Submitted by Fernanda Rodrigues de Lima (fernanda.rlima@ufpe.br) on 2018-08-06T21:53:39Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) TESE Patrícia Rakel de Castro Sena.pdf: 11815978 bytes, checksum: b154d3a4aaead7a40bf898824c571050 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Alice Araujo (alice.caraujo@ufpe.br) on 2018-08-15T17:48:23Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) TESE Patrícia Rakel de Castro Sena.pdf: 11815978 bytes, checksum: b154d3a4aaead7a40bf898824c571050 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T17:48:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) TESE Patrícia Rakel de Castro Sena.pdf: 11815978 bytes, checksum: b154d3a4aaead7a40bf898824c571050 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / Esta tese apresenta uma pesquisa sobre as relações que se estabelecem entre o discurso e o patrimonialismo, a partir do pretenso jornalismo que se faz sobre política na Internet. O lócus do estudo se concentra em regiões interioranas de Brasil e Portugal, tentando aproximar os conceitos de jornalismo regional e de proximidade como forma de midiatizar o cotidiano que não está prioritariamente no percurso dos grandes meios de comunicação, e o qual buscas frestas de sobrevivência junto à era dos smartphones com conteúdos cada vez mais pósmassamidiático e mais personalizado. Com o objetivo de distinguir quais os discursos sobre política são produzidos e reproduzidos nos / para os portais que se pretendem jornalísticos, porque pretendem a credibilidade junto ao público, este estudo busca também relacioná-los com o patrimonialismo a fim de compreender a produção de sentidos e as possíveis práticas sociais que se estabelecem junto a mecanismos de dominação política, por um lado, e de possibilidade de emancipação, por outro. Metodologicamente, elegeu-se o EClipping como instrumento de coleta de dados e a análise crítica do discurso como método analítico enquanto procedimentos desta pesquisa qualitativa, exploratória interpretativa, sob as perspectivas da Teoria Crítica somada à Construção Social da Realidade em torno do Estado, da democracia e do jornalismo online. Foi possível observar, por fim, que, no Brasil, existe um princípio de heranças nas relações patrimonialistas do Estado Português, mas que é improvável que essa herança tenha se perdurado em outras instâncias da sociedade até os dias atuais, inclusive no tocante ao discurso jornalístico político que se faz na rede. As prioridades e importâncias que se dão no momento da produção e emissão são distintas, assim como a cultura dos usuários no momento de recepção, circulação e interatividade também se reconfiguram consideravelmente. / This thesis presents a research about the relations that are established between the speech and the patrimonialism, from the pretensive journalism that is done on politics in the Internet. The study space focuses on the countryside of Brazil and Portugal, trying to approach the concepts of regional journalism and proximity as a means of mediatizing daily life that is not a priority of the great media, and which seeks ways of survival next to the era of smartphones with contentes more and more post-mass-media and personalized. With the objective of distinguishing which discourses on politics are produced and reproduced in / for sites that claim to be journalistic, because they seek credibility with the public, this study also seeks to relate them to patrimonialism in order to understand the production of meanings and the possible social practices that are established alongside mechanisms of political domination, on the one hand, and the possibility of emancipation, on the other. Methodologically, E-clipping was chosen as an instrument of data collection and discourse analysis as an analytical method as procedures of this qualitative research, exploratory and interpretive, from the perspectives of the Critical Theory added to the Social Construction of the Reality around the State, of the democracy and online journalism. It was possible to observe, finally, that in Brazil there is a principle of inheritance in the patrimonialist relations of the Portuguese State, but that it is unlikely that this heritage has endured in other instances of society until the present day, including in the political journalistic discourse that Is done on the Internet. The priorities and importance that occur at the time of production and propagation are distinct, as the culture of the users at the time of reception, circulation and interactivity are also considerably reconfigured.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:13:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese final -alzino.pdf: 986421 bytes, checksum: 26f621183b75e6b3c7876707f71a25d9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-25 / This research has been carried out in the Pos-Graduation Program in Education of the Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás , being part of the research line , Professor Formation and Professionalization, which aims to study the relationship between the teaching work together with information and technologies as well as the epistemological, cultural, pedagogical and institutional implications of these relations. It selects as its scope the exercise of docent work in virtuality and the knowledge that the communication by means of a computer net demands on the professor in his effective exercise. Under the title Online education: computers mediated communication in the teaching practice, seeks to understand what the socioeconomic environment constituent of contemporaneous time has specifically, and how such specifity expresses itself in the teaching practices. The general target of this research is to understand this new socio technical means, identifying its specificities and discussing its implications in the teaching practices. The specific targets are: to characterize the process of communication by means of a net of computers, discussing its potential in the educational field; to describe how the exercise of online teaching occurs and to interpret the collected data in the empiric field. For the understanding of the multiple relations, which constitute the education phenomena in computerized nets, it makes use of the concept of informational society, of Castells, as a background to understand the contemporaneous socio technical environment, and its communicational logics. It also relies on Pierre Lévy for the understanding of social relations brought about in the social fabric, permeated by information and communication technologies also present in the teaching and learning processes. When reporting to the first three decades of online education, it recalls the theoretical contributions and practices of the researchers and educators who have become pioneers of online education. The investigation employs the qualitative broaching of ethnographic study case as a methodological option, by means of participation procedures, observation, interpretative description and production of the studied case report, a course given totally online, the empiric field work as well as the analysis and interpretation of the collected data converge to the conclusion that the communication by computer net, breaking the space time barriers and allowing the non linear, hypertext, multimedia and multidirectional communication opens new possibilities, and also, triggers implications in the relations with knowledge, making evident the necessity to take into account, in the exercise of online teaching, the twofold mediation process: pedagogical and technological. Such possibilities and implications become more evident when the use of the most recent digital technologies seek base in other knowledge areas, noticing currently a variety of proposals set on different conceptions about education and online teaching, a field of theoretical and practical investigation still on the buildup / A presente investigação foi desenvolvida no âmbito do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Goiás e faz parte da linha de pesquisa Formação e Profissionalização Docente, que busca estudar as relações do trabalho docente com as tecnologias de informação e comunicação bem como as implicações epistemológicas, culturais, pedagógicas e institucionais destas relações. Elege como objeto de estudo o exercício da docência na virtualidade e os saberes que a comunicação mediada por computadores em rede exige do professor no seu efetivo exercício. Sob o título Docência online:comunicação mediada por computadores em rede na prática docente, busca compreender o que o meio sociotécnico constitutivo da contemporaneidade tem de específico e como tal especificidade se expressa na prática docente. É objetivo geral desta pesquisa compreender este novo meio sociotécnico, identificando suas especificidades e discutindo suas implicações na prática docente. São objetivos específicos: caracterizar o processo de Comunicação Mediada por Computador (CMC) em rede, discutindo seu potencial no campo educacional; descrever como se dá o exercício da docência online; analisar e interpretar os dados colhidos no campo empírico. Para a compreensão das múltiplas relações que constituem o fenômeno da educação em redes informatizadas, recorre ao conceito de sociedade informacional, de Castells, como pano de fundo para se entender o meio sociotécnico contemporâneo e sua lógica comunicacional. Apoia-se, também, nas reflexões de Pierre Lévy, para a compreensão das relações sociais instauradas no tecido social permeado pelas tecnologias de informação e comunicação e presentes, também, nos processos de ensinar e aprender. Ao se reportar à história das três primeiras décadas da educação online, faz um resgate das contribuições teóricas e práticas dos pesquisadores e educadores que se tornaram pioneiros da educação online. A investigação utiliza, como opção metodológica, a abordagem dialética e da pesquisa qualitativa e, mais precisamente, o estudo de caso do tipo etnográfico, mediante os procedimentos da participação, observação, descrição interpretativa e produção do relato do caso estudado, um curso ministrado totalmente online. A revisão bibliográfica realizada, o resgate das primeiras formulações teóricas e práticas da docência online, o trabalho empírico de campo, bem como a análise e interpretação dos dados coletados convergem para a conclusão de que a comunicação mediada por computadores em rede, abre novas possibilidades, ainda não totalmente exploradas. Por outro lado, ao romper com as barreiras espaço-temporais e permitir a comunicação não linear, hipertextual, multimídia e multidirecional, acarreta, também, implicações nas relações com o conhecimento, evidenciando a necessidade de se levar em conta, no exercício da docência online, o processo de dupla mediação: a pedagógica ou tecnopedagógica e a tecnológica ou tecnocomunicacional Tais possibilidades e implicações tornam-se mais evidentes na medida em que o uso das mais recentes tecnologias digitais busca fundamentação em outras áreas do conhecimento, observando-se, atualmente, uma variedade de propostas assentadas em diferentes concepções a respeito da educação e da docência online, um campo de investigação teórica e prática ainda em construção.

