This study explores the social and cultural implications of photography and metadata crowdsourcing at the level of smaller communities as a means of preserving, rekindling, and representing local culture. A multiple case study approach is used, each case focusing on various instances of photography crowdsourcing both in and outside the digital environment, in order to quantitatively analyse a hand-picked selection of photographic material, its respective metadata, and the social ecosystem. The study finds that by circulating photographic material within their communities of provenance, the information crowdsourced differs from institutional metadata standards, as communities evaluate the material through its socially embeddedness, its ability to be evocative of a collective memory, and as an active means of reclaiming identities. Crowdsourcing activities of the sort are an alternative means of record making, not bound by issues of copyright or ownership. By taking into account the unique experiences and identities of non-centric communities, the gap between GLAMs and non-affiliated projects can enrich national cultural heritage and possibly reevaluate the importance of the photograph as a socially salient and relevant medium.

This dissertation traces the formation of powerful urban discourses in the context of rapid economic transformation in Macau to understand different levels of symbolic production as they are situated within the larger symbolic structure of power. The research is motivated by my attempt to assess the Neo-Marxist utopian proposition about local culture being a possible counter-hegemonic space where revolutionary politics will develop. Exploratory in nature, my research questions are: Can local culture in the forms of personal and localized practices actually generate oppositional politics? Or do they merely serve as marketing tools for the expansion of economic development? What is the role of local culture in the context of Macau’s urban restructuring? To answer these questions, I view the ongoing cultural production of discourse as indications of local culture. Employing the extended case method, I apply reflexive science to ethnography as an ongoing process that looks continually for patterns of situations and elements to inform me about the relationship between local culture and social change. My research adopts a variety of qualitative methods --- I conducted 7 focus groups, 50 in-depth interviews which included life stories and photo-elicitation, critical discourse analysis, as well as extended ethnographic participation. Three types of discourses were identified during fieldwork to understand the formation of local culture with relation to power and social change: authorized, everyday, and mobilizing discourses. Drawing from the theoretical concepts of Pierre Bourdieu such as symbolic power, field, and misrecognition, I connect and map the production of discourses and argue that they represent the macro-, micro-, and meso-levels of a symbolic system whereby authorized discourse (such as political rhetoric and global neoliberal ideology), everyday discourse (such as local narratives and emotions), and mobilizing discourse (such as protest slogans and grassroots campaigns) interact with one another in multiple fields where the struggle over meanings reinforces and creates social relations linked to power positions. My overall argument asserts that discourses should be conceptualized as a symbolic structure—one that provides the organization and transformation of power relations. Since the struggles over symbolic power via the construction and maintenance of effective discourses involve the production, transmission, and transfusion of cultural meanings that provide appropriate frames and positions for social agents who occupy multiple and sometimes overlapping sub-fields (e.g. fields of social activism, politics, everyday life) structured by the larger field of power relations, social change does not transpire in the field of local culture separate from or innocent of hegemonic power relations. In Macau, local culture simultaneously contains both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic frames and arguments. Social change occurs dialectically when agents negotiate their specific sets of economic, political, and ideological interests within the sub-fields they find themselves in by choosing from the reservoir of possible cultural symbols and thereby reproducing part of culture as structure, while repurposing and tailoring them to create new social practices in pursuit of what they deem desirable and valuable. / Sociology

