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The social construction of the parisienne. Reflections in contemporary popular publishing on a historical icon of feminility
No full textThe image of the Parisienne incorporates values and meanings close to those ideas of progress, style, natural elegance and femininity required by women in the modern age. This image does not reference a ‘pacified’ femininity but appears at first glance to be ‘breaking the mould’, aiming to supplant the image of the traditional woman and bring radical innovation to customs and lifestyles after the ‘prudish’ Victorian era. However, beyond the ‘brazen’ surface and liberal customs, the Parisienne is a shared and communicated social construction (Berger and Luckmann 1966), contiguous with the traditional vision of the feminine. A reading of some of the images and figures of this model, which occupies a minor editorial narrative ‘trend’, reveals continuity with old gender stereotypes resistant to the many social transformations the twentieth century has witnessed
(Don’t) reclaim the media. “Attitudine NoExpo” Network: Urban Conflict and Media Practices
No full text"In our study, we focused on the way in which a mega-event like Expo, historically built as a ‘social peacemaker’, becomes an opportunity,
for social movements, to express new forms of political protest. Far from considering the Expo as a ‘boost’ for the economy of the city,
the activists interpret it as an attempt to ‘overpower’ citizens, an expropriation of their ‘urban sovereignty’; an attack by the global economy
on the droit à la ville
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
Cappuccetto Rosso e il lupo, Pinocchio e Lucignolo, la mamma e il Grillo parlante. L’esperienza del rischio e del limite nel racconto degli adolescenti
No full textAll'interno della più ampia ricerca pubblicata nel volume, il capitolo propone un focus qualitativo, predisposto per ricavare spunti di riflessione circa le definizioni dei concetti di limite e rischio e il modo in cui essi erano associati o posti in relazione con esperienze vissute in prima persona o riferibili alla cerchia dei pari. Lo scopo è quello di lasciar affiorare, per quanto possibile, il portato simbolico dei concetti di limite e rischio e di ricondurlo a categorie “larghe” come quelle di spazio e tempo, agency, relazione sociale
La caduta e l’atterraggio. Considerazioni finali sulla (presunta) attrazione fatale degli adolescenti per il rischio
No full textFatti salvi i singoli casi di condotte marcatamente autolesioniste o di comportamenti pericolosi praticati con continuità, la gran parte delle pratiche raggruppate sotto l’etichetta di “giochi pericolosi” si configurano come momenti in cui gli adolescenti sperimentano una volontaria e spesso consapevole assunzione del rischio, quella che Lyng ha definito come una forma di negoziazione del limite. Momenti critici, attività fatidiche, esplorazioni, tentativi di spostare più in alto l’asticella del salto, per capire chi si è e chi si può diventare, dai quali si esce, di norma, sani e salvi. La questione di come garantire atterraggi morbidi, accompagnando con attenzione queste transizioni complesse, è compito di chi – a suo tempo – ha già attraversato il confine incerto e impervio tra adolescenza ed età adulta.With the exception of individual cases of clearly self-injurious behavior or persistent dangerous behavior, most of the practices grouped under the label of "dangerous games" are experiences of voluntary and often conscious risk-taking. Critical moments, fateful activities, explorations, to understand who they are and who they can become, from whom adolescents usually go out, safe and sound. The question of how to ensure smooth landings, accompanying these complex transitions, is the task of those who have already crossed the uncertain boundary between adolescence and adulthood
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