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C. Rizzo, S. Parisi, P. Pes - Manuale per la raccolta, localizzazione et siglatura delle interpretazioni Rorschach
No full textC. Rizzo, S. Parisi, P. Pes - Manuale per la raccolta, localizzazione et siglatura delle interpretazioni Rorschach. In: Bulletin de la Société française du Rorschach et des méthodes projectives, n°32, 1981. Les toxicomanies. pp. 150-151
C. Rizzo, S. Parisi, P. Pes - Manuale per la raccolta, localizzazione et siglatura delle interpretazioni Rorschach
No full textC. Rizzo, S. Parisi, P. Pes - Manuale per la raccolta, localizzazione et siglatura delle interpretazioni Rorschach. In: Bulletin de la Société française du Rorschach et des méthodes projectives, n°32, 1981. Les toxicomanies. pp. 150-151
Who is ‘We’ in ‘We, the future without future?’ On generational identity and youth (digital) activism in and beyond FridaysForFuture-Rome
Full text linkThe average global temperatures spiked in the last century and extreme climate phenomena became increasingly and dramatically common. The conditions of the planet have contributed to inaugurating a novel wave of climate activism, which sees an important contribution in young people, who are mobilizing worldwide to ask for better policies to face what has been defined as humanity’s greatest challenge.
The FridaysForFuture (FFF for short) movement has especially been at the forefront of this fight. Inspired by Greta Thunberg’s 2018 Friday school strikes in front of the Swedish Parliament, the movement has spread globally in a complex network of national and local groups that share common values and goals (inclusivity, intersectionality, decarbonization...) but also express their unique geographical and cultural identity as they localize the climate fight to each group’s necessities. As it is already clear from the name ‘FridaysForFuture,’ the movement’s fight is strongly connected to the generational identity and youth-based sense-makings of its members. Incipient literature on FFF has observed how especially young activists join the movement to safeguard the interests of their own generation, following the idea that older generations have doomed the planet and taken the future away from younger people. In this context, social media are privileged platforms for FFF activists, who resort to them for advocacy and awareness-raising, while also recruiting adhesions to the movement in a continuous hybridization of meanings and practices that blurs the boundaries between online and offline spaces. FFF-activists’ social media usage practices are also informed by younger people’s media ideologies (Gershon 2010b) and sense-makings and can therefore open windows in the unique ways young people understand social media as environments for both digital activism and generational identity-building processes.
Informed by literature addressing identity making practices, collective identity, generational ‘we sense,’ digital and youth activism, this thesis investigates the interplay between generational identity and youth social media activism focusing on the FFF group of FFF-Rome. This study is a multimethod qualitative research, combining a six-month multimodal ethnography (of the group’s activities and its Instagram page) and semi-structured interviews to FFF-Rome activists. Consistent with an ecological approach to social media, this method allowed for the direct observation of social actions as they happened, preventing a disjunction between their contexts and individual and collective meanings. These choices were complementary with the adoption of innovative ethical standards and practices of engaged research. As a result, this thesis advocates for ‘committed’ research when studying social movements, favoring research appropriation by the activists and in solidarity with their fight.
Concretely, this work answers the following research questions:
1. How do FFF-Rome activists combine their generational identity with being climate activists?
2. What can the case of FFF-Rome tell us about the current generation of youth (climate) activists and, more in general, about the identity of this generation of young people?
3. How do social media usage practices and FFF-Rome’s identity mutually shape each other?
4. How do FFF-Rome activists negotiate social media usage practices and norms within the movement?
Part 1 addresses RQ 1 and 2 by observing how the activists combine a generational understanding of climate activism and climate change with their own identity as young people of the 21st century. Part 2 answers RQs 3 and 4 by analyzing how the activists appropriate digital platforms as youth’s ‘own’ channels, and how they move seamlessly between online and offline environments, negotiating architectural and technical affordances.
While different parts of this thesis answer distinct research questions, all sections are strongly interconnected and contribute to all research questions collectively. The conclusions especially highlight this bond and suggest that changes in the communicative infrastructures have essentially redefined the communicative and political practices of climate activism. It is not just the struggle that is generationally connoted, but also the communicative channels and the protest practices that accompany it. FFF-Rome activists fully legitimize digital activism and incorporate it in all phases of their struggle, intertwining social media ideologies (Gershon 2010b) with activist ideologies. In this context, social media are considered both as a means to an end and as digital spaces young people ‘own’ in virtue of their being young
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
Assessment and mapping of the intrinsic vulnerability to polluton: anexample from Kerits river basin (North_west Crete, Greece).
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