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    Media, Power and Public Opinion. Essays on Communication and Politics in a Historical Perspective

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    This book aims at exploring in a long historical perspective and in a wide historical context the reactions of political institutions and players towards new media and new form of communications, as well as their strategies in order to combat and/or exploit their effects and potential. This is an original and innovative attempt to combine traditional approaches to the history of the media and politics with studies that aim to directly provide some historical perspective on contemporary preoccupations with ‘fake news’ and manipulation of the public opinion. Addressing these topics by focusing on specific events and specific contexts as case studies allows to connect the hic et nunc dimension with the general trend of the history and verify the particular effects of general long-term trends

    Lontani da casa. Testimonianze di emigrati e di soldati di San Giovanni Ilarione

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    Testimonianze di soldati di San Giovanni Ilarione (Verona) e di emigranti attraverso lettere e ricordi. Pubblicazione di circa 200 lettere di un soldato disperso in Russia nella seconda guerra mondiale

    Press, public opinion, constitutional transition: the thinking of the Italian liberal moderates (1814–1850)

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    This essay aims at offering a reconstruction of the main conceptual nodes at the center of the Italian liberal-moderates’ reflection on the role of public opinion and the media in the transition processes from the ancient regime to the constitutional state, with particular reference to the 1840s and to the caesura of 1848-49. It is a particularly stimulating perspective to focus on dynamics and problems regarding the relationship between media and politics, media and institutions, media and consensus building, media and mass mobilization, typical of today's world too. In the first place, the essay analyzes how the liberal-moderates reconstructed the role of the media, and the press in particular, in the delegitimization processes of the old regime institutions. Secondly, it outlines the consequences they drew from this with regard to the issues of both building political consensus and reshaping the forms of politics. Finally, the essay explains how the events of 1848-49 made mature their fear about the risks that these transformations could unleash precisely on the stability of modern constitutional institutions

    Dynamic Marketing Capabilities in Science-Based Industries

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    The article investigates dynamic marketing capablities in pharmaceutical firms and highlights their potential contribution to firm performance and sustainability of competitive advantage. It draws implications on the competitiveness of science based firms

    Dynamic Capabilities for Continuous Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

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    We study the implication of a market orientation in the process of sustained product innovation. We provide a detailed evidence of a case of a pharmceutical firm

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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
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