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Job quality in the platform economy: From right to service|La qualità del lavoro nella platform economy: Da diritto a servizio
No full textThe platform economy represents a new phase in the transformation of the organization and regulation of work, characterized by an increasing tendency to generate non-standard and flexible job that continue to stay outside the traditional forms of identification, protection and contractualization of labor. The aim of our analysis is to evaluate the impact of the platform paradigm on job quality of work by adopting the OECD Job Quality Framework within a qualitative research design based on the triangulation of data sources relating to various forms of platform work in Italy. The analysis highlights the diversification of risk profiles among platform workers and the platform’s tendency to transform the quality of work from a right to a service provided to users
Pratiche di mobilità condivisa
No full textNello scenario italiano, caratterizzato da uno scarso sviluppo dei sistemi di trasporto collettivi, lo spazio per i servizi di mobilità condivisa (o sharing mobility) sembra assai promettente e rappresenta il vero traino dell’economia condivisa nel nostro paese. Infatti, nonostante la prevalenza di un modello «individualistico» imperniato sul possesso e [sull’]uso di veicoli privati, la sharing mobility sembra riempire perfettamente gli «interstizi» che si snodano tra l’auto e il trasporto pubblico, i due principali mezzi utilizzati dagli italiani. Sicuramente gli aspetti più apprezzati sono legati alla flessibilità d’uso che queste nuove forme di mobilità mettono a disposizione dei cittadini, oltre ai vantaggi in termini di risparmio economico e di riduzione degli impatti inquinanti. Tuttavia, tra car sharing e car pooling, è il secondo a presentare maggiori potenzialità innovative. La condivisione di passaggi (o ride-sharing), infatti, sembra favorire la creazione di relazioni sociali e di fiducia tra gli utenti che decidono, grazie agli strumenti digitali, di condividere viaggi più o meno lunghi, amplificando gli effetti virtuosi della mobilità condivisa oltre a convenienza, sostenibilità e l’ estrema adattabilità.
Gestire e innovare la mobilità urbana attraverso la condivisione significa, però, agire non solo sul piano delle infrastrutture o della varietà e complementarità delle reti di trasporto ma operare anche sulle competenze di mobilità e i fattori socio-cognitivi associati all’adozione di ogni mezzo di spostamento. L’accessibilità economica e culturale diviene, allora, un punto fondamentale su cui la regolazione e le politiche pubbliche possono svolgere un ruolo centrale per la promozione e l’efficacia dei sistemi di sharing mobility. Infatti, la diffusione e l’inclusività della mobilità condivisa incrociano direttamente le competenze digitali dei soggetti, la loro attitudine all’uso della moneta digitale (e pertanto devono essere bancabili), nonché la disponibilità di altre alternative di trasporto in una logica intermodale
Algorithmic Management: invisible boss or ghost work?
No full textResearch on algorithmic management has focused mainly on platform-mediated gig work while only recently it tried to analyse its impact in standard organizations. Stemming from a socio-technical perspective, which reflect both technological and organizational choices, this contribution will introduce to algorithmic management as a set of technological tools and techniques to remotely manage workforces, relying on data collection and surveillance to enable automated or semi- automated decision-making. Reviewing existing research will lead to shed light on the emerging aspects of work invisibilisation and disappearance that lies behind technology. In an age of technological wonder, not everything is made of silicon and bits. Smart devices, app and AI systems are substantially powered by humans, intentionally hidden from view, who perform their labour as tasks or services in a platform-based marketplace. These same workers elaborate strategies to protect their interests and escape the organizational control of this "invisible boss", both through individual resistance tactics and practices (deactivation of geo-localization, disconnection, strategic positioning in specific places and / or times, use of bots) and collective forms of voice and collective representation (from new movement unionism to platform cooperativism)
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
In Search for (the Lost) Smartness in the Evolution of the Smart Cities: Consumers or Citizens?
Full text linkThe paper develops a systematic reflection about the future of smart cites at the time of Covid-19, starting from an original periodization about the evolution of the concept of smartness, declined through a four fold analytical tool (technological, human-social, institutional and spatial-environmental dimensions). Focusing on the role of smart citizens and on the “right to the city” concept, we list and critically appraise the emerging trends made visible by the worldwide sanitary crisis
Misurare e interpretare il territorio contemporaneo. Integrazione tra banche dati e valutazioni qualitative.
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