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In and out of Wonderland: a criti/chromatic stroll across postdigital culture
Full text linkThe contemporary info-proliferation is taking the ideal of a solid technological rationalism to its extreme point: the depletion of all bodies into ’informational cuts’, orderable bits and pieces of data fabric. The present contribution will discuss this process of datafication, trying to avoid any polarization along the ‘pro’ or ‘anti’ dualism, and any consequent excess of enthusiasm or critique. For this purpose, the essay will take the form of a stroll across post-digital culture, alternatively under the effects of a ‘red and a blue pill’ as the two main points of view already exemplified, in 1999, by Morpheus in the famous sci-fi movie The Matrix. To these two points of view, respectively identifiable as digital critique (going down the deep rabbit hole, and seeing that computers are playing today a leading role in what Gilles Deleuze and Fèlix Guattari have called ’capitalist schizophrenia’), or digital potential (remaining in a world of numeric dreams, a world populated not only by humans but also by bots, autonomous computer programs that are becoming increasingly able not only to post, but also to understand content and interact with people and, most importantly, to take aesth/ethical decisions), a yellow one will be added, which can be recognized as that of ‘hacker culture’, at the same time suggesting that, instead of a dialectical contraposition between two different perceptual and cognitive modalities, post-digital culture can be more easily discussed through a multiplication of possible perspective
I Cultural Studies e la mediazione tecnologica
No full textThis essay focuses on the relation between contemporary culture and technological mediation, by adopting the approaches and themes that have traditionally characterized British cultural studies, and by testing their possible declination in the context of Italian digital culture. More specifically, the question of technological mediation is reconsidered in relation to one of the most crucial issues for the cultural studies’ anglophone tradition, that is the representation of cultural identities and differences, while specifically looking at the Italian context. By so doing the essay intends, on one hand, to position itself in the wake of an international intellectual movement that has played a crucial role in the restructuring of academic knowledges and disciplines through the adoption of an inter- and trans-disciplinary thought, while on the other hand recognizing the importance of technological mediation as a subject of critical study in contemporary culture. In contemporary Italy, in fact, the diffusion of social media platforms and apps has coincided with an increasing centrality and visibility of differences of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and race. Drawing on the main theoretical coordinates delineated by the cultural studies approach, and at the same time considering technological mediation as a new fundamental aspect in the construction of social and cultural identities and differences, the essay therefore discusses some videos produced and circulated on the Tik Tok platform in the Italian context. The final aim is to argue that, while the construction of Italian national culture in the second half of the 20th century had mainly taken place through the homogenizing power of television, the historical conjuncture of the 21st century seems now to propose a new politics of differences based and modulated by the algorithmic mediation of platforms
Cosmotecnica
No full textCosmotecnica è un termine introdotto dal filosofo Yuk Hui per riferirsi da un lato all’imprescindibile rapporto che lega la tecnica a una concezione morale del cosmo, e dall’al- tro all’impossibilità di pensare oggi all’idea kantiana di cosmopolitica senza riferimento al ruolo della tecnologia.1 Quest’ultimo punto diventa particolarmente rilevante oggi, in un mondo in cui sia il rapporto con le forze della materia sia la dimensione transnazionale della politica sono media- ti dalla tecnologia, e soprattutto dalle cosiddette piattafor- me. Una riflessione sul concetto di cosmotecnica incontra la prospettiva dell’ecologia politica (in cui i temi della crisi ecologica e ambientale, dell’inquinamento e della devasta- zione dei territori si incrociano a quelli delle epidemie e dei loro effetti differenziali in termini di classe sociale, gene- re, disabilità, orientamento sessuale e geopolitica), proprio perché la questione della tecnica non può essere scissa in alcun modo dall’intreccio di questioni proprie dell’ecologia politica
Cervello sociale, apprendimento ed economia dell'attenzione nella cultura digitale
Full text linkIl capitolo di Stamatia Portanova e Tiziana Terranova s’incentra sulla questione del “deficit di attenzione” che le istituzioni sanitarie, educative, così come i media presentano come una delle ‘nuove’ patologie da curare attraverso strategie e policy di normalizzazione. Il capitolo, quindi, si pre- senta come una messa in luce e discussione di questa “problematizzazione” (quando nasce il discorso sull’attenzione, presso quali pubblici si legittima, quali attori sono autorizzati a parlarne e per conto di chi) alla luce della let- teratura sulle fenomenologie della digital society, così come delle teorie e- conomiche neoclassiche e post-marxiste. Così, ad es., la riconfigurazione del cervello (post)umano attraverso internet produce una interessante e pe- culiare “social turn” nelle neuroscienze e porta anche ad una paradossale immagine del soggetto economico “egoista e calcolatore... allo stesso tem- po anche esposto alle forze (considerate tipicamente adolescenziali) e inu- mane della mimesi e del contagio”. Di qui il rimando conclusivo alla cattu- ra dell’attenzione come produzione di valore da un lato, ma anche come tecnica della soggettività potenzialmente cooperativa, dall’altro
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
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