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Utopia and its maps
No full textIn the past centuries, scholars, philosophers, dreamers, idealists have devised a better world: they found it easier, other than in books, express it as maps, possibly attractive.
Nowadays, we have adequate numbers and quality of maps of any type, which let us face almost every type of emergency, specially in the field of seismic, environmental and hydro-geological risks.
Also we have an adequate cartographical support for exploitation of natural resources, actual or supposed, in the field of social applications (famine, drought, health and social displacements, ...).
Geomatics and Geoinformation, can give very important contribution to many human activities, on the contrary, they can terribly support, in very sophisticated way, the escalation of armies, wars and destruction, producing negative effects, both in high intensity and large extension.
Science and technique cannot be isolated from the whole human life context, but they should positively play a fundamental role in the real world. The encouragement of a peaceful use of mature and innovative technologies, in order to achieve concrete social, economic and cultural benefits for all the people, increases, to a high level standard, the quality of their life.
A correct information passes through a different conceived Cartography: see the Peters’ atlas (Arno Peters, 1980), edited in the framework of Willy Brandt’s report about North-South
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
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