Relatos y experiencias de natación en las Redes sociales y en WhatsApp

Este trabajo pone en común la segunda etapa de análisis de los relatos que se publican y circulan en el Grupo cerrado de Facebook, de un Equipo de nadadores adultos del Club Banco Provincia City Bell. A un año y tres meses de fundar el Grupo y participar activamente con posteos, decidimos revisar lo que nos sucede en la red social. El trabajo se centra en la observación de las publicaciones a fin de conocer los relatos compartidos, los tipos de narraciones (temáticas, textuales, imágenes), que permiten presentarnos y representarnos y articular proyectos y deseos como un colectivo, y al mismo tiempo considerar la contribución que las narraciones le insinúan al entrenamiento en la pileta. También examinamos la actividad de la aplicación de WhatSapp, que fue inaugurada en el mes de junio de 2014. Desde allí se organizan actividades, se comparte información, se conversa y se debate sobre temas que proponen los integrantes del equipo y que se asumen con los matices de las personalidades que lo completan

Saltando en la Red. El caso del Slackline en la ciudad de La Plata

En el presente artículo analizaremos la relación de los colectivos que realizan prácticas corporales en la ciudad de La Plata con el uso de plataformas digitales e interactivas como Facebook, Twiter y You Tube, observaremos las convocatorias, la rápida respuesta y la concreción de encuentros a partir de la utilización de dichas plataformas y como las tecnologías de información y comunicación juegan un rol crucial en la participación, nucleamiento y difusión de las emergentes prácticas corporales. Tomaremos el caso del Slackline para ejemplificar la participación juvenil a partir de la utilización de las tecnologías 2.0 que inciden directamente en la articulación de las prácticas locales con las performances globales, incentivando y masificando (como el invisible motor subyacente) los encuentros de los jóvenes practicantes. Por otra parte pondremos de manifiesto las transformaciones sociales que el uso de estas tecnologías implica como mediación posibilitadora de interrelaciones, valoraciones culturales y posicionamientos de orden socio-político

Elvaåringars skriftbruk till vardags och i skolan

The written word ‘surrounds us round the clock’. Consequently, it is difficult to determine the border between children’s school literacy and their vernacular literacy outside school. The aim of this article is therefore to describe some everyday literacy events and their relation to literacy events in grade 5 in school.  The concept literacy covers broader ways of reading and writing and is understood in the social context in which it is used and acquired. Children use different written modes of communication outside school, for example, Facebook and blogs, but seldom books. In school, on the other hand, they usually write with a pen and read books made of paper. The children’s vernacular literacy practices and school literacy practices meet during school breaks, where students’ texting and typing are visible. The different use of modes, tools and literacy events among students are something that probably should be problematized and discussed within schools with the aim of drawing on everyday practices to enhance educational development.

Technology is Set to Change Real Estate Forever

Major developments in the technological environment can become commonplace very quickly. They are now impacting upon a broad range of information-based service sectors, as high growth Internet-based firms, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook and Airbnb, and financial technology (Fintech) start-ups expand their product portfolios into new markets. Real estate is one of the information-based service sectors that is currently being impacted by this new type of competitor and the broad range of disruptive digital technologies that have emerged. Due to the vast troves of data that these Internet firms have at their disposal and their asset-light (cloud-based) structures, they are able to offer highly-targeted products at much lower costs than conventional brick-and-mortar companies.

Knowledge Workers and Associative Activity: An Examination of Knowledge Work Systems and Settings

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

Suporte, Stress e Solidão: um estudo sobre o apoio offline e online percecionado pelas mães portuguesas

