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Quo Vadis Sovreignty? New Conceptual and Regulatory Boundaries in the Age of Digital China
No full textDigital sovereignty is all the hype in scholarly, policy, and industry debates. The evolution of sovereignty and state practices in relation to the raise of digital technologies in everyday life and the everyday conduction of policymaking has raised compelling issues in philosophical, legal, political, and sociological terms. Given this situation, there is an increasing need to investigate the topic of digital sovereignty from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Scholars from Europe and China from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, such as law, political science, China studies, and media studies, as well as practitioners of the telecommunications sector, debate in the book perspectives on China and digital sovereignty adopting an interdisciplinary approach
La disciplina del fallimento delle imprese nella Repubblica Popolare Cinese
No full textIl contributo ricostruisce l’evoluzione della normativa cinese in materia di procedure concorsuali focalizzando l’attenzione sulle novità introdotte dalla riforma organica avvenuta nel 2006
Introduction
No full textThe concept of sovereignty is living a new life: after having been envisaged as vanishing – due to the exponential expansion of the cyberspace and the nation states’ shortcomings at regulating digital matters – is being reborn phoenix-like from its ashes precisely thanks to its use of the very same cyberspace and digital dimension,
Thus, digital sovereignty has been developing, at different levels, with different meaning for different State actors, expressing an ever-changing nature and embody- ing a growing complexity. China is obviously at the centre of the process of defining digital sovereignty for a number of reasons. To follow the redefinition of conceptual and regulatory boundaries of the concept of sovereignty in digital China is a necessary step to understand the new life of sovereignty in the contemporary world
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
A New Form of Socio-technical Control: The Case of China’s Social Credit System
No full textBeginning with a concise reflection on the significance of digital sovereignty, this chapter describes and problematizes the Chinese social credit system in connection with the notion of digital sovereignty. It provides a synthetic illustration of the origin, evolution, essential characteristics, structure, explicit aims, and main limitations of the Chinese social credit system, taking into account the specific historical and ideological context in which the system has been designed and developed. On the basis of this description, the potentialities, still to be realised, of the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the different applications related to surveillance, evaluation, and sanctioning are assessed and discussed, in relation to the Chinese discourse on digital sovereignty. The last part of the chapter discusses the potential consequences of such a system in terms of individual rights, individual self-determination, and autonomy, which in turn influence the construction of the entire social fabric
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