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La via Zamboni una narrazione
No full textThe perception of urban space, in its whole complexity, is inevitably affected by the time-related stratification of historical meanings, ideologies, archetypes and utopias which have been used during the centuries by society to consolidate the idea of settlement. In the contemporary world, the city as a story to be told is often superimposed on the city as a real, material entity, organising and synthesising the interpretative processes of the urban circuits; therefore the city’s mindscape, a projection of its urban cultures and souls, becomes central in comparison with its cityscape, the architectural landscape.Taking this into consideration, this contribution intends to analyse the communication processes and the media paradigms at work when sketching urban dynamics, examining the tools and codes used to design and narrate the story of a city. Our case study is the peculiar situation evolved around the University District in Via Zamboni, Bologna; at the very heart of the city, filled with architectural beauty and social vitality, nevertheless via Zamboni does not project a positive image among the public. Through the examination of some of the most eventful historical moments that took place in the area and the analyses of the narrative journey which Via Zamboni has undertook over the years, we will try to suppose how to create a multilayered tale of a city area, narrated with the aid of signs and images extracted from a wide array of media: written texts, photographs, paintings, films or social networks
Public Art, Collective Memory: the Contested Heritage of Arnaldo Pomodoro’s Columns in Piazza Verdi
Get PDFIn 1972 the Mayor of Bologna Renato Zangheri installed three column-like sculptures in piazza Verdi, the heart of the University district and student life. In the idea of Zangheri, the columns—made by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro and donated to the city by the artist—were a monument to the future of the world, expressed in the city by the University and its students.Despite the harsh confrontation between the student movement and the Municipality, in particular during the 1977 clashes, the columns will soon become an affective and symbolic landmark for the student’s militant population, who appropriated them in various ways. Acts of appropriation included using the columns as billboards for political pamphlets and manifestos, or staging temporary performances and installations around them. In 1977, the columns were even used as posts to build a tent to transform the square in a large campsite. The columns were colloquially referred to “totems,” as a symbolic object for the Dadaist cult of the Metropolitan Indians, a counter-cultural agitation group. During the 90s, concerns for the preservation of the artworks forced the municipality to remove the columns from piazza Verdi—against the will of the artist—and to relocate them first at the Galleria di Arte Moderna (GAM) in 1996, and then at the Museo di Arte Moderna Bologna (MAMBO) in 2014. Reconstructing the story of Pomodoro’s “totems” allows us to tackle several issues concerning the politics of preservation, high-lighting the non-linear processes of construction and removal of physical and cultural heritage, and the role of public art in place-making in urban environments, characterized by social conflicts. Recently, in the public debate the opportunity of transferring Pomodoro’s columns back to the University District has been reconsidered, removing them from the musealization of their current installation site, and bringing them back to the life of the city, together with their powerful symbolic and memory value.However, the University District is still perceived as dangerous for the physical integrity of the artworks, because of its problematic nightlife and the proliferation of micro-criminality. The possibility to re-locate the “totems” in the area may be facilitated by the agreement between Institutions (University, Munici-pality) and all the formal and informal players active in the area (i.e. the student’s population, the local residents) upon an integrated plan of management and care for the artworks. The methodologies experimented in the city during the first year of the Horizon 2020 project ROCK, as well as the networks established by the Univer-sity and the Municipality for the heritage-based transformation of the area, are key assets for this attempt
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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