economic rationality, inclusion or fairness. Regarding factors influencing uptake, a supportive work culture, a standardised period of fully paid leave and formal replacement during leave turn out to be important for informants across all four MNCs
Ricordo di Ferdinando
Full text linkAbstract The contribution is intended to recall the memory of Ferdinando Zuccotti through some of his scientific and publishing achievements starting from the figure of his mentor Arnaldo Biscardi
Un ricordo personale del Professor Ferdinando Zuccotti
Full text linkAbstractThe contribution proposes to the reader’s attention some, so to speak, unpublished aspects, detected along many years of attendance, in relation to the human and scientific personality of Prof. Ferdinando Zuccotti. First, we dwell on his passion for the world of science fiction and his vast knowledge also in relation to the specific literary genre (extended to film production). Secondly, we dwell on another characteristic of the personality of the Remembered, an expression as it were of the related taxonomic drive, namely the passion for collecting models, especially naval ones. Finally, trying to unearth a sort of common thread, capable of metaphorically linking the aspects considered (with particular regard to the first one, that is, the interest in the world of science fiction), we highlight the particular interest in the religious phenomenon, reflected in many studies elaborated by Ferdinando Zuccotti and in particular attitudes traceable even in certain episodes of daily life. An interest that, constantly accompanied by a way of posing that is an expression of a scientific mentality can reveal a singular sensitivity to mystery and transcendence
Digital Well-Being as a New Kind of Adaptation to the New Millennium Needs: A State-of-the-Art Analysis
Full text linkAbstractSince technology has been entering into human beings’ everyday life, individuals established a deep relationship with digital technology, thus an embodied link between people and digital instruments has been born. This is particularly evidenced by recent literature about screen time (duration of time spent by the individual in using electronic/digital media like television, smartphone, tablet or computer), it significantly influences different human beings’ dimensions: physical, psychological and neurological functions. Impact of digital technology on human beings can be considered as a result of syntonic functioning in order to improve different people’s life areas (e.g., work, social or intimate relationship, learning), while the dystonic relationship is evidenced as a result of human addiction to digital technology. The present study aims to provide a cognitive and social psychology perspective on how screen time is changing our existences, defining digital technology as a gift which people should be aware of in terms of positive but even negative consequences in everyday life
Amat bonus otia Daphnis (Verg. Ecl. V 61). L’ideale della concordia nella Ecloga V
Full text linkAbstract Amat bonus otia Daphnis (Verg. Ecl. V 61). The ideal of concordia in Eclogue VThe concept of concordia plays a key role in the political debate among Virgil’s contemporaries. Virgil himself highlights the role of discordia in Ecl. I 71 and makes concordia the tenet of Eclogue IV (Ecl. IV 46-47). Celebration of peace brought by the new god Daphnis in Eclogue V is couched in terms of concordia as well, as it is pointed out both by the Homeric source of Il. XXII 262-263 on the impossible ὁμοφροσύνη among animals and by the model of Lucretius’ apotheosis of Epicurus, which is significant in that Lucretius deems Epicurus’ doctrine as the means by which sapientes might live together according to the original sense of amicitia and concordia. Moreover, people gathering around Daphnis’ cult as if they were mystery initiates emphasizes the role of community in the eclogue – not least, mystery language is exploited also in Epicurean tradition. Analogies and differences between the iuvenis deus of Eclogue I and Daphnis sharpens the gulf between the two eclogues: in the former, the community of cives is distraught because of discordia, and Tityrus is the only one to enjoy the benefits of the iuvenis deus; by contrast, the latter celebrates a close-knit community worshipping Daphnis in concordia
«Personae e res. Dal diritto romano al futuro». Il primo convegno dell’Associazione Italiana di Diritto Romano
Full text linkAbstractThe first conference of the ‘Associazione italiana di Diritto romano’ took place at the University of Rome (‘La Sapienza’) on the 30th and the 31th of May 2024, attended by professors and researchers in Roman law to discuss the topic «Personae e res. Dal Diritto romano al futuro». The purpose of the initiative was to celebrate the recent founding of the association and to discuss the possibility of reconsidering these Roman categories and of extending the concept of legal personality to emerging phenomena such as the use of artificial intelligence
Ricordo di Ferdinando Zuccotti
Full text linkAbstractThe following brief note delivers a personal memory of the distingui-shed Roman law scholar, Ferdinando Zuccotti, to whom the author owes a debt of gratitude
Education and Culture: Pluralism in the Age of Globalization
Full text linkAbstract In an era increasingly characterized by pluralism and globalization, intercultural pedagogy represents a starting point for addressing the challenges that today’s society confronts us with daily. Throughout history, cultures have changed through interactions, exchanges, and hybridization, leading to the formation of an increasingly pluralistic and multicultural society. Against this background, it is crucial to develop approaches based on dialogue and mutual recognition. However, acceptance and willingness to encounter require an educational path that is promoted by schools from childhood, especially in view of the monocultural mentality that too often characterizes more and more people and prevents the opening of a path that counteracts ethnocentrism in favor of a broader perspective. From this point of view, intercultural pedagogy proves to be the only approach that can guarantee the formation of individuals ready to create a truly multicultural society