The Media in the Network Society: Browsing, News, Filters and Citizenship

560 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Libro ElectrónicoIn the Network Society the development of a new communicational model has been taking shape. A communicational model characterized by the fusion of interpersonal communication and mass communication, connecting audiences and broadcasters under a hypertextual matrix linking several media devices. The Networked Communication model is the informational societies communication model. A model that must be understood also in its needed literacies for building our media diets, media matrixes and on how it’s changing the way autonomy is managed and citizenship exercised in the Information Age. In this book Gustavo Cardoso develops an analysis that, focusing on the last decade, takes us from Europe to North America and from South America to Asia, combining under the framework of the Network Society a broad range of scientific perspectives from Media Studies to Political Science and Social Movements theory to Sociology of Communication.Index of Figures Index of Tables Preface Acknowledgements The Media in the Network Society. Contextualizing the Media in the Network Society; Media, Autonomy and Citizenship 1. The Multiple Dimensions of the Network Society. The Network Society; The Culture of the Informational Societies 2. Societies in Transition to the Network Society. Societies in Transition in the Global Network; Societies in Transitions, Values and Social Well-Being; Media and Social Change in the Network Societies 3. From Mass to Networked Communication: Communicational Models and the Informational Society Communicational Models and the Informational Society. Communicational Globalization in the 20th Century; Mass Media and New Media: the Articulation of a New Communicational Model?; Rhetoric, Accessibility of Information and Narratives Networked Communication 4. A Constellation of Networks: Mass Media, Games, Internet and Telephones. An Entertainment Meta-System in Transition: from Multimedia Games to Television; The New Entertainment Player: Multimedia Games; The Reaffirmation of TV as a Central Element of the Entertainment Meta-System; From Interactive Television to Networked Television 5. Has the Internet Really Changed the Mass Media?. From the End of Journalism to Its Reconstruction; The Information Meta-System and Its Network Organization; Television: the New Online Functions; From Radio Interactivity to Newspaper; Time Management: the Media Network 6. The Massification of the Internet Experience. The New Frontiers and Their Entry Portals; Media, Memory and Filters 7. Media and Citizenship in the Network Society. Mediation of Citizenship and Informational Literacy; The Different Media Ages; Different Media Ages, Different Forms of Citizenship? 8. Mediated Politics: Citizens and Political Parties in Continuous Democracy; An Institutional and Parliamentary; Framework for Continuous Democracy; The Internet as Hostage of Institutional Informational Politics? 9. Media, Mobilization and Protests. Goku vs. The Ministry of Culture: Terràvista, Television and Newspapers; The Closure of RTP2: Television Seen from the Internet; The Pro-East Timor Movement: Human Rights, Mass Media and the Internet; Instrumentalization of the Networked Symbolic Mediation Conclusion: Browsing, News, Filters and Citizenship.Browsing, News, Filters and Citizenship Bibliograph

Telecommunications for the Needy: How needed are they?

Telecommunications, mobile and non-mobile, play a major role in our society, but their role as tools for escaping poverty remains a policy agenda still with room for progress both in Europe and around the World. Some groups in society, like the needy, have difficulties in accessing and using such technologies in ways that mirror the debates of the late 90s over the "digital divide". For some groups, like the needy, it would be more exact to address the concept of digital poverty rather than digital divide, because without access to telecommunications one might not have the same degree of opportunities to leave poverty or not to fall into poverty [34] [3] [4]. The goal of this paper is to scope the problem by departing from the Portuguese case study. Our research is empirical and highlights the telecommunication ownership and expenditures of the Portuguese population, and specially the most fragile segments within it. Such an effort is undertaken while not ignoring major issues of political economy of the contemporary globalizing networked society. Our main argument in this paper is that, if telecommunications are a needed tool for the lower income segments of the population, that is the needy, a debate around digital poverty associated to mobile telecommunications is needed in Europe too and to address such issues we need public policy commitments.needy, mobile telecommunications, digital poverty, digital divide, telecommunication policies

