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Talking about EU: European Identity and the Publication Office of the European Union
No full textIn this paper we tackle the concept of European identity and the way in which it is communicated by the Publication Office of the European Union. We downloaded the publications of the Publication Office labelled with ‘European Identity’, and we analysed them through Topic Modelling, eliciting six topics that constitute those documents. We analysed these topics against the different dimensions of European Identity, as described by literature: the civic component of the European identity is partly represented by a topic dealing with the rule of law and National and European identities. The cultural dimension of the European identity characterises analysed documents to a wider extent, as three topics deal with common history, heritage, and culture. In particular, a topic connecting European identity with common cultural values and education is the more used in our sample of documents, and the one which is characterising more and more these documents over time. We argue that this trend signals a particular emphasis by the European Union in identifying European Identity with shared cultural values that can be taught
Analysis of dynamic discourse alliances in framing contested issues: A sociopolitical analysis of the demise of state steel in Italy.
No full textORGANIZING BETWEEN AUDIENCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL ROLES: ITALIAN LITERARY FESTIVALS AND THEIR CULTURAL OFFER
No full textALMA Idea - Grant Linea Intervento Junior - CATARSI (Comprensione Automatica di Testi e ARticoli nelle scienze Sociali e Informatiche)
No full textE’ possibile comprendere automaticamente un testo? Per capire fino a che punto strumenti automatizzati possano interpretare il contenuto informativo di un testo, articolo scientifico o di quotidiano, questo progetto realizzerà tre obiettivi: i﴿ mappatura degli strumenti informatici esistenti; ii﴿ sviluppo, integrazione e realizzazione di interfacce user‐friendly per gli stessi; iii﴿ validazione dei risultati in quattro specifiche aree delle conoscenza: Storia della Ragioneria, Informatica, Biomedicina, e Discipline Umanistiche. I primi due domini sono coperti dalla conoscenza diretta dei ricercatori coinvolti, gli altri due serviranno a testare l’effettiva possibilità di comprensione mediata solo da strumenti automatici. I dati necessari sono già in possesso del gruppo di ricerca. Una ricaduta pratica sarà la creazione di un insieme di strumenti, modulari ma integrati, che facilitino la ricerca nelle scienze sociali nelle fasi di raccolta, pulizia, analisi e interpretazione di testi
No country for neoliberalism: a topic modeling approach to protean discourses to resist privatizations in Italy.
No full textThis paper analyzes the resistance to the neoliberal discourse supporting privatizations in the Italian sociopolitical field: we address the change from a state control over economy to a situation where most of the state owned enterprises are sold and neoliberal principles are widely adopted and accepted. We focus on resistance, which builds on two frames that differ according to the period when they arise, the words they are composed of, the meanings they bear upon. The first one, which is more prevalent in the period 1984-2000, and that we called “values of developmental state”, opposes privatizations from a technical point of view: it is used in quotes that rationally support state intervention in economy. The second frame, that we called “stigma privatizations”, becomes prevalent starting in 2000 and appears mainly in articles that deal with societal issues, literature, movies and the wider sociocultural debate. Here influential speakers blame privatizations as something that eroded societal cohesion. To explain the transformation, we mobilize the concept of capital as described by Bourdieu: as economic capital attached to delegitimized institutions erode, discourse on resistance does not disappear but is framed within the fields that are less dependent on economic capital. As a connected contribution, the key role played by cultural capital in preserving areas of resistances revives the debate on the role of intellectuals within
power dynamics as described by Antonio Gramsci. From a technical point of view, we study the evolution of the vocabulary of privatizations by analyzing almost 70.000 articles in the period 1984-2014. we use Topic Modeling, that is an automated text analysis technique that elicits topics, which are the sets of words that constitute discourses. We then reconstruct frames starting from these topics
A gramscian perspective on field dynamics. The case of the privatization of Italian steel industry.
Full text linkInstitutional fields are not static, they undergo times of fragmentation and times of settlement. Neo-institutional research has long explained the settlement of fields as either the effect of political manoeuvring of actors, or of discursive activity infuencing cultural codes, narratives and symbols. But can these processes really be considered in isolation? In this paper, we propose to adopt a comprehensive view on fields’ dynamics, one that embraces the interaction of political and discursive manoeuvring to explain how fragmented fields manage to settle. To do so, we build on the Gramscian concept of hegemonic practices as discursive and political processes that integrate cultural equivalence among actors with political alliances based on aligned interests. Hegemonic practices align actors in a new historical bloc (a new settlement). Through this lens, we interpret the case of the Italian State steel privatization (1984–1995) and propose a process model explaining what yields fields’ dy- namics from fragmentation to settlement. The model highlights the action of diffused agency in field dynamics, thus overcoming the obsolete challenger/incumbent view, and the need of becoming a historical bloc for alliances to stabilize a field
What do 1,300 accounting history papers talk about? Evidence from a semi-automated content analysis
No full textThis paper reports on an on-going research analysing 1,300 accounting history articles published in specialized (Journal of Accounting Historians, Accounting History Review, Accounting History) and general journals (Accounting, Organisation and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal) between 1996 and 2015, using a topic modeling technique. The paper complements prior assessments of the research by providing measures of the relative prevalence of research areas and their evolution over time. The analysis offers insights into accounting history by refining previous categorisations, uncovering overlooked topic areas, and substantiating trends, such as the demise of interest in the technical core of accounting in favour of more variegated and fragmented approaches. Particular attention is paid to differences between specialized and general outlets
ANALYSING MEDIA REPRESENTATION OF THE EU REGIONAL COHESION POLICY, A MEANING STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS ACROSS SEVEN EU COUNTRIES
No full textIn spite of the relevance of EU regional cohesion policy for local business and economic
development, little is still known about how its meaning gets socially and linguistically
constructed. We propose to extend knowledge in this area by focusing on media representation
as a key mechanism of social construction. Empirically, we analyzed the meaning structure of
contents produced by newspapers about EU regional cohesion policy in seven EU countries. Our
results show that, national variations in media spaces constructing policy implementation can be
traced to the extent to which topics characterizing national media spheres: a) display different
content; b) occupy different relative positions, c) connect to each other and cluster in larger
groups. Also, in a very preliminary way, it is shown how different national media spheres can be
put in semantic relation to each other
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
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