Le blog en controverse : analyse du blog comme support d'une communauté en réseaux informatiques

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The Material Dynamics of a London-French Blog: A Multimodal Reading of Migrant Habitus

Through a fine-grained reading of a London-French blog, this article aims to shed light on the lived experience of the French community in London. The ethnosemiotic conceptual framework brings together ethnographic and semiotic schools of thought, focusing in particular on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and Gunther Kress’s multimodal social semiotic analytical model. Habitus is broken down into its material manifestations of habitat, habit and habituation, all displayed in the blog and revealing of the blogger’s identity and positioning within the migration setting. As all modes are considered to be of equal semiotic potential, equivalent emphasis is placed on the multiple modes of meaning-making present in the blog, such as layout, colour, typography and language. By examining the dynamic relationships between blogger and audience, subjectivity and objectivity, on-line and on-land habitus, and intermodal dynamics themselves, through the prism of multimodality, hidden facets of the blogger’s cultural identity and sense of community belonging within the diasporic context begin to materialise.

Predicting Academic Performance Based on Students' Blog and Microblog Posts

This study investigates the degree to which textual complexity indices applied on students’ online contributions, corroborated with a longitudinal analysis performed on their weekly posts, predict academic performance. The source of student writing consists of blog and microblog posts, created in the context of a project-based learning scenario run on our eMUSE platform. Data is collected from six student cohorts, from six consecutive installments of the Web Applications Design course, comprising of 343 students. A significant model was obtained by relying on the textual complexity and longitudinal analysis indices, applied on the English contributions of 148 students that were actively involved in the undertaken projects.

Predicting Student Performance and Differences in Learning Styles based on Textual Complexity Indices applied on Blog and Microblog Posts

Social media tools are increasingly popular in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning and the analysis of students' contributions on these tools is an emerging research direction. Previous studies have mainly focused on examining quantitative behavior indicators on social media tools. In contrast, the approach proposed in this paper relies on the actual content analysis of each student's contributions in a learning environment. More specifically, in this study, textual complexity analysis is applied to investigate how student's writing style on social media tools can be used to predict their academic performance and their learning style. Multiple textual complexity indices are used for analyzing the blog and microblog posts of 27 students engaged in a project-based learning activity. The preliminary results of this pilot study are encouraging, with several indexes predictive of student grades and/or learning styles.

Dise?o de un blog para la ense?anza de las enfermedades de transmisi?n sexual a partir del trabajo de aula realizado con estudiantes del grado aceleraci?n del aprendizaje de la Instituci?n Educativa La Buitrera, sede Jos? Mar?a Garc?a de Toledo

La presente investigaci?n surge a partir de datos obtenidos en la Instituci?n Educativa la Buitrera sede Jos? Mar?a Garc?a de Toledo, con estudiantes de aceleraci?n del aprendizaje, metodolog?a conocida como modelo flexible, dirigido a poblaci?n en extraedad y en condici?n de vulnerabilidad. Se elaboran diferentes estrategias que permitan dar cuenta del conocimiento que tienen algunos adolescentes en relaci?n a las ETS y que actividades se utilizar?an para abordar estos temas en la escuela. De las respuestas obtenidas se tiene en cuenta la posibilidad de lograr ense?ar estos temas haciendo uso de las nuevas tecnolog?as; por lo cual se dise?? un material (blog educativo) con los aportes y actividades realizadas con los estudiantes que participaron en la b?squeda de material informativo de las ETS y fundamentados en las teor?as de dise?o Instruccional, el EAC (entorno de aprendizaje constructivista). Para llevar a cabo la propuesta se parte de la construcci?n de unos prop?sitos que con lleven a la realizaci?n del dise?o del blog teniendo en cuenta las necesidades identificadas en los estudiantes. La propuesta metodol?gica fue desarrollada en varias fases: las cuales permitieron realizar una revisi?n bibliogr?fica, la aplicaci?n de un cuestionario, el dise?o de plantillas y el dise?o del blog con un enfoque did?ctico y pedag?gico, que incluye en su dise?o la participaci?n del estudiante en procesos de comunicaci?n y relaci?n social, adem?s se trabajan contenidos espec?ficos sobre ETS, y algunas actividades que fomenten inter?s al estudiante en la participaci?n y aporte de posibles soluciones a problem?ticas relacionadas con el tema a trav?s de la virtualidad. Facilitando su interactividad y comunicaci?n, porque en el aula los j?venes muestran timidez a la hora de dar a conocer sus opiniones acerca de la sexualidad. Finalmente se puede concluir que tanto la metodolog?a (resoluci?n de problemas) escogida para el dise?o del blog favorecen el aprendizaje de la tem?tica de las ETS donde se puede evidenciar los aportes de cada uno de los estudiantes en relaci?n a la construcci?n de un material que les puede dar m?s claridad respecto a la tem?tica.

