117,336 research outputs found
Palinsesti queer: il pianeta The L Word
No full textQuando nel 1991 una puntata di L.A. Law mostrò il primo bacio tra donne in una serie televisiva americana, gli inserzionisti pubblicitari minacciarono di ritirare il proprio sostegno, costringendo i produttori della serie a interrompere quasi subito l'intreccio gay. Nel 2004 è stata accolta con un enorme successo di critica e pubblico The L Word, una serie tv che ha al centro un gruppo di amiche lesbiche raccontate in chiave positiva e caratterizzate da eleganza e simpatia. La trasmissione ha raggiunto un numero molto alto di spettatori provovando uno scandalo tutto sommata limitato, inoltre ha ottenuto numerosi premi ed ha ispirato una vasta comunità internazionale a creare riviste elettroniche, liste di discussione, oltre che creazioni artistiche ed elaborazioni narrative ispirate dai personaggi della serie Tv. "Palinsesti queer" ripercorre i momenti chiave della cosidddetta "età dell'oro della televisione gay" e analizza le forme di cultura partecipativa incoraggiate dai nuovi media elettronici. Inoltre il saggio discute le tensioni teoriche legate alla rappresentazione della sessialità lesbica in un medium, quello televisivo, che deve necessariamente interagire con le aspettative del pubblico mainstream.When in 1991 L.A. Law featured the first lesbian kiss in a television series, advertisers threatened to abandon the show, forcing the producers to discontinue the gay storyline almost immediately. In 2004 The L Word – a show centered on a group of lesbian friends portrayed in a positive, glamorous light – achieved an outstanding commercial and critical success. The series reached a huge audience with relatively little scandal, received several awards and inspired a vast international community to create fan-art, mailing lists, webzines and fanfictions. Queer palimpsests outlines facts and fictions of the so-called "golden age of gay television", and analyzes the forms of participatory culture encouraged by the new electronic media. Moreover the essay discusses the anxieties regarding the representations of lesbian sexuality in a medium, television, which necessarily responds to the expectations of mainstream audiences
L’oppio, l\u27onore e il libero commercio: La Cina imperiale di Pearl S. Buck
No full textTutti i miei mondi racconta l’imperialismo da un punto di vistainedito quello di una bimba, figlia di missionari americani, allevatadalla famiglia ma anche da un maestro confuciano di cinesemandarino. In questo saggio Valeria Gennero presenta l’opera diPearl S. Buck, in una sintesi che concilia costruzione dellapersonalità, volontà storiografica e istinto narrativo, elementifondanti di ogni autobiografia storica
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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