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Film and Audiovisual Education in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Approaches and Challenges
Full text linkThe integration of AI into audiovisual culture heralds a profound shift in creation, interpretation, and cultural legacy, extending human capacities in interacting with the world. This prompts a necessary reevaluation of human cultural and artistic legacies, demanding a mindful approach in Media and Audiovisual Education to address AI mechanisms, biases, and dataset selection processes. Given AI’s creative potential, not only within the audiovisual and ICT industries but also for Web 2.0 users at large, several pressing questions emerge for media and audiovisual educators and scholars. Challenges regarding integrating AI technologies, the need to reevaluate traditional educational approaches, and considerations for new methodological implementations warrant attention. This paper proposes a new model for integrating AI into media and audiovisual education: the AI Audiovisual Literacy (AIAL) framework. Through this framework, we seek to bridge our current understanding of AI with traditional educational approaches, offering a structured method for addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI in the realm of audiovisual media culture
Easy Italian! Cooking show televisivi e circolazione internazionale della cucina italiana
No full textThis article analyzes the growing presence of cooking shows on Italian and global TV through three case histories that present different trajectories of circulation and mediation of Italian food culture. Firstly, we discuss Jamie Cooks Italy, in which Italian cuisine is narrated for English-speaking viewers, and subsequently re-translated, linguistically and culturally, for Italian audiences. Secondly, we explore Unti e bisunti, a show produced for Italian audiences that circulated abroad unexpectedly. Finally, the focus will be on food celebrities of Italian descent Joe and Lidia Bastianich, who, by participating in transnational television formats, have become the ambassadors of Italian gastronomy abroad
Mediating Italy in Global Culture: l’esperienza di una summer school internazionale all’Università di Bologna
No full textLa summer school Mediating Italy in Global Culture, dedicata ai temi della circolazione della cultura audiovisiva italiana nel mondo, prende avvio nel 2018 su impulso del Dipartimento delle Arti dell’Università di Bologna, in accordo con un consorzio di Atenei statunitensi che a oggi include Brown University, Dickinson College, The University of Michigan, The Ohio State University e Wesleyan University. Il contributo traccia l'evoluzione del corso nei suoi primi anni di svolgimento, approfondendo le principali tematiche trattate nelle lezioni e le peculiari modalità di organizzazione della didattica
Aperto per ferie: third spaces meet pastoral contexts
No full textMedia education is a cultural framework that can be applied in different contexts: schools, families, informal educational environments, along with pastoral work. With Pope Francis’ championing, there is an increasing need to bridge pastoral care and the media, which can become new important forms of proximity and open opportunities to connect and assume responsibility towards others. Our aim is to understand how parishes can think of themselves as third spaces. The paper tackles this question through the exploration of the initiative Aperto per ferie. The initiative was created to enable professionals to experience the summer camp activities despite the Covid-19 pandemic, finding new ways of aggregation in pastoral youth clubs and taking advantage of digital community meetings. It developed a digital space to promote a unifying experience. With digital technologies, the boundaries of the community are redrawn. The correspondence with the territory (of the parish and the diocese) is no longer pre-determined. A community with porous edges is making its way and is more open and permeable to contributions coming from outside, and perhaps more accessible, even by those who do not frequent parish environments
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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