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The Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of Conspiracy Theories, Mi/Disinformation and Hate Speech
Full text linkThe Languages and Anti-Languages of Health Communication in the Age of
Conspiracy Theories, Mis/Disinformation and Hate Speech” aims at analysing the
languages of discourse of health communication, specifically health message design,
addressing COVID-19 in both institutional and non-institutional media settings. The
purpose of this special issue is to explore the “anti-languages” and counter-discourses
endorsing (mis/dis-)information, and conspiracy theories which are in direct opposition to
official discourses and challenge social and political hegemony. The discourse approach to
health communication featured in the papers of this special issue will help understanding
social responses to sickness and belief related to health
"Anti-immigration rhetoric in Italy and in the USA: A comparative perspective"
No full textBy employing a discourse-analytic perspective, and drawing on both Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model and Lakoff’s framing theory, this paper presents a comparative analysis of the anti-immigration rhetorical strategies of two influential contemporary right-wing populist leaders, American President Donald Trump and League leader Matteo Salvini. Concentrating on the lexical level and on the rhetorical devices in both their speeches and social media posts, our analysis highlights remarkably similar ideas and strategies that suggest the idea of right-wing populist coordination across a globe. The rhetoric of exclusion put forward by the two leaders articulates around the idea of immigration as a threat for the security, the economy and the culture of the nation and of the people and is revealed by recurring metaphorical mappings, like IMMIGRATION IS WAR, IMMIGRATION IS NATURAL DISASTER and IMMIGRATION IS A BURDEN, but also by equivalential chains assimilating immigrants to criminals, a strategy that promotes their removal from moral concerns, or what Zygmunt Bauman terms “adiaphorization”
La Turchia nella NATO, un ruolo in evoluzione per un antico alleato
No full textCon la fine della Guerra Fredda, l’avvento della Global War on Terror post-2001 e l’ascesa al potere nel 2002 dell’AKP, la Turchia ha avviato un processo di ridefinizione della propria posizione all’interno dell’Alleanza Atlantica. In ambito NATO, l’adozione della dottrina dell’out-of-area prima e il palesarsi della minaccia jihadista poi hanno dato ad Ankara l’opportunità di riconsiderare il proprio ruolo da Paese di frontiera a Paese fulcro per il fronte oltremare dell’Alleanza, come hanno dimostrato l’impegno in Afghanistan e, ancor più, il ruolo giocato nel quadro nell’invasione americana dell’Iraq. Parallelamente, la politica estera turca ha assistito a un’evoluzione sia nell’aspetto dottrinale, con maggiore enfasi sul soft power, che nella proiezione della sua influenza oltreconfine. Le Primavere Arabe nel 2011, in tal senso, hanno costituito un importante banco di prova per le ambizioni di Ankara. Prima in Libia, dove la Turchia ha preso parte all’operazione NATO, e poi, soprattutto, in Siria gli interessi del Paese hanno tuttavia mostrato un’ambivalenza nel rapportarsi con i major ally dell’Alleanza Atlantica. In Siria, nonostante l’invocazione dell’articolo 4 del Patto Atlantico e aver richiesto assistenza militare ai membri NATO, gli attriti con gli Stati Uniti sono divenuti palesi, in particolare dal 2014 in relazione alla minaccia posta dall’ISIS e alla questione dei curdi. I rapporti con Washington si sono fatti recentemente ancora più difficili a causa dell’avvicinamento di Ankara alla Russia in un’ottica di riequilibrio dei rapporti regionali proprio mentre gli Stati Uniti attraversano una nuova fase della ‘minaccia russa’ alla luce delle vicende che dal 2014 coinvolgono il fianco est della NATO. L’acquisizione del sistema missilistico russo da parte di Ankara viene ritenuta da Washington una minaccia potenziale per la sicurezza euro-atlantica in quanto potrebbe garantire a Mosca un accesso ad alcune infrastrutture della NATO ritenuti cruciali per fronteggiare la (ri)ascesa della Russia a grande potenza
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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