DIGITAL SOCIAL INNOVATION: A PRELIMINARY PORTFOLIO OF COMPETENCIES FOR SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKERS

In this  article, the authors argue that professional experts are necessary who should also be educators, since they should work inside the school. Accordingly, cyber safety competencies should be included in the curriculum of school social workers in the same way as are competencies to sustain children with behavioral disturbance, support students with cultural and economic difficulties, provide the school community with psycho-social counselling, implement educational policies, etc. From the experience of running a training course for social workers in Poland on cyber threats, and from an ongoing research concerning digital social innovation within two EU funded projects, a preliminary portfolio of competencies has been defined and presented

An Exploration on How and Why People Present Online and How to Successfully Self Present on Linked-In

People use social media and online platforms daily and through this use they create an online personality or digital identity. They chose specific ways in which they want to present themselves online known as self presentation. There are multiple ways in which people self present. Some of those include self presentation strategies and involve the use of impression management. The communication field has done extensive research on the topic and has come to the conclusion that people self present as a form of self expression and is motivated to fulfil a personal need. This paper will explore the ways individuals choose to self present, why people self present and how to apply those strategies of self presentation and impression management to a user\u27s LinkedIn profile

Review of User Interface-Facilitated Serendipity in Recommender Systems

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Colorblind Ideology in Traditional and Online Media: Towards a Future Research Agenda

Abstract While much research has looked at colorblind ideology in mainstream traditional media content and production, few studies have investigated the expression and status of colorblind ideology in social media. The present chapter addresses this discrepancy by reviewing academic literature on colorblind discourse in both traditional and social media. In the light of the literature reviewed, this chapter (i) underlines the complexities of both on- and offline expressions of race and racism, and the extent to which they are co-constructive. Furthermore, this chapter highlights the need to (ii) sensitize media practitioners and researchers on colorblind ideology to ensure that (iii) racism is treated, in research as well as in the media, as a structural phenomenon rather than as punctuated events

“How ELSE are you supposed to dress up like a Black Guy??”: negotiating accusations of Blackface in online newspaper comments

This study examines how individuals talk about race and racism, and the resonance of their discourses with existing narratives. For this purpose, this article investigates users’ comments (N = 887) on four newspaper articles from the US and France about Antoine Griezmann's Blackface in December 2017. A thematic analysis revealed (i) the vast majority of users shared similar views of racism by emphasizing individual agency over structural and historical systems of oppression. Although (ii) users actively referred to colour-blindness, their comments appeared to be based on different understandings of “race” shaped by national discourses. Finally, (iii) users vastly criticized political correctness, which revealed expressions of Whiteness as well as the intersection of class and racism. The findings underline the gap between users’ views and scholarly discourses. This study also highlights the limitations of methodological nationalism in the study of racism, and importance of examining discourses emanating from various imagined communities instead

Interactividad, buscabilidad y visibilidad web en periodismo digital galardonado

The main objective of this work is to carry out a comparative analysis between thirteen digital media websites that have won the Online Journalism Awards (ONA) and the World Digital Media Awards (WDMA) regarding the dimensions of interactivity, searchability and web visibility, through the application of an analysis protocol with nine parameters designed specifically for digital journalism (Santos Hermosa et al. 2021;2022). In this sense, it is an innovative methodological proposal applied to a real case study in digital communication. The results show different levels of achievement of the dimensions of interactivity, navigability and visibility in the awarded digital media; that allows establishing a ranking from highest to lowest score. Some outstanding trends are also identified with respect to each dimension of study. This shows a series of successful strategies and weaknesses linked to interactivity, searchability and web visibility. The application of the protocol turns out to be useful not only for researchers but also for digital journalism professionals, providing data for the creation of new services and products focused on the user experience

Context-aware Services for Mobile Devices: From Architecture Design to Empirical Inference

Currently, mobile devices are aware of user position, which can be provided to mobile apps for the development of tailored services known as Location-Based Services. Further advances on current Location-based Services (LBS), i.e. using any other information from the user such as gender, music preferences etc, may lead to transition from a Location-Based environment to a fully developed ContextAware environment.The current trend towards Context-aware Services (CAS) is reflected in academic research since more than twenty years as well as in the progress in Software Development Kits (SDKs) of the main mobile operating systems, where CAS frameworks are currently being used. However, there is no community agreement for modelling context CAS and little is known about the architecture of these context management frameworks of the mobile operating systems.Based on previous research in the area of CAS, I establish and analyse a reasoning architecture, the Context Engine (CE), that enables the main steps of designing and implementing context-aware services. The chief utility of CAS is their ability to formulate and encapsulate information, obtain user context through context acquisition tools and distribute it to third-party applications that build personalised services based on the provided information. The CE has the responsibility of selecting the optimal context acquisition tool to solve a concrete problem which is discussed in this dissertation.Furthermore, this thesis contributes to the development of context inference tools by studying two particular cases. The first case aims at inferring user (semantic) location information based on mobile phone usage data. This first case has been carried out in collaboration with Microsoft Finland, which provides a similar context inference solution to mobile developers through their Software Development Kit (SDK). The second case aims at inferring user information based on social network information, i.e. infer user information based on his or her connections. Both studies yield positive results and have the potential to be extended to obtain better context acquisition tools and, therefore, better user context

