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Digital Texts for Learning Finnish: Shared Resources and Emerging Practices
2013
Recent studies in the field of new literacies have indicated that a remarkable change in the way we access, consume, and produce information has taken place. The boundaries between concepts such as authorship and ownership have become blurred. This paper will deal with using digital texts in teaching reading comprehension on a university-level course with a special focus on Finnish as a second language. Furthermore, the benefits and challenges of teaching L2 reading comprehension in a multimodal learning environment will be discussed. The three main perspectives utilized are meaningfulness, sharing, and adaptivity. The students attending the course described in the paper were advanced unive…
The Insolvency of Cryptocurrency Exchanges: Lessons from the BitGrail Case — Reification of Coins, Pari Passu Ranking, and Nominalism
2019
This paper deals with a recent trend in insolvency of cryptocurrency platforms; comments on the BitGrail case (Court of Florence 17/2019, 21 January 2019) and argues that this decision balances the need to grant legal protection to the injured users and the need to prevent them from having the status of owners, jumping the queue and getting a head start over the other creditors of the platform.
Towards which expressive horizons?
2012
Today’s explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. But, up to now, what is the prevalent trend in architecture? Can we talk yet in term of language? Or have the extreme freedom in design destroyed the style? In this paper we present an analysis of the contemporary architecture, strongly influenced by digital technologies, through an objective analysis of several case-studies and we show the first result of this in …
Conoscenza, valorizzazione e fruizione degli insediamenti rupestri: le chiese di S. Maria delle Croci (MT) e S. Antonio Abate a Nardò (LE)
2011
The contribution illustrates the study conducted on some rocky churches of the Apulian territory aimed at the knowledge, monitoring and enhancement of the Cave-Heritage through the most modern digital technologies applied to the field of cultural heritage
Institutional Entrepreneurship, Trust and Regulatory Capture in the Digital Economy
2019
In regard to the problem of the new markets’ opening and their regulation, some scholars have introduced the concept of “institutional entrepreneur” in economic literature. This new definition of entrepreneur is important to highlight, albeit in informal and descriptive terms, the existence of functional relationships between activities typical of private market competition and those more specifically, of the public sector. Even if this new economic character can provide an interesting key to understanding what can really happen in the narrow zone that separates the public and private markets, it does not consider some conceptual components that are not minor for the purposes of complete ch…
El Metavers: Telepresència en 3D d’avatars dissenyats per a mons digitals-virtuals
2009
This paper provides a reflection about presence and telepresence concepts in the use of emergent Digital-Virtual Technologies (DVTs), particularly concerning 3D Digital-Virtual Worlds - 3D-DVWs. It reports telepresence experience driven by avatars designed to be used in processes of 3D-DVWs interaction.
Digital Art History at the Crossroads
2022
Information and Communications Technologies, and more specifically online digital media, are revolutionizing the ways to produce and disseminate scientific knowledge. Humanities and social sciences -art history among them- are not alien to this process. The new challenges and opportunities have already generated a body of thinking and abundant case studies. Many of these applications have been exploratory, disconnected, and short-lived, but nonetheless very stimulating. This essay offers a report on the state of the conversation: a meeting at the crossroads, briefly outlining debates, agreements and disagreements, (dis)continuities with the broader framework of the discipline, and future pe…
Forme del testo digitale
2017
L'articolo costituisce una riflessione sulla modellizzazione dei testi appartenenti alla nostra tradizione culturale in questa fase aurorale della Filologia Digitale e parte dalla domanda: che "forma" stiamo dando ai nostri testi? Vengono asplorati tre aspetti per cui i nostri modelli testuali riflettono i nostri presupposti culturali e tecnologici: in primo luogo, il modello gerarchico OHCO che sta alla base di TEI XML; in secondo luogo, il modello sequenziale alfabetico basato sulla stampa delle lingue occidentali, che sta alla base di Unicode. Un terzo aspetto, poi, è il meno esplorato nella ricerca: protocolli per la citazione testuale come CITE/CTS sono basati su corpora specifici. Per…
Review of Bodard, G., Mahony, S. (edd.) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. Pp. xx + 210, ills. Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT:…
2013
Review of a miscellaneous volume on the application of digital methods and tools to research in Classics.
Are tools all we need? Digital Humanities in the time of its institutionalisation
2011
Three key features of the Digital Humanities today are its quantitative growth, its institutionalisation and its definition as a discipline. In the first part of this article (2. Institutional models) I shall pinpoint some models of institutionalisation that are emerging in the international scenario. Against this background, I shall then discuss (3. Tools) some concepts central to Digital Humanities’ self-definition, such as those of practice, ‘building’, centre, project, product and tools, particularly questioning the opinion that the creation of friendly digital tools is the key issue in the future of the field. I shall finally suggest that ‘instrumentalism’, ‘project fever’ and an exces…