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Testi per il Giorno della Memoria
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Generazioni anziane tra vecchie e nuove incertezze
No full text(Abstract) In the perspective of high modernity, uncertainty is considered the most important consequence of individualization on social and biographical experience. The meaning of contemporary uncertainty is very different both from the pre-modern «original uncertainty» and from the modern idea of «exceptional situation» in a social reality completely taken for granted. In the sociological research, contemporary uncertainty has been empirically analysed for what concerns young people, their difficult social definition and their identity problems in the transition to adulthood. The paper argues that today the same difficulties concern other groups of age, in particular the so-called «old people». The attention is focused on the results of a qualitative research on a group of males and females aged over 60, living in the hinterland of Milan. The research has showed a great variety of situations, due not only to the traditional differences of gender, social class, family and health conditions, etc., but also to the specific experience of uncertainty that people have lived in the past and are living today. The paper shows the different kinds of uncertainty experienced by three different groups of aged persons, and argues that these groups correspond to three different generations, in a very sociological sense. The final part of the paper examines the specific condition of the «young olds» and points out the new uncertainty that they indirectly experience today as fathers and mothers of young people, who are more and more uncertain in their biographical construction
Generazioni ad un passaggio d'epoca. Certezze e precarietà nei racconti degli ultra sessantenni
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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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