Abstract of the research: What does Dancing Have to Do with Blogging? A  Study of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication among Dance Bloggers Dance, in its essence can be seen as a form of social interaction. Unique role of dancing is the recurrent motif in dance-related theories which underline that dance should not be approached only from the perspective of physical exercise but also interpreted within its social context.  In other words, dance is a symbol of a changing society Dance is can be also seen as a non-verbal expression of emotions. These are projected from the inner subjective world of an individual onto the audience. Non-verbal communication through movement and gestures, as well as spatial arrangement of bodies predominates but the recent trends show the development of a ‘verbal’ dancing occurring online via specialized blogs and social networks. The growing popularity of dance blogs implies a great diversity within the communicative methods used by dancers. The traditional view of dance as a representative of non-verbal interaction will be challenged in this paper and hypothesis stating that the verbal and non-verbal communication are strictly interrelated will be suggested. Moreover, the paper will concentrate on the impact that online blogging communities have on socialization and identity formation among dancers. The research question revolves around the idea that dance blogging demonstrates the need to use verbal signs to complete the predominantly non-verbal communication. Furthermore, the reasons motivating bloggers to write about dance will be analyzed. This will be done in order to demonstrate how attitudes to dancing and communicating as well as dancers’ distinctive ways of socialization are reflected by their belongingness to the blogging community. The investigation attempts at identifying the mechanism behind online interactions among dancers and the ways in which the Internet influences socialization and formation of dancer’s identity. The theories used in study are rooted in both macro- and micro-sociology and their aim is to clarify concepts such as communication, meaning and identification within a group. The data will be collected through interviews conducted with dance bloggers and through the observations of thirty dance blogs. Content analysis of such data will, hopefully, demonstrate how significant blogging is for the online and offline communication processes.

As Information Security (IS) standards do not always effectively cater for Social Engineering (SE) attacks, the expected results of an Information Security Management System (ISMS), based on such standards, can be seriously undermined by uncontrolled SE vulnerabilities. ISO/IEC 17799:2005 is the subject of the current analysis as it is the type of standard not restricted to technical controls, while encompassing proposals from other standards and generally-accepted sets of recommendations in the field. Following an analysis of key characteristics of SE and based on the study of Psychological and Social aspects of SE and IS, a detailed examination of ISO/IEC 17799:2005 is presented and an assessment of the efficiency of its controls with respect to SE is provided. Furthermore, enhancements to existing controls and inclusion of new controls aimed at strengthening the defense against Social Engineering are suggested. Measurement and quantification issues of IS with respect to SE are also dealt with. A novel way of assessing the level of Information Assurance in a system is proposed and sets the basis for future work on this subject. / Information Systems / M. Sc. (Information Systems)

This diploma thesis describes the way by which can photojournalism operate with the audience and how it is possible to influence a view of recipients about the world around us by photography. The thesis is devided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is based on accessibility of the Czech and foreign literature and in its beginning that represents what photojournalism is and what is its role in media. A part of the opening chapter is also a discussion of ethics in the photojournalism. Furthermore, there is explanation of the process of how a recipient perceives visual communication. One of the key components of this work is a summary of how experts from the fields of photography and media see the possibility of influencing the audience with photos in the media. There are explained the concepts of the terms visual agenda setting and visual gatekeeping. The ways by which media most often manipulate a recipient are described and there is outlined also the question of objectivity in photojournalism. The end of the theoretical part is devoted to a relatively popular topic of digital photo editing in the media. The practical part of this thesis involves a qualitative research carried through in-depth interviews, which explores ways in which the photos, that are included in printed...

