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Mobile Fashion Applications: a Sociological Perspective
Full text linkThe aim of this research is to explore how the fashion system has been reshaped by mobile fashion applications. Much research has been carried out on many aspects of the fashion system at the interface with web 2.0, such as fashion e-commerce, fashion blogging, and so on. However, so far no study has illustrated the dynamics of the fashion system through the lens of fashion applications. In my research, I explore the role that fashion applications play in the current fashion system both in Western countries and in China. Mobile Internet applications generally nourish the discourse fashion bloggers and communities of interest in fashion elaborate for expressing their own points of view on fashion at various levels.
Inspired by Actor Network Theory (ANT) (Latour 2005) and domestication theory (Silverstone 1996), this study focuses on the new possibilities mobile Internet provides to support the adoption of fashion products. Compared with the univocal manner in which traditional media have presented and explained new fashion designs to the public, mobile Internet introduces diverse approaches which enable people to understand fashion, adapt abstract fashion proposals to their needs, and communicate about fashion with other users as well as with the fashion system (Nie 2013). Moreover, mobile phones share some attributes with the Internet, such as easy accessibility, interactivity, and potential networking, which are very suitable to respond to the needs of grassroots users.
Before presenting my analysis, and given the fact that my research objective is at the intersection of several complex fields of study, I delineate these fields of research showing at which point the debate has developed them. In the first part, in order to gain a more complete understanding of the world of fashion on the smartphone, it is necessary to contextualize the background. And then in my thesis, I introduce the results of my research, and in the last part I illustrate the discussions and final remarks
Between Fashion and Technology - Investigating Mobile Fashion Applications
No full textThe increasing diffusion of smartphones has made popular new services and functions such as geolocalization and, especially, applications (apps). There is in fact an extraordinary level of offering and adoption of mobile Internet applications, which help, support, and facilitate many aspects of domestic life. In the present paper we present explorative research focusing on mobile Internet applications in the field of fashion and on their main characteristics. Our starting point is the conviction that fashion applications deserve special consideration since they have the potential to play a very important role in the domestication and appropriation at mass level of an important social phenomenon such as fashion. In practice, we explore their role by triangulating three methods: a survey of the current fashion applications, qualitative analysis of the reviews posted in the 42 most popular applications, and a number of semi-structured interviews with their users. At the same time, we set up a sub-sample of 20 Chinese fashion apps from Google Play and 25 from iTunes to be compared with the 21 most popular English samples in the iTunes store and 23 in the Google Play store. Among these Chinese applications, some of them are Chinese versions of the most popular applications at international level and the rest represent the most popular fashion applications in China’s iTunes app store. The main results of this case study enable us to have a sense of users’ reception of apps and to understand the cultural differences between the English and Chinese mobile fashion applications
Exploring Grassroots Fashion Storytelling: An Analysis of the Practices and Strategies of Italian and Chinese Bloggers
No full textThis paper investigates how the grassroots fashion storytelling developed in the second wave of the fashion blogosphere in Italy and in China. While in the first wave, according to the literature, the tropes that emerged were equality, counterculture and authenticity, our results show that in the second wave the main characteristics have become in both countries, Italy and China, technological diversification and commercialization, with the confirmation of a preference towards visual communication. In addition, in the Chinese fashion blogosphere a specific tension between the colonization of Western fashion and the autochthonous production of fashion content was registered. We argue that only by historicizing the phenomenon of fashion blogging is it possible to make sense of its real social meaning over time
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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