Birding 2.0: Citizen Science and Effective Monitoring in the Web 2.0 World

The amateur birding community has a long and proud tradition of contributing to bird surveys and bird atlases. Coordinated activities such as Breeding Bird Atlases and the Christmas Bird Count are examples of "citizen science" projects. With the advent of technology, Web 2.0 sites such as eBird have been developed to facilitate online sharing of data and thus increase the potential for real-time monitoring. However, as recently articulated in an editorial in this journal and elsewhere, monitoring is best served when based on a priori hypotheses. Harnessing citizen scientists to collect data following a hypothetico-deductive approach carries challenges. Moreover, the use of citizen science in scientific and monitoring studies has raised issues of data accuracy and quality. These issues are compounded when data collection moves into the Web 2.0 world. An examination of the literature from social geography on the concept of "citizen sensors" and volunteered geographic information (VGI) yields thoughtful reflections on the challenges of data quality/data accuracy when applying information from citizen sensors to research and management questions. VGI has been harnessed in a number of contexts, including for environmental and ecological monitoring activities. Here, I argue that conceptualizing a monitoring project as an experiment following the scientific method can further contribute to the use of VGI. I show how principles of experimental design can be applied to monitoring projects to better control for data quality of VGI. This includes suggestions for how citizen sensors can be harnessed to address issues of experimental controls and how to design monitoring projects to increase randomization and replication of sampled data, hence increasing scientific reliability and statistical power.

A web 2.0 user interface for wide-area resource monitoring

Resource monitoring in distributed systems is required to understand the 'health' of the overall system and to help identify particular problems, such as dysfunctional hardware or faulty system or application software. Monitoring systems such as GridRM provide the ability to connect to any number of different types of monitoring agents and provide different views of the system, based on a client's particular preferences. Web 2.0 technologies, and in particular 'mashups', are emerging as a promising technique for rapidly constructing rich user interfaces, that combine and present data in intuitive ways. This paper describes a Web 2.0 user interface that was created to expose resource data harvested by the GridRM resource monitoring system.

Envolvimento dos usuários no processo de inovação por meio da web 2.0: um estudo de caso na indústria automobilística

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Formação continuada de professores de matemática com enfoque colaborativo: contribuições para o uso reflexivo dos recursos da Web 2.0 na prática pedagógica

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Chega de Fiu Fiu: o papel do ciberfeminismo na construção do feminismo na era da Web 2.0

Esta monografia tem como objetivo abordar o ciberfeminismo, um fenômeno social e político recente, na construção do feminismo na era da Web 2.0 a partir de conteúdos produzidos por mulheres, para mulheres e sobre mulheres e veiculados na internet por meio de blogs e redes sociais. Para isso, será feito um estudo de caso do think tank Olga e seus desdobramentos em blog, redes sociais e campanhas contra o assédio sexual batizadas de Chega de Fiu Fiu. Para analisar esse material, o pensamento pós-estruturalista foi o escolhido, junto ao saber situado, por suas afinidades com a perspectiva feminista

Relações públicas e web 2.0: a manutenção do relacionamento entre artista e público pela internet

The objective of this study is a explanation about the action possibilities of the Public Relations professional as a manager of communication between the musical celebrity and his publics. For this purpose, a bibliographical research was made about Internet question like his history, the evolution of Web 2.0 and even about different kinds of virtualization, introducing with interactivity. Other researches was been made like social culture topics and even the studies of Public Relations actions in the artistic scene, acting like a manager of different publics relationships in the virtual contacts. A study case with the virtual communication tools employed in the career of Hugo e Tiago, one of the country artists in Brazil, is also in this studies. Otherwise, the study explains about the different ways of Public Relations actions, his upgrades along with the new communication tools and his new types of making relations with more and more different publics. Working with new strategies and keeping his objectives in the organization and public relationship, Public Relations brands a new vision to this type of communication professional, who becomes even more important in the actual organizations scenario

Sociedad de la Información: uso de la Web 2.0 por comunicadores politicos brasileros

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A formação de professores e o uso pedagógico da Web 2.0: a visão de estudantes de licenciatura

The aim of this paper is to discuss the importance of training teachers to use Web 2.0 in the classroom. Its intention was to fi nd out whether students are familiar with the main Web 2.0 resources and know how to exploit their potential in the development of teaching activities. In addition to the literature review, we developed a fi eld exploratory-descriptive research. The research was held in a private university located in the city of Bauru (São Paulo State, Brazil). We selected 213 students enrolled in “Supervised Training III” course, which is part of the teacher training curriculum available for students in the second year of undergraduate course. Results concluded that the students surveyed have access to computers and the Internet, are relatively skilled in handling the available tools and recognize the importance of including them in the teaching and learning process. The students demonstrate diffi culty using the web in a didactic manner, particularly the Web 2.0, which involves a focus on users and collaboration. Therefore, the article points to the need to rethink teacher training courses in order to include practical activities aimed at the use of technology as a teaching resource.

Folkcomunicación ciudadana a partir de la web 2.0 y de la movilidad

The social media are increasingly present in the lives of citizens, especially when the intention is to share views and information among its communities. However, that is something that leaves the control of citizens near the cluster communication, and reinforce construction of public opinion. This paper presents, from a conceptual discussion and case study grounds to believe that contemporary citizens are the true owners of the fourth estate.

Fomento de la lectura y Web 2.0 en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

La Biblioteca Universitaria de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ha tomado parte activa en la promoción de la lectura entre sus comunidades de usuarios. Para conseguir este objetivo se han adquirido colecciones de literatura de ocio, tanto en formato físico como electrónico, y se han comenzado a utilizar herramientas 2.0, fundamentalmente los blogs para dar a conocer novedades literarias y actividades de la biblioteca relacionadas con el fomento de la lectura. Pero se ha ido más allá, y se han creado una serie de proyectos más ambiciosos que permiten una mayor participación de los usuarios. Estamos ante una Biblioteca 2.0. donde se pueden compartir contenidos, opiniones, conocimientos, valoraciones, etc. Es el caso de sitios webs, opac social y otros como facebook, tuenti, twitter, wikipedia, canal youtube, todas ellas vías descritas en esta comunicación con el fin de promocionar el fondo bibliográfico y la lectura en general.

Sistemas de difusión, protocolos y plataformas digitales para documentación audiovisual : herramientas y recursos Web 2.0

Ponencia presentada en el Encuentro de patrimonio audiovisual de Gran Canaria (13 de julio al 31 de agosto de 2012. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria). Resumen: La producción de filmaciones y grabaciones sonoras ya no solo se realiza con medios digitales, sino que se transmite de igual modo. Al igual que otros entornos utilizados para preservar la memoria colectiva, el ámbito audiovisual es ya impensable sin los medios que, cada día más, se encuentran al alcance no sólo de los técnicos, sino de la población en general. Su calidad y acceso a los nuevos canales de distribución a través de Internet, particularmente mediante los entornos Web 2.0 permiten que la generación de contenidos y su difusión estén casi al alcance de cualquiera. Sin embargo, los conocimientos necesarios para favorecer su consulta sin barreras, las herramientas más adecuadas, los protocolos que hay que cumplir, el enfoque de esta producción como patrimonio y las políticas de preservación a largo plazo, sigue siendo en buena parte desconocidos.