1,618 research outputs found
A garagem na empresa: jovens intraempreendedores da indústria tecnológica argentina: O caso Globant
No full textEl presente trabajo tiene como objetivo problematizar la noción de sujeto intra-emprendedor que seconstruye desde las políticas empresarias en ámbitos de trabajo ligados al desarrollo y uso intensivo detecnología. Para ello, retomaremos el caso de la multinacional argentina de desarrollo de software,Globant. Teniendo en cuenta que el origen de esta empresa se convalida por sus socios fundadoresdesde el discurso emprendedor, nos interesa reconocer como trasladan dichas narrativas a una fuerzade trabajo mayoritariamente joven y caracterizados como “nativos digitales”. Metodológicamente noscentramos en una aproximación cualitativa de un trabajo de investigación en curso.The present work aims to problematize the notion of intra-entrepreneurial subject that is built from business policies in areas of work linked to the development and intensive use of technology. For this, we will study the case of the Argentine multinational software development company, Globant. Taking into account that the origin of this company is validated by its founding partners from the entrepreneurial discourse, we are interested in recognizing how these narratives are transferred to a mostly young workforce characterized as "digital natives". Methodologically we focus on a qualitative approximation of a research work in progress.O presente trabalho visa problematizar a noção de sujeito intraempreendedor que se constrói a partir de políticas empresariais em áreas de trabalho ligadas ao desenvolvimento e uso intensivo de tecnologia. Para isso, tomaremos o caso da multinacional argentina de desenvolvimento de software Globant. Tendo em conta que a origem desta empresa é validada pelos seus sócios fundadores a partir do discurso empreendedor, interessa-nos perceber como estas narrativas são transferidas para uma força de trabalho maioritariamente jovem caracterizada como “nativos digitais”. Metodologicamente privilegiamos uma aproximação qualitativa de um trabalho de investigação em curso.Fil: Krepki, Daniela Denise. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentin
Alumni Authors: Denise Hamilton \u2781
No full textAlumni Authors Series - Spring 2012. The William H. Hannon Library was happy to celebrate some of our acclaimed literary alumnus. Each author discussed their newest works and share a few stories from their days at LMU.
Denise Hamilton (\u2781) - Former Los Angeles Times journalist and Fulbright Scholar Denise Hamilton is known for high-octane crime novels with romantic suspense set in contemporary, multicultural Los Angeles. Her debut The Jasmine Trade was a finalist for the prestigious John Creasey Dagger Award given by the Crime Writers\u27 Assn. Denise is also the editor of Los Angeles Noir, an anthology of new writing that spent two months on bestseller lists, won an Edgar® Award for Best Short Story and the Southern California Independent Booksellers\u27 award for Best Mystery of the Year. Denise has written five books in the Eve Diamond series. Her standalone The Last Embrace set in the Hollywood of 1949, was compared to James Ellroy and Raymond Chandler. Denise\u27s new novel, Damage Control, will be published by Scribner in September 2011. In her spare time, Denise also writes a monthly perfume column for the Los Angeles Times called Uncommon Scents
Denise Monson
No full textPhotograph - Denise Monson in front of a house at Calling River, Alberta. Her father ran the Telegraph Office ther
Denise Duhamel, 19th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textDenise Duhamel\u27s book of poetry based on Inuit mythology, The Woman with Two Vaginas, (Salmon Run Press, 1995) was censored in both Canada and Alaska. She is also the author of Kinky (Orchard Press, forthcoming 1997), Girl Soldier (Garden Street Press, 1996), Smile! (Warm Spring Press 1993), and four chapbooks, the most recent of which is How the Sky Fell (Pearl Editions). Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Partisan Review, and Ontario Review, and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1994 and The Best American Poetry 1993
ESP Across Cultures
No full textThis present volume constitutes the third online edition of ESP Across Cultures.
The decision to change from a paper-based to an online edition has undoubtedly
been beneficial in terms of enjoying greater visibility within the international academic
community. One thing that has not changed over the years, however, since
the inception of the journal in 2004, has been the policy of double-blind peer reviewing,
which means that only a selected number of the papers submitted end up as
being published.
There are seven papers in the current issue, each one analysing a particular aspect
of English for Specific Purposes from a cross-cultural perspective.