Submitted by Marcele Costal de Castro (costalcastro@gmail.com) on 2017-10-05T18:34:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JOANA ALVES BRITO DE AZAMBUJA M.pdf: 513342 bytes, checksum: 3df277b57df6136b3e8162dd84112a16 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-05T18:34:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JOANA ALVES BRITO DE AZAMBUJA M.pdf: 513342 bytes, checksum: 3df277b57df6136b3e8162dd84112a16 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / As novas tecnologias da informação e comunicação, por sua influência radical em diferentes dimensões da sociedade, estabelecem um novo paradigma sociocultural. Esse fato tem alterado significativamente as práticas educativas, principalmente por colocar em xeque as concepções de aprendizagem e o novo papel dos sujeitos envolvidos nesse processo. Os ambientes virtuais de aprendizagem (AVA) surgem, então, como realidade emergente no novo contexto da Educação On-line, enquanto espaço de interação e de construção coletiva do conhecimento. Entende-se também que esse novo cenário educacional passa a demandar uma discussão crítica sobre conceitos e práticas pedagógicas que possam responder às necessidades de alunos e professores que atuam nessa modalidade de ensino. Nesse sentido, o objetivo aqui é situar a função pedagógica das ferramentas interativas de comunicação presentes nos AVA (diário de bordo, Chat, fórum de discussão, portfólio e correio eletrônico) e descrever de que forma elas podem favorecer o acompanhamento e a orientação dos alunos na construção social de novos significados a partir de uma proposta de avaliação formativa. Trata-se, portanto, de refletir sobre a qualidade e a eficácia da aprendizagem através da problematização desse novo campo de ação, para que se possa pensar na Educação On-line como uma modalidade educativa realmente preocupada com o pedagógico do “mundo virtual”.

