Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2016-07-15T18:14:25Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) A MPB EM MUDANÇA cartografando a controvérsia da nova MPB.pdf: 1737109 bytes, checksum: 28b87cc738f0ac178a5272573ee6cc69 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-15T18:14:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) A MPB EM MUDANÇA cartografando a controvérsia da nova MPB.pdf: 1737109 bytes, checksum: 28b87cc738f0ac178a5272573ee6cc69 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-25 / FACEPE / A Nova MPB surgiu como termo controverso na crítica musical brasileira no início do século XXI para se referir a atores que se apresentaram no contexto de reconfiguração da indústria da música, desencadeado pelas plataformas digitais e o download de músicas pela internet, levantando questionamentos sobre a Música Popular Brasileira (MPB). O objetivo deste estudo foi cartografar a controvérsia da Nova MPB descrevendo e analisando sua rede sociotécnica para indicar as rearticulações que a controvérsia da Nova MPB negocia com a MPB. Trata-se de um estudo teórico e metodológico sobre a MPB, segundo os pressupostos teóricos e os conceitos da Teoria do Ator Rede (TAR), suas articulações possíveis com os estudos de comunicação e música, especificamente com os gêneros musicais, pensados a partir da TAR como constituídos de controvérsias, sendo a Nova MPB uma controvérsia contemporânea da MPB. Seguindo essa perspectiva, foi aplicada a Cartografia das Controvérsias (CC) como metodologia para rastrear e mapear a Nova MPB, identificando os seus atores e analisando suas ações, declarações e opiniões disponibilizadas nas redes digitais online, descrevendo seu surgimento e a abertura de caixas pretas sobre a MPB no que diz respeito ao critério de rotulação de artistas, busca por aprovação de nomes consagrados, o popular, autonomia comercial e artística, a qualidade musical, a aceitação e negação de rótulos e a questão do novo na MPB. A partir da descrição da controvérsia, foi elaborado um relato crítico sobre a Nova MPB, descrevendo e analisando suas possíveis estabilizações enquanto rede sociotécnica, dando o destaque necessário aos principais atores não-humanos da Nova MPB e as mudanças na MPB com a incorporação da mediação técnica da internet no modo de operação independente na Nova MPB e de produções artísticas que trazem entre suas possibilidades estéticas atravessamentos do indie rock e da música pop, além da noção de canção expandida. Por fim, a TAR indicou os rumos possíveis de pesquisa para os estudos da MPB na contemporaneidade e como as controvérsias são as principais mobilizadoras nos processos de renovação e transformação de gêneros musicais. / The New MPB emerged as a controversial term in Brazilian music critic in the early twenty-first century to refer to actors who performed in the context of the music industry reconfiguration, triggered by digital platforms and downloading music on the internet, raising questions about the Brazilian Popular Music (MPB). The objective of this study was to map the controversy of New MPB describing and analyzing its socio-technical network to indicate the rearticulations that New MPB controversy negotiates with the MPB. This is a theoretical and methodological study of the MPB, according to the theoretical assumptions and concepts of Actor-Network Theory (ANT), their possible links with the communication and music studies, specifically with musical genres, thought from the ANT as consisting of disputes, the New MPB is a contemporary controversy of MPB. Following this perspective, it was applied the Cartography of Controversies (CC) as a methodology to track and map the New MPB, identifying their actors and analyzing their actions, statements and opinions provided in the online digital networks, describing their appearance and the opening of black boxes on MPB about the labeling criteria for artists, search for approval in established names, the popular, commercial and artistic autonomy, the musical quality, acceptance and denial of labels and the issue of new in the MPB. From the description of the controversy, a critical account of the New MPB was prepared, describing and analyzing its possible stabilization as socio-technical network, giving the necessary prominence to the main non-human actors of the New MPB and the changes in MPB with the incorporation of internet technical mediation in the independent mode of operation in the New MPB and artistic productions that bring between their aesthetic possibilities the penetrations of indie rock and pop music, beyond the notion of expanded song. Finally, the ANT indicated the possible direction for researches in the MPB studies nowadays and how controversies are the main mobilizing the processes of renewal and transformation of musical genres

