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Conducting Action Research to Address Social Innovation
No full textThis case is an example of qualitative research in action. We followed the unfolding of a bottom-up process to develop a social innovation initiative. Launched by a young collective, in Bari, a town in the South of Italy, the initiative aims to leverage education using crowdsourced knowledge.
The study is based on the results of an action research on a 12 days workshop and on the analysis of online discussions, paths, and topics over a 14-month longitudinal period.
The study reveals how crowdsourcing acted as an opportunity to build a new community that revitalized the local social environment, and how design processes played a major role in community creation and instructed new governance models. It emerged the role of digital communications in building a network, which can generate and regenerate the local socio-economic fabric and connect it with the rest of the world. These results indicate the first step towards a proposal for an open innovation model for social innovation which combines online crowd engagement with offline activities and where design processes nurture the sense of belonging between community and territory. As a pedagogical tool, this case will help other researchers and students learn how to collect data when dealing with a social change open process and a longitudinal analysis: in particular, we introduce and discuss design thinking, observation, and coding issues
Universities as platforms for urban renewal and collective mobilization: reinventing Venice's social fabric, economy and lagoon
No full textUniversities’ role in technology transfer has been widely recognized. The concept of university engagement with the external world has evolved in the past twenty years. First named technology transfer, then entrepreneurial university, a tension towards an active and proficient interaction with the external world sustained the transformation of higher education institutions.
The notion of impact, for a long time, has focused on the avenues to contribute to industry advancement and the economy at large. More recently, the notion of universities as change agents transcended the sole economic dimension, pointing more explicitly to their nature of platforms interacting with – and engaging – the complex local environments they are part of (Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 2000). A kaleidoscopic set of new activities and responsibilities were therefore introduced to develop the liaison between academia and society.
The present paper aims at elucidating a specific function universities might have in dense but fragmented local networks: that of platform bridging a variety of constituencies aiming at the renewal of the social, economic, and environmental fabric of a city. We show how universities are strategically placed to enable the convergence of efforts and projects and thus allow a less departmentalized and segregated view of progress and advancement.
The overall role of the university should overthrow the idea that a project must be built from scratch every time, and in fact the aim of the project is to Map the results that have already been achieved in the field and to link them to a pre-existing community of different audiences and external stakeholders through the Higher education institutions
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
Moving to a Multichannel and Multiplatform Company in the Emerging and Digital Media Ecosystem: The Case of Mediaset Group
No full textA Way to Foster Innovation: A Venture Capital District: From Silicon Valley and Route 128 to Waterloo Region
No full textFraming Venice: the role of media
No full textSince the identity of a place finds expression, among other dimensions, through its depictions in the traditional and new media at national and international levels, the identity of Venice, in relation to its main urban challenges, can be analysed through its appearances in the headlines. The media plays a vital role in creating and popularising a brand image and identity : “The overwhelmed city” struggles to transmit its prestige. At the same time, only its challenges seem to emerge from its representation in the media, creating a negative image in the reader’s mind.
The mainland area suffers an even worse fate with no redemption derived from a globally renowned urban
identity. On the other hand, the neighbouring islands in the Lagoon experience an idyllic narration, contributing to the utopic perception of rural areas Somehow, we can identify a frontstage and a backstage with lights and shadows emerging here
The role of Italian incubators and Science Parks in the Triple-Helix era. The hybrid model developed in Lombardy
No full textVariations 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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