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Open call for one (1) Research Grant under the TRUE – Trustworthy news and Related content for a Unified writing Environment – a project under the ID (AAC 17/SI/2019), under the following conditions:
1. Scientific Area: Communication Sciences and Technologies
3. Admission Requirements: Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in Multimedia Communication, or related areas. Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD in Information and Communication Sciences or related areas or enrolled in a Non-Degree Course of University of Aveiro. Applicants should have academic and/or professional experience in the area of responsive web application development. Experience in research projects with participation in the development of solutions based on front-end technologies such as ReactJS is valued, as well as abilities in the English language. Skills in carrying out application evaluation studies and data analysis are also valued.
5. Work plan:
It is intended, during the course of this fellowship, to carry out the following tasks:
- Study existing solutions for the development of tools to support writing in Portuguese.
- Develop a web writing support solution, considering the main entities you are writing about and showing sources of additional information about these entities.
- Test and evaluate the solution developed with the project’s target audience (High School Students).
6. Applicable legislation and regulations: Statute of the Scientific Research Grant Holder, as amended by Decree-Law no. 123/2019, of August 28; Regulation of Scientific Research Grants of the University of Aveiro, Regulation no. 292/2020, published in Diário da República no. 61, Series II, of March 26 (https://dre.pt/application/file/a/130722170); Decree-Law no. 66/2018, of August 16 (Legal regime of recognition of academic degrees and diplomas of higher education awarded by foreign higher education institutions).
7. Work place: The work will be carried out at the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, in the DigiMedia laboratory, under the scientific supervision of Professor Telmo Eduardo Miranda Castelão da Silva.
8. Duration of the fellowship(s): The fellowship will have a duration of 12 months, starting in February 16, 2022, possibly renewable, not exceeding the maximum duration of the project.
9. Amount of the monthly maintenance allowance: The amount of the grant is €1,104.64, according to the table of monthly maintenance allowance values, set out in Annex III of the Scientific Research Grant Regulations of the University of Aveiro.
10. Selection methods: The selection methods to be used are:
(a) Curriculum evaluation (50%);
b) Interview (50%).
11. Composition of the Selection Board: Professor Telmo Eduardo Miranda Castelão da Silva (Chairman); Professor Jorge Trinidad Ferraz de Abreu (Effective Member); Professor Pedro Alexandre dos Santos Almeida (Effective Member); Professor Ana Margarida Pisco Almeida (Substitute Member); Carlos Manuel das Neves Santos (Substitute Member).
12. Application deadline and form of presentation of applications: The call is open from 7 to 20 of January of 2022 and only applications submitted within the deadline will be admitted.
The application should be formalized with the following documents: Cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, qualifications certificate and other supporting documents deemed relevant. You should also indicate the e-mail address to which, by that indication, you accept to be notified for all purposes within this procedure.
The application should be done by e-mail to tsilva@ua.pt
13. Form of publication/notification of results: The results of the evaluation shall be made public no later than 60 working days after the closing date for submission of applications and shall be notified to the applicants. The candidates are informed, in a prior hearing, under the terms established in the Code of Administrative Procedure, of the probable meaning of the final decision, and may, within 10 working days of this notification, express their opinion on this decision. The final results may be appealed to the Rector, to be submitted within 10 working days from the respective notification.
14. Tender duration: The final ranking list of candidates will be valid until 1 of April of 2022 for the purpose of constituting a reserve list for selection.
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Journal of Digital Media & Interaction, Vol.4, No.11: Cultural Representations in Digital Games is now available.
Regular edition consisting of a dossier on Cultural Representations in Digital Games.
Editorial
Bernardo Cardoso’s PhD defense takes place on the 14th January, at 3:00 p.m., with the topic Unification in Audiovisual Content Consumption: contributions to the user experience and suggestions for operators | A Unificação no Consumo de Conteúdos Audiovisuais: contributos para a experiência de utilização e sugestões para operadores.