The first paper, by Hmoud S. Alotaibi, focuses on research article introductions
in Arabic, analysing the extent to which scholars writing in Arabic in the sphere of
education adhere to the CARS (Create A Research Space) model delineated by John
Swales which was elaborated in particular with regard to the academic conventions
widely adopted in the English-speaking world. Instead of restricting the investigation
to the introductory section as past studies in this field did, the author examines
all of the subheadings and he concludes that all introductions include Move 2 in a
subheading entitled the Problem of the Study, a result that contradicts previous
findings where the paucity of Move 2 was common in non-English RAs, and especially
in Arabic ones.
Patrizia Anesa analyses the websites of the main arbitration centres operating in
Asia from a textual perspective to define how they are discursively constructed and
can be used as promotional tools, thereby helping us to evaluate the importance assumed
by internationalization processes or by local cultural elements in promoting a
particular centre as a seat for international arbitration. She concludes that while
some scholars argue that we are witnessing the ‘Asianization’ of arbitration, with
the increasing bargaining power of Asian parties, on the other hand a phenomenon
of ‘Universal Arbitration’ is also emerging, i.e. a form of convergence of how disputes
are resolved so that parties of any nationality can operate in the same way
with ever fewer language barriers.
In their paper, Mahmood Reza Atai and Fatemeh Asadnia examine the communicative
and promotional function of university homepages by looking at the ‘university
overview’, ‘university mission statement’, and ‘university introduction at a
glance’ genres, using a corpus of 210 texts selected from homepages of the top 500
universities ranked by the Academic Ranking of World Universities. The findings
demonstrated that the three genres shared communicative purposes, functional
units, certain moves and steps, socio-academic contexts, and discourse community
members that led to the formation of a genre set.
Gaetano Falco explores ways of using comics in an MA course on translation of
economic texts as a means of stimulating the interest of language students with no
economics skills in order to introduce economics-related lexis and improve thematic
competence in general. He observes that empirical research has shown that films
and comics can indeed be useful resources to teach economic translation to students
with no skills in economics. However, the author warns that the use of comics for
educational purposes may have its drawbacks, e.g. when students deal with complex
sign systems which embody complex economic concepts, where often the humorous
element is lost.
In her paper, Irina Khoutyz describes the differences in how scholars present
their findings in research articles (RA) in international journals in English and in
Beyza Björkman
Christian Burgers
Jan Chovanec
Anda-Elena Cretiu
Erika Dalan
John Douthwaite
Hanem El-Farahaty
Said Faiq
Silvia Ferreri
Inmaculada Fortanet-Gómez
Pedro Fuertes-Olivera
Giuliana Garzone
Christoph Hafner
Ruba Khamam
Anna Loiacono
Geraldine Ludbrook
John McRae
Susan Petrilli
Silvia Pireddu
Tarja Salmi-Tolonen
Jeffrey Segrave
Charlotte Taylor
Margherita Ulrych
John Kenneth White
Jessica Williams
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local journals in Russian. She then looks into the reasons for these differences, seeking
explanations from the sociocultural contexts in which these RAs were written,
as well as providing advice to local authors as to how to make their RAs more competitive
at the international level. The differences include the apparent lack of
structure of Russian RAs with respect to English RAs; the tendency in Russian authors
not to specify the purpose in writing a paper; and the tendency of Russian authors
to present the methodology used in less detail compared with English RAs.
Luisella Leonzini investigates the use of verbal and visual metaphors in economic-
media discourse within the context of the euro crisis by studying the correlation
between linguistic and pictorial metaphors and text-image intersemiotic relations.
The research is based on a cross-analysis of English and Italian editorial
articles published between 2009 and 2012. In both corpora, metaphorical realizations
frame the economic crisis which hit the single currency and the eurozone in
2009 as a partial collapse and hint at a possible return to stability in the form of a
recovery. The aim of this paper is to analyse the collapse/caduta and
recovery/ripresa metaphors across languages in the press.
