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Territorial development and ‘Third Mission’
No full textThe subject of the ‘third mission’ has been on the minds of universities for some time, albeit with differences in orientation at the international level, concerning the interpretation of the mission and the calibration of the commitment devoted to it, compared with what is already required by research and teaching. In Italy, the initial focus was on university- enterprise links, then shifted to continuing education. Recently, there has been a further shift of focus towards the territorial dimension. The concept of ‘territory’ has been the subject of a strong theoretical resurgence of attention in recent years. Alberto Magnaghi launched an important international movement (‘territorialism’) that led UNESCO to review the concept of cultural heritage in 2012. Renzo Piano has intervened several times to support the centrality of the actions of ‘mending’ devastated and degraded urban territories, towards new forms of coexistence. Richard Sennett has dedicated his latest reflections to the relationship between the built territory and the ‘dwelling’ (‘ville’ and ‘cité’), a fundamental relationship on a social but also ethical level. This turning point coincided with the full affirmation of the network society, which has significantly transformed territories over the last twenty years. The reasons for this transformation lie in the change in the mode of production, the virtualisation of culture, and the restructuring of identities: while physical places become ‘trans- locations’ and network nodes, in work and daily life the inhabitants are exposed to often violent glocal dynamics. On the other hand, the growing interest in the territorial dimension (development trends, transformation processes, decay) has been matched by a policy focus on the creation of territorial networks promoting the efficient use of development levers (public and private investment, citizen participation, improving skills, etc.). This applies to the most backward areas, to find ways of connecting them to the infrastructures and dynamics of the network society; but it also applies to more advanced urban areas subject to degradation, to ensure governability, care and involvement of stakeholders and citizens. Universities are potentially decisive players in the transfer of innovation, the training of skills, but also the definition of policies themselves. In this sense, the development of third mission initiatives can be better addressed. In particular, three sectors of activity should be considered, in which promising opportunities and experiences are visible: 1) the enhancement of territories as networks (tangible and intangible heritage); 2) the continuous training of human resources in stable and organised territorial networks involving educational institutions, enterprises and other stakeholders (from ITS to ContaminationLabs), with which to co-design the offer; 3) the development of the Third sector, as interlocutor, recipient and at the same time partner of the initiatives aimed at social welfare. But to what extent can these dynamics be favoured by the current ANVUR evaluation system
L'OSSERVATORIO 2010 SULLA COMUNICAZIONE ON LINE DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURALE DELLE ISTITUZIONI ITALIANE
No full textRicerca sul campo sulla situazione italiana, basata su un benchmarking delle migliori pratiche di comunicazione on line dei musei a livello internazional
Comunicare la memoria. Le istituzioni culturali europee e la rete.
No full textIl primo tentativo in Italia di costruire una teoria mediologica sul cultural heritage, in parallelo a un benchmarking internazionale sulle migliori pratiche di comunicazione on line dei musei
Convergence between formal and informal learning practices: state of the art and historical heritage
No full textFor a long time, Informal learning suffered a mechanical and simplified defi-
nition, as a category opposed to formal learning: it was in fact intended at a
space-time level, as a complex of outdoor activities, carried out outside school
walls, and outside a certifiable path.
If in the field of vocational training validation systems have been arranged at
European level by CEDEFOP (2017) to test and to certificate skills and abilities
acquired through individual experience, however, many third sector initiatives,
volunteering, personal interests and creative activities usually are more prob-
lematic in being identified and formally attested, and require a substantial
change of didactics and educational perspectives. In any case a step change is
in progress at the moment: recognizing the informal learning formative basis
means, in fact, becoming aware of the profound changes technologies have
introduced in the educational world, to the point of blurring the borders between
informal and non-formal (the structured but not certified) learning paths, and
more generally between formal and informal ones
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
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