Orientador: Ivan Luiz Marques Ricarte / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-04T03:58:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardieri_MariaAngelicaCalixtodeAndrade_M.pdf: 650776 bytes, checksum: fff74e334b6029076f84b932cd827459 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004 / Resumo: Este trabalho apresenta um mecanismo que permite monitorar as ações realizadas pelo aluno em um ambiente de ensino na Web. A motivação para este desenvolvimento foi a constatação de que a maioria dos ambientes de ensino a distância, disponíveis na Web, não possuem uma forma eficiente para registro das interações dos usuários com as páginas. Este registro é importante, pois pode fornecer suporte para a avaliação do comportamento do aluno e de seu aprendizado. Além disso, possibilita que o próprio ambiente seja avaliado. O trabalho iniciou-se com a condução de um estudo de caso sobre um curso de ensino a distância já existente. Para este, foi construído um mecanismo específico de monitoramento a partir do qual foram identificados os problemas e adaptações necessárias. Foi então proposto um novo mecanismo para solucionar os problemas identificados. Este foi implementado e os resultados indicam um mecanismo flexível, eficiente e confiável de coleta de dados. Embora tenha sido voltado para ambientes educacionais, este mecanismo pode ser utilizado em qualquer aplicação na Web para a qual registros mais precisos sejam necessários / Abstract: This work presents a mechanism to monitor interactions between students and pages in a Web based learning environment. There is a need for this type of mechanism due to the fact that most environments for distance education available on the Web, as well as their usage assessment tools, do not keep appropriate records about such interactions. This type of information is fundamental to support evaluation of students behavior and learning, adapt the system according to different learning models, and also to evaluate the environment itself. The tool development was motivated by a case study of a previously implemented Web based course. In this study, a specific monitoring mechanism was built, in which some problems and required changes were identified. Therefore, a new architecture was proposed for the monitoring tool, which was then implemented. Results presented in this work indicate a flexible, efficient, and reliable way to collect data. Even though this engine has been implemented in an educational environment, it can be used in any Web based application that requires more precise information about user interactions / Mestrado / Engenharia de Computação / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica

Made available in DSpace on 2016-01-26T18:50:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO_PEINADO_01_12_08.pdf: 417065 bytes, checksum: ab5875dd3fc555ebb31ba53d1e7e5350 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-08 / The main aim of this research is at contributing to the improvement of teaching learning process based on the educator´s communication concepts by Paulo Freire. This study was developed through an investigation limited to the Business Administration students from a private educational institution, in Maringa, Parana State, Brazil. It focused on verifying the dialogical relation between teacher and student when mediated by the internet. In the latest years, it has gained an academic representation as a source of information and interactivity, becoming an important discussion in the developing process of students and teachers. This proposal originated from the analysis of the communication as a field of knowledge or the education for the media and the education through the media; the relation between the media and the student in question the internet user; the relation among teaching, research and information, and the use of didactic pedagogical resources in knowledge construction process. / O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento de procedimentos de ensino/aprendizagem dentro do conceito de comunicação do educador Paulo Freire. O estudo desenvolveu-se por meio de pesquisa centrada aos alunos do curso de Administração de Empresas em uma instituição particular de ensino de Maringá, no Estado do Paraná, verificando a relação professor e aluno, quando mediatizados pela Internet. Este meio nos últimos anos ganhou representatividade acadêmica enquanto fonte de informação e interatividade, tornando-se importante sua discussão no processo de desenvolvimento de alunos e professores. O estudo partiu da análise da comunicação como campo do conhecimento ou a educação para os meios e, ainda, a educação através dos meios; a relação entre a mídia e o sujeito internauta, a relação entre ensino, pesquisa e informação e a utilização de recursos didático-pedagógicos na construção do conhecimento. Os resultados expressam uma preocupação dos alunos com a qualidade do que é pesquisado na internet e a forma como organizam seus trabalhos de pesquisa. A internet é apontada como o principal meio utilizado em suas pesquisas acadêmicas pela facilidade com que conseguem se informar.