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Tipaldo, G., Ceravolo, F., Moiso, V., Pitrelli, N., Sciannamblo, M., Tallacchini, M. (a cura di) 2023. Guerre di confine. Autorità epistemiche e società in transizione. Meltemi Editore.
No full textQuesto libro muove dal riconoscimento epistemologico dell’incertezza come tratto endemico macroscopico di ogni società umana: l’instabilità quale condizione di una rinnovata “normalità”, che la pandemia di Covid-19 ha esasperato ma non generato.
L’opera è concepita tenendo a mente due finalità complementari e almeno in parte sovrapposte: una culturale, l’altra politica. Per quanto attiene al primo aspetto, il lavoro intende esporre il dibattito – non di rado conflittuale – tra scienza, politica, media e
società a un pubblico più ampio e articolato di quello composto da chi se ne occupa per contingente necessità o per mestiere.
Ciascuno dei cinque capitoli contiene un “classico” del pensiero dei Science Technology and Society Studies ed è preceduto da
un’introduzione di registro divulgativo allo scopo di facilitare la metabolizzazione dei contenuti e, per quanto possibile, attualizzarli nel contesto storico e culturale che oggi viviamo.
Il secondo dei due fini, quello politico, si manifesta nella scelta di tenere fede alla lezione weberiana circa lo sguardo della sociologia sui fatti del mondo: mantenersi laici e avalutativi sui problemi tra scienza, politica, media e società. Non si tratta però di un’azione facile, né popolare, considerando che siamo nell’era del consenso guadagnato sulle polarizzazioni e le gogne online. Eppure, pare l’unico modo sensato di collocare in prospettiva i temi discussi
Di fronte all’epidemia COVID-19. Un’indagine sui comportamenti e gli atteggiamenti di cittadine e cittadini italiani
No full textPrimi risultati dell'indagine che Il CIRSIS – un centro di ricerca dell’Università di Pavia cui partecipano otto Dipartimenti – ha realizzato, in collaborazione con la società QuestLab di Venezia, sull’epidemia da coronavirus intervistando un campione di 1.500 cittadini italiani su alcuni temi:
- il livello di allarme sociale provocato dall’epidemia,
- la preoccupazione per le sue conseguenze,
- i mezzi utilizzati dai cittadini per informarsi durante il primo periodo della crisi,
- la fiducia nelle diverse fonti di informazione,
- i comportamenti e gli orientamenti nella prima fase dell’emergenza
Italian academics’ Public Engagement: An opportunity to strengthen the relationship between universities and their territories
No full textThe term Public Engagement refers to a variety of activities aimed at engaging universities within the public sphere and, correspondingly, at involving the public in the teaching, research and service activities of universities. These activities – which are largely carried out by faculty either on a mere individual basis or as an institutional duty – provide an opportunity to strengthen the relationships between universities and their territories. Relying on the results of a survey on more than 5,000 academics working at Italian public universities, the article aims at showing how frequent academics’ Public engagement is, who are the academics mostly engaged in these activities, and whether there are territorial differences in this kind of engagement. The article also provides an assessment of the social and economic impact of Public engagement activities, especially at the local and regional levels. Distinguishing between two dimensions of academics’ Public engagement, namely «Local Community Engagement» and «General Political Engagement», the article shows that Italian academics’ participation in the former is considerable while their participation in the latter is limited. These findings suggest that academics’ Public engagement indeed provides an opportunity to link universities to their territories. Local community engagement varies according to some individual characteristics such as academics’ discipline and their involvement on other «Third mission» activities, but not to others. In particular, faculty working in Southern Italy and the Islands, the less developed regions of the country, and those working in North-West Italy, the most developed part of the country, are equally involved in Local community engagement. Finally, according to academics’ perceptions their Local community engagement has a more social than economic impact
The two dimensions of Italian academics’ public engagement
No full textThe article aims at investigating Italian academics’ Public Engagement highlighting its two dimensions, namely “Local Community Engagement” (LCE) and “General Political Engagement” (GPE). It is based on the results of a national survey on academics’ third mission activities carried out in the year 2015/2016 collecting information from a representative sample of 5,123 respondents working at 62 universities, with a response rate of 34.2%. In addition to detecting distinct dimensions of academics’ Public Engagement, data analysis shows that Italian academics are much more involved in LCE activities than in GPE ones. Although both LCE and GPE are influenced by many common factors, such as academic rank, discipline and being involved in other third mission activities, they also display peculiar traits: LCE activities are more likely to involve academic women while GPE are more likely to be carried out by older academics; LCE activities appear to be context-dependent while GPE activities are not. Hence, the article offers a contribution to a better understanding of the different goals of Public Engagement activities and of their spatial dimension
La rivincita della scienza sul senso comune? Gli orientamenti di fiducia degli italiani all’inizio dell’emergenza Covid-19
Full text linkThe main hypothesis of the article is that the pandemic phenomenon has partly increased the level of trust the Italian people have in scientific and health institutions, but it is not a completely consolidated trust. To control this hypothesis, a sample survey was carried out in correspondence with the gradual introduction by the government of measures of lock-down. The data shows increasing trust in scientific and health institutions throughout the survey period. The responses of some respondents, however, show a certain level of incoherence. Many people declaring a high level of trust towards the scientific and health institution show (to different degrees) confidence in the idea that the virus was created in a laboratory, a thesis widely rejected by the scientific community with many explanations in the media. The rooting of anti-scientific beliefs may be much higher than suspected by commentators, and the celebration of a revenge of science may be premature
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
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