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Perceived oppression and online support for COVID-19 non-compliance: the 2021 Trieste port protests
Get PDFThe enforcement of COVID-19 containment measures, such as lockdowns or mandatory vaccination, can have significant consequences for both public health and the economic stability of institutions. As a result, widespread non-compliance poses a particular challenge for governments. In October 2021, workers in Trieste, Italy, blocked the city's commercial port in protest against new restrictions, triggering large-scale demonstrations and an explosion of related activity on Twitter. We analyze this unique case of mass non-compliance by collecting tweets about the protests and applying sentiment analysis, topic modeling, opinion analysis, user clustering, and diffusion modeling. Our findings reveal a strong connection between online support for non-compliance and emotions such as anger and mistrust, particularly toward the government, which are often framed as reactions to perceived injustice or oppression. The results suggest that social media played a key role in amplifying and normalizing non-compliant sentiment. While this study does not make normative claims about the legitimacy of either side, it offers a methodological lens for understanding how polarizing debates unfold online. This approach can also be extended to other divisive issues such as climate policy, military conflict, or artificial intelligence, or in general with regards to contrasting or diverse opinions discussed online. By better understanding the motivations and narratives of non-compliers, institutions may be better equipped to foster dialogue and reduce reliance on force
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
Sentiment Analysis and reactions in social networks: exploratory study of the tweets of the Trieste protests
Get PDFopenNegli ultimi anni è aumentato l’utilizzo dei social network, come Twitter e Facebook, per condividere opinioni e idee sui fatti di cronaca. Nell’ottobre del 2021, una parte del dibattito nei social si è concentrata e infiammata sulle vicende di Trieste, spaccando l’opinione pubblica. In quel periodo il capoluogo del Friuli-Venezia-Giulia era diventato il simbolo della resistenza contro le nuove misure introdotte dal green pass, che prevedevano l’obbligo di presentare il certificato anche sul luogo di lavoro. La mattina del 15 ottobre i portuali di Trieste, guidati dal portavoce Stefano Puzzer, presidiano il porto della città insieme a migliaia di persone che si uniscono alla protesta. La posizione dei manifestanti è inflessibile:“L'unica apertura che possono avere nei nostri confronti è togliere il Green pass” dichiara Puzzer alla stampa. Anche dopo la proposta da parte delle autorità triestine di pagare i tamponi necessari ai lavoratori per poter continuare a lavorare, le proteste continuano giorno dopo giorno. Sui social vengono pubblicati messaggi di supporto per i manifestanti:“Trieste chiama, Ancona risponde” è un esempio. Anche da Padova, Genova, Parma e molte altre città parte lo slogan di incoraggiamento. Il 17 ottobre, Puzzer decide di dimettersi dal ruolo di vicepresidente del Coordinamento dei Lavoratori Portuali di Trieste (CLPT) e dichiara che, nonostante le sue dimissioni, le proteste continueranno fino al 20 ottobre. Dal punto di vista mediatico, le acque si calmano anche se i malumori nella città sono ancora forti e le proteste vanno avanti senza sosta. Nel frattempo, il numero di contagi a Trieste sale esponenzialmente facendo crescere la preoccupazione della giunta comunale. A riaccendere il dibattito è la decisione del sindaco Dipiazza: il primo novembre vengono vietate le proteste in piazza Unità a causa dell’aumento dei contagi. Inoltre, la mattina del 2 novembre, Puzzer si presenta a sorpresa in piazza del Popolo con un tavolo, con un cartello che cita "Papa", e quattro sedie con altrettanti fogli che indicano "Mario Draghi", "Comunità Europea", "Usa" e "Russia". La voce si diffonde sui social e cominciano ad affluire nella piazza persone pronte a protestare insieme all’ex vicepresidente del CLPT. A causa di questa iniziativa, il questore di Roma emetterà il Daspo nei confronti di Stefano Puzzer.
Con questa premessa, il presente lavoro ha come scopo quello di studiare i tweet riguardanti le vicende di Trieste, pubblicati tra il 29 ottobre 2021 e il 4 novembre 2021. Nella prima parte si presenterà una rassegna degli studi che hanno indagato come possono diffondersi le informazioni nei social media e gli elementi chiave per comprendere le dinamiche nel comportamento di condivisione degli utenti. Inoltre, verranno presentate le tecniche impiegate per effettuare le analisi sui dati ricavati in questo studio. Nella seconda parte verrà illustrato il metodo con cui sono stati estratti i tweet e le procedure di elaborazione e categorizzazione del testo. Infine, verranno presentati e discussi i risultati emersi dallo studio, effettuando un confronto rispetto con la letteratura esistente
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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