One, None and One Hundred Thousand Profiles: Re-Imagining the Pirandellian Identity Dilemma in the Era of Online Social Networks

Pepe, Alberto; Wolff, Spencer; Godtsenhoven, Karen Van

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“…By contrast, it can be seen as a composite, stratified phenomenon. As it has been pointed out [16], we are what the Italian novelist Luigi Pirandello defined as one, no one and one hundred thousand at the same time.…”

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Combinatorial Analysis of Multiple Networks

Magnani,

Micenkova,

Rossi

2013

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The study of complex networks has been historically based on simple graph data models representing relationships between individuals. However, often reality cannot be accurately captured by a flat graph model. This has led to the development of multi-layer networks. These models have the potential of becoming the reference tools in network data analysis, but require the parallel development of specific analysis methods explicitly exploiting the information hidden in-between the layers and the availability of a critical mass of reference data to experiment with the tools and investigate the real-world organization of these complex systems. In this work we introduce a real-world layered network combining different kinds of online and offline relationships, and present an innovative methodology and related analysis tools suggesting the existence of hidden motifs traversing and correlating different representation layers. We also introduce a notion of betweenness centrality for multiple networks. While some preliminary experimental evidence is reported, our hypotheses are still largely unverified, and in our opinion this calls for the availability of new analysis methods but also new reference multi-layer social network data.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Combinatorial Analysis of Multiple Networks

Magnani,

Micenkova,

Rossi

2013

Preprint

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“…However, while Goffman looks at it in an ironic and optimistic key, for Pirandello this is a situation engraved with an unresolved pessimism. Pirandello brings about a tragic dimension that is not explicit in Goffman and sees the masks and the role playing as a conviction (Pepe et al , 2011; Radcliff-Umstead, 1967). Goffman instead is more prone to look at these phenomena as a strategic posture to deal with social interaction in the everyday-life (Mueller, 2018).…”

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Strategising identity in the accounting profession:

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Spanó

2020

MEDAR

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Purpose This paper aims to explore how accountants manage the processes of identity (re)construction after identity crisis, resulting from increasing pressures and regulatory requirements, considering both introspective and the extrospective issues. Design/methodology/approach The study drew on an integrated framework drawing on Luigi Pirandello’s views about identity crises and the search for individual coherence and possible representation strategies. It used an ethnographic approach based on photo-elicitation, conversations and documentary sources to explore the identity reconstruction processes of Italian Commercialisti. Findings Several conditions caused an identity crisis among Commercialisti, including regulatory requirements, public administration demands and increasing power of IT providers. Commercialisti reacted to these circumstances by re-constructing their image through strategies designed to impress both themselves and others. Practical implications The paper has implications for the accounting profession in general and in Italy, suggesting that further pressure may result in rapid change efforts among accountants. It provides a broader and more systematic understanding of the threats to the role of accountants and suggests how they can manage complexity to create new opportunities. It also encourages accountants to focus on alternative roles as a possible new strategy that few have tried. Originality/value The paper provides a novel contribution to the understanding of identity crisis issues and related representation strategies in the accounting profession. Unlike past contributions, it made a full assessment of both the dynamics of an identity crisis and the micro-level responses to it, in a new, non-Anglo-Saxon context.

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Misidentifications in Pirandello's Plays and Short Stories

Paciaroni

Kilcline²

2013

Literary Medicine: Brain Disease and Doctors in Novels, Theater, and Film

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Luigi Pirandello was an Italian playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet, and one of the leading dramatists of the twentieth century. Pirandello used his plays and short stories to express his life philosophy which included the irony and bitterness of self-deception. In his works, his characters possess highly complex personalities, portrayed by ongoing and overlapping conflicts between illusion and reality. These manifestations of double personalities and confusion between imagination and reality are today known as psychopathological phenomena, classified as both delusional misidentification and reduplication syndromes. Here, individuals misidentify and reduplicate places, people, or events. These delusional syndromes (Capgras, Frégoli, intermetamorphosis, syndrome of subjective doubles) occur primarily in psychiatric illnesses (i.e. schizophrenia) and organic illnesses (i.e. right hemispheric stroke). For Pirandello, reality was highly subjective in all humans. However, misidentification and reduplication syndromes can manifest when this subjectivity gets out of control. With his works, Pirandello made philosophical concepts which had previously only been discussed by intellectuals available to a much larger audience. Pirandello continued to elaborate upon this concept of mutable ego, established by Blaise Pascal in the 1600s and carried on by the French psychologist Alfred Binet.

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One, None and One Hundred Thousand Profiles: Re-Imagining the Pirandellian Identity Dilemma in the Era of Online Social Networks

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Combinatorial Analysis of Multiple Networks

Combinatorial Analysis of Multiple Networks

Strategising identity in the accounting profession:

Misidentifications in Pirandello's Plays and Short Stories

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