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There is great interest in testimonies, both in society at large and as a theoretical concept. Within educational research testimony is used to understand and develop epistemological, political or ethical thinking. In this thesis I investigate what testimonies and the act of witnessing can do in relation to education. More specifically, I investigate what kind of pedagogical possibilities there are in witnessing and testimony, in relation to teaching as well as outside schools. Focusing on three different aspects (of these phenomena), namely representation, subjectivity and emotion I discuss different examples of testimonies. These are Collateral Murder, The Living History Forum’s book Tell Ye Your Children…, Gruva by Sara Lidman and Odd Uhrbom, and pictures with Alan Kurdi from 2015 taken by Nilüfer Demir. I examine the pedagogical possibilities of testimony and witnessing based on the idea that such possibilities are situated in human imperfection and lack of ability, where the knowledge is placed in the impossibility, in our not-knowing. This dialectical understanding, drawing on Giorgio Agamben, implies a different formulation than previous research, by highlighting the impossibility of witnessing and of testimony, for example by how the testimony does not stand outside the political, and in Western society more specifically, the capitalist system. Through the analyses of the different aspects (representation, subjectivity, emotions) I show how testimonies can serve as a way to control the students' emotions and perceptions (drawing on Sara Ahmed), and influence the perception of the society in which the students live. I have also shown how the act of witnessing can be done at the witness’ own expense (by drawing on The Latina Feminist Group). It can mean that testimonies work as a way to reproduce various stereotypes of different people's suffering and thus consolidate existing power structures and identities. The conditions surrounding witnessing and testimonies make witnessing an act that can be perceived as a poetic testimony, as well as an exploitation or expropriation of already vulnerable people. With this said, I also argue for the value of bringing into teaching testimonies that testify of suffering. Testimonies stand between the past and the future and have important things to speak of. If testimonies are not heard in teaching, there is a possibility of silencing and forgetting the wounds in history. It is in teaching where the repetitive work of a literary reading (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) can take place. A literary reading that emphasizes the difficulties in testimonies and one’s own part of and relation to it. It is the effort of the repetitive work in teaching that can lead to pedagogical possibility, and through that, enter the future.

The aim of this study has been to highlight and describe the perceptions of beggars, by studying and analyzing empirical data collected through observing different threads on a Swedish discussion forum. We wanted to study how beggars are mentioned in the discussion forum to illustrate the opinions and perceptions. To analyze the data a qualitative method of meaning condensation were used. The result was analyzed from a perspective of deviant behavior and three theories: Goffman's theory about Stigma, Beckers labelling theory and the theory about the established and the outsiders by Elias. The results showed that beggars are categorized and described as criminals, misfits and frauds. The results also gave us the conclusion that there are negative attitudes towards beggars.

Esta dissertação de mestrado analisa o Fórum Social Mundial, uma das maiores articulações promovidas por organizações da sociedade civil, a partir de desenvolvimentos recentes da teoria de movimentos sociais acerca de redes e identidade coletiva no plano transnacional. Emprega também a técnica da Análise de Rede Social para verificar as relações de poder dentro do Conselho Internacional do Fórum, seu órgão mais representativo. Os resultados apontam a existência de um núcleo duro à frente do processo de articulação, que mantém uma série de regras de conduta e metodologia de trabalho para mediar os conflitos internos e evitar a desagregação do grupo. Indicam também que grupos mais antigos, de estrutura tradicional, como organizações não-governamentais e movimentos sociais de base, são mais influentes no Fórum do que redes e coalizões surgidas mais recentemente na onda de contestações à chamada globalização neoliberal. Essa conclusão polemiza com leituras da realidade que apontam as redes e coalizões como os novos movimentos sociais da contemporaneidade. / This research analyzes the World Social Forum one of the more important networks promoted by civil society organizations using recent developments of the theory of social movements on network and collective identity in the transnational space. It also uses Social Network Analysis to verify the power relations inside of the International Council of the Forum, its more representative department. The results point the existence of a powerful nucleus that keeps rules of behavior and some methodologies to mediate internal conflicts and to prevent the disaggregation of the group. They also indicate that old entities with more traditional structures, as nongovernmental organizations and grassroots movements, are more influential in the Forum than coalitions or other kinds of networks who emerge more recently in protests against neoliberal globalization. This conclusion polemizes with some studies that point coalitions as the strongest social movements of contemporaneity.

