The Learning Science Through Theatre initiative in the context of Responsible Research and Innovation

Fostering Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) is the next big step in the methodological teaching of Science. This is the solution towards an open classroom and innovation system of learning. The school science teaching needs to become more engaging. Science education should be an essential component of a learning continuum not only in classroom, but also for all, from pre- school to active engaged citizenship. “The Learning Science Through Theatre” Initiative creates a network of knowledge and collaboration between different communities by learning about science through other disciplines and learning about other disciplines through science. Forty Three (43) theatrical performances during the school years 2014-2016 were organized by secondary school students (2000 subjects) which embed both scientific concepts and cultural/ social elements which are expressed by embodied, verbal interaction and analogies. The methodology constitutes a merging of qualitative, quantitative and grounded theory analysis. The data were classified into categories and they were cross- checked by registrations forms, filled by the teachers. Results show that the acquisition of knowledge is successful with the co- existence of multiple semiotic systems and the theatrical performances are compatible with the principles of RRI. Keywords: Responsible Research and Innovation, Embodied learning, Inquiry, Creativity, Multiple representational Systems, STEAM

The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corrruption

The central focus of this paper is the disjunction between the findings of climate science in revealing the threat of global warming and the failure to act appropriately to these warnings. The development of climate science can be illuminated through the perspective provided by Peircian semiotics, but efforts to account for its success as a science and its failure to convince people to act accordingly indicate the need to supplement Peirce’s ideas. The more significant gaps, it is argued, call for the integration of major new ideas. It will be argued that Peirce should be viewed as a Schellingian philosopher, and it will then be shown how this facilitates integration into his philosophy of concepts developed by other philosophers and theorists within this tradition. In particular, Bourdieu’s concepts of the ‘habitus’ and ‘field’ will be integrated with Peirce’s semiotics and used to analyse the achievements and failures of climate science. It will be suggested that the resulting synthesis can augment Peirce’s evolutionary cosmology and so provide a better basis for comprehending and responding to the situation within which we find ourselves

Governing Innovation in E-Health Platform Ecosystems – Key Concepts and Future Directions

This paper conceptualizes knowledge in the IS literature on governing innovation in platform ecosystems using boundary resources. Platform innovation arises when platform owners realize the need to expand the functionalities and invite external actors with specialized knowledge to do so. We conduct a literature review to identify the relevant concepts on governing innovation in platform ecosystems in IS and adapt them to the specific settings of the eHealth context. As most relevant concepts, we identify: 1) boundary resources as governance mechanisms: openness vs. control; 2) co-creating platform innovation across heterogeneous actors: accommodation vs. resistance; and 3) platform innovation within the underlying architecture: stability vs. flexibility. We then derive areas that should be prone to further research in eHealth, defined as: 1) patient data as a resource for eHealth platform innovation; 2) the role of institutions in eHealth platform innovation; and 3) innovating within platform-oriented eHealth information infrastructures. This paper contributes by expanding the understanding of the current state of knowledge in IS on governing innovation in platform ecosystems and provides basis for further research adapted to the eHealth context settings

Digital Social Innovation and Urban Space: A Critical Geography Agenda

Digital Social Innovation (DSI) is a new concept referring to social innovation initiatives that leverage digital technologies potentiality to co-create solutions to a wide range of social needs. These initiatives generally take place in urban contexts. However, in the existing literature, scarce attention is devoted to the spatial dimensions and the social, cultural or political space-related effects of DSI practices. This article suggests that a critical geography perspective can address these gaps. After a review of existing relevant contributes, the article elaborates a research agenda for a critical geography of DSI. This articulates along four research lines, including the emergence of DSI networks, the (re)production of DSI processes and socio-cultural urban space, the representations of DSI practices and the power relationships these mobilise

