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Intentionality and design in the data sonification of social issues
Full text linkData sonification is a practice for conducting scientific analysis through the use of sound to represent data. It is now transitioning to a practice for communicating and reaching wider publics by expanding the range of languages and senses for understanding complexity in data-intensive societies. Communicating to wider publics, though, requires that authors intentionally shape sonification in ways that consider the goals and contexts in which publics relate. It requires a specific set of knowledge and skills that design as a discipline could provide. In this article, we interpret five recent sonification projects and locate them on a scale of intentionality in how authors communicate socially relevant issues to publics
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No full textVenezia, la ‘festa mobile’: per un Atlante in fieri. Luoghi, figure e forme della favola antica nel primo Rinascimento
No full textWhen trying to handle historical data, it can be confusing and frustrating for the reader to view and understand the information behind the documents. This is where digital technologies can be extremely useful: the article illustrates the ongoing work of a group of scholars for the creation of the atlas “FRIDA” whose objective is to represent all the events linked to Venice in the period between 1450 and 1550, using the famous bird’s eye view of Venice, printed by Jacopo de Barbari in 1500 as a geographical base for mapping events. All information related to civic-religious feasts, wedding parties, Carnival, funerals, occasional parties for passages of illustrious guests, triumphal entries, processions, banquets, liturgical ceremonies, dances, music, tournaments, jousting and theatrical performances of comedies, farces and tragedies of which spatial information was available have been linked to places on the map. The main idea is to visualize the complexity of “mobile feasts” (a description borrowed from Ernest Hemingway), exceeding the limits of the information list. In this way it was possible to begin to identify the places of events, the movements of the processions in the city space, but also the connection of the individual performances, the network of actors and artefacts — images, poems — in the Venice of Marin Sanudo. The Venetian diarist is in fact the main source of information at the base of the mapping made in the interactive atlas which, through three different levels of analysis, manages to bring together the historical, geographical and literary, visual and sound objects that we track in the pages of the Diarii
Shaping Public Sector Digital Transformation through Design. Translation approaches on training programs as multi-stakeholder ecosystems
Full text linkIn the evolving landscape of public sector digital transformation, the integration of design thinking and stakeholder engagement presents a pressing challenge and a valuable opportunity. As a response to this challenge, there is a growing interest in the implementation of training programs within the theoretical framework of translational practices. This study adopts an organisational lens and an analytical framework to look into three instances of design translation in multi-stakeholder ecosystems. Drawing insights from a three-year exploration, it examines the dynamics within two ecosystems: the multidisciplinary and multi-operational partners responsible for designing and executing the training program, and the program participants. By investigating these instances, this study sheds light on favourable or hindering circumstances in the transition of design to the public sector digital transformation within collaborative, multi-stakeholder environments
Empowering urban wellbeing and biodiversity through design-driven citymaking
Full text linkThis paper presents a practice-based account of the roles that design can play in the realization of a biodiversity-driven approach to citymaking, specifically as part of urban regeneration. The authors first retrace the evolving relationship between design and citymaking in light of contemporary urban regeneration challenges, to identify the potential roles design can play in these contexts. Urban biodiversity is then explored as a factor relevant to urban well-being, ecosystem services, and proactive citizenship, clustering the types of actions that can support a biodiversity-sensitive urban regeneration. Following these premises, a portfolio of initiatives centered on urban biodiversity within a large-scale urban regeneration project in Milan (Italy) is presented to exemplify how design-led interventions can favor the urban natural environment. From these insights, the authors reflect on how designers can work with urban biodiversity to drive sustainable practices while re-establishing people’s relationship with nature and empowering communities' participation in urban transformation
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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