Uma “rede social” diz respeito a uma estrutura constituída por pessoas ou organizações que partilham interesses, motivações e valores comuns. Um ponto partilhado pelos diversos tipos de rede social é a troca de informações, conhecimentos, interesses e esforços na tentativa de atingir objectivos comuns, muitas vezes potencializando forças e recursos em situações de crise. Recentemente tem-se ouvido falar bastante deste conceito aplicado à internet. A maternidade constitui, por si só, um momento de crise na vida de cada família e de cada mulher, requerendo adaptações e mudanças. O estudo realizado teve o intuito de avaliar o suporte online e offline (denominando-se essas ligações de redes sociais), no caso específico de assuntos ligados à maternidade. Pretendeu-se verificar também se existia uma correlação entre estes tipos de suporte e os níveis de stress e solidão sentidos pelas mães. Por último, aferiu-se ainda a influência que a idade dos filhos teria nesta adesão a grupos de suporte à maternidade, no Facebook. Este estudo teve uma amostra constituída por 170 mulheres (mães), estando as suas idades compreendidas entre os 25 e os 62 anos. Os resultados revelaram que apesar de não haver diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre o apoio online e offline, as mulheres que pertencem a grupos do Facebook tendem a sentir mais suporte por parte das plataformas de suporte disponíveis. Constatou-se ainda que não existem diferenças significativas entre os níveis de solidão e stress, entre mães que pertencem a grupos e mães que não pertencem. Foi interessante verificar que as mulheres com filhos mais novos (faixa etária dos 0-4 anos) têm uma presença mais significativa em grupos de apoio à maternidade, no Facebook. Pensamos que isso se deve às dúvidas e ao stresse gerado por um primeiro filho ou pela introdução de mais um filho no núcleo familiar, nos primeiros anos em que tal ocorre, procurando por isso mais activamente grupos que ajudem como rede de suporte, para partilhas, apoio emocional e esclarecimento de dúvidas. / A “social network” refers to a structure formed by individuals or organisations that share interests, motivations and common values. A feature shared by several types of social network is the exchange of information, knowledge, interests and efforts, in an attempt to achieve common goals, often potentiating strengths and resources in crisis situations. Recently, we have heard of this concept applied to the internet. Motherhood is, by itself, a moment of crisis in the life of every family and every woman, requiring adaptations and changes. This study aimed to assess online and offline supports (being these connections themselves denominated social networks), in the specific case of motherhood-related issues. It was also intended to confirm whether there was a correlation between these types of support and stress and loneliness levels sensed by mothers. Finally, it was evaluated as well the influence that the children’s age would have on this adherence to motherhood support groups on Facebook. This study had a sample of 170 women (mothers), with ages between 25 and 62 years. The results showed that, although there are no statistically significant differences between the online and offline support, women who belong to Facebook groups tend to feel more support from the available support platforms. It was shown as well that there are no significant differences between loneliness and stress levels among mothers who belong to groups and mothers who do not belong to those groups. It was interesting to find that women with young children (aged 0-4 years old) have a more significant presence in motherhood support groups on Facebook. We think that this is due to the doubts and the stress generated by a first child or the introduction of another child in the household, therefore making sense that they seek, in the early years of the child’s life, groups that help as a support network, for shares, emotional support and answering questions.

Studio degli aspetti gestionali dei database; dall'informazione al cloud

Il lavoro sviluppato deriva dalla creazione, in sede di tirocinio, di un piccolo database, creato a partire dalla ricerca dei dati fino alla scelta di informazioni di rilievo e alla loro conseguente archiviazione. L’obiettivo dell’elaborato è rappresentato dalla volontà di ampliare quella conoscenza basilare posseduta sul mondo dell’informazione dal punto di vista gestionale. Infatti, considerando lo scenario odierno, si può affermare che lo studio del cliente attraverso delle informazioni rilevanti, di vario tipo, è una delle conoscenze fondamentali nel mondo dell’ingegneria gestionale. Il metodo di studio utilizzato è basato sulla comprensione delle diverse tipologie di dati presenti nel mondo aziendale e, di conseguenza, al loro legame con il mondo del web e soprattutto con i metodi di archiviazione più moderni e più utilizzati oggi sia dalle aziende, che non dai privati stessi; le piattaforme cloud. L’elaborato si suddivide in tre argomenti differenti ma strettamente collegati tra loro; la prima parte tratta di come l’informazione più basilare vada raccolta ed analizzata, la sezione centrale è legata al tema chiave dell’internet come mezzo di archiviazione e non più solo come piattaforma di ricerca del dato, mentre nel capitolo finale viene chiarito il concetto di cloud computing, comodo veloce ed efficiente, considerato da qualche anno il punto d’incontro fra i primi due argomenti. Nello specifico si andranno a presentare alcuni di applicazione reale del cloud da parte di aziende come Amazon, Google e Facebook, multinazionali che ad oggi sono riuscite a fare dell’archiviazione e della manipolazione dei dati, a scopi industriali, una delle loro fonti di guadagno. Il risultato è rappresentato da una panoramica sul funzionamento e sulle tecniche di utilizzo dell’informazione, partendo dal dato più irrilevante fino ad arrivare ai database condivisi utilizzati, se non addirittura controllati, dalle più rinomate aziende nazionali ed internazionali.

