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The usage of social media among young adults living in Nairobi, Kenya : only entertainment or contributions to societal change?
2015
Social media usage has been found to have increased all over the world, also in the so-called developing countries. Although the percentages are still rather low, it can be argued that the use of social media is becoming increasingly important also in African countries. Kenya has been found to be one of the leading countries regarding social media usage in East Africa. Although research on social media has been conducted, for instance, on the use of social media in protest movements and in the areas of users’ motivation, less emphasis has been placed on their developmental aspects. Thus, to gain a deeper understanding of the usage of social media in the so-called developing countries, this …
Characteristics and Subjective Evaluation of an Intelligent Empowering Agent for Health Person Empowerment
2022
Empowerment is a process through which people acquire the necessary knowledge and self-awareness to understand their health conditions and treatment options, self-manage them, and make informed choices. Currently, few stand-alone applications for patient empowerment exist and people/patients often go on the Web to search for health information. Such information is mainly obtained through generic search engines and it is often overwhelming, too generic, and of poor quality. Intelligent Empowering Agents (IEA) can filter such information and assist the user in the understanding of health information about specific complaints or health in general. We have designed and developed a first prototy…
User participation in knowledge update of expert systems
1997
Abstract Applying the Elaboration Likelihood Model (ELM) of persuasion we conducted an experiment to examine the effect of participation of users in the design process on their acceptance of system recommendations and revision of their original decisions. Results of our study indicate that two different types of information processing occur when subjects are reviewing the expert system recommendations. 1. (i) For users who have a high perceived level of participation in updating the knowledge of the ES, ambiguity of the decision setting is the primary determinant affecting acceptance of the recommendation from the ES. 2. (ii) For users who have a low perceived level of participation in upda…
La formazione come strumento di crescita : narrazione di un’esperienza didattica a Palermo
2020
In un momento storico in cui, in Italia, le scuole di pianificazione sono oggetto di importanti, e pesanti, ripensamenti strutturali il paper vuole ragionare sulla necessità sì di una riformulazione di tali scuole, ma in un’ottica di potenziamento e certamente maggiore relazione con le pratiche che quotidianamente influiscono sulla vita delle persone, siano esse tecniche che spontanee. La tesi che si vuole esporre nasce da alcune esperienze personali come docente di pianificazione che da alcuni anni, in modo coordinato con altri docenti e all’interno dell’intero sistema di didattica del corso di laurea magistrale in Pianificazione Territoriale Urbanistica e Ambientale dell’Università degli …
Re-Building Public (Plural) Spaces Through Inclusionary Participative Processes in 'Tresholds' Places
2010
Theoretical perspectives upon the return to work of cancer patients: The difficult path of integration in the organization
2015
Abstract The present article follows an in-depth analysis of several relevant articles and major findings concerning the return to work of cancer patients, in various situations, from a manager and patient point of view, putting into discussion the effects and consequences of different factors that may influence the well-being of the patient at work and impact the organizational life. The concepts of returning to work and integration are scarcely analysed throughout the scholarly literature in the case of employees diagnosed with cancer, due to several reasons presented in the paper: from the complex topic of investigation that many studies fail to approach in terms of confidentiality, tech…
Diritti di partecipazione politica e piattaforme digitali, alcune riflessioni
2022
Questo scritto affronta il tema dell’impatto dei social networks sui diritti di partecipazione politica, con riguardo al diritto all’informazione, al diritto di associarsi in partiti, al diritto di voto come esito di campagne elettorali digitali. Il mutamento della comunicazione politica e del dibattito pubblico refluisce sulla correttezza dei processi democratici; ciò pone l’esigenza della regolazione dei social networks quale spazio mediatico utilizzato dai soggetti politici (individui od organizzazioni) per influenzare la formazione dell’opinione pubblica e costruire il consenso a proprio favore, soprattutto nell’ambito delle campagne elettorali. L’articolo si sofferma, dunque, sui probl…
Impact of the union intervention in the matter of labor risks of psychosocial origin. A study purchased in Western Europe
2021
espanolEs conocido que la intervencion sindical tiene un efecto positivo sobre la reduccion de los accidentes de trabajo. Sin embargo, no existe evidencia comparable sobre su efecto en las patologias psicosomaticas. La presente investigacion estudia el impacto de la representacion de los trabajadores en materia de riesgos psicosociales, tanto en terminos agregados para el conjunto de la UE como de forma comparada entre los distintos sistemas de relaciones laborales. A tal efecto, se analizan los microdatos de una encuesta a 31.991 centros de trabajo europeos (ESENER-2), mediante diversos modelos de regresion que permitieron identificar como la presencia de representantes garantiza estandare…
Integración de la salud laboral con medios propios como mecanismo de participación y activación cultural
2019
espanolEl objetivo de este estudio es evaluar la relacion entre los distintos sistemas de integracion de la salud y seguridad laboral (SSL) y la participacion los agentes sociales. Utilizando la Encuesta Nacional de Gestion de Riesgos Laborales en las Empresas de 2014 (n=3.162) se comparan los niveles de participacion (pasiva, activa y prospectiva) segun el sistema de integracion de la SSL (medios propios, ajenos o combinados), estimando las odds ratio (OR) y los intervalos de confianza del 95% (IC95%) mediante regresiones logisticas crudas y ajustadas. Los resultados obtenidos muestran como la gestion con medios propios y combinados presenta mayor prevalencia de participacion activa tanto …
The role of university sports federations in enhancing student sports : a comparative case study between Portugal and Finland
2011
The European Union has increasingly emphasized the sociological, physiological and psychological benefits of sport. Sport provision and participation trends have been measured throughout the member-states and, the gaps between Northern and Southern countries are widely acknowledged. These gaps are especially wide between young-adults and the elderly. The integration of sports into the education curriculum in most European pedagogic systems has resulted in high levels of sport practice among the youth. However as young people enter higher education, member-states face a problem with a natural withdrawal in participation. The universities and student sports federations can plan an important r…