Bernardo Cardoso is a student of the PhD programme in Information and Communication in Digital Platforms and his supervisor is Jorge Ferraz de Abreu (DigiMedia, UA).
DigiMedia members are invited to participate in this important moment in person.
Abstract:
Pay-TV offers have been undergoing a process of homogenization in terms of features and content. However, in recent years, due to major changes in technology and business models, a series of fragmentations are causing an imbalance and important changes in the television ecosystem. Among these changes, catch-up TV, and platforms such as Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube, have emerged as new ways to watch on-demand content, complementing the traditional broadcast TV. Enabled by these platforms, the television concept is also evolving to include new formats and models. Simultaneously, television is no longer restricted to the TV set, being now available on several devices, allowing the viewers to watch the content they want, wherever and whenever they want. However, these changes, although presenting numerous advantages, have also brought a more complex user experience, as they force the viewer to jump between several applications, use different devices and subscribe to multiple services. This presented the opportunity to start a research project aiming to innovate the user experience of the TV viewer, by promoting a content unification approach while introducing new interaction modes and business models. Following a Design Thinking methodology, the project tried to better understand the problems that TV viewers were facing and observe their behaviours and choices. This highlighted a demand for content unification and personalization approaches, enabling an ideation cycle focused on these concepts, which culminated in the elaboration of a prototype that gave tangibility to the selected ideas. This prototype was subjected to an expert evaluation and, given the positive results, granted the green light for the project to proceeded with new prototyping and evaluation phases. Those took place initially in a laboratory setup and, later, in a field trial in a residential environment, for a month. In these evaluations, a triangulation of standardized surveys and various qualitative assessment instruments were employed, and their positive results validated the approach followed by the project. In this way, it became possible to move forward with a transfer, from academia to industry, of the researched unification concepts, thus increasing the level of validation. Finally, the combination of an analysis of the current offers of the biggest American technological platforms, with the knowledge previously obtained on the present research, allowed the elaboration of a set of proposals to improve the user experience of the TV viewers, complemented with a set of suggestions to pay-TV operators, so they can, with these proposals, introduce innovative and differentiated offers to the market.
More information available HERE
The book “Handbook of Research on Digital Communications, Internet of Things, and the Future of Cultural Tourism” edited by Lídia Oliveira (DigiMedia member) was published.
Description:
Digital communication is significantly expanding new opportunities and challenges in the tourism industry. Tourists, now more frequently than ever, bring their smartphones with them to every destination, and cultural tourists are particularly motivated to utilize a variety of services and platforms as they are especially open and interested in understanding in detail the places and heritage of the places they visit. Thus, researchers, educators, and professionals in the tourism and hospitality field should take advantage of this opportunity to propose new ways of presenting better content and creating a more immersive and optimized experience for tourists.
The Handbook of Research on Digital Communications, Internet of Things, and the Future of Cultural Tourism shares research and experiences on the convergence between digital communication and cultural tourism, specifically the migration and creative appropriation of these technologies for increased tourist engagement and their role in destination marketing and strategic planning and decision making. Covering topics such as big data, e-tourism, and social media platforms, this major reference work is an invaluable resource for researchers, students, professors, academicians, government entities, museum managers, professionals, and cultural tourism managers and facilitators.
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
- Accessibility
- Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT)
- Creative Destinations
- Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism
- Destination and City Branding
- Dialogic Communication
- Digital Transformation
- E-Tourism
- Museum Technologies
- Overtourism
- Smart Technologies
- Social Media Platforms and Analytics
- Sustainability of Tourism
- Tourist Experience
- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Table of contents:
Chapter 1
Cultural Tourism and the Tourist Experience in the Digital Era
Eunice Ramos Lopes, Paulo Alexandre Santos, João Tomaz Simões
Chapter 2
Digital Transformation and Tourist Experiences
Yunus Topsakal, Onur Icoz, Orhan Icoz
Chapter 3
Smart Tourism in Destinations: Can It Be the Way Forward?
