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Oltre il Nimby. La dimensione psicologico-sociale della protesta contro le opere sgradite
No full textMultiple Senses of Community: The Experience and Meaning of Community
Full text linkThis study contributes to the debate on the meaning of community and sense of community, and attempts to clarify the relationship between sense of community and civic and political participation. The authors interviewed 76 participants about their views and feelings about community. Forty-seven were active members of political parties, neighborhood and cultural associations, and volunteers helping disadvantaged people. Twenty-nine had never been involved in any kind
of social or political group. Results showed that (a) the experience of community emerging from participants’ discourse is not remarkably different from the academic meaning of community, and (b) the way individuals perceive community is linked both to sense of community and to civic and political participation
Ambivalent attitudes toward women and men. Recognizability of stereotypes and effects on self-perception
Full text linkThe research had two aims: exploring the possibility of recognizing both hostile and benevolent attitudes toward women and men as prejudiced, and identifying the effects of these attitudes on self-perception.
Two studies were conducted to analyze how people perceive and react when exposed to stereotypes about women and men. In Study 1, 244 adults (49.6% male; average age 42.82 years) read the results of a pretended research concerning opinions about women in Italian society. Half of them read opinions based on an explicitly hostile sexist view; the others opinions based on a benevolent attitude toward women. We assessed participants’ evaluation of the source, perceived sexism, emotional reactions and self-perception.
Study 2 (N = 242; 50% male; average age 40.33 years) replicated Study 1 just considering descriptions based on hostile and benevolent attitudes toward men.
On the whole, our results showed that benevolent attitudes toward women are not recognized as sexist, whilst men seem more sensitive in recognizing stereotypes about their ingroup.
Concerning self-perception, data confirmed the tendency of women and men to respectively describe themselves in communal and agentic terms, except when men are exposed to hostile attitudes toward their ingroup: in this case, they seem to react using more communal terms for self-description
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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