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Gender and Education. Genealogies, practices and knowledge
No full textMany studies have shown that in children’s and young adult (YA) literature sexism and gender stereotypes are continually and uncritically reproduced. Furthermore, these representations have a significant impact on the development of gender identity of young readers. The essays in this volume focus on the current debates on gender in children’s and YA literature. They are divided into two main areas: children’s and YA literature, and gender education. As all the contributions illustrate, it is crucially important today to produce literary texts that challenge and overturn the traditional and standardized ideas about gender identities, roles, and models. This volume shows that gender education and research are fundamental to implementing the social, economic, and cultural transformations that are needed today. Applying gender perspectives to children’s and YA literature provides a critical view of reality that is useful in everyday life. They help us to understand our world and help young readers to become active, critical, and informed citizens
UX Designers Education and Practice: Making Designer as Topic Connectors to Enhance Intrinsic Complex Values of Made in Italy Craftsmanship. E.Craft Joint Lab Case History at Luisaviaroma.com
No full textThe word “design” is associated with specific disciplines, and, in turn complex. How is it possible then to define the formation of a designer? The "x-designer" always moves from research, for example to define exactly the needs, the context, the limits where the design process starts; s/he operates technical choices, which are ergonomically, aesthetically and economically correspondent. It becomes very difficult to find a positioning for the figure of the designer that is appropriate to other declinations and specificity of the modern designer
E. Cianfanelli, Packaging for food
No full textIl volume tratta il packaging alimentare per la grande distribuzion
Trolling Patriarchy: Online Activism and Feminist Education against Gendered Cyberhate
No full textThe contribution discusses online feminist activism as an emerging counter narrative aimed at raising awareness among young generations on Internet gender-based violence. The pervasiveness of contents expressing gendered hatred on the Internet has lately produced an increasing concern on the use of the Web to silence women and girls worldwide. At the same time, online groups along with national and international institutions have recently launched several projects to tackle this problem. While some scholarly research has rightfully indicated the Web as a new channel through which ancient oppressions like sexism and misogyny can be reaffirmed, few contributions have attempted to analyse it as an effective tool to challenge such discriminations. This contribution analyses the online campaign Zero Trollerance, developed by the German Collective Peng to tackle gendered cyberhate, and it shows how such content can be used as a powerful toolkit for a feminist education to raise awareness on systemic societal issues like misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia, and to educate young generations towards a respectful and inclusive use of the Internet
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
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