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Eventi, Cultura e Sviluppo. Il caso de “La Notte della Taranta”
No full textIl volume propone una riflessione sul tema ampiamente dibattuto del rapporto tra eventi, cultura e sviluppo di un territorio a partire dalla presentazione dei risultati di una ricerca riguardante l'impatto economico del Festival “La Notte della Taranta”, localizzato nella cosiddetta Grecìa salentina. L’attività di analisi sul campo è stata condotta da un gruppo di ricerca coordinato da Giuseppe Attanasi, ideatore del progetto, e da Giulia Urso (Università del Salento). Attraverso la somministrazione di un questionario a quasi 9000 partecipanti al Festival nel corso del quadriennio 2007-2010, il gruppo di ricerca ha analizzato le ricadute dell’evento sul territorio in termini economici, sociali e di attrattività turistica.
I risultati della ricerca e le riflessioni di docenti e studiosi di diverse discipline contenuti nel volume evidenziano come investire in cultura ed in eventi di qualità possa essere determinante per lo sviluppo di una comunità non solo per l’indotto economico generato nel breve periodo. La cultura impatta positivamente sui comportamenti dei soggetti che di essa direttamente ed indirettamente usufruiscono, favorisce la creazione di capitale sociale e pone quindi le condizioni per uno sviluppo economico sostenibile del territorio. Gli eventi culturali di successo sono quelli che riescono a costruire ed alimentare il patrimonio identitario di una comunità, rinnovando e rinsaldando i legami sociali in essa esistenti
Risk Aversion, Over-Confidence and Private Information as Determinants of Majority Thresholds
Full text linkWe study, both theoretically and experimentally, the relation between preferred majority thresholds and behavioral traits such as the degree of risk aversion and the subjective confidence on others preferences over the alternative to vote. The main theoretical findings are supported by experimental data. The majority threshold chosen by a subject is positively and significantly correlated with her degree of risk aversion while it is negatively and significantly associated to her confidence on others’ votes. Moreover, in a treatment in which each subject can privately observe the distribution of preferences over a sub-group of participants, we find that the quality of information crowds-out subject's confidence
Il contributo di Sergio Torsello alla renaissance salentina del primo quindicennio del 2000
No full textQuesto contributo mira a descrivere le tre “anime” di Sergio Torsello – Direttore Artistico del Festival La Notte della Taranta, Consulente Scientifico dell’Istituto Diego Carpitella, e Mediatore Culturale tra e per i talenti artistici del suo territorio. Il punto di partenza della narrazione è un articolo di Sergio Torsello, pubblicato nel 2011 in un volume di cui l’autore della narrazione è stato curatore. L’autore sottolinea la stretta connessione tra le tre anime di Sergio Torsello, che emerge non solo dal suo articolo del 2011 ma anche dalle numerose interazioni avvenute tra Sergio Torsello e l’autore. La descrizione del rilievo scientifico della figura di Sergio Torsello è sicuramente parziale, circoscritta nel tempo (gli 8 anni, dal 2007 al 2015 in cui ha interagito con l’autore) e nello spazio (inteso come insieme di argomenti delle loro conversazioni scientifiche e culturali). Ma rende merito del cruciale contributo di Sergio Torsello alla renaissance culturale salentina degli anni dal 2001 al 2015.This contribution aims to describe the three “souls” of Sergio Torsello – Artistic Director of “La Notte della Taranta” Festival, Scientific Consultant of “Diego Carpitella” Institute, and Cultural Mediator
between and for the artistic talents of his territory. The starting point of the description is an article by Sergio Torsello, published in 2011 in a book of which the author of the description was the editor. The author highlights the close connection between the three souls of Sergio Torsello, which emerges not only from the above-mentioned article, but also from the numerous interactions between Sergio Torsello and the author. The description of the scientific significance of Sergio Torsello’s figure is certainly partial, limited in time (the 8 years, from 2007 to 2015, in which he interacted with the author) and in space (in terms of set of topics of their scientific and cultural conversations). But it gives merit to Sergio Torsello’s key contribution to the cultural renaissance of Salento in the years from 2001 to 2015
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
Effects of Gain-Loss Frames on Advantageous Inequality Aversion
No full textsponsorship: The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support by the project "Creative, Sustainable Economies and Societies" (CSES) coordinated by Robin Cowan, funded through the University of Strasbourg IDEX Unistra. We thank Giuseppe Attanasi, Dominik Bauer, Tarek Jaber-Lopez, Russel Neudorf, Sandrine Spaeter, Gisele Umbhauer, the Editor and two anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Economic Science Association for their helpful and constructive comments. All remaining errors are our own. (project "Creative, Sustainable Economies and Societies" (CSES), University of Strasbourg IDEX Unistra)status: Publishe
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