Search results for " Citizen"

Sustainable user-driven innovation supporting Open Government policies- A System Dynamics perspective applied to the Municipality of Palermo-

Going beyond a technocratic e-government paradigm, this research aims at analyzing how, through the two-ways interaction supported by Web 2.0 technology, skilled external collaboration and knowledge-sharing between citizens and public administrations can offer new ways of citizen participation, enhancing political decision-making process and public value creation. Particularly, the purpose is to investigate how skilled citizens can serve as contributors to tasks that are traditionally performed by designated civil servants and now are outsourced to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call for contributions. To this end, we have conducted a field research in…

Teoria politica e lo spazio greco dell'alterità

2017

In her article, Viviana Segreto means to reconstruct the theoretical genealogy of political relationship between citizenship in the polis and otherness, that’s to say the foreigner, the barbarous. Through the analysis of Plato texts and of some contemporary scholars regarding classic thinking, the author stresses the organization of political space in Athens in its practices of exclusion and inclusion, disciplined by kratos and nomos, and so she traces a lines of political subjectivation.

Literacy, Media Literacy and Social Change. Where Do We Go From Now?

2017

Over the years research on literacy has progressively moved away from a narrow definition of the term in strictly psycholinguistic terms expanding it so as to recognize its inevitable embeddedness within particular social relationships and practices. In this paper, after a short historical overview of the scientific debate developed around this expanding notion of literacy, we are going to focus on the role media technologies have played in accelerating this expansion towards media literacy. To be media literate today means to be able to cope efficiently with the flood of information in contemporary highly mediated societies and act as critical, creative and responsible digital citizens. Ev…

“Mega-Sports Events, Gentrification and Social Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro” - Experiences from Metrô Mangueira

2017

Master's thesis Development management UT503 - University of Agder 2017 In order to promote gentrification of the city of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian government and the municipality of Rio de Janeiro have actively used Mega-Sports Events (MSE) in urban planning. Examples are tax cuts and the legalization of various measures for large-scale urban programs, to prepare the city for hosting these prestigious events. Whilst trying to fulfil the obligations from MSEs, the host city denies its citizens access to democratic participation and thereby their right to the city. The promises made to the international sportive federations regarding upgraded infrastructure, sportive arenas, media covera…

The organizational use of online stock photos: The impact of representing senior citizens as eternally youthful

2018

The digital divide due to age is declining quickly. But this does not necessarily mean that the willingness to use stock photos depicting older people accompanying digital information is the same among all senior citizens. Three research questions are at the core of this paper: (1) To which extent can various senior citizens (women and men, younger old and older old, living alone or together, full of vitality or fragile) identify with online stock photos of older people accompanying information about pensions, income, health and housing?, (2) Which are the connotations of the visual signs used in such stock photos? and (3) What are the policy implications for organizations aiming at offerin…

Social accountability monitoring as an approach to promoting active citizenship in Tanzania

2019

Social accountability monitoring (SAM) is an approach widely employed by many civil society organizations to promote active participation of people in governance processes, especially in the context where government traditionally is dominant governance actor. This chapter scrutinizes certain attempts to promote change in current citizenship habits obtained through different forms of participation. It discusses how implementation of SAM initiatives encounters multiple context-based factors that affect the expected outcomes. The discussions draw illustrative experiences from local NGO working in Kondoa district to promote change of state-citizens relations in order to improve service delivery…

Il dibattito internazionale e la (ri)appropriazione locale del confronto sugli spazi autonomi

2014

Da alcuni decenni ormai, le pratiche di (ri)appropriazione e riconversione temporanea a fini “pubblici” di aree in disuso hanno fatto emergere esperienze interessanti, nelle principali città europee (e non solo) e in maniera significativa in alcune tra le più importanti città italiane. Un rinnovato interesse per questi temi ha dato vita, in particolare negli ultimi anni, a una serie di analisi teoriche oggi di riferimento per il dibattito internazionale. In questo contesto sembra oggi più che mai necessario introdurre autori e riferimenti internazionali per legittimare un confronto accademico su temi di pianificazione radicale come quello che riguarda il “diritto all’appropriazione” (Lefebv…

Fortalezas y debilidades de la mediación escolar desde la perspectiva del alumnado de educación secundaria

2016

In this paper we present a study to know the valuation of school mediation as an educational strategy taking into account the views of students in five schools in secondary Valencia, where the formal mediation process has been active for at least two years. It also seeks to identify the strengths and weaknesses identified.To achieve the objectives it has collected information from 593 students through an ad hoc difference between issues that all students must answer questionnaire; questions addressed only the students who have gone to mediation service; and finally issues to respond only the students who have acted as mediators.Through descriptive exploratory study conducted, is highlighted…

Volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs: A multilevel analysis in 10 European countries

2020

Regular voluntary engagement is a basic resource for sports clubs that may also promote social cohesion and active citizenship. The satisfaction of volunteers is an imperative factor in this engagement, and the purpose of this article is to explore individual and organizational determinants of volunteer satisfaction in sports clubs. Theoretically, our study builds on the actor-theory concepts where volunteer satisfaction depends on subjective evaluations of expectations and experiences in a sports club (‘logic of situation’), so that positive evaluations lead to higher satisfaction and, hopefully, retention of volunteers. This research uses a sample of 8131 volunteers from 642 sports clubs…

Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research

2016

Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research is a major international peer-reviewed journal and a forum for research relating to children in global society that spans divisions between geographical regions, disciplines, and social and cultural contexts. Childhood publishes theoretical and empirical articles, reviews and scholarly comments on children's social relations and culture, with an emphasis on their rights and generational position in society. Keywords: childhood studies; children's rights; sociology of childhood