A construção institucional das políticas ambientais no Brasil tem como marco inicial a criação da Lei Nº 6938 (1981), que instituiu a Política Nacional do Meio Ambiente. A partir desta lei foi estabelecido um Sistema Nacional do Meio Ambiente Sisnama, criado para organizar os mecanismos para a construção e o funcionamento de uma legislação ambiental no país. O Sisnama foi composto por órgãos setoriais (órgãos estaduais de meio ambiente), um órgão superior (o Conselho Nacional do Meio Ambiente - Conama) e um órgão central executor (Secretaria Especial do Meio Ambiente - Sema). Como órgão superior e deliberativo do Sisnama, o Conama se tornou um campo de negociação ao agregar interesses heterogêneos pelo objetivo de definir um conjunto de resoluções que, ancoradas na lei Nº 6938 (regulamentada pelo Decreto Nº 88351 de 1983), adquiriram força de lei. O referencial teórico-metodológico utilizado para a análise do Conama é a Teoria do Ator-Rede (TAR, ou ANT, em inglês). O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a construção e atuação do Conama, como arena ambiental desde a sua construção até o momento em que foi estabelecido o Ministério do Meio Ambiente (1981-1992), entendendo esse período como momento de institucionalização do meio ambiente no Brasil. O Conama reuniu humanos e não-humanos, entre os quais: políticos, engenheiros, cientistas, ambientalistas, as hidrelétricas, a floresta amazônica, as usinas nucleares, os resíduos atômicos, as unidades de conservação, as destilarias de álcool, os rios, entre outros. A discussão proposta consiste, portanto, em analisar a trajetória deste conselho e sua particip(ação) no cenário político nacional como órgão designado a estabelecer uma política de proteção ambiental em um momento marcado pelos desdobramentos da crise energética e pela tentativa de retomada do crescimento econômico no Brasil. / The institutional construction of environmental policies in Brazil has as starting point at the creation of Law No. 6938 (1981), which established the National Environmental Policy. Within this law was established a National Environmental System (Sisnama) created to organize mechanisms for the construction and the operation of the environmental legislation in the country. The Sisnama was composed by institutional bodies (state environmental agencies), a higher body (the National Environmental Council - CONAMA) and an executor central body (Special Environmental Secretariat - SEMA). As the superior and deliberative body of Sisnama CONAMA became a trading field by adding heterogeneous interests by the objective of defining a set of resolutions which, anchored in the law No. 6938 (regulated by Decree No. 88351 of 1983), acquired the force of law. The theoretical framework used for the analysis from CONAMA was the Actor-Network Theory (ANT). This study aims to analyze the construction and the operation of CONAMA, as environmental arena, since its construction until the moment the Ministry of the Environment was established (1981-1992), understanding this period as the environmental institutionalization in Brazil. CONAMA gathered humans and nonhumans actors including: politicians, engineers, scientists, environmentalists, hydropower, the Amazon rainforest, nuclear power plants, atomic waste, conservation units, alcohol distilleries, rivers, among others. Therefore the discussion proposed is to analyze the trajectory of this council and its particip(ation) in the national political scene as designated agency to establish an environmental protection policy in a period highlighted by the consequences of the energy crisis and the attempt to re-establish the economic growth in Brazil.

This study investigates forces and organizational structures that facilitate or hinder sustainabledevelopment to be introduced and integrated in the core activities of public institutions.Specifically, the way global national sustainable development goals find their way into thelocal curriculum and overall-encompassing strategy of a few Swedish high-schools isidentified.To facilitate the search, the study is assisted by actor-network theory to find human and nonhuman―power-brokers‖ that can ensure the adoption and continuous application of newconcepts in a school. A pre-study of several schools, consisting of explorative interviews,located and classified factors and processes of potential importance for the implementation ofactivities related to sustainable development. At the same time, the large variety ofdefinitions of sustainable development encountered was recorded.The main study expanded on the findings from the pre-study and provided a more detailedanalysis of one senior high-school (upper secondary school). Several examples oforganizational structures and other factors– macro-actors in the theoretical model - werelocated with the potential to influence the furthering of the cause of sustainable developmentin that particular school. The possibility is discussed that the school would profit fromdeveloping a common mode of communication based on exploring experiences from applyingthe many issues that can be related to sustainable development. Such an endeavor could resultin organizational change typical of a learning organization. In that case, the resilience andcapacity of the organization to handle abrupt changes in national policy would be increased aswell as the preparedness of its students – our future – to handle rapidly changing situations intomorrow‗s society.The study further suggest that a similar ―tool-box‖ of theoretical models could be applied tothe local implementation of other national issues in an institutional setting.

