Les forums sont des espaces de communication très utilisés sur Internet : publicset asynchrones, ils offrent une place pour exposer différents points de vue et alimenter les dé-bats ; permanents, ils gardent trace des activités passées. Leurs archives constituent une mined'informations pour la communauté qui a animé le forum ou pour des chercheurs. Elles sontsous-exploitées car la lecture à posteriori en est fastidieuse. La cohérence temporelle perdue, lecontexte de lecture est dificile à reconstituer sans une bonne connaissance préalable de l'his-toire du forum. Face au constat que les interfaces de lecture actuelles des forums, bien adaptéesà l'usage en temps réel, sont inadaptées à l'exploration des archives, nous proposons d'autresmodes de présentation. Le premier mode fait appel à des analyses statistiques sur la participa-tion au forum. Le deuxième mode propose des analyses textuelles sur le contenu des messages.La comparaison interne du lexique sans ressources externes permet des analyses robustes. L'in-teractivité avec le lecteur lui permet d'ajuster progressivement les paramètres de présentationet les ressources spécifiques pour mieux appréhender le contexte de lecture. La plate-forme Fo-rumExplor nous a permis de mettre en oeuvre ces nouvelles présentations, et de les évaluer enfonction de divers objectifs de lecture dans le contexte des jeux de rôle en ligne. D'autres expé-rimentations dans le cadre d'études de listes de diffusion d'enseignants montrent la portée et lecaractère générique d'un tel outil.

Vaccination is an important public health measure that can help reduce disease at the population level. Substantial evidence exists that vaccines are safe and effective at reducing the incidence of diseases like pertussis, measles and cervical cancer. However, on Internet parenting forums, parents discuss whether or not vaccination is the right choice for their children. In this thesis, I highlight the historical context of the anti-vaccine movement in mid 19th century to early 20th century Victorian Britain in the era of compulsory smallpox vaccination. Vaccination in this time was a very different and more overtly dangerous process, and preexisting dissenting movements took up anti-vaccination as a cause. Today, the rhetoric on Internet parenting forums has grown to include arguments of safety, efficacy and necessity of vaccination. I gathered much of the information from the mothering.com and mumsnet.com parenting forums, and other websites like Sanevax.org.

This study analyses the legitimation of violence against women in Colombia, using critical discourse analysis to explore attitudes related to violence, gender, and power. Internet forums from the website of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo provide everyday examples of talk about two incidents of violence against women (VAW), a sexual assault and a wife-beating, both of which triggered a large scale reaction from the Colombian public. Colombia is a unique context to study the normalisation of VAW. This nation has been characterised by high levels of violence over the last sixty years, suffering through evolving stages of armed conflict. Militarisation has been shown to increase the occurrence of VAW (Kelly, 2000), and the normalisation of VAW may intensify as well in militarily violent contexts (Hume, 2004; McWilliams, 1998). Critical discourse analysis offers theory and methodology to examine an aspect of life in terms of social justice and power (Fairclough, 2003; Resende, 2009), denaturalising the discursive practices which help to produce and reproduce power relations between social groups (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; van Dijk, 1993). This study examines legitimation, a social action realised in discourse, which has the goal of setting and reinforcing a certain social order. The project also explores how legitimation in these forums is tied to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Drawing on the methods of van Dijk (1988, 1998, 2001) ,Wood and Kroger (2000), and grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 2008), multiple readings of the forums elicited salient themes as well as discursive strategies used to carry out legitimation of VAW. These were analysed in terms of underlying social beliefs prevailing in Colombian society. Dominant themes emerging from analysis of the sexual assault forums include: ‘“real” violence is more important’; ‘this incident was not a big deal’; ‘it’s her fault anyway’; and ‘she should have appreciated it’. These manifest the dominant strategies and structures of contrasts, minimisation, victim blaming, and romanticisation/sexualisation, respectively. Analysis of the wife-beating forums reveals the following themes: ‘this is not related to me’; ‘wife-beating is a private issue’; ‘domestic violence is normal and even important’; ‘it is the victim’s responsibility to change’; and ‘the victim deserves this violence’. Dominant strategies included respectively: distancing explanations and solutions, discourses of privacy, normalising violence, focusing on the victim, and victim blaming. The forum analyses illustrate how legitimation relates to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Numerous elements of culture and topic are used to criticise women’s agency and suggest that women ought to be passive and silent. In one culture-related example, the Colombian reiteration of violent events works to silence women’s stories about their experiences of VAW. Another strong element of culture is found in Colombian sayings and proverbs presenting a common knowledge discourse normalising VAW as romantic, sexual and necessary. Discourses used more universally to justify VAW include the idea that women belong in the private sphere and the psychopathologisation of women as attention-seeking and slutty. These elements work together to suggest that women are strong, sexual, and dangerous, needing violence from an authority to keep them uncomplaining and submissive. This work can inform future studies about discourse concerning VAW in Hispanic contexts, sketching in a little-studied disciplinary intersection. As this research participates in the aims of feminist critical discourse analysis, it is hoped that the present study will also be used for critical campaigns aimed at media specialists and educators so that they may create greater awareness and promote change, pointing out and discouraging these discourses legitimating violence against women in Colombia.

