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"I Nomi Sui Giochi”: Il Ruolo del Cracking nell’Industria Videoludica Italiana (1980-1990).
No full textLe sorti dell’industria videoludica in Italia sono strettamente legate a una specificità del contesto nazionale: quella di una pirateria sistematica, se non addirittura istituzionalizzata, che ha caratterizzato il nostro paese fino a tutti gli anni ’80 (e oltre).
Grazie al vuoto normativo italiano, e a una certa flessibilità nell’applicazione delle normative vigenti, il nostro paese non si è infatti caratterizzato unicamente per lo scambio diffuso di prodotti videoludici tra utenti finali: ciò che ha preso forma è stata semmai una vera e propria filiera distributiva alternativa per la commercializzazione del videogioco, ramificata in negozi di software, di foto-ottica, di elettrodomestici o di elettronica, e finanche nel circuito delle edicole attraverso pubblicazioni regolarmente registrate.
Questa condizione è stata inizialmente favorita dal progressivo affermarsi sul mercato di home computer (Commodore 64 e Sinclair Spectrum) come piattaforme privilegiate per la fruizione del videogioco rispetto alle console coeve; tali computer, per la distribuzione di prodotti videoludici, offrivano supporti di memoria a basso costo, dischi e soprattutto cassette, che andarono a sostituire le più costose cartucce rom.
Tale situazione ha rappresentato, da una parte, un grave ostacolo per la nascita e l’affermarsi di software house italiane, soffocate dal mancato rispetto del diritto d’autore e dall’assenza di una cultura del prodotto originale. Dall’altra, ha reso possibile una ricchissima distribuzione di prodotti in un mercato debole come quello italiano, oltre a rappresentare per molti una vera e propria palestra informale di formazione e aggiornamento tecnologico
Il videogioco in Italia. Storie, rappresentazioni, contesti
No full textThe file available on this record is a proof of the front matter and contents only. You may purchase the ebook from the publisher, Mimesa Edizione, at https://www.mimesisedizioni.it/libro/9788857552224.Quali sono i videogiochi made in Italy? E che immagine dell'Italia forniscono? Il videogame nel Bel Paese esprime caratteri di cultura nazionale tanto nelle produzioni nostrane quanto nell'adattamento e nella ricezione culturale dei prodotti esteri. I contributi di questa raccolta, firmati da ricercatori italiani e internazionali, trattano della fruizione e della produzione italiana di questi prodotti, della rappresentazione del nostro Paese, delle relazioni tra giochi, fumetti, cinema, sport e brand nazionali, delle comunità di giocatori, critici e studiosi e del crescente riconoscimento istituzionale del medium come veicolo per la promozione del patrimonio storico-culturale. Prefazione di Peppino Ortoleva
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
Knowledge of, and attitudes towards, adult vaccination among General Practitioners in Piedmont, Italy: results from a cross-sectional study
No full textBackground. “Life-course immunization” is increasingly recognized as important. In Italy, adults are recommended to receive influenza; pneumococcal; tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, acellular pertussis (Tdap); and herpes zoster (HZ) vaccines at various ages. Study design. Cross-sectional study. Methods. To study the knowledge and attitudes of Italian general practitioners (GPs) towards adult vaccination, we surveyed 335 GPs in Piedmont from December 2019 through March 2020; and compared the results by GPs’ age (≤50 vs >50 years). Results. The most common vaccination information source was the regional/local educational courses (72.8%), with older vs younger GPs more likely to attend (79.4% vs 64.4%; p=0.002). Approximately half felt that they needed further information on vaccine co-administration (55.5%), duration of protection (49.6%), and safety/tolerability (48.7%), with older vs younger GPs being more interested in safety/tolerability. Overall, most respondents (86.0%) felt that information for the patient would most engage them, and 68.1% planned to co-administer vaccines. Respondents felt most comfortable proposing influenza, but were also comfortable about pneumococcal/Tdap/HZ vaccination. However, younger vs older GPs were more comfortable about proposing Tdap and HZ. The most common ways to inform patients about influenza or pneumococcal/Tdap/HZ vaccination eligibility were personally during a visit (42.7% or 54.3%, respectively) or via an information poster (30.7% or 17.9%). Conclusions. The surveyed GPs had favorable attitudes towards adult vaccination and were interested in ongoing education
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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