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In the past decade, there has been rampant growth in healthcare service delivery options, based on the Internet and related information and communication technology. As a result, there is a great deal of expectation among national governments, regulators, healthcare organisations, and other stakeholders about the role of the Internet in healthcare service provision. Given the global crisis in healthcare services generally and the funding of healthcare services specifically, a number of policymakers view the advances in Internet-based self-service technology as a potential enabler of more efficient and effective healthcare service delivery. Proponents of consumer-driven healthcare in particular who seek to use the Internet to make consumers more informed about healthcare funding decisions and to reduce the cost of servicing consumers have been actively experimenting in this area. Despite the accelerating growth in the deployment of Internet-based self-service technologies, their protracted uptake by users is giving rise to concerns about the effectiveness of the implementation and acceptance of these contemporary forms of service delivery. Furthermore, little is known about how the social healthcare context shapes Internet-based self-service technology implementations. This thesis presents an in-depth qualitative case study that documents a healthcare insurer’s efforts to implement an online self-service technology for the period 1999 to 2005. A research framework was adopted that draws on key theoretical concepts from structuration and actornetwork theory (ANT) to link the social context to implementation processes. These two conceptual lenses, which are compatible with the thesis’s interpretive stance, reveal several new insights, confirming that the challenges associated with the implementation of information system innovations such as Internet-based self-service technologies cannot be understood in isolation. From a structuration perspective analysing the various enactments of self-service provision of healthcare afforded a deeper understanding of how social practices influence the design and use of the technology. From an ANT perspective, the study showed how the major translations in the design and use of the self-service technology emerged from a process where technological and social elements co-evolved. This study also reveals that the implementation problems and opportunities facing this particular healthcare insurance organisation were historical and systemic. This approach demonstrates that the complex interdependencies and interactions among contrasting social, political, economic and technological issues shaped the contemporary channel as it exists today and therefore advances theory in yet another important way. Using the insights obtained from these two theories, a conceptual framework was derived. The conceptual framework demonstrates that in order to develop a comprehensive understanding of Internet-based self-service technology implementation, such an analysis must incorporate the interconnectedness of four perspectives – meaning, process, context and the technology artefact – and their respective conceptual elements from both structuration and actor-network theory. Future studies attempting to deepen our understanding of information systems implementation can also provide constructive insights by focusing on the interdependent, interconnected and historical nature of the implementation phenomenon. Some important practical applications for future self-service technology implementations are also discussed. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Informatics / unrestricted

This study places the intended creation and implementation of an inter-professional education strategy at the intersection of three networks. The networks in question are cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), actor network theory (ANT), and a complex healthcare organisation (NHSX). CHAT and ANT, whilst both socio-material in origin, afford quite different readings of NHSX: therefore, the former has been used to identify, distil, and decompose the organisational activity systems, and the latter has been used to problematise them. The strategy was created in 2005 and had ceased to exist by 2010. This study therefore employs CHAT and ANT accounts to trace the lifespan of the strategy through the organisation, in particular through organisational working, learning, and boundary crossing, in an attempt to explain its untimely demise. It is envisaged that this study will provide an aid to framing how socio-material approaches can be combined to support inter-professional policy construction and implementation in a way that will allow flexibility for others to adapt to their own distinctive circumstances

L’hypothèse centrale que sous-tend cette thèse est la suivante : le développement de nos sociétés, au sens des systèmes d’acteurs les constituant, face à ses principaux enjeux de long terme, est un processus d’innovation en tant que tel. Ce processus d’innovation est situé au croisement de dynamiques sociales, de conception et de traduction dans un système d’action collective et de fait de pouvoir.La thèse s’efforce de démontrer ces éléments en s’appuyant sur trois projets de terrain revisités à travers différents cadres théoriques spécifiques aux champs suscités. Cette analyse qui s’inscrit dans le cadre d’une démarche de recherche originale intégrant la théorie dans l’action et revisitant cette même théorie au vu des actions, permet à notre sens de faire émerger une nouvelle figure du développement des territoires dans leurs mécanismes contemporains d’innovation sociétale : L’architecte d’innovation.Cette nouvelle figure s’inscrit aux côtés des autres opérateurs de l’innovation et de l’action collective. Après avoir fait apparaitre les conditions de son émergence et les motivations de son intervention, la thèse s’achève par la présentation des différents visages du marginal sécant, concepteur de territoires inconnus. / The central hypothesis underlying this thesis is the following: the development of our societies, in the context of the constituent system of actors and their relationships, is based on an innovation process regarding long-term issues. This innovation process is located at the intersection of social dynamics, design and translation, in a system driven by collective action and power influences.This thesis attempts to demonstrate these elements based on three concrete projects revisited through different theoretical frameworks of the aforementioned specific fields. This analysis is part of a unique research program integrating theory in real life situations and revisiting theoretical concepts through our experience; this reflection leads to the emergence of a new figure/player in territories development through their mechanisms of contemporary social innovation: The architect of innovation.This new figure fits alongside other players driving innovation and collective action. After identifying the conditions of its emergence and motivations of its intervention, the thesis concludes with the presentation of the different faces of this ‘marginal secant’ defined as a designer of unknown territories.

