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Far From Gentrification and Touristification? Residents’ perceptions of displacement on Murano Island
Full text linkMurano, an island in Venetian Lagoon, is world-renowned for its historical
glassmaking industry. In the last decades, similarly to what is happening in central Venice,
Murano has seen a significant decrease in its population and a reduction of its traditional
activities, both being connected to broader tourism gentrification dynamics. Prompted by
this, the authors devised and circulated a wide-ranging questionnaire that aimed to
investigate the economic, social, and territorial factors affecting people’s quality of life on
the island. The questionnaire was completed by almost 15% of Murano’s residents and one
aspect that it captured was various inhabitants’ perceptions of issues concerned with tourism
gentrification, which we analysed using Cocola-Gant’s (2018) concepts of residential,
commercial, and place-based displacement. We found that Muranese residents these
dynamics most keenly when they impact their daily life on the island, and they are concerned
about the loss of the identity of places they know and live in. We conclude by affirming that
this situation is not irreversible, and that policy makers can act to address it
The Relevance of the Territorial Dimension in EU Policies and the Role of Tourism
Full text linkThe disparities, inequalities as well as the different trajectories of social and economic development that
still characterize the regions of the EU today demonstrate the importance of a debate on the spatial dimension of European policies. This paper analyses the implications of strengthening the spatial dimension in
the different EU programs, highlighting the importance of the concept of territorial cohesion and the role
that a strategic sector such as tourism can play in implementing this concept. Therefore, the added value of
tourism and the potential of territorial cohesion should play an important role in future European policies
and fundin
Enabling spatial autocorrelation mapping in QGIS: The hotspot analysis Plugin
No full textThe analysis of spatial autocorrelation is a fundamental tool for the understanding of all the physical as well as anthropological processes which naturally take place within the geographical space, and which cannot be studied independently from it. The deployment of statistical techniques for investigating spatial autocorrelation has brought valuable results within manifold research fields ranging from the natural sciences to the socio-economic sciences. Moreover, the affinity between cartography and this kind of analysis has raised particular interest among GIS users as well as developers. This has led to the inclusion of many modules dedicated to the spatial autocorrelation mapping within both proprietary GIS software suites as well as free and open source programming libraries. Nevertheless, specific functionalities for spatial autocorrelation mapping have not yet been formally included -through dedicated user interfaces- within the most popular free and open source GIS software, such as QGIS. We present here the Hotspot Analysis Plugin, an experimental QGIS plugin -dedicated to the spatial autocorrelation mapping- based on the free and open source Python library PySAL (Python Spatial Analysis Library). Together with the technical specifications, two relevant examples of the plugin usage -connected to real case studies- are reported. These are: The detection of significant variations in soil consumption for the Lombardy Region (northern Italy) and the spatial correlation analysis of performance indicators characterizing Airbnb lodgings for the city of Venice (Italy)
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No full textItalian seaside destinations in comparison. The brand image assessment for destination branding co-creation.
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology for the assessment of a destination's image on the web. The study builds up a picture of 26 Italian coastal destinations through indexes and highlighting the reputation of the tourism services (attractions, restaurants, and accommodation). This can be a useful tool for destination managers to help monitor their destination's online reputation and support the brand building and management through a co-creation
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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