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La tecnomagia nel metaverso. Riti, corpi e giochi nella società digitale Michelle Grillo
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Technomagic in the Metaverse. Rituals, Bodies, and Games in Digital Sociality
Digitalization has generated a rethinking of languages and forms of communication,
influencing and changing various areas of life, from social relations, to work, to
education and consumption of art, music, and fashion. Words like Metaverse and
Artificial Intelligence, although they are not new, have entered forcefully into the
common language only in this last year, thanks to the hype around the metaverse
and the introduction and diffusion of generative AI, thanks to which we witness a
real transition to increasingly immersive forms of consumption and experience.
The metaverse, in particular, manifests itself in four dimensions: A new idea of
presence and forms of cultural participation within metaverse platforms.
Communion around the products. The return to a playful dimension. The sacrifice
of the body.
This article aims to analyze the four dimensions above to list and investigate how
consumption and experiences in the metaverse lead towards the techno-magic
paradigm that develops around “nuovi riti dei media e della socialità [...] basati sulla
condivisione di segreti, di emozioni e stili di stampo comunitario, fondati sulla
dimensione del “comune” (Susca, 2022: 21), in which it does not matter the game
itself, but how we show ourselves inside it and where contemporary technomages
(ibid, 2022) move in the digital spaces of the metaverse passing between the
immersive Worlds of Roblox and Decentraland, covering the sparkling bodies of
their avatar
Tecnomagia. Estasi, totem e incantesimi nella cultura digitale
No full textLa tecnomagia ordita da streamer, tiktoker, memer e influencer – tra le pieghe e le piaghe del capitalismo neo-liberale – ci strega, costringe e vampirizza, al contempo assembrando corpi, calamitando emozioni, risvegliando passioni arcaiche e innescando visioni futuriste.
All’apice della sua storia, ogni tecnica assume sempre una risonanza magica dai tratti stupefacenti e spaventevoli, accompagnati dall’obsolescenza di ciò che essa si lascia dietro. Nell’epoca attuale tale processo investe l’essere umano, divenuto l’oggetto, e non il soggetto, di una metamorfosi che trascende e supera le sue qualità razionali, biologiche e sociali.
La panoplia di emoji, troll, fake world, story, creepypasta, challenge, nude e avatar nei flussi del Web, così come la proliferazione di vecchi e nuovi feticci nella vita quotidiana, rivelano una verità insorgente nel nostro tempo: la tecnologia cessa di essere l’arte del logos e non si manifesta più come una mera serie di strumenti grazie ai quali risolvere problemi, svolgere compiti e agire sul mondo. Essa si trasforma – su Instagram, Tik Tok, Twitch o OnlyFans – in una tecnomagia atta a favorire la comunione di comunità, macchine, forme organiche e inorganiche intorno a passioni, icone e totem, nell’ambito di catene senza fili di cui l’individuo non è più l’attore principale. La tecnomagia è una danza sulle rovine, l’estasi nel cuore della distopia
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
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
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