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«Spero che non vi sia data la possibilità di guardare fuori da una finestra». I mondi semantici online attorno al caso “Willy Monteiro Duarte”
Full text linkWilly Monteiro Duarte era un giovane di origini capoverdiane dell’età di 20 anni e avente la cittadinanza italiana; la sua morte è stata causata dalle ripetute percosse ricevute e subite da Gabriele e Marco Bianchi, da Marco Pincarelli e Francesco Belleggia, nomi ormai noti perché poco dopo l’accaduto ricollegati al crimine in esame. Lo scontro è avvenuto a Colleferro il 6 settembre 2020; secondo la cronaca e i racconti diretti dei testimoni i motivi sono da far risalire al momento in cui Monteiro ha deciso di difendere un amico, che stava già subendo l’aggressione da quegli stessi soggetti che poco dopo lo avrebbero ucciso. La risonanza mediatica che questo caso ha ricevuto è stata notevole e in molti hanno espresso dolore, disgusto e rabbia; di questo caso si sono interessate diverse testate giornalistiche nazionali e regionali e nu¬merosi programmi televisivi. In questi spazi discorsivi/linguistici il caso Monteiro è stato trattato come un esempio di atto d’odio razziale, come conseguenza dell’abuso di sostanze stupefacenti (i due Bianchi assumeva¬no cocaina) o della pratica di arti marziali MMA che alcuni definiscono particolarmente violente. Tuttavia nella discussione in merito alle cause e alle modalità dell’assassinio non si è guardato ad una variabile essenziale sottostante l’accaduto: la maschilità degli aggressori e della vittima. In tal senso si nota come la maschilità non solo non sia una variabile che in queste circostanze viene presa in esame, ma come neppure venga nomi¬nata; l’astrattezza, che quest’assenza comporta, consente il mantenimento del carattere assoluto della maschilità egemone e delle modalità relaziona¬ li conseguenti con le altre maschilità interessate e il femminile (Connell, 1996). Ad essersi interessati al caso non sono state soltanto alcune testate giornalistiche; infatti il caso “Willy Monteiro Duarte” ha suscitato dibat¬titi e confronti anche nell’arena dei digital media, con particolare riferi¬mento al social network facebook. I commenti facebook relativi agli ultimi post presenti sul profilo pub¬blico di Gabriele Bianchi, uno dei protagonisti della vicenda, sono ogget¬to della presente ricerca. In particolare si propone un’analisi di tipo quali - quantitativo che, a partire dalla codifica del suddetto corpus testuale, definisce le possibili intersecazioni tra maschilità, diritto ed etnia; questi legami trovano espressione nel linguaggio del populismo sessuale: con que¬sto termine si sintetizza l’ipotesi di ricerca secondo cui le caratteristiche principali della deriva populista trovino nel linguaggio del senso comune, modalità di espressione dell’ordine di genere. Infatti seppur la maschilità permane in qualità di concetto astratto, questa si rivela e svela in tutte le sue connotazioni simboliche propriamente quando si utilizzano parole con significati violenti nel linguaggio comune, per svilirla
Ethnography of violence in intimate relationships
Full text linkThis panel seeks to explore various dimensions of gender-based violence in intimate relationships through ethnographic research. We would like to exchange views with scholars who have focused in ethnographic studies on gender-based violence, the system that generates it and the self-organised and or institutional responses. The field is potent and highly mediatised, which is why we feel it is important to explore it from a social science perspective even if in a partial way or with research still ongoing.
Feminist movements have significantly influenced the understanding of power relations and the family as an institution (Walker, 1979), allowing gender violence to be analysed as a phenomenon embedded in specific social dynamics such as sexism—defined as the domination of one sex over another—and the patriarchal system, which comprises institutions designed by men to maintain sexual domination over women (Letellier, 1994; Cavarero, Restaino, 2002; Gottzén, et al., 2020). In this context, gender-based violence is seen as a routine and pervasive phenomenon, impacting women’s social worlds across both public and private spheres (Kimmel, 2017; Oddone, 2020). However, it remains one of the most highly mediated and elusive concepts of our time.
The media’s portrayal of perpetrators as «monsters» complicates sociological analyses of the ways in which gender shapes the relationship with violence (Belmonte, 2024). Despite recent studies questioning the misleading rhetoric around the term «raptus», the image of the male villain continues to dominate public discourse. Men are frequently depicted as having always exhibited inherently violent tendencies, often reinforced by retrospective interpretations of their biographies, lifestyles, and substance use (Belmonte, 2024).
This perception influences prevention and support policies, particularly in services for abusive men (so-called CAMs in Italy). These services aim to support men who have committed violence by promoting re-education towards a masculinity that questions the link between violence and male identity. However, these services remain sporadic, likely exacerbated by a paternalistic welfare approach that focuses on victim protection while reinforcing dependence on institutional care. Ethnographic and qualitative research have an important role to play in shedding light on the everyday dimension of such phenomena
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
Corpo, emozioni e conflitti nel lavoro ostetrico
No full textL’articolo mira ad evidenziare le principali tensioni e i conflitti che emergono durante l’inserimento lavorativo delle ostetriche in Campania, con particolare riferimento alle problematiche lavorative. Lo scopo della ricerca è quello di contribuire ai dibattiti recenti in ambito sociologico sulla costruzione delle culture occupazionali attraverso pratiche quotidiane e rappresentazioni politico-culturali. È particolarmente interessante studiare questi processi all’interno di una categoria occupazionale con una forte connotazione di genere, un elevato livello di qualificazione e una chiara identità professionale ma senza il consolidato status delle “libere professioni” tradizionali
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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