From social action to business action - A qualitative research on the professionalization process of a blogger: Case P.s. I Love Fashion -blog

Blogging is one of the most common forms of social media today. Blogs have become a powerful media and bloggers are settled stakeholders to marketers. Commercialization of the blogosphere has enabled an increasing number of bloggers professionalize and blog as a full-time occupation. The purpose of this study is to understand the professionalization process of a blogger from an amateur blogger to a professional actor. The following sub-questions were used to further elaborate the topic: What have been the meaningful events and developments fostering professionalization? What are the prerequisites for popularity in blogging? Are there any key success factors to acknowledge in order being able to make business out of your blog? The theoretical framework of this study was formed based on the two chosen focus areas for professionalization; social drivers and business drivers. The theoretical framework is based on literature from fields of marketing and social sciences, as well as previous research on social media, blogging and professionalization. The study is a qualitative case-study and the research data was collected in a semi-structured interview. The case chosen to this study is a lifestyle-blog. The writer of the case blog has been able to develop her blog to become a full-time professional blogger. Based on the results, the professionalization process of a blogger is not a defined process, but instead comprised of coincidental events as well as considered advancements. Success in blogging is based on the bloggers own motivation and passion for writing and expressing oneself in the form of a blog, instead of a systematic construction of a successful career in blogging. Networking with other bloggers as well as affiliates was seen as an important success factor. Popularity in the blogosphere and a high number of followers enable professionalization, as marketers actively seek to collaborate with popular bloggers with strong personal brands. Bloggers with strong personal brands are especially attractive due to their opinion leadership in their reference group. A blogger can act professionally either as entrepreneur or blogging for a commercial webpage. According to the results of this study, it is beneficial for the blogger’s professional development as well as career progress, to act on different operating models

Prevbarcos: estrat??gia de inclus??o pela Previd??ncia Social

Este estudo de caso faz an??lise do programa Prevbarco, Unidade M??vel Flutuante da Previd??ncia Social, no qual barcos navegam pelos rios da bacia amaz??nica, prestando servi??os previdenci??rios para as comunidades locais - ribeirinhas, quilombolas, extrativistas, ind??genas entre outras - que n??o t??m acesso adequado aos servi??os oferecidos pelas unidades fixas da Previd??ncia Social localizadas nas ??reas urbanas. Faz-se a descri????o do tipo de servi??o prestado pelos Prevbarcos, que desenvolve a inclus??o social e cidadania da popula????o assistida, assim como identifica dificuldades nessa presta????o que se caracteriza desde a contrata????o dos servidores que se voluntariam para os longos percursos de barco, passando pela falta de conhecimento da popula????o sobre cidadania e seus direitos previdenci??rios. A partir deste caso, espera-se reflex??o dos servidores sobre motiva????o para pr??ticas inovadoras e, pelo estudo em quest??o, releva-se a necessidade de pensar e formular pol??ticas p??blicas que atendam, de fato, ??s necessidades de benefici??rios e cidad??os

Marca institucional: a gestão da marca no contexto de uma IPSS

Relatório de Estágio apresentado ao Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Assessoria de Administração Orientadora: Doutora Isabel Ardions

Éric Chevillard : des soucis esthétiques a l'engagement écologique

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Blogues de moda: a influência dos blogues no consumo de moda

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.