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Creating Value via the Circular Economy: Practices in the Tourism Sector
Get PDFAmong major international research and practice issues, the issue of the circular economy
has emerged recently as “an alternative economic paradigm” to address the current needs of the
present and to search for innovative solutions for the future. The objective of this paper is to explore
the initiatives and practices of the circular economy that could be actuated by tourism firms with the
aim of understanding the value that could be created and its contribution to sustainable development
based on decarbonization, energy efficiency, and the use of renewable sources. To achieve this
objective, an in-depth, qualitative case study of a tourism resort is presented and analyzed to identify
the key CE practices activated, with the aim of creating greater value and contributing to sustainable
production and consumption. The results show that the main CE practices implemented focus primarily
on enhancing resource efficiency, reducing emissions, and minimizing environmental impacts.
This research also emphasizes the benefits that the CE provides in terms of economic, environmental,
and social efficiency. The study enriches the relevance of CE and the sustainability approach for the
tourism sector by highlighting the main value opportunities that tourism firms could grasp from the
application of CE. Also, the paper contributes to providing practical suggestions regarding possible
initiatives and practices that tourism managers could adopt for deploying CE practices
Ndikimi i marrëdhënieve me publikun në media gjatë fushatave elektorale
Get PDFRritja dhe fuqizimi i industrisë së marrëdhënieve me publikun (MP) ka ndikuar drejtpërdrejt në përmbajtjen mediatike. Në median shqiptare sot është thuajse e pamundur që në një program televiziv, talk show, edicion lajmesh, gazetë, revistë, etj. të mos ndihet ‘aromë’ MP. Kjo edhe për shkak të marrëdhënies së ndërvarësisë mes medias dhe MP. Por ajo çka vlen të theksohet është fakti se prezenca e MP në media është më e madhe gjatë fushatave zgjedhore pasi në sektorin e politikës janë partitë politike, politikanët të cilët përpiqen me të gjitha mënyrat të ndikojnë në linjën editoriale për të përmbushur qëllimet e tyre.
Ky studim ka për qëllim të tregojë sa dhe si ndikojnë MP në përmbajtjen mediatike, veçanërisht gjatë fushatave zgjedhore. Pyetjet kërkimore që shtrohen në këtë studim janë: Si ndikojnë MP në cilësinë e informacionit që përcillet në media? Cili është roli i MP në të ashtuquajturën ‘agenda settings’ të medias? A ka ndikim kriza financiare e medias në raportet gazetari-MP dhe nëse po, si? Për realizimin e studimit jemi mbështetur në të dhëna empirike, intervista të realizuara me aktorë të fushës së medias si: gazetarë, kryeredaktorë, kemi analizuar studime të mëparshme, etj
Public Relations influence in media during election campaigns
Get PDFIncreasing and strengthening the MP’s industry has impacted directly media content. Nowadays in Albanian media is almost impossible to find TV programs, talk shows, news, newspapers, magazines, etc. that public relations to not be noticed. The main reason is that media and public relations are highly correlated. We can underline that the presence of public relations in media is higher during the election campaigns because in the political department of media are political parties, politicians that try by all means to influence the editorial line to meet their goals. This study aims to show how public relations impact media content especially during election campaigns. Research questions of this study are: how public relations impact quality of information communicated to the media? What is the role of public relations in the so-called “agenda settings” of media? Does the media financial crisis affect the journalism – public relations relationships and if so, how? To conduct the study we are based on empirical data, interviews conducted with stakeholders in the field of media as journalists, editors, previous studies, etc
The impact of Public Relations in media during election campaigns
Get PDFThe increase and strengthening of the public relations (PR) industry has directly impacted media content. Nowadays, in Albanian media it is almost impossible to find TV programs – talk shows, news, newspapers, magazines and the like – in which public relations are not present. The main reason is that media and public relations are considerably correlated. It should be noticed that the presence of public relations in media is higher during the election campaigns because political parties and politicians try all they can to influence the editorial line of the newscasts in order to meet their political goals.
This article aims to show how public relations impact media content, especially during election campaigns. The research questions that this study poses are: how public relations impact quality of information communicated to the media? What is the role of public relations in the so-called “agenda-setting” theory of media? Does the media financial crisis affect journalism- public relations relationships and, if that is the case, in what way? In conducting this research, we have relied on empirical data, which include interviews conducted with stakeholders in the media industry, such as journalists, editors, as well as previous research in this field
ADVERTISING IMPACT ON THE MEDIA CONTENT – CASE OF ALBANIA
Get PDFOne of the challenges faced by the Albanian media today is maintaining its independence in an environment in which the governmental or corporate advertising attempt (and in many cases succeed) to impose rules. Cracking of the “Chinese Wall” distinguishing the commercial from the media is just another form of the influence of advertising influence not only in traditional media but also to new ones. Media specialists consider sharing of content of the advertisements one of the main mechanisms guaranteeing editorial freedom and independence, which is very important not only for the media but also the development of society as a whole. Another problem in Albania involves lack of transparency on the data for advertising media market. No concerted efforts are observed on the side of the media industry neither to measure the audience nor to publish data on the advertising market. Market advertising problems are unknown and unexplained, in a situation lacking basic information upon which the “advertising cake” is logically divided. However, the fact that for most of the Albanian governmental and large corporations media advertising are the main source of income, shows how easy it can influence the editorial policies. This study focuses on the relationship among advertising and journalism; characteristics and impacts of these reports on the quality of journalism. In order to conclude this research, we utilized empirical data, media content analysis and interviews conducted with journalists and the most influential media editors in chiefs of media in the countr
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
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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