As Information Security (IS) standards do not always effectively cater for Social Engineering (SE) attacks, the expected results of an Information Security Management System (ISMS), based on such standards, can be seriously undermined by uncontrolled SE vulnerabilities. ISO/IEC 17799:2005 is the subject of the current analysis as it is the type of standard not restricted to technical controls, while encompassing proposals from other standards and generally-accepted sets of recommendations in the field. Following an analysis of key characteristics of SE and based on the study of Psychological and Social aspects of SE and IS, a detailed examination of ISO/IEC 17799:2005 is presented and an assessment of the efficiency of its controls with respect to SE is provided. Furthermore, enhancements to existing controls and inclusion of new controls aimed at strengthening the defense against Social Engineering are suggested. Measurement and quantification issues of IS with respect to SE are also dealt with. A novel way of assessing the level of Information Assurance in a system is proposed and sets the basis for future work on this subject. / Information Systems / M. Sc. (Information Systems)

Esta Dissertação é o resultado de um abrangente estudo com o qual objetivo compreender a complexidade dos (des)caminhos nas trajetórias de jovens em processo de inserção profissional do Curso Técnico em Eletrotécnica e Curso Técnico em Química, na Escola Estadual Técnica São João Batista – Montenegro/RS, no período de 2001 a 2004. Desvelar estas complexas trajetórias de inserção profissional, sustentada nos autores com os quais neste texto dialogo, constitui o foco central do meu percurso investigatório, porque é um ponto de partida para a possibilidade de intervenção à mudança. A historicidade (tempo-espaço) perpassa a revisão teórica e a análise da realidade. Focalizo o homem, um sujeito circunscrito por ideologias/crenças engendradas por seu contexto sócio-econômico-cultural, o seu habitus, segundo Pierre Bourdieu. Essas referências sustentam a pesquisa empírica – qualitativa, quando um olhar aguçado nas trajetórias familiares e pessoais de escolaridade e ocupações profissionais resultam em Discursos de Sujeitos Coletivos (orientados por Lefèvre, F. e Lefèvre, A. M. C., 2003). A análise desses discursos viabilizam a demarcação de identidades, geradas em suas histórias de vida; bem como, demarcam preconceitos e obstáculos diversos provocadores de descontinuidades. Acolho as deduções de Guimarães (2004) ao identificar padrões de mobilidade da coorte de trabalhadores demitidos da indústria petroquímica, e defino três padrões de trajetórias de inserção. Concluo que as trajetórias de reconversão do Grupo Laranja e as trajetórias de exclusão do Grupo Azul estão na contramão da formação técnica, que é perseguida nas trajetórias de permanência pelo Grupo Verde. E a escola, ignorando o colorido em sua volta, lida com a pedagogia como se o mundo fosse monocromático, e tudo permanece como está. Embora a Constituição Federativa do Brasil legisle que não pode existir a divisão sexual do trabalho, constato no campo factual trajetórias de inserção profissional condicionadas por preconceito de gênero. Por fim, tomo de Peralva (1997) a conclusão de que as idades da vida não são fenômenos naturais, e sim, sociais e históricos, e são plurais. O que é escrito em determinada idade pelo sujeito, está condicionado pelo seu padrão identitário. A história não é estática, é movimento; por isso mesmo, não são imutáveis os habitus pelos quais transitam os sujeitos. As cores definem identidades e os sujeitos podem transitar entre elas. Esses resultados elucidam os (des)caminhos nas trajetórias dos jovens no seu processo de inserção profissional nos Cursos Técnicos do SJB, indicam a influência do contexto sócio-econômico-cultural e rompem com as promessas anunciadas pela Teoria do Capital Humano. As deduções suscitam novos questionamentos que marcam a incompletude do meu próprio percurso. Um convite à continuidade... / This dissertation is the result of a wide-ranging study that aims to understand the complexity of the (out)ways in the trajectories of the young in the process of professional insertion from the Technical Course in Eletrotecnic and Chemistry at SJB Technical State School – Montenegro/RS, from 2001 to 2004. To clarity these complex trajectories of profissional insertion, supported on the authors with whom I dialog on this text, constitutes the focus of my investigator way, because is the first step towards the intervention possibility of changing. The historicity (time-space) goes through the theoretical revision and the analysis of the reality. I focus the man, subject circumscribed by ideologies/beliefs engendered by their socio-economical-cultural context, and their habitus, according to Pierre Bourdieu. These references support the empiric-qualitative research, when a sharp look in the familiar and personal trajectories of school degree and professional occupation result in Speeches of Collective Subjects (guided by Lefévre, F. and Lefévre, A. M. C., 2003). The analysis of these speeches enables the demarcating of identities, generated in their life histories; as well as they demarcate prejudices and diversified obstacles that provoke discontinuities. I take Guimarães (2004) deductions, when he identifies patterns of mobility of the “coorte” of fired workers from the Petrochemical industry, and define three patterns of trajectories of insertion. I conclude that the trajectories of recon version from the orange group and the trajectories of exclusion from the blue group are on the opposite way from the technique formation, which is pursued on the trajectories of permanence by the green group. And the school, ignoring the colored around, deals with pedagogy as if the world was monochromatic, and everything remains the same. Although the Federative Constitution of Brazil says that there can’t be the work sexual division, I see that on the factual field trajectories of professional insertion conditioned to gender prejudice. Finally, I took from Peralva (1997) the conclusion that the ages of life are not natural phenomena, but social and historical, and they are plural. What is written in a definite age by the subject, it is not conditioned by their identification pattern. The history is not static, it is movement; that’s why the habitus through which the subjects go through are not unchangeable. And, still, the colors define identities, but, the subjects may transit among them. These results elucidate the (out) ways in the trajectories of the young in their process of professional insertion from the Technique Courses at SJB, indicate the influence of the socio-economical-cultural context and break with the promises announced by the Human Capital Theory. The deductions generate new questions that mark the sketchiness of my own way. An invitation to the continuity…

Esta Dissertação é o resultado de um abrangente estudo com o qual objetivo compreender a complexidade dos (des)caminhos nas trajetórias de jovens em processo de inserção profissional do Curso Técnico em Eletrotécnica e Curso Técnico em Química, na Escola Estadual Técnica São João Batista – Montenegro/RS, no período de 2001 a 2004. Desvelar estas complexas trajetórias de inserção profissional, sustentada nos autores com os quais neste texto dialogo, constitui o foco central do meu percurso investigatório, porque é um ponto de partida para a possibilidade de intervenção à mudança. A historicidade (tempo-espaço) perpassa a revisão teórica e a análise da realidade. Focalizo o homem, um sujeito circunscrito por ideologias/crenças engendradas por seu contexto sócio-econômico-cultural, o seu habitus, segundo Pierre Bourdieu. Essas referências sustentam a pesquisa empírica – qualitativa, quando um olhar aguçado nas trajetórias familiares e pessoais de escolaridade e ocupações profissionais resultam em Discursos de Sujeitos Coletivos (orientados por Lefèvre, F. e Lefèvre, A. M. C., 2003). A análise desses discursos viabilizam a demarcação de identidades, geradas em suas histórias de vida; bem como, demarcam preconceitos e obstáculos diversos provocadores de descontinuidades. Acolho as deduções de Guimarães (2004) ao identificar padrões de mobilidade da coorte de trabalhadores demitidos da indústria petroquímica, e defino três padrões de trajetórias de inserção. Concluo que as trajetórias de reconversão do Grupo Laranja e as trajetórias de exclusão do Grupo Azul estão na contramão da formação técnica, que é perseguida nas trajetórias de permanência pelo Grupo Verde. E a escola, ignorando o colorido em sua volta, lida com a pedagogia como se o mundo fosse monocromático, e tudo permanece como está. Embora a Constituição Federativa do Brasil legisle que não pode existir a divisão sexual do trabalho, constato no campo factual trajetórias de inserção profissional condicionadas por preconceito de gênero. Por fim, tomo de Peralva (1997) a conclusão de que as idades da vida não são fenômenos naturais, e sim, sociais e históricos, e são plurais. O que é escrito em determinada idade pelo sujeito, está condicionado pelo seu padrão identitário. A história não