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Incidental Tourist: Your Treasure or my Life? Need to Communicate and Will of Communication
No full textIl Barocco e la decadenza italiana
No full textIl giudizio di Benedetto Croce sull’età barocca non è stata sempre di condanna irrevocabile. Seguendo i suoi scritti lungo l’asse diacronico si vede che ai primi del Novecento essi mostrano una qualche simpatia per il fenomeno barocco, per la sua novità, spregiudicatezza e freschezza d’idee. La condanna definitiva giunge, seguendo la stessa parabola critica relativa al suo giudizio su D’Annunzio, durante gli anni Venti, sotto la dittatura fascista, nei saggi che costituiscono la Storia dell’età barocca in Italia, allorché il Barocco diventa la manifestazione di una malattia morale. Tenendo in controluce i suoi Taccuini, si dimostra che la scomunica dell’età barocca si lega alla definitiva resistenza della coscienza morale di Croce al fascismo, nei giorni in cui con il manifesto degli intellettuali firmato proprio mentre lavorava alla Storia dell’età barocca aveva chiarito in primo luogo a se stesso il suo rifiuto del regime, dopo qualche iniziale interezza. Per quanto non si voglia sostenere che deterministicamente il giudizio di condanna del fascismo sia la causa che lo trascinò alla condanna del Barocco, è certo che l’accentuazione del giudizio negativo sul Seicento discenda anche dalla constatazione di analogie tra quel periodo e il clima falso e inutilmente altisonante in cui Croce si trovava a vivere in quegli anni
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
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