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-18T17:54:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTACAO_PEINADO_01_12_08.pdf: 417065 bytes, checksum: ab5875dd3fc555ebb31ba53d1e7e5350 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-11-08 / The main aim of this research is at contributing to the improvement of teaching learning process based on the educator´s communication concepts by Paulo Freire. This study was developed through an investigation limited to the Business Administration students from a private educational institution, in Maringa, Parana State, Brazil. It focused on verifying the dialogical relation between teacher and student when mediated by the internet. In the latest years, it has gained an academic representation as a source of information and interactivity, becoming an important discussion in the developing process of students and teachers. This proposal originated from the analysis of the communication as a field of knowledge or the education for the media and the education through the media; the relation between the media and the student in question the internet user; the relation among teaching, research and information, and the use of didactic pedagogical resources in knowledge construction process. / O objetivo deste trabalho é contribuir para o aperfeiçoamento de procedimentos de ensino/aprendizagem dentro do conceito de comunicação do educador Paulo Freire. O estudo desenvolveu-se por meio de pesquisa centrada aos alunos do curso de Administração de Empresas em uma instituição particular de ensino de Maringá, no Estado do Paraná, verificando a relação professor e aluno, quando mediatizados pela Internet. Este meio nos últimos anos ganhou representatividade acadêmica enquanto fonte de informação e interatividade, tornando-se importante sua discussão no processo de desenvolvimento de alunos e professores. O estudo partiu da análise da comunicação como campo do conhecimento ou a educação para os meios e, ainda, a educação através dos meios; a relação entre a mídia e o sujeito internauta, a relação entre ensino, pesquisa e informação e a utilização de recursos didático-pedagógicos na construção do conhecimento. Os resultados expressam uma preocupação dos alunos com a qualidade do que é pesquisado na internet e a forma como organizam seus trabalhos de pesquisa. A internet é apontada como o principal meio utilizado em suas pesquisas acadêmicas pela facilidade com que conseguem se informar.

This is a deconstruction of "child pornography" through an analysis of media images of child spanking and their relationship with the criminal law and cinema, video and broadcasting regulation in Britain and Canada. It suggests that the law's primary concern is not the protection of children but the elimination of the heresy that children are sexually attractive. Chapter 1 introduces the phenomenon under discussion, namely internet sites that collect stills and clips from mainstream movies and television showing children receiving corporal punishment. The chapter postulates that these sites are for sexual gratification and explores what society understands by "sexual exploitation of children" and "sex" itself. Part I considers whether the web sites are child pornography under English or Canadian criminal law. Chapter 2 looks at Canada's definitions of obscenity and child pornography. Chapter 3 asks whether the images might be indecent according to England's law. These chapters examine the law's understanding of child spanking as a sexual act, exploring what constitutes "sex". While Part I declines to state definitively whether such web sites are illegal, it argues that the movies and television from which the images originate are tolerated for the reasons that give the images sexual appeal. Part II looks at the regulation in Canada and Britain of the movies and television from which the images are taken. Chapter 4 deals with cinema and video regulation, which prohibits eroticising violence and children, and asks how films are nevertheless rife with images of child beating used for sexual arousal. Chapter 5 similarly examines broadcasting regulation and asks whether the ban on sexualising children might be unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Part III concludes by looking at how society permits the eroticisation of children, while condemning the "paedophile". It suggests that the web sites may arise from childhood trauma over corporal punishment, compares the harm of that practice with that caused by the web sites and concludes that if there be prohibition, then it should be of child spanking, rather than the sites, which are non-exploitative testament to ingenuity in the face of a hypocritically censorial regime.

The aim of this study was to determine the factors influencing readership of electronic news via the Internet. The status of printed news in the changing news environment was also investigated in the light of increasing electronic news readership. In order to achieve this aim, current electronic news readers were probed on their Internet news readership. The findings indicated that although traditional printed news was still very widely read, the shift amongst Internet users seemed to be towards reading more electronic news in the future. This study found that the two most significant factors that will lead to an increase in electronic news readership are the following: • This medium being accessed free of charge, i.e. where no monthly Internet subscriptions need to be paid. This has been achieved through free Internet access via ABSA since 16 February 2001; and • an improvement in the speed of access. The fact that traditional printed newspapers can be read in an informal environment seemed to be the single most important factor in maintaining its popularity. / Thesis (M.Com.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.