Fisun Yüksel
Chapter 4
The Future of Digital Tourism Alternatives in Virtual Reality
Zuleyhan Baran, Huseyin Baran
Chapter 5
The Internet of Things and Cultural Heritage
Aybuke Ceyhun Sezgin, Elif Esma Karaman
Chapter 6
Tourist Experience and Digital Transformation
Ahmet Erdem, Ferhat Şeker
Chapter 7
Understanding Big Data and Techniques in Cultural Tourism
Zafer Türkmendağ
Chapter 8
The Use of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage and Deep-Diving
Destinations
Nihan Garipağaoğlu-Uğur, Orhan Akova
Chapter 9
Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Digitalization Process: The Case of Turkey
İsmail Çalık
Chapter 10
Digital Cultural Heritage
F. Füsun İstanbullu Dinçer, Seda Özdemir Akgül
Chapter 11
A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review About Smartness in Tourism
Gizem Duran, Selma Meydan Uygur
Chapter 12
Creative Destinations and the Rooster of Barcelos (“Galo de Barcelos”)
Francisco Barbosa Gonçalves, Carlos Costa
Chapter 13
Cultural Tourism: Use of Virtual Visits to Museums
Maria Gorete Dinis, Adelaide Proença, Cláudia Batista, Luís Barradas
Chapter 14
Cultural Tourism, Internet of Things, and Smart Technologies in Museums
Ümit Gaberli
Chapter 15
Digital Communication in Museums and Museological Spaces: Diagnosis of Baixo Alentejo,
Portugal
Victor Figueira, João Arnedo Rolha, Bruno Barbosa Sousa
Chapter 16
Using New Tools to Attract Visitors to Museums and Heritage Sites
Lia Bassa, Melanie Kay Smith, Árpád Ferenc Papp-Váry
Chapter 17
An Exploratory Study on the Role of Websites in Gastronomy Museum Dialogic
Communication
Eray Polat
Chapter 18
Serendipitous Cultural Tourist
Mahmut Baltaci, A. Celil Cakici
Chapter 19
Virtual Reality: The Groundbreaking Smart Technology for the Tourism and Service Industry
Aruditya Jasrotia
Chapter 20
Social Media and Cultural Tourism
Murat Koçyiğit, Büşra Küçükcivil
Chapter 21
Social Media Analytics: Opportunities and Challenges for Cultural Tourism Destinations
Časlav Kalinić, Miroslav D. Vujičić
Chapter 22
Integrating Big Data to Smart Destination Heritage Management
Kubra Ozer, Mehmet Altug Sahin, Gurel Cetin
Chapter 23
Post-Pandemic Re-Positioning in a Cultural Tourism City: From Overtourism to E-Tourism
Monica Coronel, Árpád Ferenc Papp-Váry, Ivett Pinke-Sziva, Zombor Berezvai, Melanie K. Smith
Chapter 24
Innovation in Sustainability of Tourism After the COVID-19 Pandemic
Buket Buluk Eşitti
Chapter 25
Cultural Heritage and Digitalization in City Branding
Oya Yildirim, A. Celil Çakici
Citation:
Oliveira, L. (Ed.) (2022).Handbook of Research on Digital Communications, Internet of Things, and the Future of Cultural Tourism. Pensilvânia, EUA: IGI Global.https://doi.org/10.1145/3486011.3486508
More information available HERE
The article “Communication Overload in Online Communities in Higher Education: A Case Study” by João Batista (DigiMedia member), Helena Santos and Rui Pedro Marques was published in the International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI) 18(1).
