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Distopie contemporanee: Bandersnatch come evento seriale
No full textThe article investigates new forms of dystopic narration in relation to the emerging phenomenon of TV series and broader culture of media consumption. The spectacle of contemporary fragility is at the same time pre-mediated by hyperdiegetic narrations reproduced by the daily consumption of these media products. Zombies, vampires, lycanthropes, and all the kinds of monsters that used to inhabit the post-apocalyptic imagery have been introjected by human and post-human characters, struggling against both their interior consciousness and their technological and media prosthesis. In so doing, narratives of a dystopic future build a link with our post-media present, pointing to a wider cultural/epistemological issue. Reflexively, the same dystopic universe expands its limits by locating within its narrative and media structure the subjective and social experience of the audience. In this respect, the anthological series Black Mirror is emblematic in both representing and reproducing a diegetic and medial collapse between dystopic fiction and reality. In particular, the episode “Bandersnatch” actualizes this narrative and its temporalities in terms of interactivity as a mode of consumption. The spectator-user rather than being actually engaged in the narrative construction of the episode, is further integrated in the serial reproduction of the text itself, and of the dystopic media ecosystem in which both the episode and the audience’s experience occur
Immaginari premediati. Futuro e consumo del presente nelle narrazioni seriali
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to investigate the ways in which some recent serial narratives - centred on the imagination of a future world - reflect and reproduce the fragility of our present. The future is not only made present as a chronotope within which a change is inscribed, but also as a central and hegemonic value of the cultural forms and mythologies that everyday we consume and reproduce. This dialectic between present and future is rendered possible by the semiotic mechanism of premediation, that is the trend of contemporary media to anticipate what will happen through the narrative development of all its possible landscape and outcomes. Following a theoretical discussion of the main categories of analysis, the article will focus on a limited but telling corpus of texts whose dynamics is further developed by their serial mechanisms, able to multiply their temporal layering and fragmentation: Love Death + Robots (Blur e Netflix 2018), Bandersnatch (Netflix 2018), and The Man in the High Castle (Amazon 2015-2019). In these series, both fears and expectations for the future are rendered present both in the representation of contemporary technologies as the agents of our destinies, and in our mediated consumption of such representation
The failure of hedge funds: An analysis of the impact of different risk classes
No full textThis article analyses the determinants of hedge fund failure. We investigate, by using a Probit model, the relationship between different groups of variables: returns, risk, size, management, transparency and liquidity. The classes of variables affect the probability of the fund's failure in different ways. We find that the traditional return-risk relation explains 9.68% of the variation of the probability of failure. The results show that dimensional, transparency and liquidity variables, are the best determinants of the probability of hedge fund failure while the management variables record an explanatory power around 11.00%. However, the complete model records a Pseudo-R2 of 54.03%. In addition, the results show differences regarding the probability of fund failure in relation to the investment zones and the investment strategies, while the management provisions do not affect the probability of failure
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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