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Everyday Life of E-social Organizations
No full textWhat is on line daily life for non-profit organisations inhabiting the web really like? Do interactions transform into concrete opportunities for members and for communities of reference? These are the two questions that this paper will attempt to put forth and respond to.
Our theoretical reference point is based on three main concepts: the widespread ‘relationality’, social capital and physical and virtual territories. Social capital is the combination of available relationships for an individual, an organisation, a territory. This occurs through a widespread element of relational nature and is positively correlated to social cohesion and to life opportunities. The notion of social capital has been observed and considered thus far in interactions and territories of ‘real’ daily life - off line. On the contrary, regardless of the fact that ‘relationality’ is one of the distinguishing factors of the web 2.0 definitions, studies whose objectives are production and significance of social capital in virtual contexts are still not well diffused.
The aim of this paper is to understand if interactions of the non profit organisations, that represent one of the most appropriate places delegated to social production, really express themselves as widespread ‘relationality’ and social capital.
The paper will illustrate the first results of a conducted exploration, using a mixture of both on and off line qualitative methods: observing participants on and off the web; conducting face-to-face and mail interviews; studying the web life of 6 non profit organisations, 3 belonging to a social sector and 3 to a cultural one
The Added Value of Voluntary Service during Earthquakes Emergencies. Prevention, Action, Communication
No full textWhat is the added value of the voluntary action during natural disasters? What are the functions done by volunteers near to the Italian Civil Protection? What competences are made available by non-profit organizations? What specific, actual activities do the free will and the reference to the ethic value realize, that volunteer organizations claim distinguishing features of their work?
The authors intend to answer to these questions by doing a research that will rebuild the role of one of the most ancient and important Italian voluntary organizations, Anpas, in three situations: the earthquake of L’Aquila and of Emilia Romagna, and the seismic swarm in Pollino. The prestigious, the dimensions and the always more pronounced vocation to the emergency work made this organization a protagonist of Italian civil protection. On the other hand, the unpredictable and dangerous nature of earthquakes, and the seismic nature of the national territory, made this
The research strategy will integrate different qualitative actions, paying particular attention to the communication processes: 1) reconstruction of the social history of Anpas, by examining archives sources and doing interviews to volunteers; ; 2) rebuilding and analysis of activities made by volunteers during the emergences of L’Aquila and of Emilia Romagna, by studying documentary evidences and e doing interviews to privileged people; 3) analysis of the prevention campaign actually in course in Pollino; 4) analysis of the media products made by Anpas during and after these crisis
The Digital Storytelling Methodology In Media Education For Learning Digital Citizenship Skills As Part Of A University Course
No full textThis study investigates how a group of university students perceived their actual
achievement of a series of media, digital and critical reflection skills together with
critical reflection (information, media and digital literacy) developed during a Media
Education Workshop conducted through the use of Digital Storytelling techniques. The
study carried out at the University saw the participation of 176 students of the average
age of 21 who live within an "Infosphere", i.e. an eco-system dominated by media
frameworks and a continuous flow of information (a mediatization context). In this
workshop, the students were organised into workgroups and they designed 76 videos
that were published on the Network. Four thematic areas were addressed: digital life,
the environment, volunteering, the association movement and active citizenship. At the
end of the activities, the students were presented with a questionnaire that analysed
their perception of the effectiveness of Digital Storytelling in the development of digital
and media skills from various perspectives; in particular, critical thinking on concrete
and experiential issues. The quantitative and correlational assessment was conducted
on the basis of an initial hypothesis that the Digital Storytelling approach enables
participants to learn both technical skills in the use of digital tools (video in particular)
and also reflective practice and meta-cognition skills, thus stimulating awareness and
recognition of the students' ethical, social and value-related dimensions as well as
their contextual meaning
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Influenza e somiglianza nelle reti sociali. Uno studio sulle dinamiche di opinione tra gli adolescenti attraverso un Agent-Based Model.
Get PDFL’obiettivo principale della ricerca è stato quello di indagare le dinamiche di opinione tra gli adolescenti a partire dalla ricostruzione dei processi di influenza che avvengono durante le loro interazioni, ponendo ulteriori questioni sui modi e sulle ragioni per cui gli individui entrano in rapporto con gli altri. La possibilità di giungere a una riconsiderazione dell’oggetto di indagine, in sintonia con il tempo della società in cui viviamo, è stata garantita principalmente da una nuova attenzione nei confronti di questo dominio fenomenico da parte di diversi ambiti scientifici. La proposta di integrazione tra sistemi multi-agente e sociometria ha permesso così di concettualizzare l’indagine come uno studio di «diffusione», soprattutto alla luce della tradizione sociologica e in particolare dei concetti di «influenza personale» (Katz, Lazarsfeld, 1955) e «omofilia» (Lazarsfeld, Merton, 1954) che, in questo caso, si ipotizza possano essere ricondotti ad un duplice meccanismo esplicativo del fenomeno: (1) il comportamento dei pari che occupano uno status elevato all’interno di determinati cerchie relazionali (le classi scolastiche); (2) l’interazione favorita da specifici elementi legati alla somiglianza tra gli individui. I risultati empirici ottenuti attraverso una web survey sono stati confrontati con i risultati simulativi del modello realizzato: tramite quest’ultimo è stato possibile, da un lato, riprodurre la dinamica osservata, dall’altro, controllare le ipotesi teoriche alla base del modello stesso. I meccanismi di interazione implementati hanno permesso infine di generare risultati simulativi analoghi ma allo stesso tempo controintuitivi rispetto a quelli ottenuti nell’analisi empirica
Daily Life of Non Profit Organisations Inhabiting the Web
No full textWhat is on line daily life for non-profit organisations inhabiting the web really like? Do interactions transform into concrete opportunities for members and for communities of reference? These are the two questions that this paper will attempt to put forth and respond to.
Our theoretical reference point is based on three main concepts: the widespread ‘relationality’, social capital and physical and virtual territories. Social capital is the combination of available relationships for an individual, an organisation, a territory. This occurs through a widespread element of relational nature and is positively correlated to social cohesion and to life opportunities. The notion of social capital has been observed and considered thus far in interactions and territories of ‘real’ daily life - off line. On the contrary, regardless of the fact that ‘relationality’ is one of the distinguishing factors of the web 2.0 definitions, studies whose objectives are production and significance of social capital in virtual contexts are still not well diffused.
The aim of this paper is to understand if interactions of the non profit organisations, that represent one of the most appropriate places delegated to social production, really express themselves as widespread ‘relationality’ and social capital.
The paper will illustrate the first results of a conducted exploration, using a mixture of both on and off line qualitative methods: observing participants on and off the web; conducting face-to-face and mail interviews; studying the web life of 6 non profit organisations, 3 belonging to a social sector and 3 to a cultural one
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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