Abstract:
This paper presents part of a research project on the use of information technology by students and teachers to communicate with each other in online community contexts of higher education institutions. The part of this project which investigated whether the number of messages exchanged, and the effort required to process them are a source of communication overload is the focus of the paper. The research was conducted at a Portuguese university, was supported by an analysis model, and data were collected through an online questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and inference tests were used to analyse a validated data sample of n = 570 students and n = 172 teachers. The results show that students and teachers generally perceive communication overload when using communication technologies to communicate with each other. This perception is particularly relevant when using email, and inference tests show that it is higher for teachers than for students
Citation:
Batista, J., Santos, H. & Marques, R. P. (2022).Communication Overload in Online Communities in Higher Education: A Case Study. International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI), 18(1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3486011.3486508
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The article “Developing peer mentors’ collaborative and metacognitive skills with a technology-enhanced peer learning program” by Ana Raquel Carvalho (DigiMedia PhD Student) and Carlos Santos (DigiMedia member) was published in the Journal Computers and Education Open., volume 3
Abstract:
Citation:
Carvalho, A. R. & Santos, C. (2022). Developing peer mentors’ collaborative and metacognitive skills with a technology-enhanced peer learning program . Computers and Education Open, 3, 100070. https://doi.org/10.1145/3486011.3486508
More information available HERE
The Media Innovation Circle#7 took place on December 17 with a talk by Mario Verdicchio, School of Engineering – University of Bergamo (Italy) followed by a participated discussion on the topic “Thinking / Creating / Rethinking / Recreating – Computers and the Arts”, moderated by Pedro Cardoso (DigiMedia/UA).
The video is already available on DigiMedia YouTube channel. Watch HERE. We invite you to subscribe the channel.
Mario Verdicchio is a researcher at the School of Engineering at the University of Bergamo in Italy and a member of the Berlin Ethics Lab at the Technical University of Berlin in Germany. He is the co-founder of the xCoAx international conference series on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X. He has written mostly about Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and has been a Sunday artist for some years.
Abstract
Computer Art has now made amazing strides in comparison with its beginnings of the 1950s, at least from a technological point of view.
Such evolution must have also guaranteed a transformation in the creative processes in the arts, but whether such change has led to answers to the long-standing questions on creativity, authorship and the meaning of art remains to be seen. Actually, the more in-depth one goes in thinking of Information Technology and its impacts on society in general, the more doubts seem to emerge on the role it plays within artistic and cultural contexts. This talk takes a critical view on technological enhancements with the goal of shedding light on what it means to use computers for artistic purposes.
Dossier Multidisciplinary perspectives on disinformation in science and health (v. 16, n. 2) Apr./Jun. 2022
One of the biggest challenges we face today is the circulation of misinformation. In recent years, there has been a recurring concern in the public debate about issues such as “post-truth,” “alternative facts,” and “fake news.” Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we could see how science has been triggered both in social media, by political leaders, and in journalistic and media framings that generally emphasize a political and/or scientific crisis more than the health crisis. In this complex field of dispute and uses of scientific information, we see different forms of production and consumption of information emerging, some classified as “disinformation”, such as “conspiracy theories” related to science, “scientific denialism”, “pseudoscience”, fake sciences and ” para-science”.
Many of these forms of science-related disinformation use scientific production itself to validate arguments and belief systems, even if averse to the prevailing scientific evidence, significantly altering the way scientific information circulates in media and digital environments. And the high rates of sharing that such research achieves, gauging an apparent social impact through alternative metrics that measure its performance in social web sources, further aggravate the challenges of understanding what its reception and circulation represent.
In a context of global health crisis, the authority of modern epistemic communities is momentarily suspended, giving way to the emergence of other authorities, no longer those consolidated in modernity, straining democratic values already weakened in a context of institutional and epistemic crisis. In this context, digital influencers, religious, community or political leaders emerge and exert influence on the way subjects relate to health-related scientific information, directly affecting the way subjects receive scientific information.
Given this context of disputes over health-related information, the objective of this dossier is to create an interlocution between different areas of knowledge to shed light on disinformation processes, especially when related to science and health. Despite the growth of studies focused on disinformation and health, understanding the mechanisms of consumption of information and perception about public communication in health and the social uses of science is of great relevance, especially in a context of health crisis. Therefore, it is of great importance to compile collections that have as a proposal to perform multidisciplinary articulations for a better understanding of the causes, consequences and challenges arising from this process of circulation of disinformation related to science and health.
