Construindo arte: uma escola de artes e artesanato, o social e o ecológico

O trabalho tem como objetivo principal a criação de uma Escola de Artes e Artesanato, que está ligada ao sistema de incubadoras de cooperativas. O foco é projetar um edifício que atenda ao programa da escola e principalmente que tenha parte de sua estrutura construída de maneira artesanal e que seja sustentável. O projeto visa à formação de uma mão de obra qualificada para o mercado de artes e artesanato. Além disso, busca a reciclagem e a sustentabilidade na construção da obra e a inclusão social através dos sistemas de incubadoras de algumas universidades do Estado de São Paulo, incluindo o da Universidade na qual será inserida. A Escola será projetada dentro da Universidade de São Paulo, no Campus Butantã. Além da formação em várias áreas do campo das artes o estudante seria preparado para atuar dentro de uma economia solidária, ou seja, estudaria as formas de aplicar o que aprendeu ao longo dos cursos para poder aplicá-lo em um sistema coletivo para um ganho igualitário e de formação pessoal. Tem como idéia de público alvo agregar a sociedade acadêmica, já existente, com pessoas de diferentes classes e formações, mas com o mesmo intuito. Será a primeira escola que formará profissionais com alta especialização na área do artesanato ligada ao cooperativismo

Cooperativismo sob a ótica da economia solidária e popular : algumas evidências no meio rural potiguar

Las experiencias colectivas como canales de acceso a mejores condiciones de vida, engendradas por los sectores populares y, especialmente, por las populaciones rurales, nos motivaron a la realización de esta investigación. Teniendo como unidad de análisis una cooperativa constituida por agricultores y agricultoras familiares, investigada por medio de un estudio de caso y como base teórica las concepciones de economía solidaria y popular, nuestra cuestión central fue comprender ¿cuales las prácticas adoptadas que han posibilitado su éxito? Para ello, partimos de la hipótesis de que el éxito de esas organizaciones depende de la aplicación de los principios cooperativistas, cuales sean: adhesión libre y voluntaria, democracia, participación, intercooperación, educación e información, preocupación con el entorno, autonomía e independencia; y de sus relaciones externas con el Estado y otras instituciones de apoyo. Para cumplir nuestro propósito, fueron seleccionados también algunos indicadores, una amuestra aleatoria de la población elegida y los representantes de las instituciones involucradas con la cooperativa. Siendo una investigación de carácter más cualitativa, pero usando dados cuantitativos, fueron utilizados para la coleta de los datos encuestas semi-estructuradas, cuestionarios con preguntas abiertas y cerradas, observaciones directas, registros fotográficos y análisis documentales. Los principales resultados encontrados indican que la hipótesis fue confirmada, o sea, el éxito de la cooperativa estudiada tuvo vinculación directa con la aplicación de los principios cooperativistas, con el acceso a los recursos públicos disponibles y con los apoyos de otras instituciones, generando beneficios socioeconómicos para los cooperados y externalidades positivas para el desenvolvimiento del entorno

Cooperativismo y participación popular: nuevas consideraciones respecto de un viejo tema

Incluye Bibliografía

Cooperativismo y participación popular en América Latina y el Caribe: reflexiones en busca de un enfoque para la CEPAL

Incluye Bibliografía

Sistematizando experiencias : análisis y recreación de la acción colectiva desde la educación popular.

Resumen tomado del de la publicación. Monográfico con el título: La enseñanza-aprendizaje del español como segunda lengua (L2) en contextos educativos multilingües

Aplicación de buen gobierno corporativo en las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito del sector económico popular y solidario

La tesis que ahora se presenta, tiene el propósito explicar que la aplicación de los principios del buen gobierno cooperativo es posible en las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito del segmento 3, que son organizaciones del sector financiero pertenecientes de la economía popular y solidaria. Para alcanzar este objetivo, la investigación se ha dividido en tres capítulos, el primero contiene el desarrollo de los aspectos de la economía popular y solidaria, su finalidad y objetivos de este segmento de la economía, la importancia de esta economía para el desarrollo productivo del Estado y su beneficio social de los grupos que intervienen, un análisis del concepto de cooperativismo y la aplicación de sus principios para el buen desempeño de las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito como operadores de financiamiento económico de sus socios y clientes. El segundo capítulo recoge los principios de buen gobierno corporativo y su viabilidad al buen gobierno cooperativo en la administración de las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito, la aplicación en todo el proceso de gestión administrativa, sus características principales que son parte de la correcta administración y la gestión de responsabilidad social. El último capítulo comprende el desarrollo de la aplicación del buen gobierno cooperativo en las cooperativas de ahorro y crédito del segmento 3 para el buen desempeño administrativo y operativo, con el objetivo de garantizar la confianza de los socios y clientes y la estabilidad de la institución, partiendo de principios éticos de conducta, su cumplimiento con los principios de cooperativismo y su aporte a la sociedad. Todos estos procesos de buenas prácticas se lo realizan mediante unidades de gestión y comités de apoyo para un mejor liderazgo de la dirección.