Interactionist Qualitative Research as a Semiotic Mediation Activity

In this article, we introduce qualitative research from an interactionist perspective. We specifically explore qualitative research itself as a semiotic process with associated actions. This enables researchers to make sense of human interactions in the world rather than solely focusing on semiotic analysis of qualitative data. We introduce Peirce’s semiotics and Vygotsky’s mediated action as tools for conceptualizing qualitative research in a semiotic mediation process. Understanding qualitative research as a semiotic mediation can help social scientists better understand their own role in research, while vicariously gaining experiences about human interactions that they later present to others

Liikide vahelised suhted: inimeste ja inimahvide vahelise kommunikatsiooni zoosemiootiline analüüs

Väitekirja elektrooniline versioon ei sisalda publikatsiooneMe ei saa vältida kohtumist teiste liikidega, sest jagame oma keskkondi paljude teiste loomaliikidega. Käesolev doktoritöö pakub liikide vahelise kommunikatsiooni semiootilist analüüsi hübriidsetes keskkondades, keskendudes inimese ja inimahvide interaktsioonidele. Määratleme kommunikatsiooni kui sotsiaalse lävimise protsessi, mille käigus luuakse tähendusi loomariigis. Meie tähelepanu on koondunud komplekssete omailmadega loomadele, kelle sotsiaalne kommunikatsioon on keeruline ja hõlmab sageli paljusid indiviide. (Zoo)semiootiline lähenemisviis võimaldab meil inimkeskse vaatenurga asemel võtta teiste liikide perspektiiv. Omailma mudel osutub inspireerivaks ja võimsaks vahendiks, mida saame kasutada (osaliselt) teiste organismide maailmadele juurdepääsemiseks. Antud väitekirjas arendame „omailmade kattuvuse“ mõistet, st ideed, et omailma ei tuleks mõista ainult liigispetsiifilise ega organismispetsiifilise mudelina, vaid pigem tuleks seda laiendada, et see hõlmaks jagatud tähendusi. Selline lähenemisviis võimaldab meil analüüsida erinevate liikide sotsiaalset kommunikatsiooni, et parandada tehistingimustes peetavate loomade heaolu. Selles doktoritöös pakume välja sotsiaalse kommunikatsiooni analüüsiks sobiva mudeli, mis on tundlik analüüsitava liigi liigispetsiifiliste tunnuste suhtes. Näitame, kuidas kommunikatsiooni käigus tekivad vastastikku arusaadavad keeled, mis võimaldavad kahel erineval liigil kommunikeerida. Erinevad loomaliigid läbivad oma semiootilise keskkonna ulatusliku muutmise protsessi, kuna omandavad ja kasutavad uusi märke. Oleme seda nähtust seostanud omailma ülemineku mõistega. Leiame, et tehistingimustes peetavad loomad mõjutavad institutsionaalseid praktikaid ja muid inimese loodud märgisüsteeme. Näiteks võivad mõned loomad mõjutada hooldamispraktikaid, sealhulgas rikastamist ja tööprotsesse. Korduvad interaktsioonid toovad hübriidsetes keskkondades kaasa uusi tähendusi ja käitumist. Teeme ettepaneku, et ulukihooldajaid tuleks pidada tehistingimustes olevate inimahvide sotsiaalseteks kaaslasteks ja nende suhteid loomadega tuleb väärtustada. Ulukihooldajate mõju võib nende hoolealustel esile kutsuda liigisisese käitumise ja rikastada inimahvide elutingimusi, pakkudes mitmekihilist sotsiaalset lävimist. Seega tuleks neid käsitleda heaoluanalüüsist ja rikastamisstrateegiatest lahutamatuna.We cannot avoid encountering other species because humans do not live in isolation from other members of the animal world. We share our spaces with a multitude of other animal species. This thesis provides a semiotic analysis of interspecies communication in hybrid environments by focusing on human-ape interactions. In this work, we define communication as the process of creation and negotiation of meaning arising from social interactions in the animal kingdom. We focus on animals with more complex umwelten, whose social interactions are complex and multi-individual. A (zoo)semiotic approach enables us to abandon an anthropocentric perspective and adopt that of other species. The umwelt model proves to be an inspiring and powerful tool that we can use to (partially) access the world of other organisms. In this dissertation, we develop the concept of "umwelt overlap", that is, the idea that the umwelt should not merely be understood as a species-specific nor as an organism-specific model, but rather it should be expanded to encompass areas of shared meanings. Our approach allows us to analyze social communication of different species aiming to better the welfare of animals in captivity. In this thesis, we propose a model suitable for analyzing social communication that is sensitive to the species-specific features of the species under analysis. We show how mutually intelligible languages are created during interaction that allow two different species to communicate. Different animal species undergo an extensive modification of their semiotic environment due to the acquisition and usage of new signs, a phenomenon that we link to the concept of umwelt transition. We determine that animals in captivity shape institutional practices and other human-made sign systems. Some animals may bring changes to institutional practices by influencing handling practices, including enrichment and work routines. Repeated interactions bring about new meanings and behaviors within hybrid environments. We propose that keepers should be seen as social companions of apes in captivity, and their relationship should be valorized. Keepers may elicit intraspecific behavior and enrich apes' living conditions by providing multilayered social interactions. They should thus be seen as an integral part of welfare analysis and enrichment strategies.https://www.ester.ee/record=b547045

