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Shifting italian masculinities: insights from three male perfomances in the italian song festival of Sanremo 2022
No full textSanremo Festival is one of the biggest events of Italian television for audience and
prestige. It is located within complex socio-cultural dynamics that can be understood through an
ecological perspective. In recent years it has presented singers whose performances always challenge
traditional gender expressions, with a mixed, polarized reception. Amadeus' choices reflect the trend of assimilation into the mainstream of queer signifiers that challenge gender in pop audiovisual productions
(Ferrante, 2019). Therefore, we place our attention on the performances of masculinities (Butler, 1990 &
2004; Connell, 1995; Feasey, 2008; Reeser, 2011) in the context of the 2022 edition of Sanremo. We will
operate a visual analysis (Aubrey & Frisby, 2011; Mattioli, 2007; Russmann & Svensson, 2016;
Tiindenberg & Baym, 2017) of the opening performances of three male artists, identifying three different
ways of representing masculinity on stage: Rkomi, Achille Lauro, Michele Bravi
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
TikTok e challenge: da format caratterizzante a strategia politica
No full textIl capitolo tratta della piattaforma social TikTok e delle challenge
che ospita. Nella prima parte, si sofferma sulle caratteristiche della
piattaforma e le pratiche d'uso degli utenti, affrontando alcuni punti
salienti relativi alla letteratura su TikTok e alla sua popolarità fra i
giovanissimi. Nella seconda parte, contestualizza le challenge TikTok
come formato caratterizzante della piattaforma, fornendo esempi
empirici derivanti da un censimento di challenge sulla piattaforma
risalente al 2021. Nell’ultima parte, il capitolo analizza l’utilizzo di
TikTok per fini di attivismo, osservando la potenzialità del formato
challenge come mezzo, per le attrici e gli attori di cambiamento
sociale, capace di fornire visibilità politica
“Tumblr is dominated by America:” a study of linguistic and cultural differences in Tumblr transnational fandom
No full textThis paper focuses on the American-centric, English-language dominance of Tumblr. It reviews current research on Tumblr culture, transcultural fandom, and linguistic differences in fandom to analyze the ways international fans engage and disengage with U.S.-centric Tumblr and fandom. Through the analysis of 19 interviews to members of a transnational Tumblr anime fandom, the paper addresses their perception and understanding of the platform’s cultural biases as an American corporate owned, English language dominated social network site. The paper then explores the international fans’ motivations to join their English-language Tumblr fandom. It highlights the double nature of their Tumblr transnational fandom as an American-centric but global space in virtue of the use of English as lingua franca. It then analyzes the fans’ engagement and disengagement strategies with different branches of their fandom through the use of different languages and platforms
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
Speaking up for climate justice: youth revindicating their voice in FridaysForFuture-Rome’s climate activism
No full textThe climate crisis has come to define this generation of activists (Hestres & Hopke, 2017), who are fighting for better awareness and policies to face this global challenge. The FridaysForFuture (FFF) movement, especially, is composed of young activists who resort to their moral authority as children (Marris 2019) to demand adults take responsibility for jeopardizing their future (Wahlström et al., 2019), thus anchoring FFF activism in the generational, self-identification
processes implied by being young (DellaPorta 2019).
By reviewing literature on youth activism (Bishop, 2015; Gordon, 2009; Liou & Literat, 2020; O’Brien et al., 2018) and digital activism (Bennett & Segerberg, 2011; Hopke & Hestres, 2018; Toret et al., 2015; Trerè, 2019), and analyzing thematically (Guest et al., 2011) twenty semi structured interviews to FFF-Rome activists, this contribution explores how FFF-Rome activists challenge adults’ patronizing attitudes by speaking up about the climate crisis on their own channels
(social media) and in their own way (expressing the needs of their generation).
It highlights how FFF activists resist the ageism that judges them unfit for political participation and resort to online and offline activism to fight against climate change. It focuses on the connection between youth activism and generational identity and analyzes young climate activists’ struggle to be heard and taken seriously by adults (Kligler-Vilenchik & Literat, 2019) as they fight against and strategically embrace paternalistic aptitudes to achieve their goals
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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