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Emiliana De Blasio, Matthew Hibberd, Michele Sorice Popular politics, populism and the leaders. Access without participation? The cases of Italy and UK
No full textLa ricerca sull'audience
No full textMolti libri trattano di metodologia della ricerca e di audience, ma la maggior parte non spiega come si fa la ricerca sull'audience. Altri illustrano ricerche sui media - e sull'audience in particolare - ma pochi trattano media diversi. Esistono libri di metodi di ricerca, libri di teoria dell'audience e libri, anche se non molti, di media research. Dall'esperienza didattica degli autori e dalle richieste di molti studenti, nasce l'idea di questo volume e più in generale di un progetto editoriale che intende offrire testi di qualità e al tempo stesso di facile fruibilità didattica. Il volume, ricco di esempi, esercizi, ed idee intende porsi come punto di partenza per chi vuol conoscere un tema interessante e attuale. Agile ma completo, il testo e' diviso in quattro parti fra loro strettamente interconnesse: la prima parte rappresenta un inquadramento teorico al grande tema della ricezione; nella seconda vengono presentati, con linguaggio chiaro e con riferimenti alla tradizione della ricerca sociale, le metodologie e i metodi della ricerca sull'audience; la terza e la quarta parte rappresentano infine due casi di studio, due vere ricerche in cui gli autori presentano non solo i risultati, ma soprattutto il percorso e i problemi incontrati. Il volume si rivolge principalmente agli studenti dei corsi di Scienze della comunicazione e di Scienze sociali ma, proprio grazie al suo taglio introduttivo e didatticamente efficace, risulterà utile a tutti quelli che vogliono approfondire il tema delle audiences mediali.
This group of researchers has individually worked on research in a number of different fields. In this book, they have decided to put together a guide to audience research for the Italian-speaking market. Their point of departure is their view that although there are books that look at research methodologies and at research on the audience, most of these do not ask the question: How does one undertake research on the audience? In addition, there are few publications that consider research on the audiences for different media, they believe. Here they try to address the lack they perceive.
The book is divided into four parts, each of which considers research. Professor Michele Sorice, has written the second. He considers both the theoretical background of research and how these theories can be put into practice. Sorice does not write that these are definitive means, but that consideration of them may assist the researcher to construct his or her own research methodologies and practices. The author reflects on those questions that present themselves to the researcher, for example: when, for instance, is it better to undertake an in-depth interview rather than a structured questionnaire? If the decision is taken to use questionnaires, how does one administer such research tools? If one decides to use focus groups-who should be invited to take part and how should one run it
La ricerca sull'audience
No full textMolti libri trattano di metodologia della ricerca e di audience, ma la maggior parte non spiega come si fa la ricerca sull'audience. Altri illustrano ricerche sui media - e sull'audience in particolare - ma pochi trattano media diversi. Esistono libri di metodi di ricerca, libri di teoria dell'audience e libri, anche se non molti, di media research. Dall'esperienza didattica degli autori e dalle richieste di molti studenti, nasce l'idea di questo volume e più in generale di un progetto editoriale che intende offrire testi di qualità e al tempo stesso di facile fruibilità didattica. Il volume, ricco di esempi, esercizi, ed idee intende porsi come punto di partenza per chi vuol conoscere un tema interessante e attuale. Agile ma completo, il testo e' diviso in quattro parti fra loro strettamente interconnesse: la prima parte rappresenta un inquadramento teorico al grande tema della ricezione; nella seconda vengono presentati, con linguaggio chiaro e con riferimenti alla tradizione della ricerca sociale, le metodologie e i metodi della ricerca sull'audience; la terza e la quarta parte rappresentano infine due casi di studio, due vere ricerche in cui gli autori presentano non solo i risultati, ma soprattutto il percorso e i problemi incontrati. Il volume si rivolge principalmente agli studenti dei corsi di Scienze della comunicazione e di Scienze sociali ma, proprio grazie al suo taglio introduttivo e didatticamente efficace, risulterà utile a tutti quelli che vogliono approfondire il tema delle audiences mediali.
This group of researchers has individually worked on research in a number of different fields. In this book, they have decided to put together a guide to audience research for the Italian-speaking market. Their point of departure is their view that although there are books that look at research methodologies and at research on the audience, most of these do not ask the question: How does one undertake research on the audience? In addition, there are few publications that consider research on the audiences for different media, they believe. Here they try to address the lack they perceive.
The book is divided into four parts, each of which considers research. Professor Michele Sorice, has written the second. He considers both the theoretical background of research and how these theories can be put into practice. Sorice does not write that these are definitive means, but that consideration of them may assist the researcher to construct his or her own research methodologies and practices. The author reflects on those questions that present themselves to the researcher, for example: when, for instance, is it better to undertake an in-depth interview rather than a structured questionnaire? If the decision is taken to use questionnaires, how does one administer such research tools? If one decides to use focus groups-who should be invited to take part and how should one run it
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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