Camponeses do cinema: a representação da cultura popular no cinema português entre 1960 e 1970.

Tese apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Doutor em Antropologia Social e Cultural

Corporate social responsibility levels and firm performance: Evidence from countries in crisis

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Finance from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Portuguese Ministers, 1851-1999: Social Background and Paths to Power

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Ourivesaria popular: Arte, sociabilidade e património das gentes do Minho

Revista do IHA, N.3 (2007), pp.222-237

A Constructivist perspective on EU'S democracy promotion in Turkey

The European Union, as a regional actor and an example of stability and well-being, has embraced a set of principles it has stood for and which constitute its own identity. The diffusion of these values among third countries is one of the objectives of EU’s External Policy. Democracy can be found among the principles that are sought to be exported through comprehensive and complex strategies within different frameworks, such as neighbourhood relations, trade partnerships and the accession process. Focusing on the latter, candidates are object of an intensive process of Europeanisation that operates through different mechanisms like socialisation and conditionality. Turkey, on the other side, has decided to apply for full membership several decades ago and, ever since, it has been pressured to Europeanise, which includes improving its unstable democracy. This case, however, is different from all other previous enlargements; for its special socio-cultural and civilisational features, Turkey constitutes a more complex novelty for the European Union. Therefore, this thesis aims to study the influence of the European Union on the democratisation process of Turkey, focusing on the period ranging between 1999, the year the European Council recognised Turkey’s candidacy status, and 2009 that marks the 10-year period of that condition. It is the intention of this project to assess the impact of the European Union at that level through the study of the democratic evolution of the country and its co-relation with other variables related to the presence or pressure of the EU. As this is a challenging objective, it will require a deep reflection upon central concepts like democracy and democratic consolidation, and a diversified use of methodological techniques, such as statistical analysis and mathematical co-relations, historical analysis, literature review and in-depth interviews. This study will privilege a Constructivist approach, emphasising the social construction of reality and the role of the ideational aspects – identity, perceptions and the broader socio-cultural dimension – in Turkey-EU relations.

O sonho inventa o caminho: estudo sobre o papel do grupo do teatro experimental de artes na consolidação de uma cultura popular no teatro brasileiro

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central analisar a influência da ‘Cultura Popular’ nas artes cénicas do Brasil. Conceito que foi amplamente difundido no teatro brasileiro no início da segunda metade do Século XX pelos intelectuais e artistas que compuseram o Movimento de Cultura Popular (MCP) e o Centro Popular de Cultura (CPC), instituições que vislumbraram nas artes cénicas um meio para contribuir como o desenvolvimento social e cultural do indivíduo. No recorte desta investigação evidencia-se a atuação do grupo Teatro Experimental de Artes- coletivo emergente dos fundamentos estabelecidos pelo MCP e CPC- tentando perceber qual a principal função do Teatro Experimental de Artes no teatro brasileiro do Século XX.

Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926

The term res publica (literally “thing of the people”) was coined by the Romans to translate the Greek word politeia, which, as we know, referred to a political community organised in accordance with certain principles, amongst which the notion of the “good life” (as against exclusively private interests) was paramount. This ideal also came to be known as political virtue. To achieve it, it was necessary to combine the best of each “constitutional” type and avoid their worst aspects (tyranny, oligarchy and ochlocracy). Hence, the term acquired from the Greeks a sense of being a “mixed” and “balanced” system. Anyone that was entitled to citizenship could participate in the governance of the “public thing”. This implied the institutionalization of open debate and confrontation between interested parties as a way of achieving the consensus necessary to ensure that man the political animal, who fought with words and reason, prevailed over his “natural” counterpart. These premises lie at the heart of the project which is now being presented under the title of Res Publica: Citizenship and Political Representation in Portugal, 1820-1926. The fact that it is integrated into the centenary commemorations of the establishment of the Republic in Portugal is significant, as it was the idea of revolution – with its promise of rupture and change – that inspired it. However, it has also sought to explore events that could be considered the precursor of democratization in the history of Portugal, namely the vintista, setembrista and patuleia revolutions. It is true that the republican regime was opposed to the monarchic. However, although the thesis that monarchy would inevitably lead to tyranny had held sway for centuries, it had also been long believed that the monarchic system could be as “politically virtuous” as a republic (in the strict sense of the word) provided that power was not concentrated in the hands of a single individual. Moreover, various historical experiments had shown that republics could also degenerate into Caesarism and different kinds of despotism. Thus, when absolutism began to be overturned in continental Europe in the name of the natural rights of man and the new social pact theories, initiating the difficult process of (written) constitutionalization, the monarchic principle began to be qualified as a “monarchy hedged by republican institutions”, a situation in which not even the king was exempt from isonomy. This context justifies the time frame chosen here, as it captures the various changes and continuities that run through it. Having rejected the imperative mandate and the reinstatement of the model of corporative representation (which did not mean that, in new contexts, this might not be revived, or that the second chamber established by the Constitutional Charter of 1826 might not be given another lease of life), a new power base was convened: national sovereignty, a precept that would be shared by the monarchic constitutions of 1822 and 1838, and by the republican one of 1911. This followed the French example (manifested in the monarchic constitution of 1791 and in the Spanish constitution of 1812), as not even republicans entertained a tradition of republicanism based upon popular sovereignty. This enables us to better understand the rejection of direct democracy and universal suffrage, and also the long incapacitation (concerning voting and standing for office) of the vast body of “passive” citizens, justified by “enlightened”, property- and gender-based criteria. Although the republicans had promised in the propaganda phase to alter this situation, they ultimately failed to do so. Indeed, throughout the whole period under analysis, the realisation of the potential of national sovereignty was mediated above all by the individual citizen through his choice of representatives. However, this representation was indirect and took place at national level, in the hope that action would be motivated not by particular local interests but by the common good, as dictated by reason. This was considered the only way for the law to be virtuous, a requirement that was also manifested in the separation and balance of powers. As sovereignty was postulated as single and indivisible, so would be the nation that gave it soul and the State that embodied it. Although these characteristics were common to foreign paradigms of reference, in Portugal, the constitutionalization process also sought to nationalise the idea of Empire. Indeed, this had been the overriding purpose of the 1822 Constitution, and it persisted, even after the loss of Brazil, until decolonization. Then, the dream of a single nation stretching from the Minho to Timor finally came to an end.

A Mediatização da Justiça num Jornal Popular: o caso da secção “Portugal” do Correio da Manhã

Partindo do pressuposto de que existe uma tendência para a cobertura intensiva e emocionalizada de casos criminais, sobretudo por parte dos órgãos de comunicação social sensacionalistas, e tendo em conta o papel e o poder dos media numa sociedade democrática, torna-se importante refletir sobre o assunto. Este trabalho pretende alimentar essa reflexão e, além de explorar a forma como um jornal sensacionalista português constrói as suas narrativas criminais, aborda ainda, entre outras coisas, os problemas provenientes da emocionalização desses discursos. Entre outros, a possibilidade de criar ou de alimentar perceções públicas distorcidas e negativas acerca da realidade, e em particular do sistema de justiça criminal, ou, inclusive, a perda da credibilidade e essência do próprio jornalismo.

Social-media monitoring for cold-start recommendations

Generating personalized movie recommendations to users is a problem that most commonly relies on user-movie ratings. These ratings are generally used either to understand the user preferences or to recommend movies that users with similar rating patterns have rated highly. However, movie recommenders are often subject to the Cold-Start problem: new movies have not been rated by anyone, so, they will not be recommended to anyone; likewise, the preferences of new users who have not rated any movie cannot be learned. In parallel, Social-Media platforms, such as Twitter, collect great amounts of user feedback on movies, as these are very popular nowadays. This thesis proposes to explore feedback shared on Twitter to predict the popularity of new movies and show how it can be used to tackle the Cold-Start problem. It also proposes, at a finer grain, to explore the reputation of directors and actors on IMDb to tackle the Cold-Start problem. To assess these aspects, a Reputation-enhanced Recommendation Algorithm is implemented and evaluated on a crawled IMDb dataset with previous user ratings of old movies,together with Twitter data crawled from January 2014 to March 2014, to recommend 60 movies affected by the Cold-Start problem. Twitter revealed to be a strong reputation predictor, and the Reputation-enhanced Recommendation Algorithm improved over several baseline methods. Additionally, the algorithm also proved to be useful when recommending movies in an extreme Cold-Start scenario, where both new movies and users are affected by the Cold-Start problem.