Exploring the World's Visual History

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-08

The Relationship between Materialistic Aspirations and Distinct Aspects of Psychological Well-being in a UK sample

The purpose of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of how materialistic aspirations are related to distinct aspects of psychological well-being. Research has consistently found a negative relationship between materialistic goals and well-being, but a review of the literature identified that the measures of well- being used in the majority of studies were measures of what Keyes (2002) describes as “subjective well-being” or “hedonic happiness”. Criticisms of these types of measures are that they fixate too much on the momentary experience of pleasure and don’t take into account what is meaningful and or what contributes to long lasting fulfilment. Very little research was found investigating the impact of materialism on “eudaimonic” well-being, which is found through doing what is worthwhile and realising ones potential and has been found to have a longer lasting impact on overall well-being (Huta & Ryan, 2010). To address this gap in the literature, a convenience sample of 113 adult subjects in the UK were recruited through Facebook and asked to respond to the Aspiration Index and the Psychological wellbeing scale. The relative importance placed on extrinsic (materialistic) and intrinsic aspirations was compared to the six dimensions of psychological well-being. In line with previous research, higher importance placed on materialistic aspirations for wealth, status and image were found to be negatively correlated with all aspects of psychological well-being. However, the strongest and only statistically significant negative correlation was between extrinsic aspirations and positive relations with others (r = -.256, p< 0.01). Positive relationships with other people form a central component of many theories of well- being and so this negative relationship may help to explain why materialistic aspirations are so consistently found to be negatively correlated to a variety of measures of well-being. Further research is needed to explore this relationship as no causation could be inferred.

La aplicación de internet en los medios de comunicación de Cuenca: El Mercurio, El Tiempo, ETV Telerama y Radio la Voz del Tomebamba

La aplicación de Internet en los medios de comunicación de Cuenca: El Mercurio, El Tiempo, Etv Telerama y radio La Voz del Tomebamba es un estudio realizado en los últimos 15 meses, desde. Hasta sobre la forma que tienen estos medios de utilizar las nuevas tecnologías para emitir información. Con el transcurso del tiempo el trabajo se tornó interesante porque los portales electrónicos variaron drásticamente, el ejemplo más evidente fue radio Tomebamba, donde en inicio únicamente existía contenidos tipo Web 1.0, es decir solo texto y sin posibilidad de interacción; sin embargo al terminar el presente estudio la página www.lavozdeltomebamba.com, adicionó redes sociales como Facebook o Twitter para ofrecer noticias de manera inmediata, considerando el alto número de visitas y de amigos conectados se definió que se trata de un nuevo y exitoso medio de comunicación poco explotado en nuestra ciudad. También se analizó la actitud de lo periodistas frente a la tecnología, así como el aporte de los gerentes y propietarios, en los dos casos se determinó que hace falta visión y conocimientos sobre su uso. A los periodistas se les aplicó una encuesta cuyos resultados revelaron que hace falta una motivación para su aplicación tanto en el sentido económico como de conocimientos a través de cursos, talleres o seminarios. Como recomendación final se consideró que las universidades locales deben implementar la cátedra de periodismo digital en sus mallas curriculares.

Luokanopettaja liikunnanopettajana – merkityssuhteita luomassa

Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena on selvittää mitä merkityksiä luokanopettajat pitävät tärkeinä liikunnanopetuksessa ja verrata niitä oppilaille tehtyyn tutkimukseen. Liikunnan moninaiset merkitykset vaikuttavat oppilaiden liikuntasuhteen muodostumiseen. Liikunnassa merkitykset konkretisoituvat havainnoinnin ja fyysisen tekemisen tuomien elämysten kautta. Liikuntaa opettavalla opettajalla voi olla merkittävä rooli oppilaan liikuntasuhteen muodostumiseen sekä siihen, minkälaisia merkityksiä oppilaan on mahdollista kohdata ja löytää liikunnasta. Merkitysten tiedostamisella voidaan tukea liikunnallisen elämäntavan syntymistä ja harrastuneisuutta. Liikunnassa asiat koetaan usein fyysisesti, mutta yhtä tärkeää on se, mitä tapahtuu kognitiivisella tasolla. Tutkimuksen aineisto (n=164) kerättiin joulukuussa 2015 sosiaalisen median kautta toteutettuna kyselynä. Kysely oli suunnattu luokanopettajille, jotka ohjattiin Facebook- keskusteluryhmien välityksellä Webropol-kyselyyn. Kyselyn määrällisessä osiossa käytettiin pohjana merkitysosioa, joka oli Lasten ja nuorten liikuntakäyttäytymisen tutkimuksessa. Laadullista aineistoa kerättiin lomakkeeseen lisätyillä avoimilla kysymyksillä liikunnanopetukseen liittyen. Aineistoa analysoitiin SPSS 23.0 tilasto-ohjelmalla. Liikunnanopetuksessa koettuja merkityksiä vertailtiin tärkeäksi ja erittäin tärkeäksi kokemisen lisäksi muun muassa keskiarvoilla. Tutkimuksen tulokset antoivat kuvan opettajien liikunnanopetuksessa tärkeänä pitämistä merkityksistä, joita olivat ilo, parhaansa yrittäminen, onnistumisen elämykset, hyvän olon saaminen ja liikunnan terveellisyys. Vanhimmat vastaajat pitivät muita ikäryhmiä tärkeämpänä lihasvoiman kasvattamista ja notkeuden parantamista. Miehet pitivät naisia yleisemmin tärkeänä menestyksen voittamisen tavoittelua. Oppilaiden ja opettajien tärkeimmiksi ja vähiten tärkeiksi kokemien merkitysten joukosta löytyi samoja merkityksiä.