Co-operativism and popular participation: new considerations regarding an old subject

Includes bibliography

How does ‘Newstainment’ actually work? : ethnographic research methods and contemporary popular news

Much debate has taken place recently over the potential for entertainment genres and unorthodox forms of news to provide legitimate – indeed democratized – in-roads into the public sphere. Amidst these discussions, however, little thought has been paid to the audiences for programs of this sort, and (even when viewers are considered) the research can too easily treat audiences in homogenous terms and therefore replicate the very dichotomies these television shows directly challenge. This paper is a critical reflection on an audience study into the Australian morning “newstainment” program Sunrise. After examining the show and exploring how it is ‘used’ as a news source, this paper will promote the use of ethnographic study to better conceptualize how citizens integrate and connect the increasingly fragmented and multifarious forms of postmodern political communication available in their everyday lives.

Less popular but more democratic? Corrie, Clarkson and the dancing Cru

The central cultural experience of modernity has been change, both the ‘creative destruction’ of existing structures, and the growth, often exponential, of new knowledge. During the twentieth century, the central cultural platform for the collective experience of modernising societies changed too, from page and stage to the screen – from publishing, the press and radio to cinema, television and latterly computer screens. Despite the successive dominance of new media, none has lasted long at the top. The pattern for each was to give way to a successor platform in popularity, but to continue as part of an increasingly crowded media menu. Modern media are supplemented not supplanted by their successors.

Media Studies: "Media, History and Society", and "Thinking Popular Culture".

“When cultural life is re-defined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act, then a nation finds itself at risk.” (Postman) The dire tones of Postman quoted in Janet Cramer’s Media, History, Society: A Cultural History of US Media introduce one view that she canvasses, in the debate of the moment, as to where popular culture is heading in the digital age. This is canvassed, less systematically, in Thinking Popular Culture: War Terrorism and Writing by Tara Brabazon, who for example refers to concerns about a “crisis of critical language” that is bothering professionals—journalists and academics or elsewhere—and deplores the advent of the Internet, as a “flattening of expertise in digital environments”.

Journalism, History and the Politics of Popular Culture

I argue that a divergence between popular culture as “object” and “subject” of journalism emerged during the nineteenth century in Britain. It accounts not only for different practices of journalism, but also for differences in the study of journalism, as manifested in journalism studies and cultural studies respectively. The chapter offers an historical account to show that popular culture was the source of the first mass circulation journalism, via the pauper press, but that it was later incorporated into the mechanisms of modern government for a very different purpose, the theorist of which was Walter Bagehot. Journalism’s polarity was reversed – it turned from “subjective” to “objective.” The paper concludes with a discussion of YouTube and the resurgence of self-made representation, using the resources of popular culture, in current election campaigns. Are we witnessing a further reversal of polarity, where popular culture and self-representation once again becomes the “subject” of journalism?

Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems based on Popular Tags

The social tags in web 2.0 are becoming another important information source to profile users' interests and preferences for making personalized recommendations. However, the uncontrolled vocabulary causes a lot of problems to profile users accurately, such as ambiguity, synonyms, misspelling, low information sharing etc. To solve these problems, this paper proposes to use popular tags to represent the actual topics of tags, the content of items, and also the topic interests of users. A novel user profiling approach is proposed in this paper that first identifies popular tags, then represents users’ original tags using the popular tags, finally generates users’ topic interests based on the popular tags. A collaborative filtering based recommender system has been developed that builds the user profile using the proposed approach. The user profile generated using the proposed approach can represent user interests more accurately and the information sharing among users in the profile is also increased. Consequently the neighborhood of a user, which plays a crucial role in collaborative filtering based recommenders, can be much more accurately determined. The experimental results based on real world data obtained from Amazon.com show that the proposed approach outperforms other approaches.

Restrung New Chamber Festival : Bridging the Gap Between High Art Music and Popular Sensibilities

The Restrung New Chamber Festival was a practice-led research project which explored the intricacies of musical relationships. Specifically, it investigated the relationships between new music ensembles and pop-oriented bands inspired by the new music genre. The festival, held at the Brisbane Powerhouse (28 February-2 March 2009) comprised 17 diverse groups including the Brodsky Quartet, Topology, Wood, Fourplay and CODA. Restrung used a new and distinctive model which presented new music and syncretic musical genres within an immersive environment. Restrung brought together approaches used in both contemporary classical and popular music festivals, using musical, visual and spatial aspects to engage audiences. Interactivity was encouraged through video and sound installations, workshops and forums. This paper will investigate some of the issues surrounding the conception and design of the Restrung model, within the context of an overview of European new music trends. It includes a discussion of curating such an event in a musically sensitive and effective way, and approaches to identifying new and receptive audiences. As a guide to programming Restrung, I formulated a working definition of new music, further developed by interviews with specialists in Australia and Europe, and this will be outlined below.