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L'eredità di Jean Baudrillard a dieci anni dalla sua morte
No full textTen years after the death of Jean Baudrillard, this paper aims to rethink the writings and thought of this author, from the beginnings to the most recent works. The paper aims to show how the simulacrum can be an important concept for sociological analysis. As you will see in the last part of the paper, the concept of simulacrum is the explanatory and analytical key to social change. The paper proposes to structure the analysis of the concept on two levels: a phenomenological one, which investigates the manifestation of dimensions that characterize the concept in the various spheres of social action; 2. Macro-social. In this case, the perspective introduced by the simulacrum is a hinge between abstract culture and concrete society. As integrative and socializing key, based on aesthetic pleasure and taste
Introduzione
No full textNegli studi sui consumi, l’ambito della cultura materiale ri-veste grande importanza nell’associare alle dinamiche di con-sumo significati che vanno oltre la sfera della comunicazione, per avvicinarsi ad una visione degli oggetti e delle merci come elementi di mediazione simbolica, come strumenti utili quindi ad esplicitare i valori individuali e sociali.
Verona da tempo si occupa del tema della cultura materiale focalizzando l’attenzione ed allargando l’analisi ad ambiti diversi o correlati a quello dei consumi. Si veda, ad esempio, le rifles-sioni e gli studi sul corpo e sul vintage (Setiffi F. (2009), La mi-stica della merce, QuiEdit, Verona; Viviani D. (2010), Il corpo dei giovani, FrancoAngeli, Milano; Secondulfo D. (2012), So-ciologia del consumo e della cultura materiale, FrancoAngeli, Milano).
Questo lavoro nasce con l’intento di arricchire questa rifles-sione introducendo ed analizzando un ulteriore elemento della cultura materiale, il cibo, che affiora oggi come aspetto di estrema rilevanza nel contesto sociale
Orientamenti di consumo in un'epoca di restrizioni. Indagine sul territorio veronese
No full textDopo alcuni anni di relativa stabilità economica, smaltito l'allarme sanitario della pandemia glocale, l'Europa si è ritrovata catapultata in un conflitto che ha innescato una crisi energetica e finanziaria. In particolare, nell'Europa occidentale i timidi segnali di ripresa dell'economia hanno subìto un nuovo arresto, all'interno di uno scenario complesso e di forte instabilità e insicurezza. Questo lavoro presenta i risultati della terza edizione di una ricerca, realizzata alla fine del 2022 sul territorio veronese e nata con l'obiettivo di capire come gli indicatori economici locali rilevino gli stili di consumo delle famiglie veronesi
Abitudini di viaggio, attività culturali e uso dei social in tempo di pandemia di COVID-19
No full textIl contributo presenta le risultanze dell'analisi relative l'uso dei social, il tempo libero e l'attività di vacanza rilevate nell'ambito del Terzo rapporto dell'Osservatorio sui consumi delle famiglie.
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
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