Therefore, the proposal of this dossier is to discuss the different regimes of truth, belief systems and moral grammars in which the actors are based to elaborate critiques of science and justifications to contest or defend epistemic authorities around scientific controversies and their political crossings.
Some of the topics of interest in this dossier, but not limited to them, include:
- The different perspectives on the meanings attributed to misinformation, especially, scientific disinformation and health science misinformation;
- Analyses of the meanings given to science and its representations in the processes of scientific disinformation;
- Research that discusses the disinformative processes related to science and health through themes concerning vaccination, “denialism”, “fakenews”, “fake sciences”, “para-science”;
- The different uses of science and health, and their imbrications with politics, paying attention to the assumption that there is no separation between these fields, what interests us is how these intersections are constructed and defended;
- Disinformative processes related to prevention and health care;
- Studies on ways, strategies to confront and combat scientific disinformation in health;
- Researches that analyze qualification processes, messages and audiences of disinformation actions/campaigns;
- Analysis of categories and framing typologies of disinformation in science and health;
- Transnational flows of circulation of scientific disinformation;
- Altmetric studies and communities of attention network around health disinformation;
- Investigations on disinformation and democracy that analyze the role of public managers, political agents and collectives in disinformation processes in science and health.
Guest Editors: Hully Guedes Falcão (Fiocruz), Thaiane Oliveira (UFF) and Ronaldo F. Araújo (UFAL).
Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2022.
Publication: April/June 2022
When submitting the paper, please use category Dossier Multidisciplinary perspectives on disinformation in science and health.
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Dossier For an Interdisciplinary Ethics (v. 16, n. 3) Jul./Sept. 2022
Often associated with the model of biomedical-centered knowledge production, despite all its normative advances in recent decades, the research ethics still needs a wider view of a set of crucial issues that have become more visible in the pandemic contemporary world. The imperative of the so-called interdisciplinarity, vocalized by a number of social actors, throws light on the void of inclusions, connections and interactions, necessary and urgent, among several dimensions that are taken into account and thought like different, dissimilar, invisible and/or inexistent, although they, in essence, complement each other. What the black and white disciplinary science cannot answer, the interdisciplinarity, by colouring and mixing, can make explicit and wider as well as it can provide new possibilities of understanding and of new actions in the world. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the starting point which both reinforce the inexorability of the interdisciplinarity and value the achievements of disciplinary knowledge over centuries. It is not a question of exclusion, but of mobilizing ethics to do the sewing, the stitching and the texture between what is particular/individual and what is collective; between what is seen and what a quick look does not capture; between what is heard and what is silenced; between what is and what could be.
Aiming to overcome these obstacles and challenges, the proposal of this dossier is to rethink both ethics and research from a new perspective that throw light on the problems of our time from theoretical and methodological approaches that are as interdisciplinary as possible. More than paying attention to more conventional bioethical themes, although they are welcome, the invitation is to occupy a space in order to rediscuss the most hidden foundations of science and ethics, pointing to a new civilization project more plural and inclusive.
Proposals of original articles on the following thematic axes will be evaluated:
- Ethics and open science;
- Ethics and sustainability;
- Ethics, negligence and vulnerability;
- Cultures, affections and ethics of the bodies;
- For an ethical communication;
- Ethics and education (formative processes);
- The ethical State and ethics in public policies.
Guest Editors: Maria Cristina S. Guimarães (ICICT/Fiocruz), Marcio Sacramento de Oliveira (ICICT/Fiocruz), André Mendonça (IMS/UERJ), Maria Manuel Borges (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra).
Submission deadline: April 7th, 2022.
Publication: v. 16, n. 3, Jul/Sept, 2022.