This study analyses the legitimation of violence against women in Colombia, using critical discourse analysis to explore attitudes related to violence, gender, and power. Internet forums from the website of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo provide everyday examples of talk about two incidents of violence against women (VAW), a sexual assault and a wife-beating, both of which triggered a large scale reaction from the Colombian public. Colombia is a unique context to study the normalisation of VAW. This nation has been characterised by high levels of violence over the last sixty years, suffering through evolving stages of armed conflict. Militarisation has been shown to increase the occurrence of VAW (Kelly, 2000), and the normalisation of VAW may intensify as well in militarily violent contexts (Hume, 2004; McWilliams, 1998). Critical discourse analysis offers theory and methodology to examine an aspect of life in terms of social justice and power (Fairclough, 2003; Resende, 2009), denaturalising the discursive practices which help to produce and reproduce power relations between social groups (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; van Dijk, 1993). This study examines legitimation, a social action realised in discourse, which has the goal of setting and reinforcing a certain social order. The project also explores how legitimation in these forums is tied to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Drawing on the methods of van Dijk (1988, 1998, 2001) ,Wood and Kroger (2000), and grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 2008), multiple readings of the forums elicited salient themes as well as discursive strategies used to carry out legitimation of VAW. These were analysed in terms of underlying social beliefs prevailing in Colombian society. Dominant themes emerging from analysis of the sexual assault forums include: ‘“real” violence is more important’; ‘this incident was not a big deal’; ‘it’s her fault anyway’; and ‘she should have appreciated it’. These manifest the dominant strategies and structures of contrasts, minimisation, victim blaming, and romanticisation/sexualisation, respectively. Analysis of the wife-beating forums reveals the following themes: ‘this is not related to me’; ‘wife-beating is a private issue’; ‘domestic violence is normal and even important’; ‘it is the victim’s responsibility to change’; and ‘the victim deserves this violence’. Dominant strategies included respectively: distancing explanations and solutions, discourses of privacy, normalising violence, focusing on the victim, and victim blaming. The forum analyses illustrate how legitimation relates to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Numerous elements of culture and topic are used to criticise women’s agency and suggest that women ought to be passive and silent. In one culture-related example, the Colombian reiteration of violent events works to silence women’s stories about their experiences of VAW. Another strong element of culture is found in Colombian sayings and proverbs presenting a common knowledge discourse normalising VAW as romantic, sexual and necessary. Discourses used more universally to justify VAW include the idea that women belong in the private sphere and the psychopathologisation of women as attention-seeking and slutty. These elements work together to suggest that women are strong, sexual, and dangerous, needing violence from an authority to keep them uncomplaining and submissive. This work can inform future studies about discourse concerning VAW in Hispanic contexts, sketching in a little-studied disciplinary intersection. As this research participates in the aims of feminist critical discourse analysis, it is hoped that the present study will also be used for critical campaigns aimed at media specialists and educators so that they may create greater awareness and promote change, pointing out and discouraging these discourses legitimating violence against women in Colombia.