Towards Proactive Context-aware Computing and Systems

A primary goal of context-aware systems is delivering the right information at the right place and right time to users in order to enable them to make effective decisions and improve their quality of life. There are three key requirements for achieving this goal: determining what information is relevant, personalizing it based on the users’ context (location, preferences, behavioral history etc.), and delivering it to them in a timely manner without an explicit request from them. These requirements create a paradigm that we term as “Proactive Context-aware Computing”. Most of the existing context-aware systems fulfill only a subset of these requirements. Many of these systems focus only on personalization of the requested information based on users’ current context. Moreover, they are often designed for specific domains. In addition, most of the existing systems are reactive - the users request for some information and the system delivers it to them. These systems are not proactive i.e. they cannot anticipate users’ intent and behavior and act proactively without an explicit request from them. In order to overcome these limitations, we need to conduct a deeper analysis and enhance our understanding of context-aware systems that are generic, universal, proactive and applicable to a wide variety of domains. To support this dissertation, we explore several directions. Clearly the most significant sources of information about users today are smartphones. A large amount of users’ context can be acquired through them and they can be used as an effective means to deliver information to users. In addition, social media such as Facebook, Flickr and Foursquare provide a rich and powerful platform to mine users’ interests, preferences and behavioral history. We employ the ubiquity of smartphones and the wealth of information available from social media to address the challenge of building proactive context-aware systems. We have implemented and evaluated a few approaches, including some as part of the Rover framework, to achieve the paradigm of Proactive Context-aware Computing. Rover is a context-aware research platform which has been evolving for the last 6 years. Since location is one of the most important context for users, we have developed ‘Locus’, an indoor localization, tracking and navigation system for multi-story buildings. Other important dimensions of users’ context include the activities that they are engaged in. To this end, we have developed ‘SenseMe’, a system that leverages the smartphone and its multiple sensors in order to perform multidimensional context and activity recognition for users. As part of the ‘SenseMe’ project, we also conducted an exploratory study of privacy, trust, risks and other concerns of users with smart phone based personal sensing systems and applications. To determine what information would be relevant to users’ situations, we have developed ‘TellMe’ - a system that employs a new, flexible and scalable approach based on Natural Language Processing techniques to perform bootstrapped discovery and ranking of relevant information in context-aware systems. In order to personalize the relevant information, we have also developed an algorithm and system for mining a broad range of users’ preferences from their social network profiles and activities. For recommending new information to the users based on their past behavior and context history (such as visited locations, activities and time), we have developed a recommender system and approach for performing multi-dimensional collaborative recommendations using tensor factorization. For timely delivery of personalized and relevant information, it is essential to anticipate and predict users’ behavior. To this end, we have developed a unified infrastructure, within the Rover framework, and implemented several novel approaches and algorithms that employ various contextual features and state of the art machine learning techniques for building diverse behavioral models of users. Examples of generated models include classifying users’ semantic places and mobility states, predicting their availability for accepting calls on smartphones and inferring their device charging behavior. Finally, to enable proactivity in context-aware systems, we have also developed a planning framework based on HTN planning. Together, these works provide a major push in the direction of proactive context-aware computing.

