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    Social Media for Dissemination and Science Education: Reality or Fabrication?

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    È possibile ottenere una divulgazione scientifica di qualità? Se sì, quali sono i suoi obiettivi? Come incidono gli ambienti mediali digitali nella realizzazione di questi obiettivi? Quali sono i limiti della divulgazione nella Rete? Una collaborazione fra l’Orto botanico e Erbario dell’Università di Bologna e un divulgatore scientifico ha cercato di dare alcune risposte a questi interrogativi, attraverso un progetto comunicativo che ha prodotto nove brevi video verticali per Instagram e Facebook. L’analisi dei risultati ha evidenziato un successo in termini di gradimento ed engagement in rete, mentre risulta molto difficile poter trarre conclusioni circa l’effettiva portata di questo successo e le eventuali ricadute sull’apprendimento e sul comportamento reale delle persone.Is it possible to achieve high-quality science communication? If so, what are its objectives? How do digital media environments impact the achievement of these objectives? What are the limitations of online science communication? A collaboration between the Botanical Garden and Herbarium of the University of Bologna and a science communicator sought to address these questions through a communication project that produced nine short vertical videos for Instagram and Facebook. The analysis of the results highlighted success in terms of online appreciation and engagement, although it remains challenging to draw conclusions about the actual scope of this success and its potential impact on learning and real-world behaviour

    Formal networks: the influence of social learning in meta-organisations from commons protection to commons governance

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    The governance of shared resources through collective actions to prevent “the tragedy of the commons” has long been a controversial topic in management studies. Hampered by a lack of formal organisational structures, small locally-governed commons are usually managed through informal networks and, hence, largely studied in this context. However, Italy’s formalised network contracts initiative provides a unique and relatively rare opportunity to study how the business-led collective action of a formal meta-organisation influences the use of commons. Using a mixed-methods qualitative approach, this paper reveals how particular organisational features, especially collaborative and social learning, can play a critical role in driving formal meta-organisations towards positive outcomes in three progressive stages: commons protection, commons stewardship, and commons governance. The analysis is framed by two different streams of literature–meta-organisation theory and sustainability science–with implications for the theory and praxis of both

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Una proposta per monitorare esperienze di Digital storytelling nella scuola

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    Il saggio delinea una prima riflessione sulla necessità di comprendere il potenziale didattico del digital storytelling (DST). A fronte di una carenza di studi e ricerche, nel contesto italiano, in grado di spiegare adeguatamente il fenomeno del DST (individuando modelli didattici, strategie, benefici, ecc.), sono presentate una serie di esperienze concrete e uno strumento attraverso il quale valutare multidimensionalmente l'impatto del DST a scuola
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