Many South Africans are developing online relationships. Due to the anonymous and artificial context of the online environment it is possible that a person’s identity differs within the on- and offline environment. Sternberg’s (1986) Triangular Model of Love as well as Rogers’ Self Theory (1951) were utilized as a theoretical base for investigating online identity and intimacy. Using a qualitative, exploratory design, the study explored this phenomenon by analysing open ended questionnaires administered online to people in intimate online relationships. Participants were selected by means of non-probability snowball sampling. The findings indicated that Internet socialisers vary in their experience of their online identities. Individuals may have a multitude of genuine online selves, each one represented differently depending on the anonymity and level of intimacy in the relationship. Selfdisclosure and deception play an important role in identity representation and exploration and both are experienced as being affected by the online context.

The primary purpose of a trademark is to facilitate the communication of information between consumers and producers about their products and services to those who wish or need to buy them. The consumer needs to be able to depend on the message the mark conveys to ensure they are purchasing what will fulfil their requirements. In the modern market place, the choice appears endless, and indeed the principles of free trade espoused by the European treaties has heightened the opportunities for cross-national traders to sell their goods, and increased the options available to consumers. When this occurs, so does the availability of information which a purchaser may find the need to seek through to ascertain what he or she wants in an complex and often confusing exercise in differentiation. It is therefore in the interests of producers and customers that those who manufacture goods or provide services develop a mark which identifies their wares and helps provide feedback measured by success; consequently an exchange of information. Consumers are able to make their preferences known via choice, or otherwise, of the mark. Modern business methods and the vast array of marketing opportunities are not only placing the role and function of the trademark at the forefront of consumer protection, but also developing the concept of the mark as an asset of considerable value in itself. This increases its vulnerability to competitive interference and the proposition that it should receive enhanced protection in law. Somewhat perversely, it has resulted in a body of legislation and jurisprudence which lacks cogency and coherence. The purpose of this thesis, accordingly, is to examine the causes thereof by evaluating the current European trademarks protection system to ascertain the contribution they actually make to promotion of free competition and the movement of goods or services upon which that substantial market is predicated. It will examine the impact of the development of protection granted to the trademark with particular reference to the use of online keywords advertising service and focus on the effect of relatively new theories of what functions qualify to be shielded from harm from competitive others. This has expanded beyond the conventional boundaries of source ‘origin’ protection, espoused to primarily protect consumers from confusion in their choice making process. Advertising and investment functions as separate principle are recognised by the Court of Justice of the European Union, but do not appear to qualify for safeguarding in the context of the competitive free market. In fact, it will be shown that giving excessive shelter from harm to all functions which may affect the value of the trademark will limit, even jeopardise, third party competitor and consumer issues. It will inhibit the use of the e-commerce online keywords advertising service which assists third parties to promote alternative competing goods or services and so reduce consumer choice by restriction of online information. It is suggested that proper, clear defences must be guaranteed under the law so third parties may gauge their actions to avoid infringement of trademark owner rights whilst promoting their own products, and accordingly strike the necessary balance between the different competing interests of trademark owners, third parties competitors, and consumers.

