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Confini del Carso. Le manifestazioni vernacolari nel borderscape triestino
No full textL'articolo, nella sezione "voci", parte da un apparato teorico che lo posiziona all'interno del campo interdisciplinare dei "critical border studies" per riflettere sulla dimensione processuale e sociale del confine nella vita delle persone migranti a Triest
In piazza. Etnografia musicale delle piazze nel rap milanese
No full textQuali sono le specificità che rendono il rap italiano un percorso autonomo, culturalmente definito e socialmente situato all’interno di un linguaggio che è al tempo stesso statunitense e globale (Mitchell, 2001)? Come si evolve il linguaggio in questo equilibrio tra influenza e specificità? Se la questione è rilevante per ogni tipo di cultura espressiva in un contesto di connessione translocale, con il rap assume un particolare rilievo, sia per la dimensione tipicamente spazializzata e urbana che attraversa, in modi e sensi diversi, pressoché ogni sua corrente e tendenza, sia per la specificità sociale (Gilroy, 1993). Conseguentemente, il punto non è solo chiedersi con quali elementi (musicali, culturali, sociali) il rap come genere sia stato trasformato dal passaggio usa all’Italia (a riguardo, si segnala Androutsopulos e Shultz, 2003), ma anche, più complesso, in quale modo si è mantenuto quel rapporto tra città, società e musica che è fondante dell’hip hop. In questo contributo, si intende evidenziare in particolare la dimensione viva e situata del rap nel tessuto sociale e urbano, riconoscendone uno strumento di comprensione e di indagine della città stessa
"Lasciatemi cantare la vita che fa un immigrato vero": images and imagery of the migration experience in Italian rap and trap lyrics
No full textDrawing from cultural studies and the concept of ‘thinking with music’, the contribution traces and reconstructs the migration narratives depicted within rap (and its derivatives, such as trap and drill) produced in Italy over the past three decades. Positioned as ‘street’ music associated with working-class neighbourhoods, rap has emerged as a potent language for expression, storytelling, and occasionally counter-narratives, reflecting both internal South-North migrations and transnational
movements. The children of these migrations now find themselves contributing to the construction of a hybrid, multiethnic ‘collective identity’ that transcends national and linguistic boundaries.
Raps mythopoetic capacity, amplified by its increasing mainstream popularity, serves as a conduit for translating migration experiences, intersecting with race, class, gender, generation, and urban inequalities, along with various internal and external migratory stratifications, often integrated through processes of subaltern stratification. From these foundations, the analysis of rap lyrics and imagery allows for the illumination of ‘minor’ experiences and perspectives-related to everyday
life, perspectives, and values-interwoven with migration
Se bruciasse la città
No full textCome si determinano e si sviluppano i conflitti urbani? Quali e quanti margini sono generati e contenuti all’interno delle città? Il numero, muovendosi tra tendenze globali e casi studio locali, e utilizzando come prospettiva la segregazione formale e informale, analizza le tante sfaccettature attraverso le quali lo spazio urbano, la sua definizione, rappresentazione e consumo si rivelano in una dimensione conflittuale
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
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