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In a Savannah of Images. Artistic Production and Public Spaces along the Kenyan Coast
No full textOne of the most interesting aspects of the culture of the Kenyan coast, between Malindi and Mombasa, is the extraordinary production of images that inhabit and invade urban spaces. Most of the shops, restaurants, and hotels are characterized by images created by three types of decorators: the brand painters at the service of Kenya’s major companies, who fill the walls of the city with hand-painted advertising; the artists painting hotels and restaurants for western tourists, who mainly realize decorations of high technical expertise with African animals and safari scenes (“tourist art”); those who paint signs, for shops and homes of local people, who produce figures characterized by a language that is more cursive and elementary, but equally effective in communicating the message. The images created by this last category of artists are particularly ephemeral, as they are subject to destruction, depending on the rapid change of destination of some spaces. All these artists tend to sign their works by calling themselves “artists” and leaving the telephone number to be contacted by new customers. Most of them prefer to work for large companies or for European clients, who are able to understand the artistic value of their work.Through the analysis of a sampling of images and of interviews with those who act in the complex artistic situation of the coast, the purpose of this paper is to define the role of “artists,” “clients,” and “users” in building, within a context made intercultural by tourism, peculiar and typical urban spaces, sometimes halfway between store and market, where the traditional western categories of “inside” and “outside,” “domestic,” “private,” and “public” are redefined
Image and place. Which relationships?
No full textThis contribution aims to deepen the two following questions: 1. Is there a link between images and places? and 2. Can images be a way through which communities self-represent their identity and a condition for their growth? The paper proposes to understand a place not as an “empty container,” totally manipulable by the influences impacting it, in particular the economic ones, but as a “highly complex living organism” in which images are the expression of the internal history of a place, and then of its identity.
Moreover, as images must be seen as a basic level of community self-representation, the paper proposes to activate a “workshop on the images of the place” in which the participants, using loosely structured methodologies, try to elaborate the deep symbolic and emotional meanings present in the territory identity. As the images are capable of capturing the feeling of a place, they can express its potentialities. In this way, the workshop is an opportunity to allow the growth of the place and of the community, and a way to predict the future by making the past speak
Media, Art and Design. Intercultural Education Strategies
Full text linkhe following educational recommendations for studies in media, art, and design are the collective work of Italian, Czech, and Polish researchers. The general overview of international studies of visual languages and communication is given by Flavia Stara, who presents images as a vehicular language for interdisciplinary dialogue. Relationships between knowledge structures and content and the use of visual languages are analyzed in the second part of the book from the perspective of social interactions taken from transcultural vantage points. The practical application of such a perspective is presented by Kateřina Dytrtov., who shows the importance of a deep cultural approach to visual signs and art, not just a superficial grasp and use, for the sake of understanding. The third part of the book is dedicated to specific educational strategies for teaching visual languages, focused on the cultural context, visual literacy skills, intercultural interactions, critical approaches, creative experiences, and transcultural validations of the experience in order to develop subjective and collective visual competences – knowledge and abilities – within mutual and social understanding. In the fourth part of the book, Giuseppe Capriotti explains the theoretical tools used for analysis in detail; especially Paul Martin Lester’s visual communication analysis and Harold Dwight Lasswell’s approach to visual signs in his communication model. The fifth part discusses the results delivered by Rosita Deluigi of the interdisciplinary round table held at the 4th International TICASS Conference “P.Art-icipA ̋tion. Education, Visual Languages and Intercultural Strategies”, 25th-26th of November, the Department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism at the University of Macerata and at the Museo Buonaccorsi, Italy. Finally, the last part of the book presents the best practices elaborated during the TICASS project in Italy, the Czech Republic, and Kenya
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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