1,720,954 research outputs found
Il PSN. L'analisi quantitativa
No full textLa ricerca “Business e gaming. Gioco e social network nella rete d’impresa”, realizzata dalla Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione della Sapienza in collaborazione con Sony Computer Entertainment Italia, ha previsto, tra i tanti strumenti di indagine utilizzati, la somministrazione di un questionario a un campione di videogiocatori iscritti alla newsletter del Playstation network. Ne sono stati raggiunti, 8.829, prevalentemente maschi (97%), con un’età compresa tra i 20 e i 34 anni, un livello culturale medio-alto, che risiedono soprattutto con la famiglia d’origine e si concentrano nelle città del nord Italia (49%). Tra i risultati più interessanti, quelli relativi ai loro comportamenti culturali, che appaiono ricchi ed eterogenei e affiancano l’alta frequenza d’uso dei videogame. Il campione raggiunto, in particolare, si rivela esperto nell’uso del web e delle nuove tecnologie, caratterizzato da un attivismo culturale fuori dal comune, composto quindi da quelli che ci sono parsi come destinatari ideali, ma anche osservatori critici, delle politiche di marketing, recruiting e fundraising dei più avanzati territori di sperimentazione online.The third and final step of the surve "Business and gaming" was a qualitative and quantitative analysis of a video gamer network, the PlayStation Network (PSN), from different viewpoints and autonomous with regard to the three fields under examination. The decision to investigate a gaming community stems from the desire to study these groups both as a network of relationships based on gaming and the potential interest they might hold for the company: indeed web 2.0 users are consumers, staff (or aspiring staff) and current or future fund donors. PSN users constitute an ideal sample for the macro-areas under investigation: they are experts in using the web and new technology, they are very culturally active, they are potential ideal targets as well as critical observers of the marketing, recruiting and fundraising policies in the most advanced areas of online experimentation. The analysis of PSN users is based on two specific research tools: a websurvey (an online questionnaire) and four focus groups. The questionnaire was structured to identify the technical, relational and communicative skills acquired through gaming and opinions on the three areas researched in phase one of the study. The websurvey was then e-mailed to a sample of 142,000 Italian PSN users and put online to allow for direct compilation by members of the community. While the online questionnaire was deemed the most appropriate method of studying the network and its members, focus groups were conducted both in person (at the offices of SCEI and the Faculty of Communication Sciences) and in a “virtual” discussion area on PlayStation Home, involving a total of 22 users. The use of Home to host the focus groups, while following in the recent tradition of virtual ethnography, is also significantly experimental – a feature accentuated by the nature of the environment. It is a highly innovative experience, nationally and internationally, which proved (despite a number of critical issues) to be of great interest in terms of content and methodology. The uncommon collaboration between a large university and a successful multinational, the complexity of the research methodology, the size of the gamer sample responding to the questionnaire (8829 individuals) and the unique innovation of online focus groups in Italy make “Business and gaming” an exceptional example of scientific investigation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
- …