Orientadores: Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre, Neury Jose Botega / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T00:48:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cruvinel_MonicaVasconcellos_M.pdf: 6900210 bytes, checksum: 9b8553f112d0234454dceaba61666ad4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: O Orkut configura-se como um espaço público de impermanências, onde a intimidade passa a ter visibilidade através dos relatos dos sujeitos. Narrar, sabendo-se vigiado, traz implícito um jogo de ¿revelar¿ e ¿esconder¿ que, de alguma forma, regula e constitui as relações sociais deste espaço virtual. Ao narrativizar suas experiências, os sujeitos vão produzindo discursos que além das suas, trazem vozes de outros. É um entrecruzar de memórias, de onde cada um seleciona e organiza, no tempo e no espaço, a hiper-textualidade de sua escritura. É possível ¿caminhar¿ por esta ¿Cidade Azul¿ e identificar rituais da contemporaneidade que começam a se fixar em nossa sociedade: novas maneiras de dizer a morte, novos modos de experimentar o luto e novas formas de trazer para a esfera do público o que, por muito tempo, ficou na esfera do privado. Nesta pesquisa, procuro compreender a maneira como os adolescentes, usuários do Orkut, estão lidando com a vida e com a morte, com a contraditória solidão que emerge em meio a um emaranhado de relações virtuais, capaz de aproximar algumas distâncias e de aprofundar outras. Analiso os discursos de jovens brasileiros que se suicidaram e que deixaram pelos espaços públicos do Orkut os rastros virtuais de uma morte (a)enunciada / Abstract: Orkut consists of a public place of discontinuities, where intimacy is unveiled through the subjects¿ narratives. To narrate knowing that one is being watched enacts a game of ¿displaying¿ and ¿hiding¿ which, somehow, rules and constitutes the social relations of such virtual place. When narrating their experiences, the subjects enact discourses that, beyond their own voices, bring the voices of the others. There is an entanglement of memories, from where one selects and organizes, on time and space, the hiper-textuality of one¿s own writing. It is possible to ¿walk¿ along such ¿Blue City¿ and to identify the rituals of contemporaneity which have started to settle into our society: new ways of narrating death, new ways of experimenting mourning, and new ways of rendering public that which, for a long time, had been confined to the private domain. In the present research, I attempt to understand how teenagers, users of Orkut, are dealing with life and death, with the ambivalent loneliness that springs from a set of virtual relations which might shorten some distances and make rifts between others. I analyze discourses of Brazilian youngsters who committed suicide and left, along the public spaces of Orkut, the virtual traces of a foretold, uttered death / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestre em Linguística

This is a deconstruction of "child pornography" through an analysis of media images of child spanking and their relationship with the criminal law and cinema, video and broadcasting regulation in Britain and Canada. It suggests that the law's primary concern is not the protection of children but the elimination of the heresy that children are sexually attractive. Chapter 1 introduces the phenomenon under discussion, namely internet sites that collect stills and clips from mainstream movies and television showing children receiving corporal punishment. The chapter postulates that these sites are for sexual gratification and explores what society understands by "sexual exploitation of children" and "sex" itself. Part I considers whether the web sites are child pornography under English or Canadian criminal law. Chapter 2 looks at Canada's definitions of obscenity and child pornography. Chapter 3 asks whether the images might be indecent according to England's law. These chapters examine the law's understanding of child spanking as a sexual act, exploring what constitutes "sex". While Part I declines to state definitively whether such web sites are illegal, it argues that the movies and television from which the images originate are tolerated for the reasons that give the images sexual appeal. Part II looks at the regulation in Canada and Britain of the movies and television from which the images are taken. Chapter 4 deals with cinema and video regulation, which prohibits eroticising violence and children, and asks how films are nevertheless rife with images of child beating used for sexual arousal. Chapter 5 similarly examines broadcasting regulation and asks whether the ban on sexualising children might be unconstitutional under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Part III concludes by looking at how society permits the eroticisation of children, while condemning the "paedophile". It suggests that the web sites may arise from childhood trauma over corporal punishment, compares the harm of that practice with that caused by the web sites and concludes that if there be prohibition, then it should be of child spanking, rather than the sites, which are non-exploitative testament to ingenuity in the face of a hypocritically censorial regime. / Law, Peter A. Allard School of / Graduate

