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Between blog, social networks and territory: activists and grassroots organization
No full textFirst, we will take into consideration the birth of the first organizational units on the online platform meetup.com – something that has often been defined as the most important organizational innovation that the M5S came up with. We will then move on to focus on the workings of this peculiar recruiting procedure, and on what motivates those citizens approaching the Movement. Focusing our analysis solely on meetup.com would be a mistake. The Movement, in fact, has quickly succeeded in going beyond ‘virtual’ interactions, mixing online and offline models
of organization. Among them, the assembly of activists plays a major role, and as the electorate grew, attempts were made to build supra-local organizational structures, even though this too implied new impediments and contradictions. The electoral success also forced the Movement to face a traditional problem: that of the militant membership base maintaining a connection with, and an effective form of control over, elected representatives. Finally, the main results of our analysis
will be summarized in the concluding section of this chapter
Populists in Power: From Municipalities to (European) Parliament, The case of the Italian Five Star Movement
No full textThe article focuses on the strategic evolution of the Italian Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle—M5S). The party was born in 2009 as a local and civic experience and it represents a new example of populism characterized by unprecedented traits. In 2010 the M5S obtained its first representatives during regional elections and in 2012 it achieved its first Major in a big town (Parma, in the heart of Italy)
Prefazione. C’era una volta il non-partito dei progetti locali
No full textLa vicenda di Federico Pizzarotti e di Parma è, a suo modo, significativa e interessante per ricostruire e comprendere il percorso politico del M5S in Italia. Il significato, ma anche i limiti, del suo successo, che continua a essere molto largo. Il M5S è ancora oggi il primo partito sul piano dei consensi elettorali. Di conseguenza non è più un non-partito, o meglio non lo è mai stato. Ma oggi (e ormai da tempo) non si può più neppure utilizzare questa formula come marchio e come bandiera
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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