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How do political changes in the country of origin affect transnational behaviours of migrants? The case of Egyptians in Turin during and after the Arab Spring
No full textShould I stay or should I go? How Arab Spring and Economic Crisis affected return intentions?
No full textThe widespread enthusiasm triggered by the Arab Spring affected both the first- and second-generation Egyptians and resulted in different forms of action and socio-political participation. In Italy, many demonstrations in support of the Egyptian revolts as well as awareness campaigns were organized by them. The Egyptian revolution arisen from the Arab Spring has had the role of unifying generations in the sense of belonging and the belief about changes and future opportunities in Egypt. To what extent this new enthusiasm will transform into real consideration of future returning to Egypt is quite an unexplored topic. Relying on the migration theories that tackle the issue of return, we address the following research questions: Which traditional theoretical arguments from the migration theories apply to first- and second-generation Egyptians’ return intention in Italy? Do the changes in Egypt after the Arab Spring strengthen their intention to return? And what is the role of ICT in this process? Data come from qualitative interviews, conducted between September 2011 – January 2013 with Egyptian migrants living in the cities of Turin and Rome. The results show that transnational ties strengthened by the Arab Spring and facilitated by ICT, do support the idea of returning, although a definitive return will probably not occur, neither for the first nor for the second generation, but rather a transnational way of living, especially for those who can take advantage of their skills and social and financial resources
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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