SPARQL Playground: A block programming tool to experiment with SPARQL

SPARQL is a powerful query language for SemanticWeb data sources but one which is quite complex to master. As the block programming paradigm has been succesfully used to teach programming skills, we propose a tool that allows users to build and run SPARQL queries on an endpoint without previous knowledge of the syntax of SPARQL and the model of the data in the endpoint (vocabularies and semantics). This user interface attempts to close the gap between tools for the lay user that do not allow to express complex queries and overtly complex technical tools

Presencia-ausencia del cuerpo en la traducción digital

En este trabajo se reflexionará sobre la complejidad de la expansión de la danza/performances, tomando como punto de inflexión la transformación de las capacidades técnico-expresivas para Se abordará desde la situación del cuerpo en la producción artística contemporánea, con el propósito de realizar un aporte a la conformación de una estética del movimiento con mediación tecnológic

Proyecto Danza Memética En Cuerpos Tecnologizados

En trabajos anteriores2 de investigación se estudiaron y se analizaronexperiencias de la producción artística local, y con ello se dio comienzo a una serie de reflexiones y de conclusiones respecto del cuerpo disciplinar en conjunción con las nuevas mediaciones tecnológicas. El proceso creativo mediado por las tecnologías digitales promueve un amplio campo de investigación sobre las prácticas y los procedimientos de interacción entre lenguajes artísticos e informáticos, performers/bailarines, programadores y artistas involucrados, así como con el público que se convierte en un participante más en estas puestas sistémicas y dinámicas. Por lo tanto, nuestro interés por la danza con mediación tecnológica se ha centrado siempre en la experiencia perceptiva, sensorial, de reciprocidad y no en el uso del dispositivo per se; hoy nos proponemos, entonces, analizar sus implicaciones y conformaciones conceptuales y estéticas en otros espacios y temporalidades

Reflexiones Dislocadas. Pensamientos políticos y filosóficos qom. Timoteo Francia y Florencia Tola. Buenos Aires. Rumbo Sur/ Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2011. En: Avá, nº 20

En el prefacio de El Hombre Primitivo como Filósofo, obra maravillosa editada originalmente en 1927, el antropólogo norteamericano Paul Radin reclamaba como “la más urgente necesidad para la etnología” la tarea de revisar en profundidad las tesis que afirman “...la idea de que en los pueblos primitivos existe un nivel fijo de inteligencia, que el individuo está por completo sumergido en el grupo, que no se encuentran pensadores ni filósofos” (1960:11). Más allá de las discusiones de la época, donde el tópico de la “mentalidad primitiva” fue central, el libro puso a disposición del gran público el interés por legitimar las dimensiones filosóficas y poéticas del pensamiento de hombres y mujeres pertenecientes a las entonces llamadas “sociedades primitivas”

Uncovering women’s experiences in balancing motherhood with employment.

Masters Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.The purpose of this research study was to understand the experiences of women balancing the roles of motherhood and employment, within the South African organisational context. A review of the literature suggests that despite efforts towards gender equality and the increased level of participation of women in the workforce, societal norms still create and reinforce expectations for women to bear the responsibility for both child-rearing and domestic duties. Drawing from a social constructionist paradigm, this study adopted a qualitative methodology in order to unravel the socially constructed perceptions of work and motherhood within two South African organisations in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. The sample consisted of eight working mothers, who were located using both a purposive and snowball sampling strategy. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data, which was analysed using the Voice Relational Method. The findings indicate that the place of working mothers is socially constructed by the circulating discourse within society surrounding work and motherhood. Working mothers are involved in a complex interplay of role/identity construction/reconstruction by challenging and accepting aspects of normative or ideological discourse to make it relevant to their local circumstances. Becoming a mother seems to be life-changing for a woman and requires a lot of adjustment on a woman’s part in terms of her identity and perceptions, requires the learning of new skills and strategies and at times can feel lonely and isolating. Working mother’s face both pros and cons when trying to balance their multiple roles. These pros and cons were psychological, emotional, social, financial, ideological and structural. This research also uncovered the impact of existing ideology on mothering and work in the way that participants utilise the voice of “I” and “you”. The voice of “I” was often used by participants to emphasise their personal anxieties and fears in relation to their perceptions of the normative experiences of mothers, i.e. the voice of “you”. In conclusion, this study was useful in privileging the voice of working mothers in and on their own terms who face a deep sense of isolation, loneliness, and inadequacies in their gendered lived experience; but also celebrate their own individuality and collectivity as women who find fulfilment and satisfaction in navigating multiple roles in their journey of motherhood and work