This study intends to explore how social media or social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook can facilitate communication channels or create dialogue spaces in a language class. Social media is a form of participatory media, which broadly refers to the “collection of communication channels or mediums (primarily online and mobile) through which social networks originate and are sustained” (Flew 2008:109). Although the term social media is often used as a collective term for SNSs or as the core trademark of Web 2.0, Flew (2008:17) also distinguishes social media by calling it a “communications infrastructure” that allows for “participation, interactivity, collaborative learning and social networking”. Flew (2008) identifies various online sites including the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia and the online user-generated video site YouTube as well as various personalised web space sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Friendster and Bebo as participatory media. The study’s data collection was situated at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and investigated how social media can be used to facilitate dialogue between a tutor and BKI1120 Communication in English B students in a Higher Education (HE) context using qualitative methodology. This study compared the use of existing and more traditional or conventional classroom communication practices with those of SNSs as a communication channel, while focusing on social media application as a communication tool to create dialogue spaces that support teaching and learning practices. The research also attempted to identify alternative applications of social media for teaching and learning practices to inform researchers in the fields of HE and media. In the first data-collection phase, BKI1120 Communication in English B Public Management students were selected as the sample for the study. Seventeen students participated in the BKI1120 Facebook page created for the purpose of this study. In the second data-collection phase, a taped focus-group interview was conducted with eight BKI1120 Communication in English B students. The interview transcript was then analysed qualitatively for themes. The research findings showed that social media or SNSs such as Facebook can facilitate communication channels or create dialogue spaces in a language class, if it is managed effectively.

This study aimed to provide researchers in the development of media studies with research into understanding the star as the object of desire in a contemporary context, using Robert Pattinson as the star and The Twilight Saga, which made him famous, as an example of the effects that the use of social and online media have on audiences in terms of their perception and identification of a particular star. This study drew from literature and theories such as stardom, star as the object of desire, audience theory, fantasy, desire and escapism as well as theory on globalisation, the mass media and online and social media. Whilst social and online media have been in existence for a number of years, there is little research that has been performed in order to determine whether or not the use of social and online media directly affect users’ understanding and perception of certain stars and films. There has also been little research performed in order to gain an understanding of fantasy and desire, in terms of films and film stars, outside the constraints of the cinema. This study examined this notion, noting that The Twilight Saga has been successful production worldwide, in order to discover whether or not the use of social and online media perpetuates obsession in the fans and audience members. The first part of the study that was conducted, applied certain theories discussed and developed in the literature review, to Robert Pattinson and The Twilight Saga in order to obtain a better understanding of the star and the film series in terms of cinema, stardom, fantasy and escapism and online and social media. A comparative case study of six online articles, from prominent online sources featuring Pattinson, was then conducted in order to investigate Pattinson’s image and status in the online community. Finally, a content analysis of various online and social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was performed in order to find out what type of information and imagery was being generated about Pattinson and the Saga as well as to investigate how fans and followers engaged with the different media channels and what kinds of comments they were making about the star and the Saga. It was found that Pattinson, the character he plays in the film series, Edward Cullen, and The Twilight Saga have a large presence on key social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, with a vast amount of followers and fans; Facebook and Twitter being the most popular and interactive media avenues. It was also found that Pattinson, Edward and The Twilight Saga, through the avid use of the social media tools, elicited and incited signs of obsession, fantasy and desire within an extensive amount of fans and followers, outside the constraints of the cinema

The ability to mentally represent actions is suggested to have a role in the online control of movement in healthy adults. Children’s movement imagery ability and online control have been shown to develop at similar non-linear rates. The current study investigated the relationship between movement imagery and online control in children by comparing implicit and explicit movement imagery measures with the ability to make online trajectory corrections. Imagery ability was a significant predictor of children’s online control of reaching once age and general reaching efficiency were controlled for. These findings extend the proposed relationship between movement imagery and online control.

An analog data acquisition system incorporating an Interdata Model 4 digital computer has been designed and built for a mass spectrometer. This system has been conceived with the primary objectives of improving analytical precision and production. Automated mass spectrometer operation allows for the collection of larger quantities of data while decreasing operator involvement and consequently diminishing operator bias and fatigue. The analog signal from the mass spectrometer measuring system is digitized using a digital voltmeter and transmitted, via an interface, to the processor where the digital information is manipulated in accordance with a computer program. An additional facility is provided whereby digital data from the processor can be displayed, if desired, on a 5 decade numerical readout situated at the mass spectrometer console. Hardware is also available in the interface to provide control of the magnetic field scan rate. A function control switch at the mass spectrometer console allows the operator to convey a variety of predetermined instructions to the computer at any time during the course of a run. Thus, the system provides for on-line (real time) data processing of mass spectra as well as limited computer control over the mass spectrometer. This thesis is primarily concerned with the design and construction of the logic hardware for this system together with a demonstration of its operating ability. / Science, Faculty of / Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of / Graduate

The aim of this paper is to compare two forms of gambling: traditional and online. Gambling is characterized by the involvement of the government because of specific aspects of gambling. These include economic gain for the state's treasury, possible negative social impacts or money laundering. According to these aspects, the paper compares the legislation and economic specifics of both forms of gambling, but also focuses on e-commerce and how gambling went online.