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Publics et usagers, convergences et articulations
No full textPatriarche Geoffroy, « Publics et usagers, convergences et articulations », Réseaux, 2008/1 (n° 147), p. 179-216. https://www.cairn.info/revue-reseaux1-2008-1-page-179.ht
Film audiences in perspective: the social practices of cinemagoing
No full textThis article gives an historical overview of research on audiences and cinema
From semiotic resistance to civic agency:viewing citizenship through the lens of reception research 1973-2010
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At the Crossroads of Hermeneutic Philosophy and Reception Studies: Understanding Patterns of Cross-Media Consumption
No full textThis collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice, and participation in a cultural, political and technological sense. This book explores three general areas of current scholarly study of the social aspects of media use. First, the introduction of interactive and so-called social media has had repercussions for the definition of media use, reception and even our perception of media effects. Second, the recognition that media constitute social practice, which utilizes media for its own goals, has been highly influential in communication research. Third, media provide many opportunities for participation in cultural and political issues. Yet media also shape participation in certain – and sometimes constraining – ways
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
Virtual Shadowing, Online Ethnographies and Social Networking Studies
No full textDrawing from the debate on the challenges that networked communication poses to social research, the chapter offers a critical analysis of literature on online ethnography, and it presents a methodological approach, that we can name ‘virtual shadowing’, we have applied to the study of social media use among Italian adolescents.
Rooted in the broader methodological framework of online ethnographies, virtual shadowing chooses the ‘networked self’ (Papacharissi 2010) and the ‘network sociability’ (Castells et al. 2007, Wellman and Haythornthwaite 2002) as a specific research field, and it integrates a multilevel digital ethnography and the productive involvement of respondents. Following people in their individual and yet situated (both physically and relationally) consumption practices and performances, do we believe it is possible to find a somehow consistent field of inquiry where all the different possible media diets and repertoires (Hasebrink and Popp 2006) come to reality, finding a specific meaning, and becoming observable.
The methodology discussed was applied in different research projects carried out by OssCom (Research Centre on Media and Communication of the Università Cattolica of Milan), and within the PRIN 2009 titled ‘Online social relations and identity: Italian experience in Social Network Sites’
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
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