Digital reading: the transformation of reading practices

The paper aims to present the preliminary results of a two-year project having as scope the future of the book and libraries stemming from the current reading practices in Portugal. In the scope of the project, the presentation of the findings will be focused on the mobile consumption practices in Portugal. This research is based on a mixed methodology: a quantitative survey – Network Society in Portugal – articulated with a qualitative analysis of the discourses of the representatives of what Thompson calls the publishing chain (librarians, publishing houses, authors, and content and soft/hardware providers). To understand the impact of mobile devices on reading practices is crucial for libraries and publishing houses. Mobile devices offer augmented mobility – a mobility that is connected, networked and collaborative. Although the hype is currently around eBooks, we are still faced with a market where the vast majority still reads books on paper. The sales of devices have exploded but eBooks are lagging behind. What do people use their tablets, iPads, and eReaders for? What are they reading and where? How do they articulate their readings with other media and cultural consumptions? Those are the central questions that we are aiming at answering.N/

WhatsApp and audio misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic

Given user choices and the commercial offerings of internet providers, WhatsApp has increasingly become established as a new standard for communication by audio, image, and text. This paper explores the role of misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic by using content disseminated through WhatsApp, thereby making three main contributions: a discussion about the potential shift toward nontextual and nonvisual forms of misinformation; the new social role of audio, namely related to the critique of policies and political actors during the early stage of the Covid-19 pandemic; and the questioning of the First Draft News disinformation conceptual model by proposing a complementary approach that focuses only on factuality. Conclusions were drawn after conducting a content analysis of 988 units of Covid-19-related audio files, images, videos, and texts shared via WhatsApp during the early stage of the pandemic. A typology was identified to address distinct claims that focus on five different topics (society, policy and politics, health science, pandemic, and other), as well as audio messaging trending as a novel format for spreading misinformation. The results help us to contextualize and discuss a potential shift toward nontextual and nonvisual forms of misinformation, reflecting the increasing adoption of the audio format among WhatsApp users and making WhatsApp a fertile environment for the circulation and dissemination of misinformation regarding Covid-19-related themes. In a society characterized by the rapid consumption of information, the idea that content must have a degree of falsehood to mislead is an indicator of the distance between theoretical models and social reality. This indicator is important to identify true content as potential misinformation on the basis of its factuality

On the distribution of an effective channel estimator for multi-cell massive MIMO

Accurate channel estimation is of utmost importance for massive MIMO systems to provide significant improvements in spectral and energy efficiency. In this work, we present a study on the distribution of a simple but yet effective and practical channel estimator for multi-cell massive MIMO systems suffering from pilot-contamination. The proposed channel estimator performs well under moderate to aggressive pilot contamination scenarios without previous knowledge of the inter-cell large-scale channel coefficients and noise power, asymptotically approximating the performance of the linear MMSE estimator as the number of antennas increases. We prove that the distribution of the proposed channel estimator can be accurately approximated by the circularly-symmetric complex normal distribution, when the number of antennas, M, deployed at the base station is greater than 10

Correlação entre a Clearance da Creatinina Estimada e a Taxa de Filtração Glomerular Estimada nos Doentes Muito Idosos e Erros de Prescrição dos Antibióticos: Um Estudo de Coorte

