Orientador: Gisele Maria Schwartz / Coorientador: Afonso Antônio Machado / Banca: Cheng Hsin Nery Chao / Banca: Cinthia Lopes da Silva / Banca: Silvia Deutsch / Banca: Danielle Ferreira Auriemo Chrsitofoletti / Resumo: Este estudo, de natureza qualitativa, teve como objetivo, analisar a usabilidade e a atratividade de sites de empresas que oferecem atividades de aventura para idosos, com o intuito de identificar como as empresas divulgam a oferta dessas atividades para esse público consumidor, em seus websites. O estudo também se propôs a investigar a própria visão dos idosos, em relação às informações contidas nesses sites e a percepção desse setor empresarial, em relação à oferta de atividades de aventura para os idosos. Para tanto, o estudo foi realizado em duas etapas. A primeira foi referente a uma pesquisa bibliográfica a respeito das temáticas que envolvem o problema pesquisado. A segunda, atinente a uma pesquisa exploratória, a qual foi realizada em três momentos diferentes do estudo. Primeiramente, foram analisados 83 sites de empresas de atividades de aventura do setor do Ecoturismo e Turismo de Aventura, em relação ao oferecimento destas atividades para idosos, com o auxílio de um diário de campo, para registros dos dados relevantes à pesquisa. Em um segundo momento, foi aplicado um questionário contendo questões abertas, a uma amostra intencional composta por 06 empresas associadas à Associação Brasileira das Empresas de Ecoturismo e Turismo de Aventura, para verificar a percepção do setor empresarial em relação à oferta de atividades de aventura para idosos. Em outro momento, foi aplicado o Inventário de Usabilidade de Sites sobre Lazer (IAUSLA-21+), adaptado para este estudo,... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This qualitative study, aimed to analyze the usability and the attractiveness of company's websites that offer adventure activities for seniors, in order to identify how the companies disclose the offer of these activities for this consumer public, on their websites. This study also proposed to investigate the elderly own perspective regarding the information that are in these websites and the perception of this business sector related to the offer of adventure activities for seniors. Therefore, the study was conducted in two stages. The first one was a bibliographic research about the issues involving the researched problem. In the second stage, an exploratory research was made, which was performed at three different occasions of the study. Firstly, 83 adventure activities companies' websites were analyzed, both in the Ecotourism and Adventure Tourism sector, regarding the range of activities offered focusing on elderly, that was done by the use of a diary to register the relevant data to the search. In a second moment, it was applied a questionnaire with open questions to an intentional sample of 06 companies associated to the Brazilian Association of Ecotourism and Adventure Tourism to verify the perception of the business sector about the offer of adventure activities to seniors. Finally, the Inventory Usability Sites of Leisure (IAUSLA-21 +) was used, which was adapted for this study and applied to a sample of 30 elderly, both genders, selected by convenience for the reason that they were able to use the internet alone and use the computer as a search tool for information, so they could evaluate 02 business websites of the Ecotourism and Adventure Tourism sectors. All data were analyzed by Content Analysis technique and indicated that the usability of the websites of these adventure activities companies, of the... (Complete abstract electronic access below) / Doutor

Developing countries like Tanzania experience challenges towards utilization and acceptance of ICT; calling for a need to further research on the concept. Open Source (OS) usage is a potential strategy for addressing such challenges. However, the success of this strategy strongly relies on the strength of the promotional efforts. The study, therefore aims at assessing the OS promotional efforts in relation to ICT acceptance challenges in Tanzania. This study entailed a descriptive, mixed-methods research. A literature analysis, document analysis and observations of OS community activities were conducted in order to list the ICT acceptance challenges. The results formed a basis for survey and interview questions. The findings obtained were triangulated to determine the existing OS promotional activities and assess the effectiveness of the promotional efforts in addressing ICT acceptance challenges in Tanzania. The study also makes recommendations on how OS promotional efforts should be changed to improve their effectiveness. / Computing / (M.Sc. (Information Systems))

Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2004. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study investigated the nature of a steel production process in South Africa. The Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa (Iscor) was analysed within various theoretical approaches within the sociology of science and technology. Iscor follows the production processes that are based on a particular paradigm practiced throughout the world by steel-making organisations. The study aims to unlock this paradigm by using specific theoretical (ANT, SCOT and SSR) and disciplinary (MOT) approaches. Each approach provides a unique analytical dimension to the study: the influence of various human and non-human actors, the influence of social pressures, the historical evolution of the current practices and the management of risk. The study explores how Iscor adheres to mainstream scientific work. Hence there is a focus on endogeneous approaches - "processes of technological change and their outcomes are part of what has to be explained and understood" (Rip et ai, 1995). It is also noted that the technologies are derived from practical experiences and processes of scientific research. There is an ongoing attempt to formulate an understanding between technical and social content of steel-making processes because automated plant machinery continue to replace manual labour. Finally, the study investigates how dominant steel-making technologies within lscor's Vanderbijlpark (VP) and Saldanah Bay (SB) plants have evolved to achieve a position of stability. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie het oorsake van die staal produksie proses in Suid Afrika geondersoek. Die Yster en Staal Korperasie van Suid Afrika (Yskor) was geanaliseer binne die verskillende teoretiese benaderings in die sosiologie van wetenskap en tegnologie. Yskor volg 'n produksie wat gebaseer is op 'n spesifieke paradigm wat deur alle staal vervaardigde organisasie wereld wyd gepraktiseer word. Die studie beoog om hierdie paradigm te ontbloot, deur spesifieke teoretiese (ANT, SCOT and SSR) en disiplinere (MOT) benaderings te gebruik. Elk van hierdie benaderings sal 'n unieke analiese demensie voortbring aan die studie: die invloed van verskillende menslike en nie-menslike aspekte, die invloed van sosiale druk, die geskiedkundige evolusie van die huidige praktyke en die bestuur van risikos. Die studie ondersoek hoe Yskor riglyne volg in die wetenskaplike veld. AI te mits is daar 'n mikpunt op endogeniese benadering - "tegnologiese prosese verandering en die resultate wat deel vorm van hoe die proses verduidelik word en verstandbaar moet wees" (Rip et al, 1995). Dis is dus duidelik dat die tegnologie verkry word deur praktiese ondervinding en wetenskappe navorsing prosese. Daar is voortdurend pogings om die verwantskap tussen tegniese en die sosiale inhoud van die staal vervaardigings prosese te formuleer, deurdat auto-matiese mashienerie all deurgans oorneem van werkers. Laastens die studie ondersoek hoe die dominante staal vervaardigde tegnologie binne in Yskor Vanderbijlpark (VP) en Saldanha Baai (SB) verander het om 'n stabiele stands poort te verkry.

<p>This study discussed the effect of new information and communication technologies use on adolescents. The research also assessed whether gender and frequency of use of new information and communication technologies would interact to influence self-esteem and social support from family and friends.</p>

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This dissertation makes the connection between the human drive, as described by psychoanalysis, to construct God and the construction of the technological entity, Google. Google constitutes the extension of the early Christian period God to the twenty-first century. From the examination of significant religious and theological texts by significant theologians (Augustine, Thomas, Luther, Calvin, etc.) that explain the nature of God, the analogous relationship of God to Google will open a psychoanalytic discourse that answers questions on the current state of human mediation with the world. Freud and, more significantly, Lacan’s work connects the human creation of God, ex nihilio, to Google’s godly qualities and behaviors (omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence). This illustrates the powerful motivation behind the creation of an all-encompassing physical / earthly entity that includes the immaterial properties of God. Essentially, Google operates as the extension or replacement of the long reigning God in Western culture. Furthermore, the advent of science and technology through rationalism (as outlined by Nietzsche) results in the death of the metaphysical God and the ascension of the technological God. Google offers an appropriate example for study. Moreover, the work of Jean Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan will further comment on Google as the technological manifestation of God, particularly in its media formulations. Finally, this dissertation concludes with a review that highlights future research with an exploration that foresees the death of Google from the same rational method of inquiry by which the death of God occurred at the end of the nineteenth century. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

A organização social em que estamos inseridos é denominada por Castells (1999) como Sociedade em Rede que é caracterizada por um processo de miniaturização das tecnologias e equipada pela internet sem fio. Esses dois fatores se articulam continuamente, ocasionando o que vemos hoje nas cidades, nômades tecnológicos - usuários das tecnologias móveis que produzem, consomem e compartilham informação sem sair do fluxo vertiginoso da cidade. Dentro dessa realidade, esta pesquisa tem como objetivo central o estudo da relação entre a produção imagética e a espacialidade. Com base nisso, realiza-se uma análise sobre a produção de vídeos gerados na cidade de Fortaleza-CE e compartilhados no site YouTube® junto a uma metodologia criada a partir pelo filme de Dziga Vertov - Um Homem com uma câmera (Rússia, 1929) - para um leitura urbana, discutindo as práticas desse usuários sob a ótica da arquitetura e urbanismo. / The social organization in which we are inserted is called Castells (1999) as Network Society which is characterized by a process of miniaturization of the Technologies and equipped with wireless internet. These two factors Continuously, causing what we see today in the cities, technological nomads - Users of mobile technologies that produce, consume and share information Without leaving the dizzying stream of the city. Within this reality, this research has as Central objective is the study of the relation between imagery and spatiality. With Based on this, an analysis is made on the production of videos generated in the city of Fortaleza-CE and shared on the YouTube® site together with a methodology created Dziga Vertov - A Man with a Camera (Russia, 1929) - for one Urban discourse, discussing the practices of these users from the perspective of architecture and urbanism.