Invenção latino-americana através da expressão audiovisual a partir da Oficina Popular de Audiovisual Latino-americano

Este projeto de tese traça uma percepção etnográfica sobre a Oficina Popular de Audiovisual Latino-americano, projeto de aproximação audiovisual a jovens imigrantes latino-americanos residentes na cidade de São Paulo, através do seu acompanhamento e da filmagem partilhada das suas sessões, ocorridas durante os meses de junho, julho, agosto e setembro de 2014, realizadas no espaço do Cineclube latino-americano, sediado no Memorial da América Latina. Parte-se das premissas de que a latinoamericanidade é um imaginário identitário integracionista continuamente inventado e reinventado por vários agentes, ressignificado ininterruptamente por outros imaginários transregionais e locais, e de que entre as muitas vias da sua contínua reinvenção o audiovisual se dá como expressão estética mediadora de impressões locais e transregionais e como potencializador da reflexão coletiva sobre a existência social de cada um e a partilhada. Descreve-se em forma de relatório e de ensaio audiovisual etnográfico, a intersecção de imaginários identitários migrantes e latino-americanos mediados pelo audiovisual, a envolvência dos jovens com os temários da deslocação e da latinoamericanidade através da Oficina, da recepção de filmes latino-americanos contemporâneos e da criação coletiva de dois curtas-metragens.

Social impact bond feasibility study: Children and youth at risk: the Projecto Família program

Social impact bonds are an increasingly popular method of unlocking typical social investment barriers and fuelling social innovation. This feasibility study aims to understand whether a social impact bond is a suitable tool for decreasing unnecessary foster care placements in Portugal, which have been proven to cause significant social and financial damage to societies. This research question is answered through a financial model which combines the costs of this social problem with Projecto Família’s intervention model, a leading intensive family preservation service. Main findings suggest using SIB funding for a 5-year project with the goal of generating the proper impact measurement metrics lacking in the field.

Instrumentos de responsabilidade social corporativa: desenvolvimento de um modelo de análise com aplicação ao setor do alojamento hoteleiro

O conceito de Responsabilidade Social Corporativa (RSC) reflete a necessidade das empresas desempenharem, a par da sua função primordial, funções importantes a nível das sociedades em que estão inseridas visando aumentar a sua contribuição para um mundo mais justo em termos económicos, sociais e ambientais. A Comissão Europeia (2004) define instrumentos como tendo o objetivo de ajudar as empresas a gerir os seus processos, sistemas e impactos, disponibilizando orientações e critérios de referência, apoiando as empresas na promoção da RSC e estabelecendo níveis mínimos de desempenho. Pretende-se nesta dissertação a criação e validação da aplicabilidade prática de um modelo de análise de instrumentos de RSC, adaptando e expandindo as propostas de classificação fornecidas pela literatura em diversidade e escala e dando origem a um modelo de análise para o setor do Alojamento Hoteleiro. Com este objectivo em mente foram compilados 347 instrumentos no modelo de análise elaborado, agrupados em cinco categorias diferentes, nomeadamente, Códigos de conduta, princípios e diretrizes; Sistemas de gestão e outros instrumentos de gestão de RSC; Índices bolsistas; Modelos de divulgação e comunicação; e Prémios e rankings. Foi verificada a sua validade e aplicabilidade prática com recurso à informação disponibilizada por uma amostra constituida por 31 empresas de de âmbito internacional, conseguida pela compilação dos seus relatórios de sustentabilidade publicados na base de dados online da Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). O estado de qualidade positiva da comunicação de temáticas de RSC através de indicadores GRI neste relatórios de sustentabilidade foi analisada e verificou-se inferior a 50%. Para a amostra de empresas de Alojamento Hoteleiro, a aplicação prática do modelo de análise foi validada com sucesso. Durante o teste da validação do modelo foi possivel obter alguns resultados que serão mencionados em seguida. A ordem das categorias do modelo de análise é coincidente com a ordem decrescente da frequência de utilização de instrumentos pela amostra. As frequências relativas mais altas verificaram-se em primeiro lugar em descritores da categoria Códigos de conduta, princípios e diretrizes, seguindo-se da categoria Sistemas de gestão e outros instrumentos de gestão de RSC de cariz ambiental. Parece, no entanto, existir uma falta de correspondência entre os indicadores requeridos pela GRI e avaliados na análise de qualidade dos relatórios e os dados práticos obtidos com a utilização de ferramentas de RSC. Um exemplo prático deste fenómeno vericou-se nos resultados destas duas categorias que obtiveram maiores frequências de utilização de instrumentos de RSC, pois estas foram também as que obtiveram piores resultados de qualidade de comunicação nos relatórios. Durante esta análise foi compilada uma listagem detalhada dos instrumentos mais utilizados em cada nível de análise de cada categoria do modelo.