Ian Robinson reports on using corpus linguistics to aid students in writing a creative
text. He looks at the available literature to help understand what is meant by
‘creativity’. A worksheet was prepared using a corpus linguistic analysis of modern,
English versions of the stories of the Brothers Grimm. This worksheet was constructed
with the use of a specialized corpus, and a stop-list was created which contained
single words as well as word clusters found in the tales. Students were then
asked to select some of these words and phrases to help them write stories which
were then analysed, and a follow-up questionnaire was used to elicit the students’
perceptions concerning creativity. The author concludes that creativity is essential
in EFL and that it is something to be fostered in students
Work Ludification and Algorithmic Discipline: Practices, senses, and representations of the workers in the development of videogames
No full textHoy, cualquier persona cuenta con una asistencia hiperindividualizada que asegura y optimiza nuestros actos, acciones y entretenimientos. Este giro digital-cognitivo nos abre nuevas relaciones con el uso de las tecnologías, un profundo entrelazamiento entre anatomías biológicas y objetos técnicos y sobre todo la reconfiguración de las relaciones humanas. Sin lugar a duda, también encontramos profundos cambios en las formas de concebir y organizar el trabajo. En el presente artículo, nos interesa adentrarnos en el mundo del trabajo de una empresa de software, para analizar las significaciones acerca del trabajo que los sujetos trabajadores y trabajadoras construyen en esta industria. En tal sentido, hablamos de disciplina algorítmica para adentrarnos en los procesos de construcción de hegemonía que modulan hábitos, actitudes, costumbres y representaciones. En particular, nos interesa problematizar la relación entre el ethos del trabajo y el ethos lúdico. La empresa analizada es Globant, y nos focalizaremos en los trabajadores y trabajadoras del área de desarrollo de videojuegos.Today anyone has hyper-individualized assistance ensuring and optimizing our actions and entertainment. This digital-cognitive turn opens up new relationships with the use of technologies, a deep entanglement between biological anatomies and technical objects and, above all, the reconfiguration of human relationships. Without a doubt, we also find profound changes in the ways of conceiving and organizing work. In this article, we are interested in entering the world of work of a software company, to analyze the meanings about work that workers build in this industry. In this sense, we talk about algorithmic discipline to get into the processes of hegemony construction that modulate habits, attitudes, customs, and representations. In particular, we are interested in problematizing the relationship between the work ethos and the playful ethos. The company analyzed is Globant, and we will focus on the workers of the videogame development area.Fil: Krepki, Daniela Denise. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; ArgentinaFil: Palermo Haber, Hernán Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentin
Denise Green (Art Forum)
No full textDenise Green is an artist and author of the book "Metonymy in contemporary art". She speaks about her art and the concept of metonymy
Época de unicornios: Fisonomía y discurso de las empresas tecnológicas en el sur global
No full textLa capacidad de Argentina de generar empresas tecnológicas en general y grandes jugadores de trascendencia global en particular, coloca a la denominada “economía del conocimiento” en un lugar central en la discusión actual. En este artículo nos proponemos, en un primer tramo llevar adelante una caracterización general de la fisonomía e incidencia del fenómeno global de las grandes firmas tecnológicas en América Latina en general y en Argentina en particular, destacando los principales rasgos que las ponen hoy en el centro de la discusión sobre la prospectiva socioeconómica del país. En la segunda parte nos adentramos en el desglosamiento de la narrativa empresarial de este proyecto corporativo; primero identificando y situando sus orígenes y sus ejes articuladores a nivel global y luego analizando las características de su traducción local. Centramos nuestro análisis en lo que denominamos el discurso tecno-emprendedor a partir del cual se produce una resignificación de las prácticas empresarias tradicionales fundamentada en la exaltación del mérito individual, la ponderación de la tecnología digital como un salto al desarrollo y el emprendedorismo como una concepción de mundo primordial en el discurso dominante de las nuevas elites globales.Argentina's ability to generate technology companies in general and large players of global significance in particular, places the so-called "knowledge economy" in a central place in the current discussion. In this article we propose, in a first section, to carry out a general characterization of the physiognomy and incidence of the global phenomenon of large technology firms in Latin America in general and in Argentina in particular, highlighting the main features that put them today at the center of the discussion on the socio-economic outlook of the country. In the second part we delve into the breakdown of the business narrative of this corporate project; First by identifying and locating its origins and its articulating axes at a global level and then by analyzing the characteristics of its local translation. We focus our analysis on what we call the techno-entrepreneurial discourse from which there is a resignification of traditional business practices based on the exaltation of individual merit, the weighting of digital technology as a leap to development and entrepreneurship as a primordial conception of the world in the dominant discourse of the new global elites.Fil: Krepki, Daniela Denise. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; ArgentinaFil: Ventrici, Patricia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; ArgentinaFil: Palermo Haber, Hernán Manuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales; Argentin