Cleaning Up the Streets: Understanding Motivations, Mental Models, and Concerns of Users Flagging Social Media Posts

Social media platforms offer flagging, a technical feature that empowers users to report inappropriate posts or bad actors, to reduce online harms. While flags are often presented as flimsy icons, their simple interface disguises complex underlying interactions among users, algorithms, and moderators. Through semi-structured interviews with 22 active social media users who had recently flagged, we examine their understanding of flagging procedures, explore the factors that motivate and demotivate them from engaging in flagging, and surface their emotional, cognitive, and privacy concerns. Our findings show that a belief in generalized reciprocity motivates flag submissions, but deficiencies in procedural transparency create gaps in users' mental models of how platforms process flags. We highlight how flags raise questions about the distribution of labor and responsibility between platforms and users for addressing online harm. We recommend innovations in the flagging design space that assist user comprehension and facilitate granular status checks while aligning with their privacy and security expectations.Comment: Under review at ACM CSC

Atropelamento de ouriços e a influência da paisagem : uma abordagem multiescala

Padrões espaciais dos atropelamentos são ocasionados por diversos fatores relacionado à paisagem, ao comportamento e ecologia da espécie, e às características das rodovias. Visto que padrões ecológicos ocorrem em diversas escalas, a análise dos fatores que influenciam atropelamentos deve ser feita em uma abordagem multiescala. Nesse estudo, analisamos as fatalidades de ouriço-caixeiro (Coendou sp.) na rodovia RSC-287, na região central do Rio Grande do Sul. Utilizamos uma abordagem multiescala que compreendeu tanto a escala de efeito para avaliar as variáveis preditoras selecionadas, quanto a escala de observação para avaliar a variável resposta em três diferentes escalas. Construímos modelos explanatórios dos atropelamentos em relação às características de paisagem e de rodovia para compreender os fatores de influência das fatalidades. Nossos resultados mostram que a formação florestal é importante para o grupo nessa região e que essa relação independe da escala analisada. As características de rodovia não apresentaram associação com as fatalidades. Surpreendentemente, variáveis como presença de água e classes de agropecuária mostraram relação positiva e significativa com os atropelamentos. A utilização de uma abordagem multiescala favorece a construção de modelos explanatórios mais robustos e condizentes com os padrões da paisagem, auxiliando no desenvolvimento de propostas de estruturas mitigadoras a serem implantadas em estradas com características semelhantes.Roadkill spatial patterns are caused by several factors related to the landscape, behavior and ecology of the species, and characteristics of highways. Since ecological patterns occur at different scales, an analysis of the factors that influence roadkills should be done in a multiscale approach for more accurate results. In this study, we analyzed the fatalities of Coendou sp. on the RSC-287 highway, in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul. We used a multiscale approach that comprised both the scale of effect to assess the selected explanatory variables, and the extent scale to assess the response variable in three different scales. We built roadkill explanatory models in relation to landscape and road characteristics to understand the factors influencing fatalities. Our results show that forest cover is important for the group in this region and that it is independent of the analyzed scale. Road characteristics did not show any association with the fatalities. Surprisingly, variables such as the presence of water and agriculture have a significant and positive association with porcupine roadkills. The use of a multiscale approach favors the construction of explanatory models that are more robust and consistent with landscape patterns, helping to develop proposals for mitigation structures to be implemented on roads with similar characteristics

“Let’s have the men clean up”: Interpersonally-communicated stereotypes as a resource for resisting gender-role prescribed activities

This paper examines a productive use of communicating gender stereotypes in interpersonal conversation: to resist activities traditionally prescribed according to gender. The analyses video-taped naturally-occurring U.S. household interactions and presents three techniques participants may deploy to contest gender expectations: mobilizing categories, motivating alignment, and reframing action. We show how gender is an accountable category in relation to household labor, and how gender categories provide a resource by which participants can non-seriously solicit and resist participation in domestic gender-prescribed activities. Our analysis provides some insight into how participants use gender stereotypes in everyday talk and what functions such talk serves