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Relazioni istituzionali e sociologia relazionale: una disciplina, una professione, un paradigma
No full textIl libro, curato da Stefano Scarcella Prandstraller e con i contributi di Stefano Scarcella Prandstraller (cap. I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII, XIV, XVI, XIX e XX), di Ferruccio di Paolo (cap. XI, XII, XVII e XVIII), di Angela Marchese (cap.XV) e di Maddalena Arzillo (cap. IV e VI), prendendo in considerazione l’attuale dibattito e in particolare gli apporti della letteratura di settore, europea e statunitense, cerca di contribuire a dare una maggiore organicità e rigore scientifico al campo delle relazioni istituzionali, allo scopo di precisarne l’ambito di riferimento e rafforzarne i caratteri, sia come disciplina accademica, che come professione. La novità più rilevante consiste nel voler riproporre uno studio, per certi versi inusuale, delle relazioni istituzionali come “fenomeno della società” e nell’adozione, quale quadro di riferimento, del paradigma della sociologia relazionale, con il fine di aggiungere spessore teorico ai principali contenuti e delineare l’apporto di metodi e tecniche propri della ricerca sociale a molte delle prassi operative. Ci si discosta in tal modo da approcci più marcatamente manageriali, divenuti prevalenti nella letteratura specialistica degli ultimi decenni. Si evidenzia in particolare che se le relazioni istituzionali sono per eccellenza il luogo del sociale, delle interazioni di ruolo tra soggetti, sono anche il luogo dell’umano, vale a dire delle relazioni tra persone, ed è proprio l’umano in molti casi a fare la differenza in una esperienza relazionale, che è come tale innanzi tutto una esperienza umana. Il volume, tracciato un quadro introduttivo dei concetti fondamentali della disciplina sulla base dei diversi apporti della teoria sociale, tratta i principali aspetti delle relazioni istituzionali in generale, tra cui i target, a cominciare dai pubblici e dagli stakeholders, gli obiettivi, la storia negli Stati Uniti e in Italia, i modelli, i caratteri e i ruoli quale funzione dell’organizzazione, i rapporti con le culture organizzative, le tecniche di ricerca, i contenuti e i vari aspetti della professione, compresi quelli del mercato, associativi e deontologici. Affronta quindi i diversi servizi delle relazioni istituzionali, da quelli di base come le media relations e l’organizzazione di eventi, a quelli specialistici, come i public affairs e il lobbying, le marketing e le financial public relations, la comunicazione di crisi, quella della responsabilità sociale d’impresa e quella attraverso la rete internet e i nuovi media. Approfondisce infine tematiche trasversali, come la comunicazione istituzionale integrata, il GoRel come metodo operativo per la realizzazione di programmi di relazioni istituzionali e la questione del genere e dell’ordine di genere nell’esercizio della professione.The book, edited under the curatorship of Stefano Scarcella Prandstraller and with the contributions of Stefano Scarcella Prandstraller (chapters I, II, III, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XIII, XIV, XVI, XIX and XX), Ferruccio di Paolo (chapters XI, XII, XVII and XVIII), Angela Marchese (chapter XV) and Maddalena Arzillo (chapters IV and VI), taking in consideration the nowdays debate and the publications of contemporary literature on Public Relations, both European and American, tries to give a contribution in the sense of a better consistency and scientific accuracy to the field of Institutional/Public Relations, in order to precisely define its area of interest and stenghten its character, both as achademic discipline and as profession. The more relevant innovation is the will to propose a study, in some way unusual, of Public Relations as "phenomenon of society" and the adoption, as a general framework, of the paradigm of relational sociology, with the goal to increase the theoretical thickness of the main contents and underline the contribution of methods and techniques proper of social research to many PR operative practices. This book moves away from the more managerial approaches to Public Relations, predominant in the more recent specialized literature. It is made plain that if Institutional Relations are by default the place of a dominant social dimension, of the role-oriented interaction between subjects, they are also the place of an human dimension, of the relation between human beings, and it is in many cases the human dimension to mark the difference in a relational experience, which is as such first of all an human experience. The book, presented an introductive framework of the basic concepts of the discipline following the guidance of social theory, debates the main contents of Public Relations in general, the targets, beginning with the publics and the stakeholders, the objectives, the history in the United States and in Italy, the models, the settings and roles as organizational function, the relations with organizational cultures, the research techniques, the various contents and aspects of the PR profession, including those of market, associative and professional ethics. It debates than the different services of Public Relations, from those basic as the Media Relations and the Organization of Events, to those specialized as Public Affairs and Lobbying, Marketing and Financial Public Relations, Crisis Communication, CSR Communication and Public Relations by Internet and the new media. The book examines in depth cross themes as the integration of PR activities with advertising, promotion and direct response, the GoRel as an operative method for planning and control of results of PR activities and programs, and the issue of Gender and Order of Gender in the sector of Public Relations
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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