Notre recherche porte sur la coopération au sein des réseaux territoriaux d'organisations. Plus particulièrement, nous souhaitons caractériser le processus de coopération qui s'établit entre les membres d'un réseau territorial d'organisations qui a émergé de l'incitation des pouvoirs publics. Pour cela, nous mobilisons une méthodologie qualitative en menant une étude de cas auprès du Pôle Tourisme de Territoire-Carac'Terres et du Pôle Services à la Personne, qui ont tous deux vu le jour afin d'être labellisés « Pôle Régional d'Innovation et de Développement Économique Solidaire » (PRIDES) par le Conseil Régional PACA. Nous nous appuyons sur un cadre théorique articulant l'Économie de la Proximité et la Sociologie de la Traduction afin d'analyser ces réseaux. Deux niveaux de résultats sont proposés. Le premier est de caractériser le processus de développement de la coopération en identifiant des facteurs favorables et des facteurs défavorables et en mettant en lumière que la coopération résulte de la mise en cohérence de quatre dimensions -les acteurs, les dispositifs de gestion, les espaces et le sens - à travers le rôle d'un traducteur. Le second niveau de résultat réside dans la mise en œuvre d'un cadre théorique hybride permettant d'appréhender la dynamique des proximités à travers le processus de traduction. / Our research focuses on cooperation within territorial networks. We wish, in particular, to characterize the cooperation process which is reached between the members of a social network born from the incentive of authorities. To achieve that, we use a qualitative methodology by carrying out a case study at the Pôle Tourisme de Territoire-Carac'Terres, and at the Pôle Services à la Personne, which were both created to be labelled "Regional Pole for Innovation and Economic Development based on Solidarity" (PRIDES) by the Regional Council PACA. We use a theoretical frame combining Proximity Science and Actor-Network Theory, in order to analyse these networks. Two levels of results are proposed. The first one is to characterize the development process of cooperation by identifying the predisposing and hampering factors, and by bringing to light the fact that cooperation is the result of the weaving together of four dimensions - the actors, the management tools, the areas, and the meaning - through a translator. The second level lies in the implement of a hybrid theoretical frame, which allows to grasp the dynamics of proximities through a translating process.

A radical change of the socio-cultural order has brought about globalisation processes. Their consequences in the economic sphere include, mainly, growing interdependence, increasing mobility of the production factors and rising efficiency of the global economy. This brings important causes in the political dimension, were the anarchy at the global level translates into erosion of the role of state sovereignty and creation of world economy inefficiencies. Qualitatively new system of global governance, governance at multiple levels and a regulative sub-system emerge, which the World Trade Organisation is a main example of. To reach an effective solution, it is essential to introduce a reform. The central methodological bases are systems theory and neo-liberal internationalism of this analysis.

The road of development through e-government is covered with deep potholes and dead ends. This is because Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are adopted and e-government policies are developed with a blind focus on the ICT tools and with little reflection on the contribution of ICT to development (Heeks and Bailur, 2007, p. 243, Avgerou, 2009, p. 14). To assist with this reflection Information Systems (IS) researchers are increasingly calling for the development of local contextual theory or a framework in ICT for Development (ICT4D) (Avgerou, 2009, p. 14, Madon et al., 2007, Walsham, 2003, Walsham, 1997). This thesis responds to that call by investigating the role of e-government towards development within the South African context. The means of inquiry was a three year ethnographic immersion in a longitudinal research project. The aim of the longitudinal research project was to investigate how a specialised type of ICT (Group Support Systems) can enable interaction between government and citizens in attaining specific human rights. The research project centred on creating an awareness among the public in South Africa of a newly enacted Act, the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act No 3 of 2000 (PAJA). The rich data collected was analysed using Grounded Theory, resulting in a substantive theory that suggests that within the South African context e-government could contribute to development if it is used to facilitate policy implementation within the spirit of Ubuntu. The thesis delineates the journey up to the emergence of the substantive theory. The substantive theory has important implications for IS theory and IS practice. For IS theory, the substantive theory demonstrates that research on ICT4D in Africa could usefully be undertaken by following an action research strategy within a critical-interpretive paradigm. The substantive theory also suggests the importance of taking into account the contextual collaborative nature of African culture in the spirit of Ubuntu when conducting such research. For practice, the substantive theory proposes a potential framework where ICT could provide the collaborative environment or shared space in the spirit of Ubuntu for policy implementation towards development. Checked against implementation requirements on the South African policy on entrepreneurship, the substantive theory framework proves to be equally valuable. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Informatics / unrestricted