Infoincluir Cidadãos 50+ o contributo formativo da USALBI - Universidade Sénior de Castelo Branco

Pretende-se fazer uma abordagem sumária ao processo de envelhecimento global, com particular destaque para EU-27 e Portugal. Neste âmbito, é abordada a problemática da infoexclusão dos cidadãos 50+ e as suas consequências para este grupo de cidadãos que os impedem de exercer linha adequada cidadania e uma consequente inclusão social. Para o efeito, é apresentado o contributo da ISALBI (Universidade Sénior de Castelo Branco) na formação de cidadãos 50+ para a utilização das TIC de forma a que possam adquirir competências digitais. Neste sentido, são apresentados dados estatísticos relativos à formação efetuada relativamente ao número de participantes, aos conteúdos oferecidos, bem como a investigação já realizada. Acresce afirmar que a USALBI tem constituído desde a sua fundação (há 10 anos) uma oportunidade para que os cidadãos 50+ tenham vindo a ter a possibilidade de adquirirem competências digitais associadas às disciplinas de TIC e de Cidadania Digital de forma a reduzir o «gap digital» tão caraterístico dos cidadãos mais idosos.

Structured Approaches for Exploring Interpersonal Relationships in Natural Language Text

Human relationships have long been studied by scientists from domains like sociology, psychology, literature, etc. for understanding people's desires, goals, actions and expected behaviors. In this dissertation we study inter-personal relationships as expressed in natural language text. Modeling inter-personal relationships from text finds application in general natural language understanding, as well as real-world domains such as social networks, discussion forums, intelligent virtual agents, etc. We propose that the study of relationships should incorporate not only linguistic cues in text, but also the contexts in which these cues appear. Our investigations, backed by empirical evaluation, support this thesis, and demonstrate that the task benefits from using structured models that incorporate both types of information. We present such structured models to address the task of modeling the nature of relationships between any two given characters from a narrative. To begin with, we assume that relationships are of two types: cooperative and non-cooperative. We first describe an approach to jointly infer relationships between all characters in the narrative, and demonstrate how the task of characterizing the relationship between two characters can benefit from including information about their relationships with other characters in the narrative. We next formulate the relationship-modeling problem as a sequence prediction task to acknowledge the evolving nature of human relationships, and demonstrate the need to model the history of a relationship in predicting its evolution. Thereafter, we present a data-driven method to automatically discover various types of relationships such as familial, romantic, hostile, etc. Like before, we address the task of modeling evolving relationships but don't restrict ourselves to two types of relationships. We also demonstrate the need to incorporate not only local historical but also global context while solving this problem. Lastly, we demonstrate a practical application of modeling inter-personal relationships in the domain of online educational discussion forums. Such forums offer opportunities for its users to interact and form deeper relationships. With this view, we address the task of identifying initiation of such deeper relationships between a student and the instructor. Specifically, we analyze contents of the forums to automatically suggest threads to the instructors that require their intervention. By highlighting scenarios that need direct instructor-student interactions, we alleviate the need for the instructor to manually peruse all threads of the forum and also assist students who have limited avenues for communicating with instructors. We do this by incorporating the discourse structure of the thread through latent variables that abstractly represent contents of individual posts and model the flow of information in the thread. Such latent structured models that incorporate the linguistic cues without losing their context can be helpful in other related natural language understanding tasks as well. We demonstrate this by using the model for a very different task: identifying if a stated desire has been fulfilled by the end of a story.

MAKING THE GROUP CATALOGUE OF PERIODICALS UNIT INFORMATION DOCUMENT OF THE FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

We present the results of the final graduation practice called "Creating the Serials Union Catalogue of Documentary Information Units of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the National University" which consisted of creating a computerized catalog for periodicals by GENISIS program. Unit of documentary information: Faculty of Social Sciences National University: CIDCSO (Documentary Information Centre of Social Sciences), FBEH (Bibliographical School of History), MA (International Relations Specialist Library "Luis and Felipe Molina ") and CINPE (Library of the National Centre for Economic Policy on Sustainable Development).