A pesquisa investiga as transformações socioculturais atreladas ao desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação e como ocorre a mobilização da sociedade civil global por meio da internet. São analisados aspectos da dinâmica em rede que prevalece nas relações pós-modernas, com destaque para a ação política autônoma de grupos de resistência. O objeto de pesquisa é a relação entre as redes e o Fórum Social Mundial. A metodologia consiste em revisão de literatura em duas frentes principais: referências bibliográficas de caráter multidisciplinar e literatura específica sobre o Fórum Social Mundial. Reportagens, notícias, sites e vídeos também foram consultados, além da participação nos encontros. O trabalho, ao tratar de um objeto contemporâneo em transformação, oferece uma série de reflexões: como potencializar o uso da rede; como a relação com a informação e o conhecimento se altera; como as relações em rede afetam a articulação entre indivíduos e coletivos e a mobilização de movimentos de resistência; como exercer uma participação ativa na esfera pública em rede, contribuindo para uma sociedade mais participativa, livre e democrática. / The research investigates social and cultural changes linked to the development of information and communication technologies and how the mobilisation of global civil society happens throught the internet. Besides, some aspects of the network dynamic that prevail in post-modern relationships are analised, with emphasis on the autonomous political action of resistance groups. The main theme of this research is the relationship between the networks and the World Social Forum. The methodology consists in literature revision on two main fields: multi-disciplinary references and specific literature about the World Social Forum. Articles, news, websites and videos were also sources of information, besides the researcher´s participation in the events. The research, when working with a contemporary changing subject, raises a number of issues: how is it possible to maximize the use of network?; how does the relationship with information and knowledge change?; how do the networked relationships affect the articulation between individuals and groups and the mobilisation of resistance movements?; how can individuals participate actively in the networked public sphere to contribute to a more participatory, free and democratic society?

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-19T12:01:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Luíza Moreira Grisolia.pdf: 1595190 bytes, checksum: 83615c11d340ba8f1c0ab988352c1623 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-19T12:01:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luíza Moreira Grisolia.pdf: 1595190 bytes, checksum: 83615c11d340ba8f1c0ab988352c1623 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-10-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present study proposes to analyze the health forum as a device for the creation of healthcare networks, in conjunction with the idea of production of the commons, hereby understood, alike with Espinosa, as everything that results from the gathering of people who establish multiple and equivalent mannerisms and whose effect is the increase of potential in each one. The health forums are organizational arrangements that bring together health professionals from different departments to debate and negotiate strategies for building Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS), as well as critical analysis of health practices within itself and joint networks. By setting itself up as a border place in public policy, the aforementioned instrument, bears the potential to promote democratic ways of doing / thinking about health. The research was conducted from observant participation in a health forum in the Northern Zone of São Paulo, Brazil, with the sole purpose of analyzing how the sociability experimentation, the production of the commons and the collective construction of creative strategies operate inside the device. The main theme of the discussion forum is the Psychosocial Attention Network, which aims to create links between the basic healthcare devices, mental health, hospitals, amongst other areas beyond the healthcare network. All the collected material (themes, dialogues, affections) has been kept in a field diary, highlighting the concrete ways of establishing relationships in this collective space. The said material has been analyzed from the institutional review perspective, in the form of themes and critical events. It has been later presented in the form of construe scenes, emphasizing the affections and power relations which surround the attendants. Based on the theoretical recovery of network concepts and the production of the commons, and with the assistance of authors such as Espinosa, Negri and Teixeira, we speculate the place of the health forum in the framing of SUS. We also indicate the forum as a boundary between the inside and the outside, the public and the private, a place of displacement of senses, in which it is possible to identify community areas which provide creative solutions for the healthcare creation / O presente estudo propõe analisar o fórum de saúde como um dispositivo de construção das redes de saúde, em diálogo com a noção de produção do comum, aqui entendida, com Espinosa, como tudo aquilo que se produz no encontro entre pessoas que estabelecem formas múltiplas e mútuas de afetação e cujo efeito é o aumento de potência de cada um. Os fóruns de saúde são arranjos organizativos que reúnem profissionais de saúde de diferentes serviços para o debate e negociação de estratégias de construção do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), de análise crítica das práticas de saúde e de articulação de redes. Tal dispositivo, por se configurar como um lugar de fronteira na política pública, carrega a potência de produzir modos democráticos de fazer/pensar saúde. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir da participação observante em um fórum de saúde da Zona Norte do município de São Paulo, com o objetivo de analisar como opera no espaço do Fórum a experimentação de sociabilidade, a produção do comum e a construção coletiva de estratégias criativas. A temática do fórum é a Rede de Atenção Psicossocial, que visa a articulação de redes entre equipamentos da atenção básica, saúde mental, hospitais e outros setores para além da saúde. O material colhido (temas, diálogos, afetos) foi registrado em diário de campo, destacando os modos concretos de relação que se estabelecem neste espaço coletivo. O material foi analisado na perspectiva da análise institucional, na forma de eixos temáticos e de eventos críticos. Posteriormente, foi apresentado na forma de cenas analisadoras, evidenciando as afetações e relações de poder que circulam entre os participantes. A partir da retomada teórica dos conceitos de rede e de produção do comum, com aportes de autores como Espinosa, Negri e Teixeira, refletimos sobre o lugar do fórum de saúde na construção do SUS. Apontamos para o fórum como lugar de fronteira entre o dentro e o fora, entre o público e o privado, lugar de deslocamento de sentidos, nos quais é possível identificar zonas de comunidade que propiciam soluções criativas para a construção do cuidado em saúde