This study analyses the legitimation of violence against women in Colombia, using critical discourse analysis to explore attitudes related to violence, gender, and power. Internet forums from the website of the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo provide everyday examples of talk about two incidents of violence against women (VAW), a sexual assault and a wife-beating, both of which triggered a large scale reaction from the Colombian public. Colombia is a unique context to study the normalisation of VAW. This nation has been characterised by high levels of violence over the last sixty years, suffering through evolving stages of armed conflict. Militarisation has been shown to increase the occurrence of VAW (Kelly, 2000), and the normalisation of VAW may intensify as well in militarily violent contexts (Hume, 2004; McWilliams, 1998). Critical discourse analysis offers theory and methodology to examine an aspect of life in terms of social justice and power (Fairclough, 2003; Resende, 2009), denaturalising the discursive practices which help to produce and reproduce power relations between social groups (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; van Dijk, 1993). This study examines legitimation, a social action realised in discourse, which has the goal of setting and reinforcing a certain social order. The project also explores how legitimation in these forums is tied to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Drawing on the methods of van Dijk (1988, 1998, 2001) ,Wood and Kroger (2000), and grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 2008), multiple readings of the forums elicited salient themes as well as discursive strategies used to carry out legitimation of VAW. These were analysed in terms of underlying social beliefs prevailing in Colombian society. Dominant themes emerging from analysis of the sexual assault forums include: ‘“real” violence is more important’; ‘this incident was not a big deal’; ‘it’s her fault anyway’; and ‘she should have appreciated it’. These manifest the dominant strategies and structures of contrasts, minimisation, victim blaming, and romanticisation/sexualisation, respectively. Analysis of the wife-beating forums reveals the following themes: ‘this is not related to me’; ‘wife-beating is a private issue’; ‘domestic violence is normal and even important’; ‘it is the victim’s responsibility to change’; and ‘the victim deserves this violence’. Dominant strategies included respectively: distancing explanations and solutions, discourses of privacy, normalising violence, focusing on the victim, and victim blaming. The forum analyses illustrate how legitimation relates to Colombian culture and the topic of VAW. Numerous elements of culture and topic are used to criticise women’s agency and suggest that women ought to be passive and silent. In one culture-related example, the Colombian reiteration of violent events works to silence women’s stories about their experiences of VAW. Another strong element of culture is found in Colombian sayings and proverbs presenting a common knowledge discourse normalising VAW as romantic, sexual and necessary. Discourses used more universally to justify VAW include the idea that women belong in the private sphere and the psychopathologisation of women as attention-seeking and slutty. These elements work together to suggest that women are strong, sexual, and dangerous, needing violence from an authority to keep them uncomplaining and submissive. This work can inform future studies about discourse concerning VAW in Hispanic contexts, sketching in a little-studied disciplinary intersection. As this research participates in the aims of feminist critical discourse analysis, it is hoped that the present study will also be used for critical campaigns aimed at media specialists and educators so that they may create greater awareness and promote change, pointing out and discouraging these discourses legitimating violence against women in Colombia.

In a learning community, conventional discussion forums are integral to webbased interventions in traditional classrooms as well as on-line learning environments. Despite popular belief that they are a great success in fostering deep and meaningful discussions and support active learning; research has found that there are millions of messages posted by users to express such an opinion, but it is hard to be directly delivered to all users. Finally there are millions of postings in databases across the country stored away and never reused. This thesis introduces a PhD student’s current research work. It proposes a distributed intelligent discussion forum system dedicated to supporting both students and teachers. The system is developed with the primary goal of reducing the number of problems associated with conventional discussion forum systems in web-based environments and improving the effectiveness of dialogue between students with each other and with teachers so that it can enhance each individual student’s ability to share and learn knowledge.