Going Green with… Communication A Comparative Analysis of Opposing Campaigns

In tune with rapidly increasing environmental awareness, terms like sustainability and eco-friendly frequently occur and are exploited in discourse domains from supermarket advertising to corporate communication. In contrast to these discursive simulations of concern, Greenpeace (GP) activists have consistently used non-violent protests as a means to protect our planet. GP’s campaigns are designed to raise questions, to make people rethink the way they live and (ab)use the Earth’s environment, and, ultimately, to engage volunteers and raise funds. In a different vein, Gazprom (GZM) also attempts to advertise its corporate image and its mission to distribute gas through powerful technology, connecting entire continents through a grid of pipelines and ships, ‘energising’ anything from industrial plants to gas stoves in apartments and small cottages. The aim of this study is to analyse aspects of both GZM’s and GP’s modes of advertising their goals, particularly the multi-layered composition of their online videos, using a multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis approach and ecolinguistics. Both GZM and GP exemplify a tendency to “promotionalisation”, sharing the same codes and rhetoric strategies in a variety of advertising campaigns. Unpredictably enough, both utilise ‘green-speaking’ multimodally. The implications of the striking similarities between GP’s and GZM’s communication are also discussed

Laboratory forensics for open science readiness: an investigative approach to research data management

Recently, the topic of research data management has appeared at the forefront of Open Science as a prerequisite for preserving and disseminating research data efficiently. At the same time, scientific laboratories still rely upon digital files that are processed by experimenters to analyze and communicate laboratory results. In this study, we first apply a forensic process to investigate the information quality of digital evidence underlying published results. Furthermore, we use semiotics to describe the quality of information recovered from storage systems with laboratory forensics techniques. Next, we formulate laboratory analytics capabilities based on the results of the forensics analysis. Laboratory forensics and analytics form the basis of research data management. Finally, we propose a conceptual overview of open science readiness, which combines laboratory forensics techniques and laboratory analytics capabilities to help overcome research data management challenges in the near future.Prevention, Population and Disease management (PrePoD)Public Health and primary car

Laboratory forensics for open science readiness: an investigative approach to research data management

Recently, the topic of research data management has appeared at the forefront of Open Science as a prerequisite for preserving and disseminating research data efficiently. At the same time, scientific laboratories still rely upon digital files that are processed by experimenters to analyze and communicate laboratory results. In this study, we first apply a forensic process to investigate the information quality of digital evidence underlying published results. Furthermore, we use semiotics to describe the quality of information recovered from storage systems with laboratory forensics techniques. Next, we formulate laboratory analytics capabilities based on the results of the forensics analysis. Laboratory forensics and analytics form the basis of research data management. Finally, we propose a conceptual overview of open science readiness, which combines laboratory forensics techniques and laboratory analytics capabilities to help overcome research data management challenges in the near future.Algorithms and the Foundations of Software technolog