é estática, é movimento; por isso mesmo, não são imutáveis os habitus pelos quais transitam os sujeitos. As cores definem identidades e os sujeitos podem transitar entre elas. Esses resultados elucidam os (des)caminhos nas trajetórias dos jovens no seu processo de inserção profissional nos Cursos Técnicos do SJB, indicam a influência do contexto sócio-econômico-cultural e rompem com as promessas anunciadas pela Teoria do Capital Humano. As deduções suscitam novos questionamentos que marcam a incompletude do meu próprio percurso. Um convite à continuidade... / This dissertation is the result of a wide-ranging study that aims to understand the complexity of the (out)ways in the trajectories of the young in the process of professional insertion from the Technical Course in Eletrotecnic and Chemistry at SJB Technical State School – Montenegro/RS, from 2001 to 2004. To clarity these complex trajectories of profissional insertion, supported on the authors with whom I dialog on this text, constitutes the focus of my investigator way, because is the first step towards the intervention possibility of changing. The historicity (time-space) goes through the theoretical revision and the analysis of the reality. I focus the man, subject circumscribed by ideologies/beliefs engendered by their socio-economical-cultural context, and their habitus, according to Pierre Bourdieu. These references support the empiric-qualitative research, when a sharp look in the familiar and personal trajectories of school degree and professional occupation result in Speeches of Collective Subjects (guided by Lefévre, F. and Lefévre, A. M. C., 2003). The analysis of these speeches enables the demarcating of identities, generated in their life histories; as well as they demarcate prejudices and diversified obstacles that provoke discontinuities. I take Guimarães (2004) deductions, when he identifies patterns of mobility of the “coorte” of fired workers from the Petrochemical industry, and define three patterns of trajectories of insertion. I conclude that the trajectories of recon version from the orange group and the trajectories of exclusion from the blue group are on the opposite way from the technique formation, which is pursued on the trajectories of permanence by the green group. And the school, ignoring the colored around, deals with pedagogy as if the world was monochromatic, and everything remains the same. Although the Federative Constitution of Brazil says that there can’t be the work sexual division, I see that on the factual field trajectories of professional insertion conditioned to gender prejudice. Finally, I took from Peralva (1997) the conclusion that the ages of life are not natural phenomena, but social and historical, and they are plural. What is written in a definite age by the subject, it is not conditioned by their identification pattern. The history is not static, it is movement; that’s why the habitus through which the subjects go through are not unchangeable. And, still, the colors define identities, but, the subjects may transit among them. These results elucidate the (out) ways in the trajectories of the young in their process of professional insertion from the Technique Courses at SJB, indicate the influence of the socio-economical-cultural context and break with the promises announced by the Human Capital Theory. The deductions generate new questions that mark the sketchiness of my own way. An invitation to the continuity…

Esta Dissertação é o resultado de um abrangente estudo com o qual objetivo compreender a complexidade dos (des)caminhos nas trajetórias de jovens em processo de inserção profissional do Curso Técnico em Eletrotécnica e Curso Técnico em Química, na Escola Estadual Técnica São João Batista – Montenegro/RS, no período de 2001 a 2004. Desvelar estas complexas trajetórias de inserção profissional, sustentada nos autores com os quais neste texto dialogo, constitui o foco central do meu percurso investigatório, porque é um ponto de partida para a possibilidade de intervenção à mudança. A historicidade (tempo-espaço) perpassa a revisão teórica e a análise da realidade. Focalizo o homem, um sujeito circunscrito por ideologias/crenças engendradas por seu contexto sócio-econômico-cultural, o seu habitus, segundo Pierre Bourdieu. Essas referências sustentam a pesquisa empírica – qualitativa, quando um olhar aguçado nas trajetórias familiares e pessoais de escolaridade e ocupações profissionais resultam em Discursos de Sujeitos Coletivos (orientados por Lefèvre, F. e Lefèvre, A. M. C., 2003). A análise desses discursos viabilizam a