Introduction: Determination of renal function is particularly important when prescribing antibiotics to elderly patients. This study aims to determine the correlation between estimated creatinine clearance and the estimated glomerular filtration rate, for a hospitalized population of very elderly patients, and to audit antibiotic prescribing errors. Material and methods: Retrospective cohort study of all patients ≥ 80 years hospitalized with antibiotic. Creatinine clearance was calculated using Cockcroft-Gault equation and estimated glomerular filtration rate by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations. Dosing errors were determined through adjustment of daily define dose to renal function. Results: The study included 589 patients. The correlation of Cockcroft-Gault with Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration was r = 0.98 and 0.96 for the minimum serum creatinine, and 0.97 and 0.93 for the maximum serum creatinine. Based on Cockcroft-Gault, there were errors in the daily defined dose in 45% in the minimum serum creatinine, and 52% in the maximum serum creatinine day. There was a discrepancy in the recording of errors of 14% to 16% when Cockcroft-Gault was compared with Modification of Diet in Renal Disease and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration. Discussion: There was a good correlation of Cockcroft-Gault with the estimated glomerular filtration rate by Modification of Diet in Renal Disease or Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration. Regardless of the equation used to estimate renal function there was a high rate of antibiotic dosing errors documented in this population. Conclusion: This study supports the maintenance of the Cockcroft-Gault equation for drug dosing in the very elderly population. Further studies are needed to investigate underlying causes of prescribing errors.Introdução: A determinação da função renal é particularmente importante na prescrição de antibióticos em doentes idosos. O objetivo deste estudo é correlacionar a clearance de creatinina com a taxa de filtração glomerular estimada, numa população hospitalizada de doentes muito idosos, e auditar os erros de prescrição antibiótica. Material e Métodos: Coorte retrospetivo de todos os doentes ≥ 80 anos hospitalizados com antibioterapia prescrita. A clearance de creatinina foi calculada através da equação Cockcroft-Gault, e a filtração glomerular estimada através das equações Modification of Diet in Renal Disease e Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration. Os erros de prescrição foram determinados pelo ajuste da dose diária definida à função renal. Resultados: Foram incluídos 589 doentes. A correlação da Cockcroft-Gault com Modification of Diet in Renal Disease e Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration foi r = 0,98 e 0,96 para a creatinina sérica mínima, e 0,97 e 0,93 para a creatinina sérica máxima. Com base na Cockcroft-Gault, a taxa de erro na dose diária definida foi 45% no dia da creatinina sérica mínima e 52% no dia da creatinina sérica máxima. Quando a Cockcroft-Gault foi comparada com a Modification of Diet in Renal Disease e a Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration houve uma discrepância no registo de erros de 14% a 16%, respetivamente. Discussão: Verificou-se uma boa correlação entre a Cockcroft-Gault e as equações que calculam a filtração glomerular: Modification of Diet in Renal Disease ou Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration. Independentemente da equação utilizada para estimar a função renal, foi documentada uma taxa elevada de erros na dose de antibióticos prescrita nesta população. Conclusão: Este estudo reforça a manutenção do uso da equação de Cockcroft-Gault para calcular a dose adequada de antibióticos na população muito idosa. Mais estudos são necessários para investigar as causas subjacentes aos erros de prescrição.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Engineering Education for the Future in a Multicultural and Smart World

Focused on "Engineering Education for the future in a multicultural and smart world", the EDUCON2020 Online edition was based on a comprehensible program that included: • a pre-conference day with 9 workshops, which attracted approx. 300 remote participants; • 3 plenary sessions, including: • a unique opening interview with interveners physically located in two different time zones, with a span of 16 hours, in particular Keith Willey (interviewed), from Sydney, Australia, and Susan Zvacek (interviewer), from Denver, US. Henrique Santos, Vice President for Conferences and Workshops of the IEEE Education Society, located in Portugal, served as moderator. • a keynote by Annette Kolmos, about “Complex Problem Solving and PBL in Engineering Education”, moderated by José Carlos Quadrado. • and, a closing debate with Maria Graça Carvalho (a member of the European Parliament), Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo (Rector of Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique), and João Gabriel Silva (Rector of the University of Coimbra from 2011 to 2019), who discussed about “The University and the Digital Transformation of Society”, in a debate moderated by Russ Meier, president of the IEEE Education Society. • and 44 technical sessions; 4 round tables, and 7 special sessions The technical program included 314 papers that underwent a double-blind review process with at least 3 independent reviewers. Considering a total number of 654 submissions, this results into a 50% acceptance rate. Finally, the EDUCON2020 online conference edition gathered more than 300 participants from 51 countries on 5 continents.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Comunicação organizacional na área associativa: estudo de caso da Associação dos Magistrados Brasileiros

BRIEF OF PETITIONER IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE AGENCY ORDER OF NOVEMBER 10,1993, REVOKING THE LICENSE OF CARL W. BARNEY

Análise experimental do desempenho termo-hidráulico de condensadores do tipo tubo-aletado

