El dialecte saxó:Presència escrita i prestigi social

El treball següent ofereix una visió global d'un dels dialectes de la llengua alemanya que menys ha estat objecte de recerca i investigació, el saxó, centrant-se en la presència escrita de què gaudeix aquesta varietat actualment i el seu prestigi social a Alemanya a través dels anys

Social Media in health. What are the safety concerns for healthcare consumers?

Recent literature has discussed the unintended consequences of clinical information technologies (IT) on patient safety, yet there has been little discussion about the safety concerns in the area of consumer health IT. This paper presents a range of safety concerns for consumers in social media, with a case study on YouTube. We conducted a scan of abstracts on 'quality criteria' related to YouTube. Five areas regarding the safety of YouTube for consumers were identifi ed: (a) harmful health material targeted at consumers (such as inappropriate marketing of tobaccoor direct-to-consumer drug advertising); (b) public display of unhealthy behaviour (such as people displaying self-injury behaviours or hurting others); (c) tainted public health messages (i.e. the rise of negative voices againstpublic health messages); (d) psychological impact from accessing inappropriate, offensive or biased social media content; and (e) using social media to distort policy and research funding agendas. The examples presented should contribute to a better understanding about how to promote a safe consumption and production of social media for consumers, and an evidence-based approach to designing social media interventions for health. The potential harm associated with the use of unsafe social media content on the Internet is a major concern. More empirical and theoretical studies are needed to examine how social media infl uences consumer health decisions, behaviours and outcomes, and devise ways to deter the dissemination of harmful infl uences in social media.

Place illusion and plausibility can lead to realistic behaviour in immersive virtual environments

In this paper address we the question as to why participants tend to respond realistically to situations and events portrayed within an Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) system. The idea is put forward, based on experience of a large number of experimental studies, that there are two orthogonal components that contribute to this realistic response. The first is"being there", often called"presence", the qualia of having a sensation of being in a real place. We call this Place Illusion (PI). Second, Plausibility Illusion (Psi) refers to the illusion that the scenario being depicted is actually occurring. In the case of both PI and Psi the participant knows for sure that that they are not"there" and that the events are not occurring. PI is constrained by the sensorimotor contingencies afforded by the virtual reality system. Psi is determined by the extent to which the system can produce events that directly relate to the participant, and the overall credibility of the scenario being depicted in comparison with expectations. We argue that when both PI and Psi occur, participants will respond realistically to the virtual reality.

La humanización de las imágenens emitidas por la publicidad de los destinos monumentales: el caso de Girona

This article is based on the presentation of the results of a study on the humanisation of the image of cultural destinations, applied to the case of the city of Girona. According to the theories raised by different authors, we were interested in analyzing if the tourist images shown by the tourists publicity are influenced by romantic references typical of the dynamics of individual consumption. That is to say, if these images project a vision of an empty city, a museum.city, an individual panoramic or an individual consumption experience. The results of the analysis allow us to affirm that a mythical image of the city exists and it has a clearly romantic origin. Nevertheless, on the other hand, a specific glance exists where the tension between the indivudual freedom and the social conventionalism is demonstrated

El “Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna” de la Universitat de Lleida (CAEM). Un nuevo modo de enriquecer la disciplina y la razón de ser de la Historia del Arte en Europa

The Centre d’Art d’Època Moderna (CAEM) of the University of Lleida is a specialized research centre for the scientific study of the pictorial heritage that understands the direct observation of every piece of the work of art as the methodological foundation on which are integrated most traditional techniques in the field of the historic-artistic studies, like the comparative study and records and documents research. It is proposed the creation of historical and interpretative speeches with great consistency and credibility on the basis of a detailed registry of that material evidence.

Análisis del sexismo en la publicidad

En este artículo se presenta la investigación realizada sobre el análisis de estereotipos y sesgos sexistas en la publicidad en dos medios de comunicación: prensa escrita y televisión con la finalidad de analizar los modelos de mujer presentes en los anuncios publicitarios. Para llevar a cabo este estudio ha sido necesaria la elaboración y validación de instrumentos de análisis de estos estereotipos y sesgos sexistas. Se parte de una fundamentación teórica donde se resumen los estudios realizados en este ámbito y las conclusiones más significativas que aportan, así como la enumeración de los estereotipos y sesgos que sirven como criterios de análisis en nuestro estudio. La presentación de la metodología utilizada y las fases del estudio dan paso a un resumen de los análisis efectuados y la formulación de los diferentes modelos de mujer que la publicidad actual transmite.