Submitted by Johnny Rodrigues (johnnyrodrigues@ufcg.edu.br) on 2017-12-11T13:08:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE CHAVES DE MEDEIROS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014.pdf: 1794393 bytes, checksum: 843f24f727881568e52ff59c12122403 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-12-11T13:08:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DANIELLE CHAVES DE MEDEIROS - DISSERTAÇÃO PPGCC 2014.pdf: 1794393 bytes, checksum: 843f24f727881568e52ff59c12122403 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12 / A seleção de critérios para a análise de informações durante o processo de avaliação da participação em fóruns de discussão de cursos de Educação a Distância (EaD) é um grande desafio. São muitas as variáveis que devem ser consideradas neste processo, além da subjetividade inerente à análise realizada pelo docente, passível de erro humano. Os docentes geralmente não possuem a seu dispor todos os recursos necessários, se tornando necessário o uso de uma metodologia ou ferramenta que o auxilie no processo de avaliação. Diante desta demanda e, a partir de um estudo dos principais indicadores qualitativos/quantitativos utilizados pelos professores de EaD, foi desenvolvido um arcabouço para a análise da participação dos alunos em fóruns. O objetivo deste arcabouço é servir de apoio à tomada de decisão do professor, fornecendo um mecanismo mais efetivo para a mensuração da quantidade e da qualidade das interações, passível de adaptação à metodologia tradicional adotada por cada docente. A validação deste arcabouço deu-se a partir da administração de questionários para a sondagem da opinião de docentes atuantes na área de ensino a distância, assim como pela realização de estudos de caso envolvendo a avaliação da acurácia de instâncias do arcabouço para o cálculo da nota de participação de alunos. Foi desenvolvido um Sistema Especialista (SE) para o processamento dos dados, com o uso de funções de similaridade para realizar, de forma semiautomática, a avaliação do conteúdo das mensagens dos alunos. Assim, as notas de participação calculadas foram confrontadas com as notas atribuídas pelo docente utilizando a abordagem tradicional. Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que, em três das cinco turmas observadas, não foi possível verificar a existência de diferenças estatísticas significativas entre o desempenho das abordagens estudadas. Um estudo da acurácia e correlação revela que, em todos os casos analisados, há uma forte relação entre os dados e o erro médio encontrado foi inferior a 3%, demonstrando a aplicabilidade do arcabouço ao contexto da avaliação da participação em fóruns. / The selection of criteria for the information analysis during the participation evaluation process, in discussion forums of distance courses, is a major challenge. There are many variables to consider in this process, in addition to the subjectivity inherent in the analysis carried out by the instructor, which is subject to human error. Instructors, generally, do not have at their disposal all the resources necessary, thus, the use of methodologies or tools that can help them with this process are necessary. Facing this demand, and after performing a study of the major qualitative/quantitative indicators used by distance education teachers, we developed a framework for the analysis of the student participation in the forums. The aim of this framework is to support the decision-making process, by providing a more effective mechanism to measure the quantity and quality of interactions, capable of adjusting itself to the traditional methodology adopted by each teacher. The validation of this framework was performed by the administration of questionnaires that surveyed the opinion of active teachers in the distance learning area, and by the execution of case studies involving the assessment of the accuracy of instances of this framework for calculating the participation grade of students. The study involved the development of an Expert System, for the treatment and processing of the data, using similarity functions to perform, semi-automatically, the assessment of the content of the students' messages. Thus, it was possible to confront the calculated participation grades with the grades assigned by the teacher using the traditional approach. The results showed that, in three out of the five classes observed, it was not possible to verify the existence of statistically significant differences between the performance of both the approaches studied. A study of the accuracy and correlation shows that, in all the cases analyzed, there is a strong relationship between the data, and the average error was less than 3%, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed framework to the assessment of student participation in forums.

Among the teachers functions in online education, the tutoring plays an important role. The tutor establishes the closest relations with the student, mediating the pedagogical actions which are developed in the online course, with in order to achieve the principles of autonomy and learning, contributing to the creation of collaborative learning spaces, permeated by the interactivity and affection. This research focuses on the role of tutors in the Continued Training Programme for Educational Media searching for the improvement in the practice of tutoring since the studies of practice and the individuals who practice them can contribute to understanding and better structuring of this expanding area. This study aimed to verify the contribution of tutors to promote interactivity and building emotional bonds through the forum interface, as constitutive elements of learning communities in the basic cycle of the Media in Education Programme, in its first offer in Alagoas. The methodology used was case study, and data collecting involved multiple sources of evidence such as questionnaires, interviews and consultations. In the research achieved revise of literature, procedures for data collection, tabulation and analysis of data collected. The results showed that the performance of the tutors was very positive, but there are aspects that need improvement in order to have a truly interactive feature of a learning community, and reach the goal of collaborative learning in online education. / Entre as funções docentes na educação online, a tutoria ocupa um lugar importante. O tutor estabelece as relações mais próximas com o aluno, mediando as ações pedagógicas que se desenvolvem no curso online, tendo em vista a concretização dos princípios da autonomia e da aprendizagem, contribuindo para a criação de espaços colaborativos de aprendizagem, permeados pela interatividade e afetividade. Esta pesquisa enfoca a atuação dos tutores no Programa de Formação Continuada em Mídias na Educação tendo em vista a busca de subsídios para a melhoria da prática da tutoria, uma vez que os estudos sobre as práticas e os sujeitos que as exercem podem contribuir para a compreensão e melhor estruturação dessa área em expansão. Teve como objetivo verificar qual a contribuição dos tutores na promoção da interatividade e da construção de vínculos afetivos, através da interface fórum, como elementos constitutivos de comunidades de aprendizagem no ciclo básico do Mídias na Educação, em sua primeira oferta em Alagoas. A metodologia utilizada foi o estudo de caso, envolvendo várias fontes de evidências como questionários, entrevistas e consultas para coleta de dados. Na pesquisa realizou-se revisão de literatura, procedimentos de coleta de dados, tabulação e análise dos dados coletados. Os resultados demonstraram que a atuação dos tutores foi bastante positiva, mas há aspectos que precisam melhorar para que se tenha de fato a interatividade característica de uma comunidade de aprendizagem, e se alcance o objetivo da aprendizagem colaborativa na educação online.