Orientadora: Ana Paula dos Santos Malheiros / Banca: Sueli Liberati Javaroni / Banca: Norma Suely Gomes Allevato / Resumo: A pesquisa em questão tem por objetivo identificar elementos que contribuem para o professor de Matemática utilizar as Tecnologias Digitais em suas aulas. Assim, para alcançar esse objetivo nos guiamos pela seguinte pergunta diretriz: "Quais elementos contribuem para que os professores de Matemática venham a utilizar as Tecnologias Digitais como parte de suas práticas pedagógicas em suas aulas?". Os sujeitos investigados foram os professores de Matemática dos anos finais do Ensino Fundamental, que disseram utilizar as Tecnologias Digitais em suas aulas, das escolas pertencentes à Diretoria de Ensino (DE) de São José do Rio Preto - SP. Nesse trabalho, optamos por uma investigação fundamentada na Metodologia de Pesquisa Qualitativa. Os resultados obtidos indicam que o que tem contribuído para que os professores de Matemática utilizem as Tecnologias Digitais são elementos que permeiam a identidade profissional desse professor, as percepções do professor de Matemática acerca das possibilidades e contribuições que as Tecnologias Digitais trazem ao serem utilizadas em suas aulas, e, por último, as contribuições da equipe gestora da escola, assim como algumas políticas educacionais com projetos que viabilizam a utilização das Tecnologias Digitais / Abstract: The following research aims to identify elements that contribute to the Mathematics Teachers use Digital Technologies in their classes. Thereby achieving this goal, we are guided by the question guideline: "What elements contribute to the Mathematics Teacher will use the Digital Technologies as part of their teaching in their classes?" . The subjects investigated were the mathematics teachers from the final years of the elementary level, who said employing the digital technologies in their classes, from schools that belong to the educational board of São José do Rio Preto-SP. in this research we chose an investigation based on the qualitative research methodology. the obtained outcomes indicate what has contributed to the mathematics teachers are elements that permeate the professional identification of this teacher, the perception of these mathematics teachers is about the possibilities and contribution of the digital technologies brings to be used in their classes, and finally, the contribution of the management team of the school as well as some educational policies with some projects that enable the use of Digital Technologies / Mestre

