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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
Navigare nella rete tra vecchi stereotipi e nuove possibilità
No full textIl capitolo, nel quadro del paradigma di ricerca della pedagogia critica femminista, esamina il ruolo di Internet nella decostruzione degli stereotipi di genere diffusi dalla televisione italiana. L’uso del corpo femminile in TV rende più visibili, rafforzandoli a livello simbolico, determinati comportamenti e categorie, decretando gerarchie di valori e orientando l’opinione pubblica riguardo ai concetti di “femminilità” e di “mascolinità”.
D’altra parte, se sulla rete assistiamo all’amplificazione e alla reiterazione di questi stereotipi, per esempio nei discorsi, principale luogo di costruzione nei blog dei significati sessisti e dell’asimmetria sessuale, l’uso di Inter- net inteso quale spazio attivo di cultura partecipativa può attivare nelle donne una maggiore consapevolezza dei propri diritti. Inoltre, dal momento che il web rappresenta un modo nuovo di costruzione di uno spazio pubblico è importante per le donne poterlo abitare così da esercitare il diritto di cittadinanza digitale attraverso l’espressione della propria intellettualità e creatività; senza tralasciare che Internet, per le sue caratteristiche, consente di aggirare gli ostacoli posti dai media tradizionali nei confronti delle voci femminili, fornendo più ampi margini di sperimentazione e maggiore libertà di comunicazione.
Tuttavia, affinché ciò si realizzi, occorre in primo luogo contrastare la scarsa e-inclusion di genere che ancora permane in diverse realtà socio-territoriali del nostro Paese e puntare sulla formazione formale oltre che su quella informale.
Nel contributo si fa particolare riferimento alla ricerca centrata sull’esperienza e alle metodologie narrative, che facilitano un approccio relazionale e pragmatico e consentono di promuovere spazi di autoriflessione per cogliere appieno le potenzialità e i limiti della rete, al fine di sostenere la formazione di una cittadinanza attiva
Visual Education e scienza come folklore internazionale. Una prospettiva neurathiana per l’educazione cittadinanza cosmopolita
No full textVariations 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
A New Taxonomy of Smart City Projects
Full text linkCity logistics proposes an integrated vision of freight transportation systems within urban area and it aims at the optimization of them as a whole in terms of efficiency, security, safety, viability and environmental sustainability. Recently, this perspective has been extended by the Smart City concept in order to include other aspects of city management: building, energy, environment, government, living, mobility, education, health and so on. At the best of our knowledge, a classification of Smart City Projects has not been created yet. This paper introduces such a classification, highlighting success factors and analyzing new trends in Smart Cit
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
Parole che salvano. Narrazione e scrittura come rigenerazione di senso nella pandemia
No full textThe Covid-19 pandemic provoked suffering and distress, especially in patients and their caregivers, but also in their relatives who couldn't assist them even in the last moments of their lives. This unexpected situation caused a general need for places where feelings of pain and loss could be shared and elaborated. During the lockdown and the subsequent months several experiences of autobiographical and therapeutic writing were inaugurated, in order to provide the opportunity of taking care of oneself: they had a significant impact on people's meaning-making of the traumatic experience
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