La comunicación de los diarios de Cuenca en las redes sociales

La presente tesis, titulada “La Comunicación de los Diarios de Cuenca en las redes sociales”, tuvo como finalidadidentificar y reconocer el punto actual en que se encuentra el uso de las redes sociales por parte de los Diarios cuencanos; para ello se realizó un estudio que permitió determinar el modelo comunicativo imperante. El proceso investigativo se basó en una observación cuantitativa y comparativa de las cuentas de los Diarios de Cuenca: EL TIEMPO, EL MERCURIO, LA TARDE y EL MORLACO DIGITAL, en Twitter, Facebook, YouTube y Flickr en los meses de agosto, septiembre y octubre de 2012. A través del seguimiento se obtuvo un registro referente a la interactividad, la influencia y el contenido de los diferentes mensajes publicados. Este análisis permitió concluir que los Diarios locales traspasan su modelo lineal, de sus versiones tradicionales, al sistema comunicativo de las redes sociales. Y, además que, a pesar de que esta forma de comunicación impuesta por los Diarios no encaja en la perspectiva de comunicación existente en las redes sociales, las cuentas de los diarios son influyentes, sobre todo en temas de relativa trascendencia informativa.

Periodistas cuencanos y el uso de las plataformas cibernéticas en prensa, radio y televisión durante junio, julio y agosto 2012

La investigación “Periodistas cuencanos y el uso de plataformas cibernéticas en prensa, radio y televisión durante junio, julio y agosto de 2012”, va dirigida al conocimiento sobre el manejo que le brindan a estas herramientas los periodistas que laboran en medios locales. El primer capítulo es una introducción hacia la llegada de Internet al mundo y su posterior llegada a nuestro país; la evolución de esta herramienta y las diferencias entre la Web 1.0 y Web 2.0, los tipos de interactividad que existen dentro del ciberespacio. En el segundo capítulo la conjugación de Internet y el periodismo, la influencia y el impacto que Internet posee sobre la labor periodística. De igual manera se encuentra una pequeña visión sobre el periodismo ciudadano que ha nacido por la existencia de la internet. El tercer capítulo profundiza la composición y estructura que tienen el Blog, Facebook y Twitter. Además se puede encontrar una visión sobre la convergencia y adaptación a la digitalización por parte de medios tradicionales cuencanos. En el cuarto y último capítulo están los resultados de la investigación de campo durante los tres meses que se realizó el seguimiento y análisis del comportamiento de los periodistas en Facebook, Twitter y Blog.

L'intimité sur les réseaux sociaux numériques : une étude exploratoire sur la perception des jeunes femmes

Facebook joue un rôle déterminant dans la montée fulgurante en popularité des RSN sur Internet. Tout le fonctionnement de la plateforme repose sur la connexion aux comptes des autres membres. La popularité de Facebook doit beaucoup au partage public et réciproque des informations personnelles de ses usagers. Ce type de renseignement était jusqu’à présent réservé aux personnes appartenant à un cercle restreint de proches et d’intimes. Toutefois, les listes de contact des utilisateurs Facebook ne sont pas uniquement constituées d’amis proches, mais plutôt d’un ensemble de relations interpersonnelles – formé de connaissances, de collègues, d’anciens camarades de classe, etc. Les membres Facebook divulguent ainsi souvent leur intimité à un auditoire qui peut être qualifié de public en raison de sa taille et de sa diversité d’origine. Les recherches quantitatives sur le sujet sont nombreuses, néanmoins le point de vue de réels utilisateurs des réseaux sociaux numériques est très peu connu. Cette étude exploratoire vise les expressions visibles de l’intimité sur les réseaux sociaux numériques, tels que Facebook, et s’intéresse plus particulièrement à l’apparition d’une nouvelle forme d’intimité exclusive aux réseaux sociaux numériques. Pour ce faire, 15 entretiens individuels ont été menés auprès d’une population à forte utilisation de Facebook : les étudiantes universitaires de 18 à 24 ans. À l’aide des notions d’espace public, d’espace privé, d’intimité, d’extimité et de visibilité, ce mémoire explore la représentation que l’utilisateur se fait de l’envahissement du territoire de l’intimité par les réseaux sociaux. On y explique l’apparition d’une possible nouvelle forme d’intimité – engendré par les réseaux sociaux numériques – grâce au mouvement des frontières entre les espaces privés et publics. Selon les résultats présentés dans ce mémoire, les utilisateurs Facebook emploient un certain nombre de stratégies pour se protéger des effets négatifs de la diffusion de leur vie privée, tout en divulguant suffisamment d’information pour assurer l’entretient de leur relation avec leurs amis. Leur vie privée est donc publique, mais seulement pour leurs propres réseaux. L’intimité sur Facebook s’affiche aisément, selon des degrés déterminés par la communauté d’utilisateurs, alors qu’elle reste cachée dans la vie de tous les jours.