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Illuminare il lato oscuro del turismo: storytelling ed esperienze trasformative nel Dark Tourism
Full text linkIl presente lavoro di tesi si posiziona all’interno del contesto della ricerca sul dark tourism e adotta un approccio multidisciplinare, incrociando i campi disciplinari del turismo, del marketing e della sociologia. Questa ricerca si propone di sistematizzare la conoscenza sul dark tourism, collocandolo all’interno del più ampio panorama del turismo contemporaneo per evidenziare l’interesse crescente per esperienze autentiche e significative. Il lavoro si compone di due parti: 1) Revisione della letteratura Nella prima fase, verrà condotta una revisione della letteratura al fine di fornire una visione esaustiva del dark tourism. La revisione della letteratura sarà formata a sua volta da due componenti essenziali: a. Revisione tematica della letteratura: analisi tematica della letteratura esistente, finalizzata a sintetizzare le principali conoscenze relative al dark tourism a delineare i concetti fondamentali del fenomeno. b. Revisione bibliometrica della letteratura: utilizzo di metodi bibliometrici e di un approccio sofware-assisted per identificare e analizzare le tendenze emergenti, le reti di citazioni e i contributi più significativi nel campo del dark tourism. 2) Ricerche empiriche Nella seconda parte, verrà adottato un approccio empirico al fine di esplorare in dettaglio due elementi chiave del dark tourism emersi durante la revisione della letteratura: a. Ricerca quantitativa sullo storytelling e la romanticizzazione: impego di un approccio quantitativo per approfondire il ruolo dello storytelling e della romanticizzazione nel contesto del dark tourism e nel campo di applicazione della mafia. b. Ricerca qualitativa sulle esperienze di dark tourism trasformative: approccio alla ricerca qualitativo al fine di esplorare le esperienze di dark tourism che hanno un impatto trasformativo sugli individui. Attraverso questa struttura metodologica, si mira a raggiungere l’obiettivo di uno studio completo sul dark tourism, spaziando dalla comprensione concettuale del fenomeno all’approfondimento empirico delle esperienze dei visitatori
Experience economy and the management of shopping centers: The role of entertainment
No full textThis chapter applies the experience logic perspective to the retail industry by analyzing the role and the management of entertainment strategies in the shopping center format. The purpose is twofold: (i) proposing a conceptual classification of entertainment based on the existing literature; (ii) examining the influences of entertainment strategies on shopping centers’ market per-formances to provide suggestions in regards to the effectiveness of such strat-egies. After a short description of the shopping center industry, the study ana-lyzes the changing role of the format occurring over the last decades and pro-poses a classification of entertainment that includes recreational services (food and leisure) and special events. Changes occurring in these areas of entertainment, alongside those concerning the market performance indicators of shopping centers (i.e., number of receipts, average amount of receipts, number of visitors who buy, visitors frequency), are explored by discussing the results of a qualitative study focused on 16 Italian shopping centers over a three-year period. Practical implications for shopping center managers are provided via empirical findings, while limitations of the study are underlined for suggesting future research directions
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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