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-04T21:16:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A presente tese analisa silêncios e reinvenções pomeranas na Serra do Tapes, Rio Grande do Sul, em relação à opressão das instituições formativas. As grandes linhas teóricas que se entrecruzam são: Educação, História e Memória. Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa, de cunho exploratório, cuja orientação principal, em termos metodológicos, é a etnografia. Nesse sentido, a coleta de dados foi constituída de forma complexa e plural, passando pelas técnicas: levantamento bibliográfico, análise documental, participação pesquisante, entrevistas, conversas informais, rodas de diálogos, produção e análise de fotografias e inventários. A imigração pomerana no sul do Rio Grande do Sul diferencia-se de modo singular, em relação à dos outros grupos imigrantes (alemães), em função das conjunturas históricas, constitutivas dos pomeranos e do processo de isolamento e silenciamentos, vividos no sul do Brasil. Além disso, o silêncio da cultura pomerana, no bojo da cultura local, se dá sob as abas do poder: religioso, escolar, / The purpose of this thesis is to examine Pomeranian silences and reinventions in the area known as Serra do Tapes, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, regarding oppression by educational institutions. The major theoretical lines are Education, History and Memory. This is a qualitative, exploratory study whose core methodological orientation is ethnography. Therefore, data were collected in a plural and complex fashion, using the following techniques: bibliographical review, document analysis, research-based participation, interviews, informal conversations, dialog rounds, production and analysis of photographs and inventories. Pomeranian immigration to southern Rio Grande do Sul is uniquely different from that by the other immigrant groups (Germans) due to the historical circumstances constitutive of Pomeranians and the process of isolation and silence they experienced in the area. Furthermore, the silence of Pomeranian culture within local culture takes place under the veil of power, whether it is related to religion

Esta dissertação trata da importância da preservação da cultura local, na cidade de São Luis do Paraitinga, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. O sentimento de pertencer a um grupo, partilhando valores, ideais e crenças comuns motiva essa população a comemorar e dessa forma preservar suas festas tradicionais, uma rica e diversificada cultura popular. A pesquisa aqui apresentada buscou conhecer como os processos comunicacionais dessa localidade se relacionam com as suas manifestações culturais, mas deteve-se no estudo da comunicação radiofônica, com ênfase na rádio comunitária da cidade. Foi procurar indícios de como a Rádio Paraitinga pode estabelecer um processo comunicacional, em comunhão com a concepção de vida, dos valores éticos, estéticos, artísticos e religiosos da comunidade. Como compreende, participa e desenvolve os laços de identidade e de pertencimento. Como a comunidade se identifica com a Rádio. Como vinculam sua intensa vivência do cotidiano à emissora. O estudo apresenta, em suas considerações finais, importantes dados indicadores do quanto a rádio da cidade responde a essas questões e sugere ações para que ela efetivamente exerça seu papel junto à comunidade, ações que realmente possam identificá-la como comunitária e, dessa forma, contribuir para a preservação das manifestações culturais. / This study says about the importance of the local culture preservation, in the city of São Luis do Paraitinga, interior of São Paulo. The feeling of belonging to a group, sharing values, ideals and common beliefs motivate this population to celebrate and therefore preserve their folk festivities, a rich and diversity popular culture. The following research meant to know how the communicational processes of this place relate to their culture manifestations, but privileged the radiophonic communication, focusing the city community radio. Searched hints how the Paraitinga Radio can establish a communication process, in congruent with their life conceptions, ethical, aesthetical, artistical and religious values. As understanding, sharing and developing their identity and belonging bonds. As the community identify itself with the Paraitinga Radio. As sharing their intense way of life with the radio station. In its final considerations, the research shows important indicating data of how the city radio answer this questions and its recommends actions that can really identify than as community and therefore to contribute to the preservation of the cultural manifestations.

This research aimed to investigate the contributions of emotions and Emotional Intelligence (EI) to social work practice with children and families in Malaysia. A mixture of methods within an ethnographic approach was used. The Assessing Emotions Scale (AES) (Schutte et al., 2007) was completed by 105 child social workers. The levels of EI and differences in EI according to certain demographic characteristics were identified. Individual interviews with 25 child social workers were conducted to explore their perceptions concerning emotions and EI in the workplace. Observations were carried out over a period of three months to investigate how emotions were expressed in terms of behaviour. The quantitative results showed that levels of EI were high (mean=131.69, SD=12.483). The workers were reported to be emotionally intelligent in perceiving emotions, dealing with their own and others’ emotions and utilising emotions in their professional conduct. There were no significant differences by gender (p-value=0.367 > 0.05), marital status (p-value=0.694 > 0.05), age group F (d=3, 101), P > .05=1.468) or length of service F (d=4,100), P > .05=0.331), but there was a difference with regard to educational level F (d=3,101), P < .05=6.878). The qualitative research findings seemed to show that skills in empathising, expressing and regulating one’s and others’ emotional experiences, as well as religious practice factors, contributed to EI. The qualitative research findings also revealed the strength of religious beliefs in Malaysian social workers, which facilitate the qualities of EI. The present study implies that the spiritual and religious dimension of practice should not be ignored in social work education and training.

