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Introduzione. Osservare i pubblici. Sociologia, comunicazione e consumo alla prova dell’audience development
No full textL'introduzione riguarda il numero della rivista dedicato al tema dell'audience engagement, quale nuova frontiera di studio a cavallo della sociologia della comunicazione e del consumo,
Questo numero della Rivista affronta un tema molto attuale e rilevante come quello dell’audience development e dell’audience engagement. L’attenzione verso i pubblici, la loro composizione, i comportamenti di fruizione e spettatorialità – a cominciare da come si informano – , le modalità con cui viene dato significato alle opere culturali, non possono non essere al centro della riflessione e della ricerca della sociologia della comunicazione. Certo, come sappiamo, quello dell’audience development è un ambito interdisciplinare che intreccia le politiche culturali e il marketing a partire
dalle necessità di affrontare, da un lato, un mercato dei beni culturali sempre più variegato e complesso e, dall’altro, i differenti livelli di accesso delle persone alla cultura.
Se quindi le organizzazioni culturali sono sempre più impegnate e interessate a progettare iniziative, spazi, eventi e occasioni dal vivo che intercettino i pubblici, possibilmente anche “nuovi” e difficili da raggiungere, è vero anche che nel contesto delle ricerche sull’audience development si mette in evidenza l’importanza dell’engagement ovvero del coinvolgimento
e dell’affezione dei pubblici verso l’offerta culturale. Per chi studia i media, tradizionali e soprattutto digitali, l’engagement è un concetto utilizzato da molto tempo e che esprime i gradi di partecipazione attiva degli utenti, di interazione e intereattività con i contesti di produzione. Quello che conta sempre di più, in altre parole, è la relazione fra produzione e consumo, altra acquisizione sociologica di lunga data, che mette al centro il “destinatario
MEDIASCAPES JOURNAL
No full textMediascapes Journal è una rivista online open access pubblicata semestralmente dall’Università Sapienza e dedicata agli studi su comunicazione e mass media.
Nata nel 2013, Mediascapes Journal offre un originale spazio di discussione dove studiosi di diverse generazioni e approcci di studio possano confrontare teorie, metodologie e sguardi critici. La rivista incoraggia la pubblicazione di studi originali che possano contribuire a incrementare l’avanzamento teorico ed empirico nel settore dei media studies.
Mediascapes Journal è organizzata in due parti: una sezione monografica, in cui studiosi di fama internazionale si confrontano sui temi di maggiore urgenza; una sezione di analisi, che accoglie contributi teorici ed empirici di diversa provenienza, attraverso una call for papers sempre aperta. Tutti gli articoli sono sottoposti ad un sistema di doppio referaggio cieco
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
Desecrating Celebrity. Italian Cases in Cinema, TV Series, Music and Social Media
Get PDFThe theme of “celebrity”, its cultural origins, its social meaning and media propagation, and its effects on the audience, has interested scholars of various disciplines for a long time. Just recently, however, an academic research area called “Celebrity Studies” has been established, with a consolidated tradition mostly in the Anglo-Saxon countries.The article discussed the Italian contribution to this extensive area of investigation started to appear in the second half of the last centur
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
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