When submitting the paper, please use category Dossier For an Interdisciplinary Ethics.
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Dossier Platform Labor & Health (v. 16, n. 4) Oct./Dec. 2022
The platformization of labor not only jeopardizes labor rights and tax regularization mechanisms, but also generates serious effects on the health of people working in these economies. In some cases, as in on-demand delivery work, even human losses are reported on a daily basis. Content moderators and microworkers have many mental health issues. For example, in 2020, Facebook had to pay $52 million to its moderators who developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Thus, it is urgent to analyze health and welfare on digital platforms, both in relation to current conditions and to prefigure what futures we want in relation to health in the platform labor.
This thematic dossier aims to compile studies on the intersection between health and platform labor, recognizing the importance of this debate. We accept articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. We are especially interested in submissions that shed light across these themes:
• Health of platform workers across the sectors;
• Safety and health of platform labor in the streets: drivers, riders, shoppers;
• Working from home: remote work, microwork, and reproductive labor;
• Domestic work and beauty sector;
• Intersection of gender, race, caste, class, age, sexuality or other dynamics in impacting health conditions of platform workers;
• Decolonial perspectives on platform labor and health;
• Beyond “invisible” and “hiddens” perspectives on platform labor and health;
• Chronic illness, disabilities and platform capitalismo;
• Mental health, right to disconnection and platform labor;
• Mental health and plataform capitalismo;
• Platformization of health workers and medical care workers;
• Technologies and metrics of health surveillance and monitoring on platforms during covid-19;
• Biopolitics and platform capitalism before and during the pandemic;
• Organizational, moral and sexual harassment working on digital platforms;
• Fair work on digital platforms and the role of health;
• Health of platform workers and public policies.
Guest editors: Rafael Grohmann (Unisinos University, Brazil), Noopur Raval (New York University, United States), and Kruskaya Hidalgo Cordero (Platform Observatory, Equador)
Submission deadline: June 30th, 2022.
Publication: v. 16, n. 4, Oct./Dec. 2022.
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The article “Has Covid-19 emergency instruction killed the PLE?” by Luís Pedro and Carlos Santos (DigiMedia members) was published in the Proceedings of TEEM’21: Ninth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’21).
Abstract:
Citation:
Pedro, L. and Santos, C. (2021). Has Covid-19 emergency instruction killed the PLE? In Ninth International Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (TEEM’21) (TEEM’21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 518–521. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3486011.3486508
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The article “Smart logos: a user’s dashboard for the visualisation of meaningful brand experience data” by Catarina Lelis (DigiMedia member) was published in Infodesign v. 18 n. 3 (2021): Special Edition: Data Visualization from the point of view of Information Design.
Abstract:
Citation:
Lelis, C. (2021). Smart logos: a user’s dashboard for the visualisation of meaningful brand experience data. InfoDesign – Revista Brasileira De Design Da Informação, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.51358/id.v18i3.892
More information available HERE
The WEBINAR for the presentation of the Project “NAVSAFETY – Emerging remote sensing technologies in real-time support for safe navigation in port areas ” will be held on December 20, at 10 am. The project is developed in a partnership between the University of Aveiro, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Port of Figueira da Foz, Simbiente and DGRM – Direção Geral de Recursos Naturais, Segurança e Serviços Marítimos. Jorge Ferraz de Abreu and Telmo Silva coordinate the Aveiro team.
Nelson Zagalo, DigiMedia Scientific Coordinator, participate in a round table on the topic Human Resources Training for the Digital Transition, along with Pedro Jerónimo from MediaTrust Lab (UBI), with moderation of Claudia Maia, Vice-President of Associação Portuguesa de Imprensa and Editorial Manager of Deco Proteste. The event took place in the PCI- Creative Science Park.
The Press Day was celebrated on the 16th December 2021 and was marked by the signing of the protocol for the launch of the Aveiro Media Competence Centre.
The recordings of the sessions are available HERE
