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Playing is sharing. La condivisione e il tempo libero nelle reti sociali di gioco
Get PDFIl gioco occupa per molte persone una parte sostanziale del proprio tempo libero ed è diventata un'occasione per creare reti di socialità, spazi di partecipazione, identità ma anche occasioni di consumo e condivisione. Grazie al diffondersi e al consolidarsi delle culture di gioco sempre più spazi di condivisione di giochi si fanno strada in Italia. Questa pratica, denominata game sharing, porta singole persone a creare gruppi di gioco e associazioni per acquistare in gruppo giochi da tavolo e di ruolo da condividere sia tra di loro che con chi inizia a giocare, il tutto seguendo le logiche no-profit, la passione per i giochi e il fare community. Il presente contributo offre in primis una breve riflessione sul concetto e lo studio del gioco nella scienze sociali e, inoltre, presenta una ricerca qualitativa tra antropologia e psicologia sociale condotta in diverse città italiane (Bologna, Catania, Padova, Torino e Treviso). Nel corso delle ricerca, sono state condotte multiple osservazioni partecipanti di associazioni di game sharing, di negozi che attuano questa pratica e di gruppi di gioco indipendenti. Sono state inoltre svolte delle interviste narrative con organizzatori e coordinatori di associazioni, con negozianti, creatori di giochi e, infine, con giocatori e giocatrici che usano il gioco per fare attivismo su tematiche di genere e orientamento sessuale. Il contributo indaga i contesti di gioco come rete sociale dedicata al tempo libero e alla condivisione, come attività di apprendimento non formale di empatia e skill sociali e, infine, come una rete di saperi professionali a cui ricorrere in caso di bisogno.To many people playing is a substantial part of their free time and has become an opportunity to create societal networks, spaces for participation, identity but also opportunities for consumption and sharing. Thanks to the spreading and the consolidation of game cultures, more and more spaces for sharing games have found their way into Italy. This practice, called ‘game sharing’, leads individuals to create groups of gamers and associations to collectively buy board and roleplaying games to share with each other and with brand-new players. This practices follows a non-profit logic and arise from the passion for games and community. The present contribution offers in the first part a brief summary on the concepts and the study of the games in social sciences whereas, in the second part, presents a qualitative research between anthropology and social psychology conducted in different Italian cities (Bologna, Catania, Padua, Turin and Treviso). The research included multiple participatory observations of game sharing associations, stores that implemented this practice and independent game groups. In addition to ethnographic observation, many narrative interviews were conducted with organizers and coordinators of associations, with shop owners, game designers and, finally, with players who use games and roleplay to do activism on gender issues and sexual orientation. The contribution investigates gaming contexts as a societal network dedicated to free time and sharing, as a non-formal learning activity of social skills and empathy and, finally, as a network of professional knowledge to be used in case of need
Stories Told Together : Male Narratives of Non-Monogamous Bi+ and Heterosexual Men
Get PDFThe stories we tell about our identities and sexual orientations shape how we perform gendered scripts and negotiate relationships
with significant others. Previous literature inquired the styles and outcomes of consensual non-monogamous (CNM)
relationships, but more research is need on how CNM men resist or abide to hegemonic models of masculinity. To understand
how constructions of masculinity and conceptualizations of sexual orientation are embedded in CNMs, the study analysed the
stories of non-monogamous Bi+ and heterosexual men. Following a critical narrative approach, the study inquired the diverse
conceptualizations of masculinity, sexual orientation and relationship practices in the narratives of 20 non-monogamous
Bi+ and heterosexual identified men. The semi-structured in-depth narrative interviews (105 min on average) were analyzed via
Nvivo 12 and explored their stories of desire and the sense-making process of being sexually oriented to one or more genders
and to one or more partner/s. Engaging in non-monogamy was signified as a relevant insight from their personal stories and/
or from adopting new concepts of desire beyond the “love as a zero-sum game.” The latter theme was also shared by many
heterosexual participants that, when negotiating a non-monogamous agreement, signified their attractions to more than one
person as part of their personal identity. Finally, the paper discusses how non-monogamous spaces can offer a positive and
safe space for bisexuals/Bi+ people to explore and reaffirm their identities, constantly challenged by biphobia, invisibility, and
erasure. Experiences and stories of Italian cisgender Bi+ and heterosexual men cannot be generalized to the whole spectrum
of masculinities within CNM spaces, and the study lacks how other gendered and sexual subjectivities construct masculinity.
Diverse stories and construction of sexuality and gender can lead to similar relationship preferences and understanding how
we signify them can greatly improve our understanding of intimacies
La cognizione implicita e i copioni sessuali
No full textThe chapter presents a review of research paradigms and measures, both implicit and explicit, of sexual orientation. Differences and similiraties between the Sexual Scripts theory by Gagnon and Simon and Social Cognition research are also discussed
Narrare le maschilità: la costruzione dell'orientamento sessuale in uomini Bi+ ed eterosessuali
Get PDFThe research project inquired the intersections between masculinity and sexual orientation in the narratives of bisexual and heterosexual men living in central and northern Italy. By challenging the assumption that male sexuality its more simple and biologically driven, the research focuses on the socially constructed meanings within the participant's stories regarding their identities and practices as “sexually oriented men”. Bisexuality and heterosexuality were chosen as relevant groups to compare since they share one target of desire (other-gender attraction to women) but represent different paths of attractions: an exclusive and normative pattern of attractions for straight men (that “should be attracted only to women) non-exclusive (attraction to more than one gender) and deviant, whereas the latter consist of the normative group and “should” be exclusively attracted only to women. Exploring how men of different sexual orientation construct and adhere to diverse models of masculinity and how they frame it within hegemonic discourses (Connel, 2005; Kimmel, 2005). Lastly, since bisexuality has been recognized as an invisible and erased sexuality (in scientific literature, media, policies and LGT associations) comparing these two groups provides useful insights for sexual research because the pervasive heteronormativity of being male and straight is often “invisible” to the normative group
“You're a man, so you're out of place”: reflexive thematic analysis of focus group with Italian teachers and educators
No full textThe following paper aims to understand how masculinity is endorsed, performed or subverted in educational and school contexts through the narratives and discourses of an Italian sample of teachers and educators of multiple genders. To investigate these relevant educational issues, we conducted a Thematic Analysis of four focus groups. Findings portrayed a complex social scenario marked by profound ambivalence towards masculinities and rigid gender hierarchies in pre-primary and primary schools. While men are highly considered to be role models of agentivity and authority, they also embody positive expectations of dismantling gender stereotypes and diferent types of sexual stigma: the mere presence of a male teacher in primary schools might raise concerns regarding physical contact and sexual deviance.
Furthermore, men in teaching institutions face both privileges from their gender, perceived as more competent, practical, and authoritarian, but also discrimination via subtle forms of sexist devaluation as they are not considered “naturally suited” for childcare. These relevant psychosocial processes have been recently put in the spotlight within broader conversations on sex/gender issues in educational settings,
media narratives on masculinity, and diversity management practices. The following paper provides recent qualitative data from the Southern-European context to shed light on the social constructs of gendered scripts within the narratives of teachers and educators, analysing within this broader social framework how to uncover representations, stereotypes, and biases regarding the schools’ roles in fostering fairness
and equal opportunities, both for educators and students
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
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
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