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We analyze the logic of the candidates' campaign coordination in the use of discussion forums for government proposals, the constraints and incentives to encourage participation of ordinary citizens and the level of control exercised, and on the other hand, the way they interacted with Internet campaigns, with candidates and each other from these tools, the form and content of discursive exchanges held there and the nature of the proposals that resulted from this interaction. We start from the assumption that the availability of online discussion forums create an opportunity structure that can increase the possibility of political action of ordinary citizens to communicate their preferences, perform inputs, participate in the construction of political projects, as well as compel the candidates to conceive with more clearly their political platforms. However, the type of product is the result of the design of the interface and how the Internet and using the candidate technology, rather than a pre-determined by it, ie, depends on how the rules are articulated objective, strategies election, the political interest and the ability of the actors involved. We tested six corollaries specific empirical contexts and concrete objects of our investigation were the platforms for discussion and collaborative construction of government programs of four presidential candidates from Argentina, Chile and Brazil during the 2007 elections, 2009 and 2010, respectively, and the corpus of empiricalresearch in 2727 totaled posts analyzed. For purposes of this study, we performed a composition techniques that resulted in a specific methodological apparatus, including observation of interactions mediated by the computer, data collection and content analysis. The model consists of a first effort to develop a methodological research strategy discussion forums established in the electoral environment of websites. The evaluation of the quality of the discussions was undertaken according to eight dimensions of analysis based on methodological parameters DQI - Discourse Quality Index (Constraints and incentives for participation, inclusiveness and diversity, reciprocity debate, mutual respect, Identification, Degree of heterogeneity, thematization and effectiveness of content and interactive interface), which were operationalized into indicators, qualitative and quantitative. / Nesta tese desenvolvemos uma análise visando compreender as novas formatações da política na era da Web 2.0. O objetivo geral foi investigar se e de que forma o potencial da Internet para interação humana foi empregado pelos candidatos e coligações nas recentes campanhas presidenciais no Cone Sul e se e em que medida as ferramentas interativas em websites eleitorais foram utilizadas para estreitar os laços com o eleitorado durante a campanha política e ampliar a qualidade dos processos democráticos. Nesta tese buscamos contemplar dois níveis de análise: a estrutura formal do website e a ação política que nele se desenvolveu. Analisamos a lógica da coordenação de campanha dos candidatos na utilização dos fóruns de debates de propostas de governo, os constrangimentos e incentivos à participação do cidadão comum e o nível de controle exercido; e por outro lado, a maneira como os internautas interagiram com as campanhas, com os candidatos e entre si a partir destas ferramentas, a forma e o teor das trocas discursivas ali realizadas e a natureza das propostas que resultaram desta interação. Partimos da hipótese de que a disponibilização de fóruns de debate online cria oportunidade estrutural que pode aumentar a possibilidade de ação política dos cidadãos comuns para comunicarem suas preferências, realizarem inputs, participarem da construção de projetos políticos, bem como compelirem os candidatos para que delineiem com mais clareza suas plataformas políticas. Não obstante, o tipo de resultado é fruto do desenho da interface e da maneira como os candidatos e internautas utilizam a tecnologia, e não um produto pré-determinado por ela, ou seja, depende da forma como se articulam as regras objetivas, as estratégias eleitorais, o interesse político e a capacidade dos atores envolvidos. Testamos seis corolários específicos em contextos empíricos concretos; nossos objetos de investigação foram as plataformas para discussão e construção colaborativa dos programas de governo de quatro presidenciáveis da Argentina, Chile e Brasil, durante os pleitos 2007, 2009 e 2010, respectivamente, e o corpus empírico desta pesquisa totalizou em 2.727 posts analisados. Para os propósitos deste estudo, foi realizada uma composição de técnicas que resultaram em um aparato metodológico específico, incluindo observação das interações mediadas pelo computador, coleta de dados e análise de conteúdo. O modelo apresentado consiste em um primeiro esforço metodológico para desenvolver uma estratégia de investigação de fóruns de discussão estabelecidos na ambiência de websites eleitorais. A avaliação da qualidade das discussões foi empreendida de acordo com oito dimensões de análise com base nos parâmetros metodológicos DQI - Discourse Quality Index (Constrangimentos e incentivos à participação, Inclusividade e Diversidade, Reciprocidade do debate, Respeito mútuo, Identificação, Grau de heterogeneidade, Tematização e conteúdo e Efetividade da interface interativa), que foram operacionalizadas com alguns indicadores, qualitativos e quantitativos.

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