Submitted by Noeme Timbo (noeme.timbo@metodista.br) on 2016-08-19T00:05:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Víviam Lacerda de Souza.pdf: 7292467 bytes, checksum: 6b8169c9bfdd1f9dda9a2a97673c8b41 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T00:05:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Víviam Lacerda de Souza.pdf: 7292467 bytes, checksum: 6b8169c9bfdd1f9dda9a2a97673c8b41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-03-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Study on Community Radio Boa Nova FM the municipality Senhora de Oliveira - MG, with regard to their configurations and relationships with the local community. The objectives are to identify the operating system of community radio as a way to understand how far it falls in oliveirense everyday and articulates the local drive, especially during election periods; determine the type of information conveyed; observe the feeling of listeners for the same. The study is based on bibliographic research to weave theories and guide the whole process of research, and the case study through methodological procedures such as desk research, participatory research and semi - structured interviews, and a survey of receipt by the listeners. We conclude that the Good News Radio that coexists harmoniously with the community communication also established by the speaker articulates a simplistic way information and local culture in their practices because there playing content from mainstream media, besides the fact that no be a wide participation of the community association that is your keeper; also that despite the lack of technical knowledge of most speakers and partisan political relationship present in both the operation of the station as the motivations of communicators, there is compatibility between the radio and conveys the interest of listeners. / Estudo sobre a Rádio Comunitária Boa Nova FM do município de Senhora de Oliveira-MG, no que se refere às suas configurações e as relações com a comunidade local. Os objetivos são identificar o sistema de funcionamento da rádio comunitária como forma de compreender até que ponto ela se insere no cotidiano oliveirense e articula a movimentação local, sobretudo em períodos eleitorais; averiguar o tipo de informação veiculada; observar o sentimento dos ouvintes em relação à mesma. O estudo se baseia em pesquisa bibliográfica para tecer as teorias e nortear todo o processo de pesquisa e no estudo de caso por meio de procedimentos metodológicos como a pesquisa documental, a pesquisa participante e entrevistas semi-estruturadas, além de uma pesquisa de recepção junto aos ouvintes. Conclui-se que a rádio Boa Nova, que convive harmoniosamente com a comunicação comunitária estabelecida também pelo alto falante, articula de forma simplória a informação e a cultura local em suas práticas, pois há reprodução de conteúdo da mídia convencional, além de não haver uma participação ampla da associação comunitária que é sua mantenedora. Apesar da falta de conhecimento técnico da maioria dos locutores e da relação político partidária presente na emissora, há compatibilidade entre o que a rádio veicula e o interesse dos ouvintes