Design investigation of the Lake Calumet Complex: improving water quality to regenerate local industrial, community, and ecosystem resources

This design thesis is an inquiry of the highly industrialized urban landscape of the Lake Calumet Complex on the South Side of the City of Chicago. It examines geologic and anthropogenic strata within this region as waste used for staging various social, industrial, and ecological systems. Today, these social, industrial, and ecological systems are not responsive to each other and certainly do not possess resilient attributes that would allow them to interact within the landscape in perpetuity. The resulting design strategy seeks to re-think the treatment of waste in the landscape into a new framework for future park design. This park will serve as grounds to interweave these complex systems in order to rehabilitate ecosystem functions and improve water quality. Additionally the park hybridizes many social and ecological functions to improve community recreational opportunities and gain public acceptance and appeal.

Content analysis model to analyze facets of social mission of public library on the Facebook and in the websites

In this paper we present the development and the implementation of a content analysis model for observing aspects relating to the social mission of the public library on Facebook pages and websites. The model is unique and it was developed from the literature. There were designed the four categories for analysis Generate social capital and social cohesion, Consolidate democracy and citizenship, Social and digital inclusion and Fighting illiteracies. The model enabled the collection and the analysis of data applied to a case study consisting of 99 Portuguese public libraries with Facebook page. With this model of content analysis we observed the facets of social mission and we read the actions with social facets on the Facebook page and in the websites of public libraries. At the end we discuss in parallel the results of observation of the Facebook of libraries and the websites. By reading the description of the actions of the social mission, the general conclusion and the most immediate is that 99 public libraries on Facebook and websites rarely publish social character actions, and the results are little satisfying. The Portuguese public libraries highlight substantially the actions in the category Generate social capital and social cohesion.

BLACK SURVIVAL POLITICS: ORGANIZED MOBILIZATION STRATEGIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES TO END THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC

The purpose of this study is to examine organizational patterns of African American activism in response the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Given their political, economic, and social disenfranchisement, African Americans have historically developed protest and survival strategies to respond to the devaluation of their lives, health, and well-being. While Black protest strategies are typically regarded as oppositional and transformative, Black survival strategies have generally been conceptualized as accepting inequality. In the case of HIV/AIDS, African American religious and non-religious organizations were less likely to deploy protest strategies to ensure the survival and well-being of groups most at risk for HIV/AIDS—such as African American gay men and substance abusers. This study employs a multiple qualitative case study analysis of four African American organizations that were among the early mobilizers to respond to HIV/AIDS in Washington D.C. These organizations include two secular or community-based organizations and two Black churches or faith-based organizations. Given the association of HIV/AIDS with sexual sin and social deviance, I postulated that Black community-based organizations would be more responsive to the HIV/AIDS-related needs and interests of African Americans than their religious counterparts. More specifically, I expected that Black churches would be more conservative (i.e. maintain paternalistic heteronormative sexual standards) than the community-based organizations. Yet findings indicate that the Black churches in this study were more similar than different than the community-based organizations in their strategic responses to HIV/AIDS. Both the community-based organizations and Black churches drew upon three main strategies in ways that politicalize the struggle for Black survival—or what I regard as Black survival politics. First, Black survival strategies for HIV/AIDS include coalition building at the intersection of multiple systems of inequality, as well as on the levels of identity and community. Second, Black survival politics include altering aspects of religious norms and practices related to sex and sexuality. Third, Black survival politics relies on the resources of the government to provide HIV/AIDS related programs and initiatives that are, in large part, based on the gains made from collective action.

Atividades de investigação mediadas pelas TICE : estudo das conceções, interações e discussões desenvolvidas por crianças e jovens dentro de um contexto de ensino de ciências ativo e colaborativo

