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Exploring the Embodied Experience of Disabilities in eSports: A Study on First Person Shooters
No full textThe eSports industry has experienced a remarkable surge, transforming competitive video games into professional sports. Despite its rapid expansion and the recognition of videogames as legitimate sports on a global level, unresolved debates persist, challenging our understanding of electronic sports as a distinct phenomenon. This article aims to bridge existing gaps in eSportsand disability studiesliterature by investigating how disabilities are experienced/constructedin the interplay between physical and virtual bodies in specific eSports titles known as "First Person Shooters" (FPS). FPS games demand swift reaction times, exceptional hand-eye coordination, and in-depth understanding of in-game maps and equipment, making them an opportune domain to explore player engagement and the interaction between physical and virtual bodies in eSports. Recognizing that eSports are constructed around an able and competitive body, this research explores the effects of personalization practices, which may normalize impairments and lead to new organizational processes and participation for people with disabilities. Through 15 semi-structured interviews with eSportsand traditional sportsathletes and a period of participant observation at two Valorant LAN events, this study offers a better insight into the phenomenon of eSports and its potential similarities to traditional sports in terms of discrimination. The research also contributes to understanding the challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in eSports and presents recommendations for practice and future research
Improvisation and composition in organizations: the creative process of Bizia Cesarano
No full textRelazione programmata dal titolo “Improvisation and composition in organizations: the creative process of Bizia Cesarano”, esplicativo dell’omonimo lavoro pubblicato in collaborazione con Vito Lasala e Silvio Ripetta. Il contributo è stato presentato presso la University of Bath
Improvisation and composition in organizations: the creative process of Bizia Cesarano
No full textThis paper is aimed at analyzing the characteristics of composition and improvisation,
focusing on the boundaries between these two and on how improvisation and
composition can be both used within a creative process. The paper will analyze the
creative process implemented by Fabrizia Cesarano, (who signs her works as Bizia
Cesarano) which is based on a series of extemporaneous creations (improvisation),
which give life to paintings, sculptures or artistic installations that crystallize these
processes over time in composition form. Drawing from a case study about the
exhibition "Trame sotto processo" (plots under trial), held in Naples in the months of
December 2023 and January 2024, this paper analyzes how improvisation and
composition, traditionally seen as opposite practices, are intertwined and both part of a
single creative process
Organizzazione e musica, ovvero organizzare e suono
No full textObiettivo di questo Capitolo è di argomentare il binomio organizzazione e musica, attraverso l’impianto di fondo di questo volume, che legge l’azione organizzativa in termini di attori, declinati in quattro livelli: individuo, gruppo, azienda e network. A tale scopo, si adotterà parzialmente o quasi per nulla l’opzione metaforica, considerando la musica, nelle sue plurali declinazioni, una millenaria forma reale di organizzazione o, più correttamente, dell’organizzare (Czarniawska, [2014] 2020) che molto ha da dire e da dare a quelle più recenti (appena centenarie) forme di organizzazione che si riconoscono nell’impresa industriale e di servizi, siano esse private o pubbliche amministrazioni (Sicca, 2000; 2008). Così facendo, si proporrà ai lettori di questo volume uno spazio di pensiero e di azione materiale, anche nella quotidianità delle pratiche sociali e manageriali, che possa fare rifermento a un
costrutto: “Per una economia della musica” (Sicca, Napolitano, 2021). L’invito, dunque, è
quello di abbandonare la metafora, favorendo un approccio che non inquadra la musica co-
me organizzazione, ma che ci invita a comprendere che la musica è organizzazione (e viceversa, forse)
Impairment, failure, emergency: A review essay on recent trends in media and disability studies
No full textIn this essay, three recently published books are reviewed: Diminished Faculties: A Political Phenomenology of Impairment, by Jonathan Sterne, Failure, by Neta Alexander and Arjun Appadurai, and In Case of Emergency, by Elizabeth Ellcessor. The essay argues that these three works contribute to the debate about media and disability by proposing a non ableist perspective – that is a perspective which doesn’t consider ability as a normative assumption – which affects both media theory and media practices. In this regard, the essay identifies three keywords which are potentially game changers in media studies: impairment, failure, emergency. Emphasizing the ‘normal’, ‘banal’ or ‘habitual’ character of these terms, the books here reviewed show how these keywords may enable us to go beyond the traditional idea of media as prostheses, and call for a different approach toward media and media studies: one which does not metaphorize disability but understands media as part of the sociocultural, political and economic context where a certain idea of ability and disability is both defined and materially enacted. An approach, therefore, that aims to deconstruct that idea
Disabilità e sensorialità: un'indagine sulle persone cieche e ipovedenti nei luoghi di lavoro
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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
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