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Mecânica.O objetivo deste trabalho é avaliar a performance termo-hidráulica de condensadores do tipo tubo-aletado. Para atingir tal objetivo uma bancada experimental foi construída e um código computacional foi desenvolvido. A bancada experimental consiste basicamente de dois circuitos: o de ar e o de fluido refrigerante, ambos permitindo a medição da taxa de calor dissipado pelo condensador. No circuito de ar mede-se a vazão de ar através de bocais convergentes, e a diferença de temperatura através de termopares diferenciais. No circuito de refrigerante mede-se a vazão de R134a através de um sensor tipo Coriolis e, calcula-se o diferencial de entalpia a partir de medições absolutas de pressão e temperatura. A partir dos dados experimentais de transferência de calor e de perda de carga do lado do ar calculam-se os parâmetros adimensionais j e f. Efeitos do processo de fabricação, espaçamento entre aletas, tipo de aleta, presença do louver, e tipo de borda foram explorados experimentalmente. Comparações com correlações disponíveis na literatura são apresentadas e discutidas. O código computacional desenvolvido pode ser utilizado tanto para calcular os valores de j e f com base nos dados experimentais, quanto para simular a taxa de dissipação de calor e a perda de carga a partir de correlações empíricas de j e f. O código computacional desenvolvido foi acoplado ao software de otimização MODEFRONTIER#, com o intuito de otimizar o espaçamento entre aletas de um condensador específico. The objective of this work is to evaluate the thermohydraulic performance of finned tube condensers. In order to accomplish this objective, a test bench was built and a computational code was developed. The test bench has two circuits: one for air flow and another for refrigerant flow. The condenser heat released rate can be measured in both circuits. In the air circuit, the air flow is measured by nozzles and the temperature difference by differential thermocouples. In the refrigerant circuit, the mass flow rate is measured by a Coriolis type mass flow meter and the enthalpy differential is calculated from the absolute temperature and pressure measurements. The j and the f dimensionless parameters are calculated from the experimental data. The effect of fin geometry, fin pitch, louver, and fin edge corrugation were all explored experimentally. Comparisons with correlations available in the open literature are presented and discussed. The computational code can be used either to calculate the j and the f parameters from heat transfer and air pressure drop data, or to simulate the heat transfer and the air pressure drop from j and f empirical correlations. The developed computational code was coupled to the MODEFRONTIER# optimization software in an attempt to optimize the fin pitch for a specific condenser

A liderança e a motivação para as equipes de trabalho em uma instituição financeira no município de Criciúma/SC

Monografia apresentado ao Programa de Pós-graduação da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense – UNESC, para obtenção do Grau de Especialista em Gestão do Desenvolvimento Humano e Organizacional.A liderança é uma ferramenta imprescindível no mercado atual, pois liderar significa inspirar confiança e apoiar as pessoas cuja competência e compromisso dependem do desempenho. Dentre os diversos estilos de lideranças existe a autocrática, a liberal, a democrática, a carismática, de transformação, pós-heroica, entre outras. A motivação é o processo responsável pela intensidade, direção e persistência dos esforços de um indivíduo para o alcance de uma determinada meta. Já as equipes são um conjunto de pessoas que compartilham o mesmo objetivo, cujos esforços dos integrantes são maiores que a soma dos esforços individuais. Diante dos fatos, o presente estudo tem como objetivo principal analisar a liderança predominante e a satisfação em relação à motivação das equipes de trabalho numa instituição financeira de Criciúma e, como objetivos específicos identificar os tipos de lideranças existentes, verificar o nível de satisfação/motivação dos colaboradores diante da liderança existente na organização e investigar o relacionamento dessa liderança com os funcionários. Este estudo, através de uma pesquisa quantitativa, demonstrou que uma grande parcela dos colaboradores necessita de um maior entrosamento com seus líderes e de mais autonomia para a realização de suas tarefas. Desta forma, podemos dizer que a liderança possibilita a cooperação, a mediação de conflitos e contribui para a criatividade, desempenhando um papel integrador, muito necessário para as organizações