Orientador: Ana Maria Canesqui / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-09T15:35:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Separavich_MarcoAntonioAlves_M.pdf: 1747635 bytes, checksum: 8446bdc8c5a91f39de11106363ab18dd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este estudo analisou a construção da visão do corpo feminino na menopausa em um segmento da mídia, Menospausa - o site da Mulher Madura, bem como o conceito climatério/menopausa elaborado pela biomedicina, além das representações sociais e relatos de experiências nelecontidos. Comumente os meios de comunicação veiculam informações que privilegiam os aspectos biológicos ou "naturais", enfatizando as características negativas desta etapa da vida das mulheres, em detrimento de um enfoque que amplie o olhar, direcionando-o para o contexto sociocultural, o que permitiria observar os possíveis ganhos adquiridos por elas. As informações da mídia tendem a empobrecer a complexidade que reveste o processo climatério/menopausa. A contribuição das Ciências Sociais em Saúde tem sido tímida em relação ao tema, predominando os estudos que tratam da fase reprodutiva feminina, com as conseqüentes implicações nos assuntos relacionados à própria concepção, tais como a sexualidade, contracepção, aborto, entre outros. Justifica-se, portanto, o interesse e a importância da análise socioantropológica do processo climatério/menopausa, ainda mais quando o quadro demográfico brasileiro, não se diferenciando neste sentido do mundial, aponta para o envelhecimento populacional crescente, com o aumento do contingente de mulheres que ingressam nesta fase, demandando, deste modo, maior atenção dos Serviços de Saúde. Utilizou-se a metodologia qualitativa, com referencial teórico socioantropológico, contemplando as discussões sobre as representações sociais do corpo e do processo saúde-enfermidade; experiência da doença; narrativas do adoecimento; gênero; mudanças corporais, além de referir-se às opções terapêuticas. A literatura biomédica utilizada baseou-se em textos seminais para o conhecimento biológico do processo climatério/menopausa e no Manual de Atenção à Mulher no Climatério/Menopausa, da área técnica da Saúde da Mulher, do Ministério da Saúde, por orientar tecnicamente os profissionais de saúde nos cuidados às mulheres menopausadas. Procedeu-se a distribuição dos temas encontrados no site a partir da classificação dos saberes sobre o corpo, tais como, somáticos, psíquicos e sociais. Foram separadas as quarenta e oito postagens interativas do site, sendo escolhidas aquelas que se mostraram exemplares para a interpretação socioantropológica. Realizou-se a análise temática do ambiente virtual por meio das seguintes categorias: menopausa, corpo, envelhecimento, corpo feminino, cuidados e pessoa. Buscou-se assim compreender a representação sociocultural do corpo menopausado e a experiência das internautas com o processo climatério/menopausa. Concluiu-se que não há menopausa, mas menopausas, pois não há uma visão única deste processo, como apontam as narrativas das experiências constantes no site. As experiências vividas neste período não são homogêneas, e não necessariamente negativas / Abstract: This study analyzed the construction of the feminine body in the menopause in a segment of the media, Menospausa - o site da Mulher Madura, as well as the climacteric/menopause concept elaborated for the biomedicine, moreover explored the social representations and stories of experiences in it contained. It is observed that Medias divulge information that stick out the biological or "natural" aspects, emphasizing negative points of this stage of feminine life, impoverishing, in this way the complexity that coats the climacteric/menopause process. The contribution of Social Sciences in Health has been shy, predominating studies that deal with the feminine reproductive phase, with the consequent implications in the subjects related to the proper reproduction, such as the sexuality, contraception, abortion, among others. Therefore, it justifies the interest and the importance of sociological anthropological analysis of the climacteric/menopause process, still more when the Brazilian picture demographic, not differentiating itself of the worldwide one, points to the increasing population aging, with a contingent every larger time of women who enter in this phase, thus demanding larger attention of the Services of Health. It was used qualitative methodology, with sociological anthropological referential, contemplating the quarrels on the social representations of the body and health-illness process; experience and narrative of the illness; gender; corporal changes, beyond mentioning therapeutical options to it. Used biomedical literature was based on seminal texts for the biological knowledge of the