<div> <div> <div> <p>Medication non-adherence and non-compliance left unaddressed can compound into severe medical problems for patients. Identifying patients that are likely to become non-adherent can help reduce these problems. Despite these benefits, monitoring adherence at scale is cost-prohibitive. Social forums offer an easily accessible, affordable, and timely alternative to the traditional methods based on claims data. This study investigates the potential of medication adherence prediction based on social forum data for diabetes and fibromyalgia therapies by using transfer learning from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). </p><p><br></p> <p>Predictive adherence models are developed by using both survey and social forums data and different random forest (RF) techniques. The first of these implementations uses binned inputs from k-means clustering. The second technique is based on ternary trees instead of the widely used binary decision trees. These techniques are able to handle missing data, a prevalent characteristic of social forums data. </p><p><br></p> <p>The results of this study show that transfer learning between survey models and social forum models is possible. Using MEPS survey data and the techniques listed above to derive RF models, less than 5% difference in accuracy was observed between the MEPS test dataset and the social forum test dataset. Along with these RF techniques, another RF implementation with imputed means for the missing values was developed and shown to predict adherence for social forum patients with an accuracy >70%. </p> </div> </div> <div> <div> <p><br></p> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p>This thesis shows that a model trained with verified survey data can be used to complement traditional medical adherence models by predicting adherence from unverified, self-reported data in a dynamic and timely manner. Furthermore, this model provides a method for discovering objective insights from subjective social reports. Additional investigation is needed to improve the prediction accuracy of the proposed model and to assess biases that may be inherent to self-reported adherence measures in social health networks. </p> </div> </div> </div>

Flashback is one of the most well known internet forums in Sweden. People visit the site to discuss different topics, to share information, to express opinions or to read posts by others. On Flashback’s ‘crime forum’ the users gather to share information but also to express opinions. These discussions have a tendency to become heated and with the increased wave of gangrelated violence and shootings in Malmö, Sweden 2018, forums like Flashback play an important role in what information is available to the public. This case was used to form the study’s main questions; How are facts used in threads and what are their sources? How do users interpret these events and how is it expressed through reasoning and personal opinions? How are opinions, behaviour and virtual community formed in an environment based on anonymity? To form a case and further investigate these questions we have organized different Flashback posts related to the Malmö-shootings and categorized them into themes. The interpretations would later on show various conclusions. Some conclusions were predicted, while other conclusions were shown when analyzing the material. The results showed that flashback-users use facts when sharing a link, to strengthen the shared information, to support theories about the case and sometimes when discussing the victims or suspects involved. How users interpret the events on Flashback is based on the intention of the individual. Some users are more likely to discuss political aspects. Other users intend to discuss the matter with an humours tone, these posts can be seen as an disinhibition effect (Suler 2004). Identity has shown to be a useful factor when analyzing an internet-forum. A conclusion from analyzing identity shows that behaviours are encouraged when the fear of being exposed is averted. Overall the result shows that the foundation of the virtual community on Flashback is the information that is shared between users.

