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‘Playing with space’: a conceptual basis for investigating active sport tourism practices
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Valérian Geffroy, Des spatialités qui engagent et qui lient : le tourisme sportif de nature et ses communautés de pratique
Full text linkSport et tourisme, considérés séparément, constituent des domaines importants de l’usage contemporain du temps de loisir ; combinés, ils forment une pratique à part entière, le tourisme sportif, qui se singularise notamment par des lieux et des terrains de pratique, des rapports à l’espace sensibles comme discursifs, des formes de mobilité. C’est là l’objet de cette thèse : saisir l’originalité de ce phénomène de loisir dans ses dimensions spatiales. En tant qu’objet d’étude, il s’inscrit dan..
Du mouvement des cartes SIM aux mobilités touristiques : une analyse de Flux Vision Tourisme comme procédure de quantification
No full textInternational audienceFlux Vision is a commercial product of the mobile network provider Orange, which quantifies the presence and movement of people in a given area based on the signals recorded by the network of antennas of the company. The product targets a number of activities, including tourism. For this latter activity, it uses a methodology designed to separate tourists from other visitors. The development of this methodology is the subject of this article, from the perspective of critical quantification studies. This perspective highlights the amount of work needed to define and adjust mobility indicators, a work carried out by the company in collaboration with the professional tourism sector. The methods used to classify instances of mobility and define observation zones are described in detail, highlighting their various implications, especially spatial implications. The article stresses the importance of critically examining quantitative indicators derived from digital traces.Flux Vision est une offre commerciale de l’opérateur téléphonique Orange, qui propose de quantifier les présences et les mobilités sur un espace donné en se fondant sur les signaux captés par son réseau d’antennes de téléphonie mobile. L’offre est déclinée à destination de plusieurs secteurs d’activité, et notamment celui du tourisme, au moyen d’une méthodologie prétendant distinguer les touristes des autres personnes présentes. L’élaboration de cette méthodologie est l’objet de cet article, qui l’analyse dans la perspective des études critiques de la quantification. Cette perspective met en lumière l’important travail de définition et d’ajustement des indicateurs de mobilité mené par l’entreprise en collaboration avec le secteur professionnel du tourisme. Les méthodes de classification des mobilités et de définition des zones d’observation sont détaillées pour en souligner les différentes implications, notamment spatiales. L’article insiste sur l’importance de porter un regard critique sur les indicateurs quantitatifs issus de traces numériques
Les centralités spécialisées des sports de nature : hauts lieux et modestes pôles touristiques
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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
Tourism and Urbanisation Processes
No full textThis chapter discusses what tourism geographies gain from a conversation with urban theories and provides an overview on geographical debates on tourism-driven urbanisation processes. First, the chapter introduces the concept of ‘touristic capital’ in order to frame the differentiated trajectories of destinations over a long period of time. Urbanity is a key component of touristic capital, and of its fungibility, such as in the way it opens alternative paths for declining destinations. Second, the chapter focuses on the contribution of tourism to urban place-making and to the development of global centralities, especially in cities. The city is critically analysed as a contested place, where resistance to tourism may develop, but also a shared place, with multiple kinds of permanent or temporary co-inhabitants. Finally, the chapter discusses the link between tourism and planetary urbanisation and raises the question of an anti-urban bias in tourism geographies
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