1,720,959 research outputs found
Faccio dunque sono? Trasformazioni del lavoro e dell’identità di genere nelle rappresentazioni audiovisive di Short on Work.
No full textMettere in scena l’organizzazione. La conoscenza del lavoro attraverso l’audiovisivo
Full text linkLa domanda che è alla base di questa ricerca è la seguente: in che modo lo strumento audiovisivo può diventare strumento di conoscenza dell’organizzazione e, di conseguenza, metterla in scena in modo scientifico e rigoroso?
Nella ricerca sociale l’osservazione diretta della realtà ha un ruolo centrale, e agisce sia come pratica, sia come metodologia, sia come teoria della conoscenza. Dunque, lo stesso ruolo centrale riveste l’atto di guardare, ossia la visione. Di conseguenza, anche il mezzo audiovisivo e i prodotti realizzati grazie a questa tecnologia possono essere considerati un mezzo per conoscere il mondo.
Partendo da questo presupposto, si assumono come riferimenti teorici le diverse concezioni di organizzazione delineate dal teorico Bruno Maggi. Queste possono infatti essere considerate come veri e propri modi di vedere l’organizzazione e la realtà sociale, radicati e strutturati nell’epistemologia delle scienze sociali, a cui sottostanno diversi tipi di razionalità e da cui derivano diverse teorie dell’organizzazione, metodi e procedure di ricerca empirica. Si tratta di ragionamenti e sequenze di derivazione che trovano corrispondenze in altre discipline: in primo luogo nell’analisi sociosemiotica di Eric Landowski, incentrata sui diversi modi di costruire il senso della realtà; in secondo luogo, nelle tipizzazioni di prodotti e pratiche visuali definite da sociologi e antropologi che dei metodi visuali fanno uso, come Douglas Harper, alla base delle quali vi sono diverse epistemologie e diverse relazioni tra conoscitore e dato.
Attraverso un quadro teorico interdisciplinare composto da teoria dell’organizzazione, sociologia visuale, semiotica e antropologia visuale, si intende capire come le diverse concezioni di organizzazione si possano trasformare in altrettanti sguardi sull’organizzazione del lavoro e come da tali sguardi derivino distinti metodi e tecniche di produzione di audiovisivi.
La prima parte del lavoro è volta a definire, da un punto di vista teorico, in che modo l’audiovisivo può essere utilizzato come strumento di ricerca e conoscenza del lavoro.
La seconda parte esamina le connessioni esistenti tra teoria dell’organizzazione, semiotica e sociologia visuale sulla base delle quali si definiscono gli artefatti audiovisivi come prodotti di razionalità progettuale e dalle quali si ricava il quadro analitico utile alla disamina dei casi di studio.
Infine, la terza parte è dedicata all’analisi di casi di studio, rappresentati da documentari etnografici, che ideal-tipicamente si associano alle connessioni presentate nella seconda parte.The question at the center of this resesrch is the following: how the audiovisual can be used as an instrument of knowledge about work and, as a consequence, set it up in a scientific and rigorous way?
In social research, the direct observation of reality has a key role, and acts as a practice, as a methodology and as a theory of knowledge. Therefore, the act of seeing, that is the vision, assumes the same central role. As a consequence, the audiovisual equipment and the products realized using this technology can be considered a way to understand the world.
Assuming this starting point, I will take as theoretical basis the different conceptions of organization described by Bruno Maggi. These conceptions can be considered as different ways of seeing the organization and the social reality, rooted in the epistemology of social sciences, are based on different types of rationality and produce different theories of organization, methods and processes of empirical research.
Analogous theories and sequences can be found in other disciplines: firstly, in the semiotic analysis of Eric Landowski, focused on the ways by which the sense of the world and individual lives is constructed; secondly, in the classifications of visual methods and practices based on different epistemologies and relationships between researcher and data, defined by sociologists and anthropologists that use visual methods.
Through an inter-disciplinary framework, composed of theory of organization, visual sociology, semiotics and visual snthropology, the aim of this thesis is to understand how the different conceptions of organization can turn into different gazes on work organization and how these gazes produce different methods and tecniques of audiovisual production.
The first part of the thesis is aimed at defining, from a theoretical point of view, in which way the audiovisual can be used as an instrument of research and knowledge about work.
The second part examines the connections that can be established among organization, semiotics and visual sociology. These connections define the audiovisual artifacts as rational products and allow to identify the analytical elements for the examination of case studies.
Finally, the third part is dedicated to the analysis of case studies, represented by three ethnographic dpcumentaries, that can be associated, in a ideal-typical way, to the connections discussed in the second part
Città industriale e sviluppo locale: Modena e Ivrea a confronto.
No full textThis paper analyses local development in Modena, with an economy based on SMEs, and Ivrea, dominated by one big company. The different industrial structures deeply affected urban development: the municipality of Modena created an “Artisan Neighbourhood” – special areas for SMEs – whereas Ivrea developed the “Industrial City” designed by Adriano Olivetti. In recent years, the formation of large brownfield sites have prompted important redevelopment projects in both cities
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
- …
