Search results for " Communication"

Exploring heterogeneous ICT use among older adults: The warm experts’ perspective

2020

In this article, we (1) examine the various forms of support required by older users (75+) of digital technology and (2) provide a concrete, everyday life rationale for why warm experts play such a pivotal role in the processes of adopting and using ICT. Although warm experts are usually not older adults themselves, they provide an important mediating view on the technology use among older people that has not been rigorously addressed in previous studies. Thus, in our analysis we examine the younger family members’ views on acting as warm experts to their older family members. The research data consist of 22 extended group interviews (EGI) and observation carried out in Finland. Based on ou…

Apuntes para una reflexión sobre la biografía fílmica

2005

Ponencias presentadas al Primer Congreso Internacional sobre Análisis Fílmico. Madrid: Edipo. 2007

Justification philosophique de l’éducation des valeurs éthiques et civiques dans l’éducation formelle. Analyse critique de la LOMCE

2016

In this paper we start with the approach of the new LOMCE in order to go back to the philosophical justification of each ethical value that we believe should be addressed in education as its backbones. First, we focus on some contradictions in the new LOMCE. Later, we explore the philosophical foundation of ethical values in education. We propose the hermeneutical approach to unravel the ethical values. In the third and most extensive section we delve into the philosophical basis of different ethical values on which we believe education should be based resulting in civic education and the full development of the human personality, according to the Spanish Constitution and Human Rights Decla…

Educational or emotional languages? An interactive experiment with the Lucanian flora (S-Italy)

2010

In the frame of dissemination activities for a still-in-progress work on the Sites of Community Importance (see EU Directive 92/43) of Basilicata (a region of Southern Italy), an interactive tool (IIT) for the identification of vascular plants growing there has been illustrated to two groups of people, following two different approaches: one focused on textual parts and on scientific accuracy, the other on images and on the visual comparison of different objects. The reactions were measured in terms of number of accesses to the IIT, elapsed time from the demonstration to the first individual access, and number of queries in the first week after the IIT was distributed. The most clicked opti…

Multilingual language use and metapragmatic reflexivity in Finnish internet football forums : a study in the sociolinguistics of globalization

2013

Striving for mutual understanding : native English speakers' views on speech modifications in intercultural encounters

2016

”Foreigner talk” -nimistä ilmiötä on aikaisemmin tutkittu melko laajaltikin eri näkökulmien kautta. Suurin osa tutkimuksesta on tehty 1980-luvulla, jonka jälkeen termin käyttö näyttää hiljalleen vähentyneen. ”Foreigner talk” tarkoittaa muokattua kieltä, jonka tarkoitus on tehdä puheesta ymmärrettävämpää henkilölle, jonka kompetenssi kohdekielessä ei ole toisen puhujan kanssa syystä tai toisesta samalla tasolla: kyseessä voivat olla esimerkiksi kieltä äidinkielenään puhuva henkilö ja kieltä vieraana kielenä puhuva henkilö. Aivan viime aikoina ilmiö näyttää nouseen taas suosioon tutkimuskohteena etenkin osana työympäristöä, jossa kansainväliset kohtaamiset ovat monelle arkipäivää. Siitä huoli…

Whose voice? Understanding stakeholder involvement in law drafting affecting Sami reindeer herding

2019

A communication and a legal approach are combined to investigate stakehold-er involvement in law drafting affecting Sami reindeer herding. The thesis fo-cuses on Finland, participation in law drafting in the Act on Metsähallitus (For-est Management and Park Services) and consultation related to the adoption of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries. The research aims at gaining a better understanding of communication preceding and during law drafting processes regarding indigenous land use. It clarifies the changing con-text of the law drafting in which the issue of land use is addressed. Study 1 provi…

Internet e campagne elettorali: la prospettiva dell'ordinamento italiano

2021

This paper intends to discuss the issue of regulation of social networks as a media space employed by political actors (individuals or organizations) for the formation of public opinion and the construction of consensus in the context of the electoral campaigns: in more synthetic terms, social networks as an instrument of electoral propaganda. The main subject of my essay will concern, therefore, the problems de iure condito and de iure condendo about the subjection of communication on social media to rules aimed at ensuring a fair comparison between parties, lists, candidates in the electoral competition and, with it, the value of freedom and authenticity of the vote that emanates from art…

Pioneers as Peers : How Entrepreneurial Journalists Imagine the Futures of Journalism

2021

The article investigates the futures of journalism that pioneering entrepreneurial journalists anticipate. This comprises the different imaginaries that journalists employ to make sense of journalism’s present potentials, anticipate its possible futures, and inform their decision-making. By analysing semi-structured interviews with Finnish entrepreneurial journalists, the article identifies a peer-to-peer imaginary on which the interviewees draw and construct to anticipate the potential futures of journalism. In this peer-to-peer imaginary, journalism is produced in journalists’ and audiences’ peer networks of affinity and shared interests. The imaginary promises elevated audience engagemen…

Adaptive variable structure fuzzy neural identification and control for a class of MIMO nonlinear system

2013

This paper presents a novel adaptive variable structure (AVS) method to design a fuzzy neural network (FNN). This AVS-FNN is based on radial basis function (RBF) neurons, which have center and width vectors. The network performs sequential learning through sliding data window reflecting system dynamic changes, and dynamic growing-and-pruning structure of FNN. The salient characteristics of the AVS-FNN are as follows: (1) Structure-learning and parameters estimation are performed automatically and simultaneously without partitioning input space and selecting initial parameters a priori. The structure-learning approach relies on the contribution of the size of the output. (2) A set of fuzzy r…