climacteric/menopause process, besides of manuals, such as Manual of Attention to the Health of the Woman in the climacteric/menopause, of the technical area of Woman's Health, Ministry of the Health, for guiding professionals of health in the cares to the menopausal women. It was proceeded distribution from the subjects found in the site according to the classification knowing of them on the body, such as, somatic, psychic and social. They had been separate the forty eight interactive messages of site, being chosen those that if had shown units for the sociological anthropological interpretation. It was become fulfilled thematic analysis of the virtual environment by means of the following categories: menopause, body, aging, feminine body, cares and person. One thus searched to understand social cultural representations of the menopausal body and the experience internet's with climacteric/menopause process. Concluded that it does not have menopause, but menopauses, therefore do not have an only vision of this process, as they point the narratives of the experiences in the site. The experiences lived in this period are not homogeneous nor necessarily negative / Mestrado / Saude Coletiva / Mestre em Saude Coletiva

NETI@home is an open-source software package that collects network performance statistics from end-systems. It has been written for and tested on the Windows, Solaris, and Linux operating systems, with testing for other operating systems to be completed soon. NETI@home is designed to run on end-user machines and collect various statistics about Internet performance. These statistics are then sent to a server at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they are collected and made publicly available. This tool gives researchers much needed data on the end-to-end performance of the Internet, as measured by end-users. NETI@homes basic approach is to sniff packets sent from and received by the host and infer performance metrics based on these observed packets. NETI@home users are able to select a privacy level that determines what types of data are gathered, and what is not reported. NETI@home is designed to be an unobtrusive software system that runs quietly in the background with little or no intervention by the user, and using few resources.

A presente dissertação apresenta uma investigação da religião virtualizada com a oferta de bens simbólico-espirituais na internet, a partir da missão dos paulino, no site da Editora Paulus. O trabalho descreve a cibercultura com seu imaginário tecnológico, identificando como se reconstrói a religiosidade católica no ciberespaço; estuda as práticas de oferta de bens simbólicos e de conteúdos religiosos através das ferramentas tecnológicas on-line no site da Paulus; assim como, busca entender as lógicas, apelos e estratégias mercadológicas do oferecimento de produtos simbólico-espirituais nesse contexto do ciberespaço, em meio a uma religiosidade difusa e sincrética. Como procedimento metodológico, optou-se por abordagem qualitativa de recorte crítico, descritivo/interpretativo, além da revisão bibliográfica: observação estruturada e análise de site através da técnica da netnografia, complementada por uma hermenêutica transdisciplinar do seu conteúdo. Os resultados demonstram os elementos constitutivos da nova religiosidade na cibercultura interferindo no serviço de evangelização dessa Ordem religiosa católica. Esses resultados contribuem para estimular uma reflexão mais consciente sobre a religiosidade, bem como para fomentar o direito à religião esclarecida; além de subsidiar possíveis estratégias otimizadas para a oferta de bens simbólicos religiosos. / This Dissertation presents a research concerning the virtualized religion through the symbolical-religious goods supply in the Internet, departing from the Pauline Congregation Members Mission in Paulus Publish House site. This work describes cyberculture with its technological imaginary figment, identifying the way how one rebuilds the catholic religiosity in cyberspace, it this work studies symbolical goods supply practices, through on line technological tools in Paulus site; as well as it this Work searches understanding the marketing logicians, appeals and strategies concerning the symbolical spiritual products supply in this cyberspace context amidst a diffused and syncretistic religiosity. As a methodological proceeding, one has chosen a critical outline, descriptive interpretative qualitative approach, besides the bibliographical observation: site structured observation and analysis through ethnography technics, complemented with its contents transdisciplinary hermeneutics. Its this Work results show up the new religiosity constituent elements in cyberculture, interfering in this Catholic Religious Order evangelization service. These results contribute for stimulating a more conscious reflection regarding to religiosity, as well as for fomenting the right to a more clarified religion, besides subsiding optimized possible strategies for religious symbolical goods supply.