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Esta dissertação trata da importância da preservação da cultura local, na cidade de São Luis do Paraitinga, no interior do Estado de São Paulo. O sentimento de pertencer a um grupo, partilhando valores, ideais e crenças comuns motiva essa população a comemorar e dessa forma preservar suas festas tradicionais, uma rica e diversificada cultura popular. A pesquisa aqui apresentada buscou conhecer como os processos comunicacionais dessa localidade se relacionam com as suas manifestações culturais, mas deteve-se no estudo da comunicação radiofônica, com ênfase na rádio comunitária da cidade. Foi procurar indícios de como a Rádio Paraitinga pode estabelecer um processo comunicacional, em comunhão com a concepção de vida, dos valores éticos, estéticos, artísticos e religiosos da comunidade. Como compreende, participa e desenvolve os laços de identidade e de pertencimento. Como a comunidade se identifica com a Rádio. Como vinculam sua intensa vivência do cotidiano à emissora. O estudo apresenta, em suas considerações finais, importantes dados indicadores do quanto a rádio da cidade responde a essas questões e sugere ações para que ela efetivamente exerça seu papel junto à comunidade, ações que realmente possam identificá-la como comunitária e, dessa forma, contribuir para a preservação das manifestações culturais. / This study says about the importance of the local culture preservation, in the city of São Luis do Paraitinga, interior of São Paulo. The feeling of belonging to a group, sharing values, ideals and common beliefs motivate this population to celebrate and therefore preserve their folk festivities, a rich and diversity popular culture. The following research meant to know how the communicational processes of this place relate to their culture manifestations, but privileged the radiophonic communication, focusing the city community radio. Searched hints how the Paraitinga Radio can establish a communication process, in congruent with their life conceptions, ethical, aesthetical, artistical and religious values. As understanding, sharing and developing their identity and belonging bonds. As the community identify itself with the Paraitinga Radio. As sharing their intense way of life with the radio station. In its final considerations, the research shows important indicating data of how the city radio answer this questions and its recommends actions that can really identify than as community and therefore to contribute to the preservation of the cultural manifestations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-16T18:10:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao POLYANA.pdf: 1141576 bytes, checksum: f654ae59c08802595d078c53040726e1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-14 / FUNDAÇÃO DE AMPARO À PESQUISA E AO DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTIFICO E TECNOLÓGICO DO MARANHÃO / In front of the hegemonic speech in the researches about cyberspace that consider a space of Deterritorialization and cultural displacement, one searchs for, with this research, to evidence the inverse process, the one of Territorialization of the subject and his culture in the cyberspace, by means of the blogs Zema Ribeiro and Luis Cardoso, here classified as individual/mixed. This work develops itself at the light of the comprehension that the individual/mixed blogs are instruments that delimit the territoriality of the subject in the online environment. Based in the concepts of local identity and culture, the research sought to associate the identity formation of the subject to his local culture that materializes itself through the speech proffered in the blogs. Theorists like Hall, Giddens, Castells, Canclini e Certeau give subsidies for the comprovation of the hypothesis. The methodology, on the other hand, its grounded on the speech analysis that helped to elaborate and identify discursive modalities present in the selected texts. / Diante do discurso hegemônico nas pesquisas sobre ciberespaço que o consideram um espaço de Desterritorialização e deslocamento cultural, busca-se, com esta pesquisa, evidenciar o processo inverso, o de Territorialização do sujeito e sua cultura no ciberespaço, por meio dos blogs Zema Ribeiro e Luis Cardoso, aqui classificados como individual/misto. Este trabalho se desenvolve à luz da compreensão de que os blogs individuais/mistos são instrumentos que demarcam a territorialidade do sujeito no ambiente online. Fundamentada nos conceitos de identidade e cultura local, a pesquisa procurou associar a formação identitária do sujeito a sua cultura local que se materializa através do discurso proferido nos blogs. Teóricos como Hall, Giddens, Castells, Canclini e Certeau dão subsídios para que a hipótese seja comprovada. A metodologia utilizada para avaliar os textos dos blogs, por sua vez, é embasada pela análise de discurso que ajudou a elaborar e identificar modalidades discursivas presentes nos textos selecionados.

This research aimed to investigate the contributions of emotions and Emotional Intelligence (EI) to social work practice with children and families in Malaysia. A mixture of methods within an ethnographic approach was used. The Assessing Emotions Scale (AES) (Schutte et al., 2007) was completed by 105 child social workers. The levels of EI and differences in EI according to certain demographic characteristics were identified. Individual interviews with 25 child social workers were conducted to explore their perceptions concerning emotions and EI in the workplace. Observations were carried out over a period of three months to investigate how emotions were expressed in terms of behaviour. The quantitative results showed that levels of EI were high (mean=131.69, SD=12.483). The workers were reported to be emotionally intelligent in perceiving emotions, dealing with their own and others’ emotions and utilising emotions in their professional conduct. There were no significant differences by gender (p-value=0.367>0.05), marital status (p-value=0.694>0.05), age group F (d=3, 101), P>.05=1.468) or length of service F (d=4,100), P>.05=0.331), but there was a difference with regard to educational level F (d=3,101), P<.05=6.878). The qualitative research findings seemed to show that skills in empathising, expressing and regulating one’s and others’ emotional experiences, as well as religious practice factors, contributed to EI. The qualitative research findings also revealed the strength of religious beliefs in Malaysian social workers, which facilitate the qualities of EI. The present study implies that the spiritual and religious dimension of practice should not be ignored in social work education and training.