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Mobile kids: Mobile devices between kids, parents, and the playground.
No full textNational and International surveys (Common Sense Survey, 2011-2017; Feierabend et al.,
2015-2016; Global Kids Online, 2016; Ofcom, 2014) confirm that the number of children using
mobile phones is constantly growing and yet little is known about the type of interactions
kids have with mobile technologies. Academic research is conducted in different countries
with different methodologies (Chaudron et al., 2014; Ebert et al., 2012; Hermida, 2013; Marsh
et al., 2005; Mascheroni & Ólafsson, 2014; McPake et al., 2013), but as the EU Kids Online’s
searchable European Evidence Database shows, only a small percentage of studies focuses
on children under the age of 9. In addition, few take into account mobile devices and even
fewer investigate the parental role. Moreover, many studies focus on the binary opposition
use/non-use of the technology rather than exploring the granularity of the use itself, thus
underestimating the fact that smartphones allow different activities and uses: from playing
games to watching videos, from making calls or video calls to sending messages or taking
pictures. In this respect, a recent cross-national study, conducted in the framework of the
European Commission JRC’s Project ECIT (Chaudron, 2015), found that smartphones are
“melting pot devices” for children as they are very versatile in their use, and suggests therefore
to investigate this aspect further. To fill this gap, and with specific reference to the three
main language regions of Switzerland (i.e. German, French and Italian speaking parts), every
two years a network of different Swiss Universities, supported by foundations and national
initiatives focused on kids and media, carries out a national study that investigates the media
usage of children aged from 6 and 13, and how their parents mediate this engagement. The
study has been carried out since 2014, collecting data not only about how children use various
media, but also about their non-media leisure activities. In 2017, a representative sample
of 1128 children aged from 6 to 13 were interviewed (younger classes) and surveyed (older
classes). The different methodology is due to the fact that younger students are not able
to complete the survey on their own due to its complexity. In addition, the answers of 629
parents were included in the analysis, in order to throw light on issues in the area of family
and media. In our contribution, we intend to present and to discuss results in relation to the
children’s use smartphones and tablets in terms of quantity and quality. This means that we
will provide representative data about which of the possible uses of mobile devices children
actually activate, what are the contents they most commonly watch through mobile devices,
what are their favourite mobile apps and how do they interact with them, and finally how parents
mediate these uses. The results show that the mobile phone tops the list of children’s favourite
media. The fascination of mobile devices is also reflected by the fact that 35 percent
of children use their own mobile phone at least once a week when they should be sleeping.
It must be remarked though that for 6 to 9 year olds, the tablet is the favourite medium – in
front of the mobile phone and one third of all children in Switzerland have their own tablet. If
we look at the specific uses of smartphones, playing games and watching online videos are
the most important ones. The favourite games of Swiss children are Super Mario, Minecraft,
FIFA and Clash Royale. YouTube is by far the favourite app on average especially for those
children aged 9 and over. However, despite the large availability of digital (and often mobile)
media, in their free time children most often play, meet friends, play sports, and do things with
their families. Overall, the study also shows that parents and children influence each other in
their media use, and they often use the same media with similar frequency
Cream Soda. The rhythm of everyday life
No full textIn this work I will focus my attention on a specific manga, Cream Soda by Adachi Mitsuru (1996). As suggested by Eco (1999), I will analyze this single work keeping in mind that it belongs to a medium and some genre practiced through this medium, but focusing my attention on the specific syntax of the speech of Adachi. This means that in this work I won’t talk about manga in general or in itself, at least, not in the foreground and in the first instance, but I will consider Adachi’s specific execution of the art of manga. This work will start from the analysis of single panels, and their relationship with each other inside the page layout, following the critical path indicated by Thierry Groensteen (1999), and will be then accompanied by the analysis of images and texts contained inside those panels, with special regard to their relationship with each other and with images and texts contained in other panels, following the lead of Barbieri (1995) and Pellitteri (1998).<br /><br />The analysis of the elements that this text brings together to create a coherent narrative, and those elements it will not, will show that to properly understand Adachi’s manga the reader must recognize the fictional nature of what he is reading and his function as co-author of the story. Obviously this reflection is based on a first level or narrative interpretation of the text because it is starting from this basic layer that all the other layers can be explored. This is also the reason why this work provides a punctual examination of the single panels.<br /><br />The analysis here proposed will also demonstrate that, despite many panels open up to different levels of readings, the activation of the second or third level of reading is not a given. It will also become evident, though, that if one stops at a first level reading, the most obvious one, the text in question isn’t really fulfilled according to its author’s expectations: the reader’s high engagement with the text and how, as a result, he is able to better understand it, forms the heart of Adachi’s style and language.<br /><br />Disseminating his work with clues, spoilers, symbolic objects and inside jokes, Adachi invites, in fact, his reader not only to re-read the text but also to read between the lines. As it will be demonstrated through this work, with his stylistic solutions and meta-narrative approach, Adachi often brings into question the art of manga and its specific language, and therefore I believe that the analysis of his peculiar execution of this art and language can represent a good starting off point for a more general discourse on the manga language.p { margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;
Special issue : The Web’s first 25 years
No full textA special issue on 25 years of the web, edited by Niels Brügger, is out in New Media & Society: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/18/7.toc Niels Brügger Introduction: The Web’s first 25 years New Media & Society August 2016 18: 1059-1065, doi:10.1177/1461444816643787 Articles Paolo Bory, Eleonora Benecchi, and Gabriele Balbi How the Web was told: Continuity and change in the founding fathers’ narratives on the origins of the World Wide Web New Media & Society August 2016 18: 1066-1087, fir..
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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