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Lo sciopero del 2014 alle acciaierie AST-ThyssenKrupp di Terni:esperienza sindacale e forme alternative di lotta
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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
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
Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty: Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308
No full textBook review of Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308.Recensione del libro di Ivan Severi, Quick and dirty. Antropologia pubblica, applicata e professionale, Firenze, editpress, 2019, pp. 308
Lo sciopero del 2014 alle acciaierie AST-ThyssenKrupp di Terni:esperienza sindacale e forme alternative di lotta
No full textScenari futuri del lavoro e nuovi orizzonti di lotta alle acciaierie di Terni
No full textThis paper is based on ethnographic research amongst the steelworkers of Acciai Speciali Terni [AST], owned by ThyssenKrupp, that took place during a long union dispute in 2014/2015. Industrial production decline has transformed substantially the western working-class over the last decades, however forms of belonging that promote collective action and political activism persist and are based on a common understanding of past and future. In the case of Terni’s steelworkers, this understanding is based on a collective memory framed within the local worker’s conflictual and subversive tradition. The past is merged with a contemporary experience of the company’s commodification process that the workers actively fight. Through a historical review and an analysis of the ethnographic data the article aims at showing how, on one hand, consolidated forms of protest persist influence questions of identity and class belonging, and on the other provide tools and fruitful ground to compare past and present industrial landscapes. The workers and trade unions’ response to a phase of profound economic uncertainty, due to the company’s instability and the pandemic will help to understand the role of the workers struggle and the strike as terrain of comparison with traditional and consolidates forms of labour protest and to delineate future scenarios of work and unrest
The making of an ethnographic documentary on working class struggle
No full textThe paper explores the collaborative methods employed in the making of an ethnographic film focused on the labour unrest at the AST steel plant in Terni, central Italy. It provides an overview of the fieldwork leading to the film production and focuses on the collaboration between anthropologist, filmmakers, and participants as well as on positioning the film within the tradition of visual ethnography. In doing so, the paper discusses the importance of acknowledging the parallel existence and the inclusion of different visual methods when working in a mutable fieldwork and making a film that can be considered ethnographic, close to the participants’ visual representation, and able to speak to both an academic and a wider general audience with particular attention for the research participants
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
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