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-07-21T11:37:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Janice Gusmão Ferreira de Andrade.pdf: 2042345 bytes, checksum: 6529e751351061fa13b84eb91babd584 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T11:37:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Janice Gusmão Ferreira de Andrade.pdf: 2042345 bytes, checksum: 6529e751351061fa13b84eb91babd584 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-07-07 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Nobrow is a new concept, a new communicational phenomenon, a new aesthetics that characterizes the contemporary art and culture. It is a new moment in the cultura history of the XXI century. The term Nobrow refers to "highbrow" (a concept of art and literature, which characterizes them as "intellectualized, high-quality"), and "lowbrow" (that characterizes literature and art as with no connection or interest to serious cultural / intellectual ideas), so that it represents the concept of culture without a qualification of "lowbrow" or "highbrow", not specifically targeting a particular type of audience, or a specific area of knowledge. Nobrow is art without categorization. This research is based primarily on concepts and theories from John Seabrook and Peter Swirski, the only researchers on Nobrow, both of which having already legitimized its existence as more than simply reinterpretation of the concepts of highbrow and lowbrow, considering that these concepts gave life to the so-called hybrid works. Therefore, regarding Nobrow, it is the evolution of the hybrids originated from the interactivity characteristic of cyberculture. Secondarily, the research is fundamented on concepts of cyberculture, glocality and velocity from Baudrillard, Virilio and Trivinho. Internationalization and hybridism come from the ideas of Burke, Canclini and Canevacci; whereas theories of our era are handled by the visions of Augé, Bauman, Eagleton, Harvey, Jameson, Kumar, Lipovetsky and Lyotard. This Thesis examines this new Nobrow aesthetics, its scope and characteristics; investigating unclassifiable works and cultural movements of the twenty-first century that were influenced by cyberspace to check its belonging to Nobrow. To this end, the field research was developed both locally and internationally. It was necessary to interview artists, to analyze and compare works from different areas and different countries to demonstrate the essence of Nobrow, considering that it is the union of the world, of each work of art and each artist isolated locally on glocal bunkers; it is the internationalization of culture everywhere through cyberspace and through technology-based communication. Glocality brings us this globalization whilst we are isolated on it. Thus, the corpus of this research are works and/or movements from the visual arts, literature, performance arts and music. Their origins are from five different continents. By that, we intend to give adequate parameters to this century’s culture. Our society and culture are in a new phase, which no longer fits within the postmodernist’s definitions or any other. Nobrow is the name of this new era of non-absolute definitions, the “unclassifiablism”; it is the “post-postmodernism”. It is a worldwide phenomenon, a consequence of the lack of applicability of the old divisions of culture in highbrow and lowbrow. We must understand and accept the fact that these definitions as well as the naming of our Zeitgeist as “Postmodernism” or as anything else are outdated and no longer applicable to art and culture / Nobrow constitui novo conceito e, ao mesmo tempo, novo fenômeno comunicacional e nova estética da cultura e da arte contemporâneas. Como tal, implica um momento renovado na história da cultura do século XXI. Nobrow alude às expressões highbrow (que denomina as artes e a literatura, como “intelectuais” e “de alta qualidade”) e lowbrow (que caracteriza a literatura e as artes como sem conexão com ideias culturais “sérias”/“intelectuais”) de maneira a, com efeito, representar autonomamente o conceito de cultura sem remissão necessária a ambos os níveis (lowbrow ou highbrow), sem direcionamento específico a determinado tipo de público ou a determinada área de conhecimento. Nobrow corresponde à arte não categorizada. A presente pesquisa baseia-se, primordialmente, nas teorias e conceitos de John Seabrook e Peter Swirski, únicos pesquisadores sobre Nobrow, que já o legitimaram como mais do que mera releitura dos conceitos de alta e baixa cultura, uma vez que a mistura de ambas deu origem a obras chamadas de híbridas. Para além disso, Nobrow é o hibridismo proveniente da interatividade típica da cibercultura. Secundariamente, a pesquisa é fundamentada nas teorias de Baudrillard, Trivinho e Virilio, bem como nos conceitos de glocalidade e velocidade dos dois últimos autores, respectivamente. A tematização sobre a internacionalização e o hibridismo das culturas lastreia-se nas concepções de Burke, Canclini e Canevacci, enquanto a visão sobre a época contemporânea inspira-se nas obras de Anderson, Augé, Bauman, Eagleton, Harvey, Jameson, Kumar, Lipovetsky e Lyotard. A Tese analisa a nova estética Nobrow, sua abrangência e suas características, com foco em obras e movimentos culturais inclassificáveis do século XXI, influenciados, de algum modo, pelo ciberespaço. Especificamente, esse corpus abrange obras e/ou movimentos de autores das artes plásticas, da literatura, da performance e da música de cinco continentes diferentes. A investigação de campo se desenvolveu tanto em contexto local quanto no exterior. Foi necessário entrevistar artistas, analisar e comparar obras de diferentes áreas e de diferentes países para demonstrar os fundamentos do Nobrow, já que este é a união entre mundo, obra e cada artista isolado em bunkers glocais (nem locais nem globais), na internacionalização da cultura de todos os lugares através do ciberespaço e da comunicação proporcionada pela tecnologia. A glocalidade condiciona a mundialização das culturas ao mesmo tempo em que permanecemos isolados em contextos glocais. Com essas características, a Tese visa estabelecer parâmetros reflexivos mais adequados à natureza da cultura contemporânea, que se encontra em nova fase, por não se encaixar mais nas definições pós-modernistas e outras tantas. Nobrow é o nome desta nova era de definições não absolutas, o “inclassificalismo”; é o “pós-pós-modernismo”, um fenômeno mundial para além das antigas divisões da cultura em highbrow e lowbrow e consequente da defasagem de termos e sentidos. Conclusivamente, devemos compreender o fato de que tanto essas definições quanto qualquer denominação contemporânea de nosso Zeitgeist estão ultrapassadas, não sendo mais aplicáveis à arte e à cultura atuais

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Communication