1,720,962 research outputs found
Mediated Communication Technologies (MCTs) for remote family members’ interaction
No full textFor several years, communication technologies are increasingly being part of the everyday life
contexts, in the circles of work, in social situations and even the most intimate and personal
dimensions. Most of the research in this area is interested in studying the role the web was
introduced in social relations and how the personal relationships have been affected by internet.
During the last years we assisted to a proliferation of new Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) in families, who are increasingly using these technologies assets according to
almost different purposes. This change has been possible because family structure has also changed
over time. Indeed, regarding to Laslett’s famous classification (1972) which provided from a
differentiation according to the presence or absence of one or more marital units within the family,
Mantovani (2005) stresses the currently importance to speak about "broken families", "step
families" and "immigrant family". Today lots of people don’t live anymore in the same country of
origin for various reasons, workplaces included. Thus it is necessary to bear in mind that today's
families are more geographically distributed than few years ago, and the space gap sometimes does
not allow family members to keep easily relationships. If on one hand there is the desire for greater
communication and sharing with his family, on the other hand there are the difficulties related to the
generational, cultural, and geographical level that influences in a consistent manner on using new
communication technologies.
This explorative study is led by the interest in focusing on the use of technology within a personal
life context such a family, in which the MCTs are increasingly used to support and extend relations
between people who do not live in the same country.
For this purpose, 5 interviews have been conducted with people who live geographically distant
from their families for reasons of work or study. Therefore people will be unable to join in events
and / or important dates (eg. birthdays, religious holidays, births...). Initially we examined the
technologies adopted in the family life of these people, and the parameters they used do decide
which of those methods to use in different situations of daily life. Semi-structured interviews in
face-to-face or in mediated conditions have been conducted. Subsequently, we desired to provide
in-depth attention to the practices and strategies that people carry out for the family relationships’
management, having at disposal a wide range of MCTs, both, fixed and mobile, synchronous and
asynchronous. In this setting we observed possible strategies that these families establish to
improve their feeling of closeness.
In this scenario, the new technologies of mediated communication (MCTs) expand the ways
throughout people can keep in touch, even entering in the family context for communication and
life sharing with their familiars. That is an attempt to replace the emotive and connective dimension
of face to face communication using different channels. From this point of view, the MCTs try to
minimize geographical distances between family members, without interfering with the professional
life. For this type of remote relationship the technology assume a key role by the way daily
interactions dependent on their intervention. Therefore it will be necessary to gain a better
understanding of how and why people use these technologies for communication with particular
attention to the socio-economic context in which they live
Le tecnologie di comunicazione mediata (MCTs) nelle famiglie geograficamente separate.
No full textNegli ultimi anni le tecnologie della comunicazione sono entrate a far parte dei contesti quotidiani,
dagli ambienti di lavoro a quelli più intimi e personali. Sebbene si assista sempre più alla
proliferazione e all’uso delle nuove tecnologie di comunicazione (MCTs) anche nell’ambito della
famiglia, pochi studi hanno indagato il ruolo del web all’interno delle relazioni familiari.
In questo studio esplorativo si vuole studiare l’utilizzo della tecnologia all'interno di tale contesto di
vita, in cui le MCTs sempre più sostengono ed estendono le relazioni tra persone che non vivono
nello stesso Paese.
Sono state condotte 5 interviste a persone che vivono lontane dalle proprie famiglie, indagando le
tecnologie adottate nella vita familiare ed i parametri che utilizzano per decidere quali mezzi
utilizzare nelle diverse situazioni di vita quotidiana. Successivamente si sono esaminate sia le
pratiche di gestione dei rapporti familiari attraverso le MCTs sia le strategie create per migliorare la
loro sensazione di vicinanza.
Dall’analisi discorsiva dei primi risultati emerge che la tecnologia assume un ruolo fondamentale,
poiché da essa dipendono le interazioni quotidiane. Sembra quindi necessario acquisire una
migliore comprensione di come e perché le persone utilizzino queste tecnologie, facendo particolare
attenzione al contesto socio-economico in cui vivono
L’esperienza transgender attraverso i discorsi. Un’analisi critica sulla costruzione narrativa di identità
No full textIl cosiddetto transgendersimo emerge da un’esplicita richiesta, da parte di una minoranza
sociale, di rivendicare un’identità di genere in distonia con l’ortodossia binaria dei sessi. La
ricerca illustrata in questo abstract vuole offrire uno sguardo analitico riguardo al costrutto
sociale e culturale dell’Identità.
Pertanto, sono stati raccolti tre resoconti autobiografici (repertori scritti) ed una decina di
interviste libere (repertori orali) concepite come conversazioni dialogiche.
Essendo gli atti linguistici la risorsa più sofisticata mediante cui gli attori sociali interagiscono
al fine di produrre artefatti simbolici, questa ricerca sarà incentrata sulle narrazioni e sui
discorsi, intesi come pratiche comunicative.
La metodologia applicata, in sintonia con gli assunti teorici sottostanti, consiste in un’analisi
critica del discorso e delle modalità interattive attraverso cui le persone si posizionano tra loro
e tra loro ed il contesto. In riferimento al materiale raccolto sono stati estratti alcuni passaggi
narrativi e discorsivi, in modo da poter analizzare le modalità organizzative in termini di
linguaggio, relazioni sociali e posizionamento contestuale, con cui i transgender costruiscono
una propria identità di genere. L’interdiscorsività del corpus testuale sarà infine studiata in
relazione alla cornice socio-politica e storica, all’interno di cui si sviluppano e si strutturano le
pratiche interattive nei contesti situati
Discourses on gender between different cultures. Women role in family and society
No full textThe research presented in this paper, aims to analyse the development of
cultural and social Identities according to general changes in the family structure of
Italians migrated to the United States. In a more specific perspective the research
topic is focused on the role and the status of women in family as well as in public and
work contexts and the way these cultural positioning evolved during the last fifty
years.
Three Identity constructs have been isolated in order to analyse the interactions
between the participants of a situated context and between them and their social and
physical environment. The theoretical and methodological background is focused on
the Social structure, in order to describe family organisation-systems through the
Field-Theory and the Linguistic practises, representing the executive communication
process throughout semantic and gestural activities. These observations have been
analysed than according to wider cultural and ideological value-systems.
The results show how social, cultural as well as gender Identities are strictly
correlated to the symbolical and situational variables constituting a determinate
context. The conversational practices represent the executive instrument, which
mediates all interactive practices amongst social actors joining a same symbolical
and material situation. The family, according to this perspective, represents not only a
micro-mirror of a certain social reality but even more an universal expedient,
something in common to all cultures. Studying the constitutional aspects of intrafamily
interactions, it would be possible to individuate the interpersonal organisation
processes affine to the lager cultural and social frame
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
Analisi (critica) del discorso normativo sulla situazione penitenziaria delle persone trans all’estero
No full textVariations 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
- …