A pesquisa investiga as transformações socioculturais atreladas ao desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação e como ocorre a mobilização da sociedade civil global por meio da internet. São analisados aspectos da dinâmica em rede que prevalece nas relações pós-modernas, com destaque para a ação política autônoma de grupos de resistência. O objeto de pesquisa é a relação entre as redes e o Fórum Social Mundial. A metodologia consiste em revisão de literatura em duas frentes principais: referências bibliográficas de caráter multidisciplinar e literatura específica sobre o Fórum Social Mundial. Reportagens, notícias, sites e vídeos também foram consultados, além da participação nos encontros. O trabalho, ao tratar de um objeto contemporâneo em transformação, oferece uma série de reflexões: como potencializar o uso da rede; como a relação com a informação e o conhecimento se altera; como as relações em rede afetam a articulação entre indivíduos e coletivos e a mobilização de movimentos de resistência; como exercer uma participação ativa na esfera pública em rede, contribuindo para uma sociedade mais participativa, livre e democrática. / The research investigates social and cultural changes linked to the development of information and communication technologies and how the mobilisation of global civil society happens throught the internet. Besides, some aspects of the network dynamic that prevail in post-modern relationships are analised, with emphasis on the autonomous political action of resistance groups. The main theme of this research is the relationship between the networks and the World Social Forum. The methodology consists in literature revision on two main fields: multi-disciplinary references and specific literature about the World Social Forum. Articles, news, websites and videos were also sources of information, besides the researcher´s participation in the events. The research, when working with a contemporary changing subject, raises a number of issues: how is it possible to maximize the use of network?; how does the relationship with information and knowledge change?; how do the networked relationships affect the articulation between individuals and groups and the mobilisation of resistance movements?; how can individuals participate actively in the networked public sphere to contribute to a more participatory, free and democratic society?

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Lygia Almeida Cunha.pdf: 1406487 bytes, checksum: 741de00d82c8f11b74cf0347dadb46d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-06 / This research is inserted in the realm of Applied Linguistics studies and aims to identify mediating actions performed by students in the 2007 class of the Specialization Course Teaching and Learning of the Portuguese Language for through the interpretation of messages posted in the discussion forum. During the activities developed in the course of Linguistic Pragmatics discipline, the finding that some students when interacting with their classmates acted as mediators led to the conception of this research whitch investigated the conditions that can make the student a mediator, thus contributing to the study of semiotic-pedagogic mediation that takes place in the online context. By starting from the Vygotsky s notion of mediation (1967/2008), the theoretical foundation of this study was grounded in authors interested in researching on the conditions under which interaction through forums are carried out in the online courses such as Gunawardena (1999), Garrison e Anderson (2003), Pallof e Pratt (2004), Coffin et al. (2005, 2006), Celani e Collins (2006), Collins (2008), Coll e Monereo (2010), Monereo e Pozo (2010), among others. The interpretation of messages posted by student mediators was based on the hermeneutic orientation supported by Ricoeur (2002, 2006, 2009), for whom the actions expressed in written texts can become an object of science. The research interpretation indicates the importance of the discussion forum as a privileged space for mediations made by students toward their peers / Este trabalho inscreve-se entre os estudos da Linguística Aplicada e tem como objetivo identificar ações mediadoras desempenhadas por alunos da turma de 2007 do Curso de Especialização Ensino-Aprendizagem da Língua Portuguesa por meio da interpretação de mensagens postadas nas discussões do fórum de discussão. Durante os trabalhos desenvolvidos no período de oferta da primeira disciplina, Pragmática Linguística, a constatação de que alguns alunos da turma de 2007 atuavam como mediadores, ao interagir com os colegas, levou à realização da presente pesquisa, que consistiu na investigação das condições que podem fazer do aluno um mediador, contribuindo, assim, para o estudo da mediação semiótico-pedagógica que se dá em contexto online. Partindo-se da noção de mediação de Vygotsky (1967/2008), buscou-se, em trabalhos de autores interessados no estudo das condições em que se realiza o ensino-aprendizagem online e na interação por meio do fórum como Gunawardena (1999), Garrison e Anderson (2003), Pallof e Pratt (2004), Coffin et al. (2005, 2006), Celani e Collins (2006), Collins (2008), Coll e Monereo (2010), Monereo e Pozo (2010), entre outros subsídios teóricos para a interpretação das mensagens postadas por alunos mediadores, com base na orientação da hermenêutica de Ricoeur (2002, 2006, 2009), para quem as ações expressas em textos escritos podem tornar-se objeto da ciência. Às considerações às quais levou a pesquisa indicam a importância do fórum como um espaço privilegiado para a mediação feita por alunos com relação a seus colegas