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Concerns regarding the effects of the COVID19 pandemic on children health
Get PDFUniversity of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, RomaniaIntroduction. The unexpected situations (lockdown, online school, social distancing) imposed to stop the spreading of the coronavirus COVID19 starting with March 2020 in most
of the worldwide countries brought collateral effects for every citizen. Now, after more
than a year, became a certitude that one of the most affected categories were the children,
because of the restrictions and online school, that disrupted their habits. The concerns
regarding the way are affected their physical and psychical development and health are
growing between the researchers, as long as in many countries the restrictions are still in
force. Also, there are big differences between countries, and even between regions of the
same country about how strongly these restrictions are applied, meaning that discriminations occurred even more.
This article will reinforce the evidence on the risks for children's health and development
due to pandemic restrictions on social interaction and education, based on the case of
children from Bucharest. Starting from the conclusions of a literature review on these issues will be emphasized the conclusions of researchers from different countries regarding
the main concerns about children's health.
Material and methods. For completing the image referring to these risks, will be analyzed the results of a quantitative research conducted with parents and their children
from gymnasium school in Bucharest regarding the way they perceive how the pandemic
restrictions changed their habits. Because for these children (from Bucharest) coming to
school is still forbidden after more than one year (meaning 90% of the last one and a half
school year was online) the research methods were also online, using questionnaires created and applied through Google forms. No sample methods could be applied (the questionnaire link was sent to all the parents with children of 11-14 years old from this school)
and about 40% of them responded, pair parents-child.
Results. Th results showed that there is evidence that doing school online, not only the
efficiency of learning is affected, but through the increase of time spent using the internet,
their health and development are at risk. Issues like sedentarism, obesity, vision and eye
or posture, and spine problems increase, being doubled by the psychical and mental impairment: stress, isolation, anxiety, depression, lack of attention and concentration, and
increasing in cyberbullying and other online risks for children. The results showed that
there is a need that the researchers, parents, and teachers’ parts to keep a balance between keeping children (and their families) safe from coronavirus through restrictions
and the negative collateral effects on their health and development that might affect them
on the medium and long term.
Conclusions. The analysis showed that there are differences between parents and children's perceptions of the collateral effects of the pandemic on children's health and development, both on physical and psychical, mental level. Even this research study is limited and lacks statistical representativeness, through comparative analysis and cumulating this research results with the others at the international level, will be revealed and
enhanced once more the fact that the collateral effects of pandemic and the social restrictions are real, and could have a meaningful negative impact on children development
and health, on a long term
Thomas TUFTE (2018), Communication and Social Change
No full textL’ouvrage de Thomas Tufte couronne ses longues recherches dans le domaine du changement social et de la modalité, où la transformation de la communication influence le développement social actuel et où elle est influencée par celui-ci. Faisant appel aux exemples et aux situations concrètes de communication, Tufte réalise une analyse approfondie et complexe, souvent critique, des différents points de vue des théoriciens des médias de masse ou des sociologues, afin de démontrer comment le parad..
Keith KENNEY (2016), Philosophy for Multisensory Communication and Media
No full textKeith Kenney est un chercheur des médias de masse visuels qui désire, dans le contexte actuel de l’expansion numérique, exposer de nouvelles idées philosophiques sur les médias et les sens, en plus de vouloir aider tous ceux qui s’intéressent au multimédia (visuel — à partir des dessins à la photographie, aux journaux et aux pages d’Internet), au média hybride (visuel et auditif — télévision, film et animations) et au média multisensoriel actuel (visuel, auditif et tactile, même olfactif ou g..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Concerns on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on child health
Get PDFIntroduction. The unexpected situations (lockdown, online school, social distancing) introduced from March 2020 to stop the spread of COVID-19 in most countries worldwide, have
affected every citizen. Currently, after more than a year and a half, one of the most affected
categories are the children. There is growing concern among researchers about the pandemic impact on the physical, mental development and health of children.
Material and methods. A quantitative research was conducted among parents and their
children from a gymnasium school in Bucharest regarding the way they perceive how the
pandemic restrictions changed their habits. The research methods used were online, using
questionnaires created and applied through Google forms. No sample methods could be applied and about 40% of them responded in pairs parent-child.
Results. The results showed that the impact of online schooling is not only about the learning effectiveness, but mostly related to the health and development of children who are at
risk from the increased time spent on the Internet. Health issues like sedentary lifestyle, obesity, vision and posture impairment, spine problems have increased, being doubled by psychical and mental disorders: stress, isolation, anxiety, depression, lack of attention and concentration, as well as an increase in the number of children exposed to cyberbullying and
other online risks.
Conclusions. The study analysis showed that there are differences between parents and children's perceptions of the collateral side effects of the pandemic both on physical and mental
health of children.Introducere. Situațiile neașteptate (carantină, școală online, distanțare socială) impuse
pentru a opri răspândirea COVID-19 începând cu martie 2020 în majoritatea țărilor din întreaga lume au avut efecte pentru fiecare cetățean. Una dintre categoriile cele mai afectate
de aceste schimbări sunt copiii. Îngrijorările cu privire la modul în care sunt afectate dezvoltarea fizică și psihică și sănătatea copiilor sunt în creștere în mediul academic.
Material și metode. Am realizat o cercetare cantitativă cu părinții și copiii lor de la o școala
gimnazială din București cu privire la modul în care restricțiile pandemice au dus la schimbarea obiceiurilor. Metodele de cercetare au fost online, folosind chestionare aplicate prin
intermediul formularelor Google. Nu s-au putut aplica metode de eșantionare și 40% dintre
ei au răspuns în pereche (părinte-copil).
Rezultate. Rezultatele au arătat că efectele școlii online nu se referă doar la eficiența
învățării, sănătatea și dezvoltarea copiilor fiind expuse riscului datorită creșterii timpului
petrecut cu folosirea internetului. A crescut incidența problemelor precum sedentarismul,
obezitatea, vederea sau postura și problemele coloanei vertebrale, ele fiind dublate de probleme psihice și mentale: stres, izolare, anxietate, depresie, lipsa de atenție și concentrare și
de creșterea numărului de copii expuși la cyberbullying și alte riscuri online.
Concluzii. Analiza a arătat că există diferențe între percepțiile părinților și ale copiilor cu
privire la efectele colaterale ale pandemiei, atât la nivel fizic, cât și psihic, mental pentru
copii
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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