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Fare ricerca qualitativa con persone disabili: possibili sfide e benefici
No full textA partire dal confronto di tre ricerche empiriche, questo contributo si pone l’obiettivo di riflettere sulle principali sfide metodologiche ed etiche connesse alla conduzione di ricerche qualitative che prevedono la partecipazione delle persone disabili. Più in particolare, i tre casi studio sono stati selezionati strategicamente, ovvero sulla base dell’utilizzo di tecniche di ricerca qualitativa che implicano un grado crescente di coinvolgimento delle persone con diverse forme di disabilità (fisica, mentale e relazionale). Le autrici discutono, a partire da esempi tratti dalle ricerche presentate, di come la partecipazione alla ricerca da parte di persone con caratteristiche ed esperienze differenti comporti sfide metodologiche ed etiche specifiche. Se colte dai ricercatori, queste sfide offrono la possibilità non solo di ampliare la conoscenza di contesti sociali poco esplorati, ma anche di contribuire alla promozione del benessere e dell’autoaffermazione delle persone disabili
Fare ricerca con i fumetti nel campo dei Disability Studies
No full textThe article presents a series of cartoons resulting from the work of a nursing student who was asked to imagine an encounter with her first disabled patient. In the contribution, the author focuses in particular on the use of cartoons in the field of disability research, to offer a more inclusive perspective of the concepts of illness, disability and care and also to give voice to patients and carers, who are rarely protagonists within the biomedical literature.L’articolo presenta una serie di vignette frutto del lavoro svolto da una studentessa in scienze infermieristiche, alla quale è stato chiesto di immaginare l’incontro con il suo primo paziente disabile. Nel contributo, l’autrice si concentra in particolare sull’uso dei fumetti nel campo della ricerca sulla disabilità, per offrire una prospettiva più inclusiva dei concetti di malattia, disabilità e cura e dare voce anche alle pazienti e alle caregiver, raramente protagoniste all’interno della letteratura di stampo biomedico
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
Un’agenda di ricerca per la sociologia del gioco d’azzardo
No full textThe paper advances a research agenda for the Sociology of Gambling. Firstly, it reviews the different approaches on the phenomenon within Gambling Studies. The medi- calised model of gambling, centred on the concept of problematic gambling, is still predomi- nant, while a fragmented body of sociological literature has addressed the topic since the end of the XIX century. Our argument is that the analysis of the social processes at the root of both gambling practice and industry is crucial to put forward a sociological comprehension of gambling. Finally, we propose the main topics to be developed within the sociological research on gambling: the role of social stratification in modelling gambling practices; the transformation of gambling in a cultural industry; the relationship between gambling in- dustry, the State and policy makers; gambling as a form of recreational consumption; the relationship between gambling and risk
Graphic medicine meets human anatomy: The potential role of comics in raising whole body donation awareness in Italy and beyond. A pilot study
Full text linkCadaver dissection has always played a fundamental role in medical education. However, especially in Italy, the topic of body donation has remained partially unknown for years. The current study analyses graphic medicine as a new possible communication tool, evaluating and reflecting, with second-year students enrolled in the International School of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna, about its potentialities for body donation awareness-raising in both the scientific community and the general population. For the first time in an Italian University, two graphic medicine workshops were organized focusing on human anatomy and body donation. Seminars were positively evaluated by students using a four items Likert-scale question: mean 3.54 (+/- SD 0.73) for the Likert question about the experiences of the workshops; 3.88 (+/- 0.33) for the Likert question regarding the use of graphic medicine in body donation awareness campaigns among the general population; 3.59 (+/- 0.65) for the Likert question regarding the use of graphic medicine in body donation awareness campaigns among the scientific community. Furthermore, the open-ended questions included in the anonymous questionnaire were analyzed using the constructivist grounded qualitative analysis, whence various themes emerged. Finally, five graphic medicine projects about body donation were created by students, proving their interest in testing this method to promote body donation, focusing the attention on different communicative aspects. Considering the results of this pilot study, the co-creative collaborative use of graphic medicine could be evaluated as an additional strategy to increase body donation awareness-raising in Italy and beyond, especially in the non-experts' community
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