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Paesaggi Invisibili: identità e alterità
No full textUna ricerca degli anni 70 sulla città di Milano, attuata da un gruppo di studiosi ed architetti,
mise in luce le relazioni tra campo urbano e campo didattico tese tra i ruoli comunicativo
e culturale dell’agglomerato cittadino; oggi è possibile indagare le “reti” di relazioni
a partire dalle molteplici e contemporanee identità che, dopo oltre tre decenni, convivono
diffusamente nelle moderne città.
Attualmente le transazioni cittadine, non certo solo a Milano, avvengono tramite la
messa in comune di un universo di codici visivi, acustici, spaziali, aptici, iper-codici, dando
per assunto il ruolo di medium sociale dell’ambiente urbano. Tali modalità di scambio
sono la conseguenza dei cambiamenti, nel tempo e dello spazio, che le tecnologie stanno
operando a tutti i livelli.
Si considerano le caratteristiche dello spazio urbano e il carattere virtuale delle comunicazioni,
identificando in tale spazio l’oggetto di decodifica e reinterpretazione, non statico
e passivo, piuttosto costantemente plasmabile da chi lo vive
COMMUNICATION DESIGN FOR URBAN ENVIRONMENT. AN UNCONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO THE CITY BRANDING, in ICERI2013 Proceedings, 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
No full textThe paper wants to present an alternative model for the design of urban corporate identity and city branding.
In the first part the paper presents traditional and famous case studies of city branding and in the second part it presents: an example of completely different design approach; our didactic methodology and the experimental projects developed by students, in the field of Communication Design for urban
environment.
In our design approach, the graphic marks, the logos, is designed starting from the city details as emerging signs related to the complex urban identity. The urban sign (several kind of trace) is very different to the traditional city brand that is a visual synthesis of meanings and values.
The didactic results want to bring attention to the revaluation of the urban signs as traces on the “skin of the city”.
The goal of the our didactic course is to design models of corporate identity and city branding starting from what the city shows about its details; so the trace, the minimal signs, becomes bearers of meaning.
The didactic projects, developed in our course, want to represent the image of the city through unconventional point of view. So these graphic marks and logos are, of course, "visual summaries" of city values, but these are not related to the city stereotypes that instead are usually used for city branding.
The urban traces become the starting point for the creation of logos and communicative artifacts. The method used, starting from the analysis of the basic graphical elements, it consists of different phases of design.
The practice phases starts from a photographic collection of urban “vertical and horizontal traces” gathered on the streets and walls. The final goal it is the definition of a logo that merges together a strong concept and visual elements.
The graphic marks and logos designed by students show different aspects of city's identities. In fact the marks, gathered in a collection, show an "atlas of signs": traces that express the "character" of the city
Luoghi condivisi di Arte e di Luce.
No full textSe ci si riferisce al terzo tempo di sviluppo della vicenda museo, di cui parla Franco Albini negli anni del secondo dopoguerra, si può dire di essere oggi di fronte a un quarto tempo dei musei, i cui effetti non si sono ancora del tutto dispiegati. Quello in corso negli ultimi venti anni è un vero museum boom (coincidente con il consolidarsi del mercato della cultura, del viaggiare e itinerare tra luoghi e saperi) che ha portato a una proliferazione quantitativa di musei. Si sono così affermati come problema la conservazione delle memorie, immateriali oltre che materiali, con una portata così ampia da far parlare di museificazione di quasi ogni fenomeno dell'umanità..
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
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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