A Cultura popular portuguesa e o discurso do poder

A Cultura Popular Portuguesa e o Discurso do Poder: Práticas e Representações do Moliceiro" estuda um objecto e o discurso por ele evocado, enquanto representação, invenção e reinvenção da cultura popular de uma região portuguesa. Contudo, esta comunicação pretende também ver através do objecto, isto é, "atravessar a [sua] opacidade inoportuna", tal como propõe Michel Foucault em A Arqueologia do Saber. Esse objecto é o barco moliceiro da Ria de Aveiro que, mais do que um caso de tradição versus modernidade, constitui uma representação da identidade cultural de uma comunidade intimamente ligada ao ecossistema lagunar. Os painéis do barco moliceiro são assim representações simbólicas intersemióticas dos valores, práticas e representações partilhadas pela comunidade local. Os textos icónicos e escritos patentes em cada barco são produto de uma rede de circunstâncias políticas, ideológicas, sociais e económicas, dificilmente reconhecidas mesmo por aqueles que desenham, pintam e escrevem (e vivem) sob a sua influência. Ao longo do século XX, o moliceiro e seus painéis participaram numa complexa dialéctica entre as representações do discurso oficial e a sua real função social, económica e simbólica, gerando todo um imaginário histórico, todo um "inventário" (cf. Gramsci) que motivou, contextualizou e sustentou esta forma única de arte popular.

Contexts-management strategy in considering the security in urban computing based on urban design

Urban Computing (UrC) provides users with the situation-proper information by considering context of users, devices, and social and physical environment in urban life. With social network services, UrC makes it possible for people with common interests to organize a virtual-society through exchange of context information among them. In these cases, people and personal devices are vulnerable to fake and misleading context information which is transferred from unauthorized and unauthenticated servers by attackers. So called smart devices which run automatically on some context events are more vulnerable if they are not prepared for attacks. In this paper, we illustrate some UrC service scenarios, and show important context information, possible threats, protection method, and secure context management for people.

Managing informal learning in engineering contexts: the learners' perspective

According to recent studies, informal learning accounts for more than 75% of our continuous learning through life. However, the awareness of this learning, its benefits and its potential is still not very clear. In engineering contexts, informal learning could play an invaluable role helping students or employees to engage with peers and also with more experience colleagues, exchanging ideas and discussing problems. This work presents an initial set of results of the piloting phase of a project (TRAILER) where an innovative service based on Information & Communication Technologies was developed in order to aid the collection and visibility of informal learning. This set of results concerns engineering contexts (academic and business), from the learners' perspective. The major idea that emerged from these piloting trials was that it represented a good way of collecting, recording and sharing informal learning that otherwise could easily be forgotten. Several benefits were reported between the two communities such as being helpful in managing competences and human resources within an institution.