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The revolution of social-ist language: moods, noises, shots, provocations = La rivoluzione del linguaggio social-ista: umori, rumori, sparate e provocazioni
No full textContemporary populism could be read as a form of social-ism, i.e, a political discourse marked by the languages and the -isms of social networks. On the basis of this assumption, the aim of this paper is to explore and analyse three specific semiotic aspects of the social-ist language. First, the relationship between moods and noises that characterizes the enunciation in and of the social networks, in which screaming plays a fundamental role. Second, the prerequisite and consequences of shots/ slams, whose roots are to be found in the correlation between the language of social media and that of neotelevision. Third, the forms of political provocation, rewritten, nowadays, by the communicative and interactional logic of digital media. The reasoning we develop is inspired by the analysis of texts - tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts, messages and conversations extracted from Whatsapp public groups - taken from both the Italian and Brazilian context. Nevertheless, we believe our findings are potentially generalizable, since they seem to resume how, on an international scale, the languages of politics - and, vice versa, the politics of language - are nowadays constructed and articulated
Il corpo social-ista
Get PDFIl saggio si situa all'interno di un più vasto percorso di ricerca sul tema del social-ismo, ovvero delle nuove forme della politica risultanti dall'incontro fra il populismo e i linguaggi dei social. L'ipotesi questo saggio è che il corpo di alcuni leader del social-ismo contemporaneo assuma di fatto lo statuto di un corpo non-politico. Un corpo che nega la postura, la gestualità,la prossima, gli stilemi e i codici estetici della politica istituzionali. Partendo da casi concreti mostreremo come questo risulti in tre strategie: travestimento, portamento, mimetismo
Social-ismo. Forme dell’espressione politica nell’era del populismo digitale
No full textIl social-ismo è ciò che nasce dall'incontro fra il populismo e le forme espressive dei social. Fra i tratti su cui si fonda e che esploreremo in questo saggio: il gusto per il politicamente scorretto, quello per la provocazione e il di-leggio, l’allusione, la contraddizione, ecc. In particolare ci concentreremo su due forme d’espressione specifiche e tra loro intimamente correlate, le quali mostrano bene il vincolo tra il discorso del e sul web e il populismo contempora-neo: (i) l’uso e l’abuso, da parte dei leader social-isti, di strategie narrativo-discorsive tese al contatto diretto e alla mimetizzazione con la gente comune, imperniate, soprat-tutto, sulla rappresentazione di corpi, look ed episodi di banale vita quotidiana; (ii) la formazione di un’idea di popolo inteso come una totalità integrale coesa e indistinta (Greimas 1976), la quale prende vita attraverso enunciazioni anonime reticolari, “a sciami”, per dirla con Byung-Chul Han (2013), inestricabilmente legate alla lettura al-goritmica delle tendenze online. Il tutto con il fine di produrre un attaccamento e un co-mimetismo profondo fra corpo individuale del leader e corpo collettivo, fino a rendere difficilmente distinguibile chi, nella dinamica politico-comunicativa quotidiana, è in-fluencer e chi è invece influenzato
Introduction to the special issue. The intersubjectivity of embodiment.
No full textThe aim of this special issue is to bring together researchers embracing different approaches – neuroscientists, psychologists, semioticians, linguists, philosophers, and anthropologists – to outline principles that could provide an intersubjective foundation for embodiment
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
Reduced brachial flow-mediated vasodilation in young adult ex extremely low birth weight preterm: a condition predictive of increased cardiovascular risk?
No full textBackground.Sporadic data present in literature report how preterm birth and low birth weight constitute the risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases in later life. Aim.To assess the presence of potential alterations to endothelial function in young adults born preterm at extremely low birth weight (<1000g; ex ELBW). Method.Thirty-two ex-ELBW subjects (10 males [M] and 22 females [F], aged 17-28 years, mean [±DS] 20.1±2.5 years) were compared with 32 healthy, age-matched subjects born at term (C, 9 M and 23 F). Exclusion criteria: 1) pathological conditions known to affect endothelial function; 2) administration of drugs known to affect endothelial function. Endothelial function was assessed by non-invasive finger plethysmography, previously validated by the US Food and Drug Administration (Endopath; Itamar Medical Ltd., Cesarea, Israel). Results.Endothelial function was significantly reduced in ex-ELBW subjects compared to C (1.94±0.37 vs 2.68±0.41, p<0.0001). Moreover, this function correlated significantly with gestational age (r=0.56, p<0.0009) and birth weight (r=0.63, p<0.0001). Conclusions.The results obtained reveal a significant decrease in endothelial function of ex-ELBW subjects compared to controls, underlining a probable correlation with preterm birth and low birth weight. Taken together, these results suggest that an ELBW may underlie the onset of early circulatory dysfunction predictive of increased cardiovascular risk
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
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