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Introduction
No full textDigital parenting is a popular yet polysemic concept that refers both to how parents
are increasingly engaged in regulating their children’s relationships with digital media
(parental mediation), and how parents themselves incorporate digital media in their
daily activities and parenting practices, and, in so doing, develop emergent forms of
parenting
Hybrid methods for hybrid play: a research toolkit
No full textIn this chapter we outline a research toolkit for the study of Internet-connected toys and their processual and situated affordances. We account for the complex and varied ways in which connected toys, children, adults and media infrastructures interrelate and interact to form systems of meaning and ensembles of technologies and agency, which constitute the digital materialities and social practices of connected play. This toolkit of research methods uses an ethnographic methodology but is informed by two epistemological approaches – phenomenological and non-representational. Thus, this toolkit takes into account the sociocultural context, materiality and symbolic dimensions of connected toy use
Concluding the Internet of Toys
No full textThe concluding chapter reviews the key themes as set out in the introduction and in the contributions to this volume. Here, Mascheroni and Holloway revisit the concepts of datafication and surveillance capitalism in order to emphasise critical questions and map out possible trajectories that future research in the field could address and pursue. The discussion of surveillance capitalism emphasises the double positioning of children in the market as both digital consumers and digital labourers. The chapter also makes the argument that the social and political consequences of datafication extend beyond privacy issues to the transformation of the very conditions under which citizenship is enacted
Politiche per la sicurezza online
No full textA partire dai dati relativi agli usi di internet, all’alfabetizzazione digitale, alle opportunità e rischi di internet, il capitolo descrive le implicazioni di policy, articolandole in tre macro aeree (corrispondenti ai tre paragrafi del capitolo): mediazione (famiglia, genitori, gruppo dei pari); istituzioni e governance; provider di contenuti e di servizi internet e politiche di autoregolamentazione. Le conclusioni cercano di identificare le priorità da perseguire nel contesto italiano
Introducing the Internet of Toys
No full textThis introduction aims to contextualise The Internet of Toys (IoToys) within the tradition of media and communications, set out the theoretical foundations for this volume, and explore the notions of mediatization, datafication and robotification. First, it makes the argument that IoToys should be conceived of as media that are triply articulated in children’s everyday lives. Their network-connectivity and sensor-based functions provide the basis for the mediatization and datafication of children’s lives. Second, it analyses IoToys as toys that enable forms of hybrid play and embedded play, and as social robots that are automated in such a way that they elicit social responses from or interaction with children. Finally, it provides a summary of the chapters of the book
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
Il videodiario di Anne Frank. Dalla rimediazione di un’icona ‘teen’ alla riscrittura della memoria ferita
No full textQuale immagine di sé Anne Frank avrebbe offerto al mondo e alla Storia, se il 12 giugno 1942 avesse ricevuto come regalo di compleanno una videocamera al posto di un diario? La webserie Anne Frank Video Diary, prodotta da Every Media in collaborazione con la Anne Frank House di Amsterdam, si concede questa licenza un po’ paradossale, un po’ inverosimile per avvicinare durante la pandemia le giovani generazioni alle storie raccontate nel celebre diario. Eppure, una simile conversione di formato accende una nuova prospettiva di lettura sulle continuità e discontinuità delle forme di self-mediation tra passato e presente.Il presente saggio intende, in primo luogo, analizzare il recente adattamento in formato video del Diario attraverso la lente della rimediazione, capace di governare la scrittura diaristica assumendo la “doppia logica” dell'immediatezza e dell'ipermedialità. In secondo luogo, alla luce del dibattito sul rapporto tra immagini e trauma culturale, la riflessione si focalizzerà sul processo di riscrittura di una memoria personale che, nell’attraversare confini spaziali e temporali, si è configurata come memoria collettiva e culturale, talmente potente da generare un immaginario transmediale capace di onorare lo spirito curioso di Anne Frank, mai docile e vitale anche nelle fasi più buie
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