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New Urban Economic Geographies in Southern Europe: Young People’s Retail and Consumption Geographies in Barcelona and Naples
No full textConsumando spazi centrali e notti urbane: micro-geografie dei giovani a Barcellona e a Napoli
No full textSviluppando precedenti ricerche condotte sulle geografie del commercio e del consumo dei giovani a Barcellona e a Napoli, l'articolo si focalizza sull'importanza assunta, nella produzione del centro-città, dal consumo di prodotti, spazi e tempi (della notte e del fine-settimana) da parte delle giovani generazioni. Un approfondimento specifico è dedicato al ruolo di tali attori urbani nel creare, cambiare, negoziare e contestare, spesso in conflitto con altri attori, i paesaggi notturni del commercio e del consumo. La trasformazione dei due quartieri del Raval (Barcellona) e di Chiaia (Napoli) in distretti del consumo e dell’intrattenimento notturno costituisce il punto di partenza per una riflessione sulla vita notturna come campo di studio nella geografia urbana e terreno di intervento ormai imprescindibile per le politiche urbane.Developing previous research carried out on retail and consumption geographies of young people in Barcelona and Naples, we will focus on the importance assumed, in the production of the city center, by youth consumption of products, spaces and times (of night and weekend). An in-depht analysis will focus on the role of these urban actors in creating, changing, negotiating and contesting, often in conflict with other actors, the nightscapes of retail and consumption. The transformation of the two neighbourhoods of Raval (Barcelona) and Chiaia (Naples) into districts of consumption and night-time entertainment will be the starting point for a reflection on night-life as field of study in urban geography and by now as an essential area of intervention for urban policies
Comercio en el centro y consumo de centro en Nápoles
No full textIl saggio analizza le trasformazioni del centro storico di Napoli attraverso la chiave di lettura del commercio e del consumo, in quest'ultimo caso facendo riferimento non solo al consumo di prodotti ma anche a quello di luoghi.
Dopo un approfondimento teorico sui legami tra gentrification, commercio e consumo, che animano l'attuale dibattito di matrice geografica, si tratta il tema della gentrification commerciale, che sta cambiando il volto di molti centri storici. L'analisi, poi, si concentra sul caso del centro di Napoli, analizzando le aree commerciali secondo le tappe della loro evoluzione, così come le continuità e le trasformazioni degli spazi centrali, per poi approfondire il tema del consumo
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
Las "lentas" transformaciones de los espacios centrales de Nápoles
No full textThe aim of the paper is to outline some of the transformations that in the last 20 years have characterized the central areas of Naples, a city that in many ways seem to resist to change, and this occurs seemingly "slow". The intention is also to evaluate how the city center is affected by processes identified through the model of gentrification, a phenomenon that does not occur in the same manner everywhere.
Facing with a strong decline in population and with the impoverishment of the traditional manufacturing base, the structure of the center of Naples is actually a complex mosaic of degradation and restoration, in which they follow one another, almost street by street, settlements of middle class (which is changing in its composition), popular areas growing marginalization and small islands of gentrification. The lower class characterization of many parts of the city center resists, together with the settlement of immigrants, while are rapidly changing the functions of the CBD in relation to the expanding of the metropolitan area.The change takes place in the context of a very fragmented political geography of the city – that makes the governance more difficult - and in a coexistence of opposing tendencies, sometimes identified as cases of gentrification, but also at the opposite of de-gentrification
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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