demarcação de identidades, geradas em suas histórias de vida; bem como, demarcam preconceitos e obstáculos diversos provocadores de descontinuidades. Acolho as deduções de Guimarães (2004) ao identificar padrões de mobilidade da coorte de trabalhadores demitidos da indústria petroquímica, e defino três padrões de trajetórias de inserção. Concluo que as trajetórias de reconversão do Grupo Laranja e as trajetórias de exclusão do Grupo Azul estão na contramão da formação técnica, que é perseguida nas trajetórias de permanência pelo Grupo Verde. E a escola, ignorando o colorido em sua volta, lida com a pedagogia como se o mundo fosse monocromático, e tudo permanece como está. Embora a Constituição Federativa do Brasil legisle que não pode existir a divisão sexual do trabalho, constato no campo factual trajetórias de inserção profissional condicionadas por preconceito de gênero. Por fim, tomo de Peralva (1997) a conclusão de que as idades da vida não são fenômenos naturais, e sim, sociais e históricos, e são plurais. O que é escrito em determinada idade pelo sujeito, está condicionado pelo seu padrão identitário. A história não é estática, é movimento; por isso mesmo, não são imutáveis os habitus pelos quais transitam os sujeitos. As cores definem identidades e os sujeitos podem transitar entre elas. Esses resultados elucidam os (des)caminhos nas trajetórias dos jovens no seu processo de inserção profissional nos Cursos Técnicos do SJB, indicam a influência do contexto sócio-econômico-cultural e rompem com as promessas anunciadas pela Teoria do Capital Humano. As deduções suscitam novos questionamentos que marcam a incompletude do meu próprio percurso. Um convite à continuidade... / This dissertation is the result of a wide-ranging study that aims to understand the complexity of the (out)ways in the trajectories of the young in the process of professional insertion from the Technical Course in Eletrotecnic and Chemistry at SJB Technical State School – Montenegro/RS, from 2001 to 2004. To clarity these complex trajectories of profissional insertion, supported on the authors with whom I dialog on this text, constitutes the focus of my investigator way, because is the first step towards the intervention possibility of changing. The historicity (time-space) goes through the theoretical revision and the analysis of the reality. I focus the man, subject circumscribed by ideologies/beliefs engendered by their socio-economical-cultural context, and their habitus, according to Pierre Bourdieu. These references support the empiric-qualitative research, when a sharp look in the familiar and personal trajectories of school degree and professional occupation result in Speeches of Collective Subjects (guided by Lefévre, F. and Lefévre, A. M. C., 2003). The analysis of these speeches enables the demarcating of identities, generated in their life histories; as well as they demarcate prejudices and diversified obstacles that provoke discontinuities. I take Guimarães (2004) deductions, when he identifies patterns of mobility of the “coorte” of fired workers from the Petrochemical industry, and define three patterns of trajectories of insertion. I conclude that the trajectories of recon version from the orange group and the trajectories of exclusion from the blue group are on the opposite way from the technique formation, which is pursued on the trajectories of permanence by the green group. And the school, ignoring the colored around, deals with pedagogy as if the world was monochromatic, and everything remains the same. Although the Federative Constitution of Brazil says that there can’t be the work sexual division, I see that on the factual field trajectories of professional insertion conditioned to gender prejudice. Finally, I took from Peralva (1997) the conclusion that the ages of life are not natural phenomena, but social and historical, and they are plural. What is written in a definite age by the subject, it is not conditioned by their identification pattern. The history is not static, it is movement; that’s why the habitus through which the subjects go through are not unchangeable. And, still, the colors define identities, but, the subjects may transit among them. These results elucidate the (out) ways in the trajectories of the young in their process of professional insertion from the Technique Courses at SJB, indicate the influence of the socio-economical-cultural context and break with the promises announced by the Human Capital Theory. The deductions generate new questions that mark the sketchiness of my own way. An invitation to the continuity…