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Social Movements, Social Media and Post-Disaster Resilience: Towards an Integrated System of Local Protest
No full textWorkshop Technology And Society: Diversity, Development And Community Change
No full textCommunity informatics and Information and Communications Technology for Development research projects frequently focus on the appropriation of ICTs and the design of information systems to meet the needs of communities. Such projects typically involve a range of participants reflecting different cultures, different theoretical background and different levels of training, and depend for their success on the ability of the project to bridge differences. However, the harmonization between different theoretical and methodological backgrounds always proves to be critical.
The workshop aims to strengthen the existing partnership between Sapienza, Bangladesh Universities, international NGOs operating in Bangladesh and other international partners (e.g. Monash University – Australia), which are active in the area of ICTs for Development. The Department of Communication and Social Research (Sapienza University) -through the proponent of the current project- is already involved in the large-scale ICTs in society project in Bangladesh (2015-2019) called PROTIC (meaning “sign” in the Bengali language), led by Monash University Australia and the international NGO, Oxfam. A number of Bangladeshi universities, including the University of Dhaka, are research partners to this project.
In order to strengthen this international network, and to benefit all the partners involved in the field of ICTs for Development, the Sapienza funds for international cooperation financed the organization of seminars and intensive workshops in Bangladesh and in Italy aimed at sharing competencies, experiences and theories among scholars from a variety of cultural, disciplinary and institutional backgrounds.
This intensive workshop will serve as training opportunities for early stage researchers working in the field of ICTs and information studies with a particular emphasis on international cooperation. The goal of the workshop is not training in the particulars of each student’s research, but at sharing perspectives and reflecting on the big picture of their studies in society and their ‘formation’ as researchers. Early stage researchers will be helped to identify and to take into account localised or context-specific social and cultural issues in the design of their research, consequently improving the effectiveness and sustainability of their projects. The idea of emic understandings of culture is also at the base of the workshops, with the aim of fostering intercultural exchange between researchers at the different stages of their careers
ICTs and regional sustainability: A critique and a way forward
No full textClaims have been made about the role of ICTs in regional sustainability for some time. However, ICT initiatives have often stalled for a number of reasons:\ud
• They are largely ICT supply-driven and fail to specify and address the local cultural impediments and opportunities. In particular, they mis-specify and under resource the human infrastructure required;\ud
• They do not take account of the dynamics of the global ICT industry; \ud
• They are overoptimistic about the productivity improvement ICTs can bring in traditional industries; and\ud
• They often overlook the importance of content per se.\ud
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Are there more realistic models of the role of ICTs in regional development? From the participatory action research we have conducted in two rural communities in Queensland, Australia, we suggest that more realistic and potentially effective models must:\ud
• Achieve clarity in specifying sustainability goals;\ud
• Leverage micro-business enterprise development off government funded technical and human infrastructure provision, and build on local industry strengths;\ud
• Learn from global experiences whilst building on local assets;\ud
• Find innovative business models to capitalise on new opportunities for content and applications;\ud
• Ensure community involvement in deciding, planning and evaluating projects; and\ud
• Adopt a learning approach through cycles of evaluation based on action research
Community networks today: Analysing new media for local social networking and community engagement
No full textCommunity networks that incorporate emerging social media features have the potential to encourage civic engagement and create rich, meaningful social interaction within geographical communities. Recently, new forms of neighbourhood websites have emerged, prompting the question: what are "community networks" today? New forms of these sites include high-end commercial websites, developed by local newspaper companies and web entrepreneurs. This is in marked contrast to the relatively simple, non-profit community networks that were created by grassroots community organisations in the late 20th century. Content analysis was performed on twelve diverse neighbourhood websites in order\ud
to reveal the similarities and differences between their key social, discursive and technological features. This analysis led to an enriched understanding of the contemporary usage of the term "community networks". The resultant analytical\ud
framework provides a useful scaffold for the discussion, comparison and evaluation of community networks.\ud
Conscientious analysis of the components of neighbourhood websites, combined with reflection on their correlation with the local communicative ecology, can potentially improve the outcomes of community networking initiatives for not-forprofit\ud
organisations, government and industry, across diverse local contexts
Capturing community memory with oral history and new media: the sharing stories project
No full texthe Kelvin Grove Urban Village (KGUV) is a diverse inner-city master-planned community in Brisbane, Australia, established through a strong partnership between the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Queensland Government’s Department of Housing (www.kgurbanvillage.com.au). The 16 hectare KGUV is unique, because the land’s past use includes a rich and varied mix of indigenous, military and educational history, but very little residential history.
This paper reports on work in progress, which brings together urban studies, public history and new media in an attempt to synchronise the various opportunities and challenges arising within each discipline. Phase one (2004 – 2006) focussed on remembering the physical location of the KGUV. Phase two (2007 – 2009) examines the people and community, as they begin to move in to this newly completed development. Both phases engage community by creating community memory through public history, life writing and digital storytelling. The first phase researched the use of multi art forms in a public history project, as a vehicle to chronicle the history of the physical location of the KGUV, and to examine the changing role of contemporary public historian.
The aim of this paper is to outline the research design for the next phase of this public history research project, which will support digital creativity and media literacy with a view to help new residents find a voice and participate in the knowledge economy. It also seeks to improve a sense of well-being and belonging, foster human talent and socio-cultural values favourable to creativity and innovation. The project will do this by encouraging people to gain a better appreciation of their capacity to bring about change within their local community. It also hopes to re-invigorate a more contemporary interpretation of community values in a networked society and enhance the capacity to interpret and engage with our urban environment by raising awareness of the socio-cultural background and heritage of new community members
Designing networks for sustainable neighbourhoods: A case study of a student apartment complex
No full textcase study of a student apartment comple
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
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