Ensaios sobre a responsabilidade social corporativa e sua divulgação no setor portuário

Tese de Doutoramento em Contabilidade

Foreword [to Digital literacy, technology and social inclusion: making sense of one-to-one computer programmes around the world]

(Excerto) In times past, learning to read, write and do arithmetic was to get on course to earn the “writ of emancipation��� in society. These skills are still essential today, but are not enough to live in society. Reading and critically understanding the world we live in, with all its complexity, difficulties and challenges, require not only other skills (learning to search for and validate information, reading with new codes and grammar, etc) but, to a certain extent, also metaskills, matrixes and mechanisms that are transversal to the different and new literacies, are necessary. They are needed not just to interpret but equally to communicate and participate in the little worlds that make up our everyday activities as well as, in a broader sense, in the world of the polis, which today is a global world.

The Portuguese programme one laptop per child: political, educational and social impact

In 2008, the XVII Portuguese Constitutional Government launched the ‘e.escolinha’ programme, within the Technological Plan for Education, which set out the distribution of a computer, called ‘Magalhães’, designed for chil-dren attending the 1st cycle of basic education. Suspended in 2011 by the XIX Government, this programme has allowed, however, almost 500 000 children to have access to a personal computer. It was expected that this political measure would “revolutionise” the national education system by bringing changes to the pedagogical practices of teachers and the learning processes of children and by achieving educational success, in general. Based on documental analysis and on a set of interviews with key decision-makers in conceiving, implementing and monitoring this governmental initiative, the fi rst part of this chapter presents and analyses the ‘e.escolinha’ initiative and the policies be-hind that governmental programme, seeking to disassemble those objectives and provide some insights into the relationship between discourses, rhetoric, and reality. After that, the chapter focuses on children’s uses and practices with the ‘Magalhães’ laptop, at school and at home. Based on the results of questionnaires fi lled in by approximately 1500 children from 32 First Cycle public schools of the municipality of Braga (north of Portugal) and also from questionnaires applied to their parents and teachers, this chapter intends to analyse the real impact of this initiative for children, family and school. It also seeks to discuss the contribution of this educational policy to children’s digital literacy and also to their own and their families’ social and digital inclusion. To understand if it represented an added value to teachers’ pedagogical practice is another of its aims. The fi ndings point out a major focus on technology and access rather than on uses and competences or even on social, educational and cultural change. In fact, a major conclusion is the existence of a strong gap between the policy and the practices, typical of a top-down policy design. This study is an integrant part of a research project titled “Navigating with ‘Magalhães’: Study on the Impact of Digital Media in Schoolchildren” conducted at the University of Minho, Portugal, financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology [PTDC/CCI-COM/101381/2008] and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund [COMPETE: FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009056].