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Guida ai videogiochi. Tecniche, storie, immaginari
No full textLa presenza dei videogiochi è sempre più diffusa e di grande impatto nel panorama mediale contemporaneo. Sono un magmatico e affascinante insieme di opere audiovisive, in cui è facile smarrirsi, vista l’enorme mole di nuovi videogiochi costantemente pubblicati. Nella prima metà del 2022, il solo Steam (la più nota piattaforma di videogiochi per PC) ha visto la pubblicazione di oltre 6.000 nuovi titoli.
Una guida, quindi, pare quanto mai necessaria per orientarsi tra titoli di enorme successo e videogiochi di nicchia da (ri)scoprire, seguendo percorsi tematici che esplorano le diverse esperienze videoludiche.
Francesco Toniolo focalizza ogni percorso su singoli videogiochi, in vario modo rappresentativi della loro categoria, che riescono a illustrare le trasformazioni di questa amatissima forma di intrattenimento.
Dopo un approfondimento sul medium dei videogame, tema approcciato non con un taglio storico ma tramite esempi concreti, seguono altre sezioni che fanno luce su alcuni dei temi e degli immaginari che hanno attraversato l’evoluzione del videogioco.
Tecniche produttive rivoluzionarie che hanno segnato l’evoluzione del videogioco. Storie affascinanti e curiose nel dietro le quinte del medium. Immaginari espansi, sempre più crossmediali, che uniscono il videogame alla letteratura, al cinema e alle arti
Spectral robots: Disembodiment and the border in Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer (2009) and Mati Diop’s Atlantics (2019)
No full textThe Paradoxes of Ultra-realism. The Uncanny Valley Hypothesis Reconsidered
No full textThis contribution reconstructs the case of the so-called uncanny valley, or precisely the dimension of eerie feeling that overcomes us before the robot when it too closely resembles the human. He explores its origins in the reflection of robotics and the most current studies with a neuroscientific and neuroaesthetic approach. To rediscover in it an exemplary case of context related technological mediation
La clonazione dei videogiochi stranieri nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese. Il caso di Team Fortress 2 e Final Combat
No full textUn'analisi della pratica di clonazione di giochi stranieri nell'industria videoludica cinese, con approfondimento sul rapporto tra il gioco cinese Final Combat e quello da cui ha preso spunto, lo statunitense Team Fortress di Valve, azienda cui il volume in cui s'inserisce il contributo è dedicato
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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