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Dati, Giovani e Cultura. Il design come attivatore di nuove relazioni per le biblioteche di Bologna
Full text linkIl volume esplora il ruolo del design come catalizzatore della trasformazione delle biblioteche pubbliche in spazi aperti, di prossimità e inclusivi, valorizzando il loro ruolo di connessione tra comunità e cultura. A partire dalle riflessioni nate dal progetto Data Challenge: Youth & Culture , in cui i dati relativi al patrimonio delle biblioteche di Bologna sono stati analizzati per comprendere e migliorare l'interazione con le nuove generazioni, viene illustrato come un approccio data-informed alla progettazione di spazi e servizi culturali possa favorire la loro transizione in veri e propri luoghi di comunità. Il libro presenta una metodologia di ricerca-azione che integra strumenti di co-design, data visualization e service design, con l'obiettivo di sviluppare nuove strategie per coinvolgere le giovani generazioni, affrontando temi chiave quali diversità di genere, inclusione e accessibilità
L’interazione con CRICC. Comunicare le relazioni attraverso i dati e la loro visualizzazione
No full textIl Centro di Ricerca per l’interazione con le Industrie Culturali e Creative dell’Università di Bologna (CRICC) – nato dalla sinergia di sei dipartimenti che conta più di venti tra professori e ricercatori – si configura come infrastruttura abilitante per la definizione di processi e metodologie nella costruzione di relazioni tra ricerca, impiego di tecnologie digitali e imprese culturali e creative del territorio della regione Emilia-Romagna. CRICC e Fondazione Innovazione Urbana (FIU) hanno siglato a febbraio 2021 una convenzione per la realizzazione congiunta di attività nell’ambito del progetto di ricerca Bologna Data Stories (Vai et al., 2020). FIU nella sua vocazione plurale di centro di analisi, comunicazione, elaborazione e co-produzione sulle trasformazioni urbane, nell’ambito delle finalità del progetto Laboratorio Aperto di Bologna e nel perseguire il primario interesse pubblico di divulgare le azioni e i progetti rivolti all’innovazione e alla trasformazione urbana, ha espresso il bisogno di co-progettare con CRICC e l’Advanced Design Unit dell’Università di Bologna un volume sui progetti e sulle attività dei primi 4 anni di operatività. Interpretare le esperienze a scala urbana attraverso l’analisi e la rappresentazione dei dati significa attribuire un nuovo valore alle esperienze stesse, alle relazioni in potenza e alle trasformazioni continue della città (Formia, Gianfrate & Vai, 2021; Formia, Ginocchini & Ascari, 2021)
Data Challenge. Re-thinking the library as a learning space to intersect youth, culture and gender diversity.
Full text linkThe COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on public spaces, which has become an urban variable that changes people's mindset and perception about their use, fruition, affection, and considerations. The Data Challenge project research identifies a common thread between gender-related data, public spaces of libraries and the approach of younger generations to cultural facilities. Service design methodologies can support change in the public sector and foster democratic processes in the co-creation of knowledge. The research uses two main pillars: design research and practices to innovate existing services for young people and "Citizens as scientists" processes to analyse quantitative and qualitative data. The methodology implemented is a replicable tool for Citizen Science projects based on horizontal and vertical research actions to identify existing data and communicate complex social phenomena related to young people, culture and gender diversity. The research activities aimed to build skills in young generations in the field of professional orientation, such as understanding inclusivity and gender equality, through collaborative and laboratory activities in school spaces and out-of-school spaces. Challenges investigate relationships and perceptions between young people and culture, experiment with data analysis and visualisation, and create product/service prototypes
IF THIS THEN THAT Broken Linear Logic. Rethinking and Representing the Design Process
Full text linkSince its origins, the discipline of Design has developed in close connection with technological progress, trying to adapt its processes, approaches and methodologies. What we are questioning is how much Design has actually been successful in converging towards a disciplinary model suitable to the most recent technological evolutions such as AI and data-driven approaches, and, first of all, how much the way of thinking of designers has changed in this direction.
Through an evaluation of design approaches, methodologies and processes from an historical point of view, the aim of this paper is to surface the misalignment between contemporary design processes logic and the linearity of its common representations, due to recent technological advancements. In fact, the representation of a process affects the epistemology of the process itself. This contribution presents on-going research based on literature review and mapping of contemporary design processes structures and representations, in order to define some good attempts and practices useful for building more reliable representations of design processes able to deal with challenges in a highly-technologically advanced present
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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