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Storytelling & Worldmaking: The World-building Activity as a Design Practice
No full textLiving in a highly mediated world, we are witnessing the rise of new consumption behaviour and the spread of multichannel narrative forms. A scenario in which audiences enter vicariously imaginary worlds, exploring the fictional spaces conveyed through multiple channels. Starting with the recognition of the difference between story and storyworld, this article aims to describe the worldbuilding activity, the process of creating imaginary worlds, as a design practice
Games telling stories of and for social innovation
No full textGames for Social Change are about opportunities and choices.
They are about meaningful storytelling and significative interactions. More than that, they are experiences of specific perspectives. As such, they embed, convey and transfer meanings to suggest critical reflection and change.
In particular, some of them, which I consider remarkably interesting, involve us into experiences of embodiment and empathy: presenting us original and fresh points of view, they have the ability to move us and affect our mindsets.
This intervention explores such games as communication systems telling stories with civic or/and political intents. It considers involvement and participation two fundamental features of games, and also constitutive aspects of the processes of individual as well as communitarian social change
Engagement & storytelling for social innovation
No full textPeople and communities, architects and designers, public administrators and
others have discovered storytelling. Storytelling simply means telling stories:
stories and tales are much more effective at representing meaningful worlds than abstract representations. Using a narrative gives the audience to experience an
event empathically, and to translate real or imagined scenarios into a flow of time, giving them an understandable representation. As such, if storytelling is created
with audiovisual tools, the degree of effectiveness is higher, because of the image- movement’s ability to describe and represent the depth of an event, an action or a context. And this is the real challenge, since the problem is not so much to make a good video, but ensure that it will become interesting, engaging, appreciated and seen by many people, in short, that it will go viral. What seems to be the driving force is an unconventional creativity that uses simple but catchy language.
If the designer is emerging as a cultural mediator, capable of interpreting the needs of communities or individuals, finding solutions that can improve quality of life, it becomes evident the importance of their communicative abilities in terms of both listening and communication skills.
An effective message is a message that can elicit a change in the person who receives it.
It may be a change of perspective, thought or behaviour. In the field of social innovation, storytelling is assuming an important role as a translator of messages, and also as a catalyst for interests communities can identify with
A conversation with Marisa Galbiati & Ezio Manzini
No full textThis is a conversation between Marisa Galbiati and Ezio Manzini about the role of communication in enhancing social project
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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