A temática de discussão neste trabalho é o Ensino de Ciências através da Investigação (ENCI) [inquiry-based science education (IBSE)] que utilisa das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) para o ensino de Ciências (TICEC). Deste modo, esta pesquisa tem o objetivo de identificar as conceções sobre a Natureza da Ciência e Tecnologia, além de compreender as interações, relações e discussões de crianças e jovens ao realizarem atividades de investigação através das TIC, dentro de um contexto de ensino de Ciências ativo e colaborativo. Organizamos esta investigação em três partes com diferentes estudos para alcançar este objetivo. A primeira parte apresenta estudos, a partir de uma revisão sistemática, de como se ensina e aprende Ciências utilizando as TICEC. Realizamos ainda uma revisão sobre o papel da argumentação no ensino de Ciências e elaboramos um instrumento para analizar a argumentação dos participantes numa atividade investigativa baseada em TICs. A segunda parte deste trabalho caracteriza a metodologia utilizada e os elementos da investigação: aspetos metodológicos (pesquisa qualitativa e estudo de caso), cenário (espaço não-formal de ensino de ciências ativo e colaborativo), sujeitos (crianças e jovens provenientes de um meio económico vulnerável), instrumentos de coleta de dados (questionário, filmagem de entrevistas, focus group e observações) e análise de dados (sistema de categorias). Também é apresentada a elaboração de uma atividade de investigação de ensino de Ciências (AIEC) mediada por recursos digitais, denominada de Módulo Temático Virtual (MTV). A terceira parte caracteriza-se pela apresentação dos resultados. No primeiro momento identificamos as conceções dos participantes sobre a Natureza da Ciência (Nature of Science – NOS), Natureza da Tecnologia (Nature of Technology - NOT) e o papel dos cientistas na sociedade. O último estudo vem caracterizar as interações, relações e discussões desenvolvidas pelos participantes quando realizam AIEC através das TICEC. Verificamos que dentro de um contexto ativo de ensino de Ciências e mediado pelas TIC, os participantes tendem a manifestar quatro aspetos ou domínios: social, técnico, afetivo e cognitivo. Os quatros domínios referidos caracterizam os processos que surgem durante o desenvolvimento de atividades científicas num cenário específico complementar à educação tradicional e são indicadores de como planear e analisar o ensino de Ciências quando se utiliza recurso digitais.

El papel de las redes sociales en la estrategia de Marketing

El siguiente TFG es un análisis del uso de las redes sociales en la estrategia de comunicación de las empresas. El interés surge en la medida en que las redes sociales constituyen en la actualidad un instrumento de conexión con los diferentes públicos que está creciendo de manera significativa. Las empresas tienen a su alcance, por tanto, una vía excelente para desarrollar marcas, interacciones y conversación, pero es necesario entender las reglas del juego de este nuevo contexto. Por ello, primero hemos estudiado cómo ha evolucionado el marketing en los entornos digitalizados, desde el marketing 1.0 hasta el marketing 3.0, así como las herramientas que utilizamos y cómo se mide y se posiciona en el marketing digital. En este contexto, nos hemos centrado en las redes sociales, analizando su historia, cómo han evolucionado a lo largo de los años, qué tipos de redes sociales hay, cuáles son las más utilizadas, los nuevos perfiles profesionales que han surgido a través de las redes sociales, y qué riesgos implican las redes sociales en la gestión empresarial. Finalmente, y con el fin de valorar en un caso práctico real lo estudiado desde la perspectiva teórica, hemos realizado un análisis comparado del uso de redes sociales en la empresa en la que he estado realizando prácticas los pasados cinco meses en relación con su competencia, esto es, empresas del sector de la impresión digital textil por sublimación.

Las ONG como agentes de transformación social. Del asistencialismo a la movilización

Este estudio de caso se centra en la campaña #dereitos365, desarrollada entre diciembre de 2014 y enero de 2015 en Galicia para reclamar una implicación ciudadana durante todo el año y no solo en la época navideña. Partiendo del potencial de las redes sociales e Internet y tomando este caso como referencia, el objetivo de la investigación es profundizar en el papel de las ONG como agentes de transformación social y como promotoras de un diálogo interactivo y multidireccional que implique a los nuevos ciudadanos. Los resultados muestran una campaña marcadamente institucional que busca la movilización y concienciación ciudadana para la construcción de una sociedad más justa y solidaria, generando visibilidad y cierta interactividad a través de mensajes reivindicativos, sobre todo por parte de organizaciones locales, y de un alto contenido multimedia.

Cross-country report:a first cross-country analysis and profiling of social enterprises prepared by the SEFORÏS research consortium

This cross-country report shares first insights from the World's Largest Panel Study of Social Enterprises, which covers seven European Countries (Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom), China and Russia. It captures the behavior and characteristics of representative samples of social enterprises in these countries who are employers. The report covers a range of topics from profiling social enterprise directors and their social enterprises, to innovation activities and barriers, their entrepreneurial orientation, social missions, social impact metrics to summarizing policy recommendations that social entrepreneurs would like to see being implemented in their countries. Who should read this report? The report is written for social enterprises, social enterprises support organisations and policy makers who want to get an overview of social enterprise in the UK. Thank you to all the social entrepreneurs who made this report possible by participating in our study!

