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Learning by Practice from an Early Researcher Perspective. Investigating Widespread Heritage in Transition Countries
No full textThrough the description of three experiences of field-based research in transition countries, the paper wants to give an insight regarding how the working methodology of an early-stage researcher can be conditioned, passing through the changes imposed by diverse contexts on time. Specifically, the contribute underlines the importance given to widespread heritage safeguard in different geographical contexts (Albania, Montenegro, Myanmar) and develops reflections regarding the influence given by the context over applied conservation policies. Starting from the challenge in trying to adapt a background of knowledge and studies developed in a determined culture and environment to radically different time by time, the paper then argues over the confrontation needed to further mature theoretical tools to manage diverse situations, so as to set in discussion and adjust to each context the methodology acquired in time
Share for care. Tecnologie ed inclusione sociale per lo sviluppo dei quartieri in formali di Guayaquil, Ecuador.
No full textIl paper si inserisce nell’ambito dello studio di strategie atte al miglioramento della qualità di vita negli slum. L’elaborato presenta IMPARAR, progetto di ricerca il cui scopo è promuovere l’empowerment della popolazione dei quartieri informali della città di Guayaquil, Ecuador, caratterizzati da un limitato accesso a servizi e risorse locali. Verranno descritti gli esiti della ricerca, che hanno portato alla definizione di un sistema biunivoco di comunicazione-intervento tra le comunità locali e la Municipalità, composto da una Community Based Organization, istituzione locale che rappresenta gli abitanti stessi e i loro bisogni, e un Digital Tool System, sistema che utilizza in maniera innovativa tecnologie diffuse tra la popolazione per facilitare l’accesso a servizi e risorse. Una reale implementazione del sistema porterebbe vantaggi rilevanti sia per la pubblica amministrazione che per la comunità: un miglioramento della comunicazione e collaborazione creerebbe le condizioni necessarie per la definizione di strategie di sviluppo sostenibile
Share for Care. Communication Technologies and Social Inclusion for Empowerment in Guayaquil, Ecuador
No full textThis paper presents the main deliverable of Improving Access to Resources at Reduced Risk for Urban Areas with Strong Informal Settlements (IMPARAR), a project belonging to the realm of social innovation and development. IMPARAR aims at promoting social development and inclusion in the deprived neighborhoods of Guayaquil (Ecuador) by increasing citizen accessibility to public resources and services. Living conditions in informal settlements present several challenges, such as the lack of community management strategies, especially regarding access to services and risk prevention. Key determinants for such challenges are the poor communication between local communities and public administration, and the lack of territorial data in informal contests. To address these challenges as output of IMPARAR, we designed Share for Care, a two-way communication-intervention system, which is a composed solution characterized by a Digital Tool System and a Community-Based Organization. Share for Care is designed to support the communitarian and collaborative work of the population, by means of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In the paper, the features of the system as well as the participatory approach adopted along the whole IMPARAR project are described. By combining communication technologies with policies of inclusion and social mobilization, Share for Care is designed to provide benefits to both public administrations and local communities
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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