Perspectivas do mundo no capitalismo contemporâneo: o tecno-empreendedorismo nas empresas unicornas argentinas
No full textNeoliberal rationality has consolidated the figure of the entrepreneurial subject as part of common sense. Above all, it is highly relevant within the sector linked to technology-intensive companies. In this sense, we take the contributions of Antonio Gramsci, to problematize this construction or conception of the world around the figure of the entrepreneurial subject, which is empowered in contemporary capitalism. The companies known as "unicorns" play a central role in the construction and consolidation of what we will call techno-entrepreneurship. This work is part of an ongoing investigation and focuses on the analysis of practices, narratives and signifiers that amalgamate entrepreneurial action with technological innovation. For this, we will study the case of the Argentine multinational company, Globant, which produces and sells computer services to clients. Our methodological strategy is based on qualitative approximation, from a systematic process of compiling different interventions of the company\u27s CEOs, both in audiovisual media, graphic media, conferences at public events, as well as articulations of said techno-entrepreneurs with each other and with government officials.La racionalidad neoliberal ha consolidado la figura del sujeto emprendedor como parte de un sentido común. Sobre todo, toma una gran relevancia dentro del sector ligado a empresas de uso intensivo de tecnología. En este sentido, tomamos los aportes de Antonio Gramsci, para problematizar esta construcción o concepción de mundo alrededor de la figura del sujeto emprendedor, el cual se fortalece en el capitalismo contemporáneo. Las empresas denominadas como “unicornios” juegan un papel central en la construcción y consolidación de lo que denominaremos como tecno-emprendedorismo. Este trabajo es parte de una investigación en curso y se centra en el análisis de las prácticas, narrativas y significantes que amalgaman a la acción emprendedora con la innovación tecnológica. Para esto, tomaremos el caso de la empresa multinacional argentina, Globant, la cual produce y vende servicios informáticos a clientes. Nuestra estrategia metodológica se fortalece desde un enfoque cualitativo, a partir de un proceso sistemático de compilación de distintas intervenciones de los CEOs de la empresa, tanto en medios audiovisuales, medios gráficos, conferencias en eventos públicos, como articulaciones de dichos tecno-emprendedores entre sí y con funcionarios gubernamentales.A racionalidade neoliberal consolidou a figura do sujeito empreendedor como parte do senso comum. Acima de tudo, é altamente relevante dentro do setor ligado às empresas intensivas em tecnologia. Nesse sentido, tomamos as contribuições de Antonio Gramsci, para problematizar essa construção ou concepção de mundo em torno da figura do sujeito empreendedor, que se fortalece no capitalismo contemporâneo. As empresas conhecidas como “unicórnios” desempenham um papel central na construção e consolidação do que chamaremos de tecnoempreendedorismo. Este trabalho faz parte de uma investigação em andamento e tem como foco a análise de práticas, narrativas e significantes que amalgamam a ação empreendedora com a inovação tecnológica. Para isso, tomaremos o caso da multinacional argentina Globant, que produz e vende serviços de informática para clientes. A nossa estratégia metodológica é reforçada a partir de uma abordagem qualitativa, a partir de um processo sistemático de compilação de diferentes intervenções dos CEOs da empresa, quer nos meios audiovisuais, nos meios gráficos, nas conferências em eventos públicos, bem como nas articulações dos referidos tecnoempresários entre si e com funcionários do governo
Transforming a large-lecture course into an active, engaging, and collaborative learning environment
No full textTraditionally, a large lecture hall course follows a teacher-centered approach to instruction. This was the case for the “gateway” course in the undergraduate Information Technology and Informatics (ITI) major in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. This paper describes the journey and collaboration between the course instructor and the instructional design/technology specialist to transform a large lecture hall course (with up to 450 students) into an active, collaborative learning experience – one that engages students in learning, emphasizes higher-order thinking skills, and creates a sense of community that can be lacking in such a format. This transformation was realized when the boundaries of the classroom extended into the “online” environment.Peer reviewe
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