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D. Compagno. Dezmond. Una lettura di Assassin’s Creed 2
No full textIn questo diciottesimo volume della floridissima collana “Ludologica. Videogames d’autore”, curata da Matteo Bittanti e Gianni Canova per l’editore Unicopli, Compagno propone un’analisi semiotica di Assassin’s Creed 2 gestendo con grande maestria la complessità del metodo scelt
World of Warcraft as Collector's Paradise
No full textAs a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) owing its success to previous installments of the genre and the original real-time strategy games, World of Warcraft (WoW) is just itching for philosophical analysis. The cultural reach of WoW is incredible, and we couldn’t hope to do justice to it in a short introduction. We do consider WoW to be a profound cultural phenomenon and, quite frankly, a great game. Though our focus with this book is WoW and its expansions, the authors also touch on the Warcraft franchise, lore, and other media If you’re new to philosophy, you also might be wondering what philosophy is in the first place and why we would presume to mix it with your World of Warcraft! Well, what does it mean when a person gives you his “philosophy” of, say, leveling up a character? It doesn’t mean that he will give you specific examples, but rather an overarching guide of the principles that inform his leveling up process. For any gamer, such principles are important because, without them, he would be lost The secret is that we all have such guiding principles, Reader, whether we’re aware of them or not. They direct us when we play and they direct us when we order the latest strategy guide from Amazon. The beginning stage of becoming a philosopher is learning to recognize and understand the justifications for these guiding principles in ourselves, as we play and as we live To put it another way, philosophy is a tradition that poses and occasionally answers questions. In some cases questions are not specifically answered. In other cases investigating a certain question leads to more questions! Of course, to think that there is an easy answer to every question out there is to be a bit naive, or to attribute a simplicity to the world that is unwarranted. The ancient philosopher Socrates made the famous statement that he knew he did not know, and this claim in itself opened him up to being the wisest person in Athens. There are some things we know and there are other things we don’t, as individuals and as a species. Socrates taught that it’s best to be honest about what we don’t know rather than pretend to have reached some level of understanding which we clearly haven’t reached. Part of the philosopher’s task is to humbly ponder the seemingly unknowable things, occasionally reaching acceptable answers and advancing general human knowledge And this is just what the authors do in this book in relation to WoW. Videogames are still a very new cultural phenomenon in the eyes of human history—MMORPGs even more so. It is our belief that WoW can teach us not just about huge virtual worlds and videogames, but also about people and society. In some cases, WoW serves as a model for examining the potential of economic, ethical, or political theories. While the world is virtual, the people controlling the toons in that world are real The folks at Blizzard are real This quest does not necessarily need to be completed in order Depending on your current level of understanding, you may decide to skip ahead to chapters that seem most interesting to you. This is perfectly natural for philosophy, Reader! Different sorts of people are drawn to philosophy for different reasons If you’re a beginner, however, we recommend you start at the apprentice level, where there is a more eclectic selection of material However, at the beginning of each section we provide an overview of the major themes covered, in addition to some of the big questions the authors tackle in that section Whether or not you fully complete your quest, we hope that you emerge from the experience with a more open mind, a deeper appreciation for and understanding of your life as a gamer and person, and a greater respect for the issues that arise from in depth gameworlds like Wo
Glocal Newsgaming Barcamp
No full textDal sito web dell'iniziativa: http://www.play-modena.it/?eventi=glocal-newsgaming-barcampÈ possibile fare giornalismo, informazione, satira usando una forma ludica? Questa la domanda che guiderà i partecipanti a Glocal Newsgaming Barcamp, un incontro di dialogo aperto tra giornalisti, game designer, ricercatori, studenti e giocatori. Sarà un’occasione per esplorare i molti modi in cui il gioco, elettronico o tradizionale, può intrecciarsi con il mondo del giornalismo, della critica sociale e della memoria storica.Professionisti, ricercatori e giocatori potranno così ragionare insieme sulle potenzialità del newsgaming, un nuovo modo di fare informazione, critica e satira che, sfruttando l’interattività e il piacere del gioco, stimola la partecipazione attiva degli utenti. A differenza del giornalismo tradizionale – che propone notizie, commenti e informazioni in modo unidirezionale – un newsgame mette in scena realtà, situazioni e problemi del mondo contemporaneo, lasciando al giocatore la libertà di sperimentare la simulazione per elaborare un proprio pensiero critico.I partecipanti, seduti attorno a un tavolo in piccoli gruppi, potranno discutere tra loro; ogni trenta minuti i gruppi di discussione verranno riorganizzati, consentendo così di confrontarsi con un numero ampio di persone.Glocal Newsgaming Barcamp è stato realizzato grazie al patrocinio e contributo economico della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, e del Dipartimento Comunicazione dell’Università degli Studi di Modena e Regio Emilia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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