SEFORIS Country Report - Social Enterprises in the United Kingdom

This country report shares first insights from the World's Largest Panel Study of Social Enterprises for the United Kingdom. It captures the behavior and characteristics of a representative sample of UK social enterprises who are employers. The report covers a range of topics from profiling social enterprise directors and their social enterprises, to innovation activities and barriers, their entrepreneurial orientation, social missions, social impact metrics to summarizing policy recommendations that social entrepreneurs would like to see being implemented. Who should read this report? The report is written for social enterprises, social enterprises support organisations and policy makers who want to get an overview of social enterprise in the UK. Thank you to all the social entrepreneurs who made this report possible by participating in our study!

Plan de medios y posicionamiento digital

El principal objetivo de este trabajo de grado ha sido diseñar un plan estratégico de medios digitales para el lanzamiento de un nuevo producto para una compañía. En este trabajo, se han establecido parámetros como presupuesto, qué tipos de medios digitales serán usados y el porqué de ellos, se estableció las actividades por cada red social a usar y se muestra la relación costo – beneficio de realizar pauta publicitaria en redes sociales.

Estrategias Digitales Para Los Negocios

Este trabajo es para fines institucionales de la Universidad del Rosario. A lo largo del segundo semestre del año 2016 entendimos la importancia de los medios digitales para las empresas, por lo cual el profesor Juan Manuel Méndez nos dio el caso de las bicicletas de Nairo Quintana con el cual teníamos que desarrollar un plan de estrategias digitales acorde con el contexto actual del sector de las bicicletas, en donde se creara y desarrollara la marca de la agencia digital creada por los estudiantes, describir el producto innovador, desarrollar nuestros objetivos en los medios digitales, identificar y definir nuestro mercado objetivo (Target), crear todo un flow de medios con cronogramas, fechas y porcentaje de inversión en cada medio y por ultimo identificar los KPI´s de nuestra campaña propuesta según los objetivos planteados.

Detecting social patterns within 20th century documentary photos: a deep learning based approach

The job of a historian is to understand what happened in the past, resorting in many cases to written documents as a firsthand source of information. Text, however, does not amount to the only source of knowledge. Pictorial representations, in fact, have also accompanied the main events of the historical timeline. In particular, the opportunity of visually representing circumstances has bloomed since the invention of photography, with the possibility of capturing in real-time the occurrence of a specific events. Thanks to the widespread use of digital technologies (e.g. smartphones and digital cameras), networking capabilities and consequent availability of multimedia content, the academic and industrial research communities have developed artificial intelligence (AI) paradigms with the aim of inferring, transferring and creating new layers of information from images, videos, etc. Now, while AI communities are devoting much of their attention to analyze digital images, from an historical research standpoint more interesting results may be obtained analyzing analog images representing the pre-digital era. Within the aforementioned scenario, the aim of this work is to analyze a collection of analog documentary photographs, building upon state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. In particular, the analysis carried out in this thesis aims at producing two following results: (a) produce the date of an image, and, (b) recognizing its background socio-cultural context,as defined by a group of historical-sociological researchers. Given these premises, the contribution of this work amounts to: (i) the introduction of an historical dataset including images of “Family Album” among all the twentieth century, (ii) the introduction of a new classification task regarding the identification of the socio-cultural context of an image, (iii) the exploitation of different deep learning architectures to perform the image dating and the image socio-cultural context classification.

MODELING SCIENTIFIC AGENTS FOR A BETTER SCIENCE

Science is a fundamental human activity and we trust its results because it has several error-correcting mechanisms. It is subject to experimental tests that are replicated by independent parts. Given the huge amount of information available and the information asymetry between producers and users of knowledge, scientists have to rely on the reports of others. This makes it possible for social effects to influence the scientific community. Here, an Opinion Dynamics agent model is proposed to describe this situation. The influence of Nature through experiments is described as an external field that acts on the experimental agents. We will see that the retirement of old scientists can be fundamental in the acceptance of a new theory. We will also investigate the interplay between social influence and observations. This will allow us to gain insight in the problem of when social effects can have negligible effects in the conclusions of a scientific community and when we should worry about them.