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Tensions in Online Communities: The Case of a Mass Size eParticipation Initiative
2017
Part 4: Critical Reflections; International audience; While Online Communities (OCs) are increasingly used to involve people in organizations and societies, few studies focus on how OC influence political decision making within eParticipation initiatives. This issue is explored through an interpretive case-study of the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S), a mass-size eParticipation political initiative recently founded by private citizens. The use of OCs is a common strategy to involve groups of people to easily connect on-line, cooperating on common and shared interests. We here focus on understanding the internal and external forces influencing on the OCs, to better understand how to manage …
INFORMATION CHANNELS INFLUENCING THE HOUSEHOLDS’ DECISION OF HOME LOAN PROVIDERS
2012
With rapid growing of competitiveness in the Latvian commercial banking, and resemblance of services offered by banks, it has become significantly important that banks detect the information sources influencing the customer choice of banks of financial products. The relevant literature indicates that a great deal of research effort has been expended to investigate bank selection criteria for broad categories of customers. One promising segment, which, arguably, has not been given enough attention, is the households group. Home loans products make the markets that had the huge increase before crisis. The great fall of interest rates along with the offering of new, more flexible and attractiv…
Patient participation in the medical decision-making process in haemato-oncology - a qualitative study
2013
Cancer patients are showing increased interest in shared decision-making. Patients with haematological illnesses, however, express considerably less desire for shared decision-making as compared with other oncological patient groups. The goal of the current project was to identify the reasons for the lower desire for shared decision-making among patients with haematological illness. We conducted qualitative, semi-structured interviews with 11 haematological patients (39-70 years old) after the beginning of therapy concerning the course and evaluation of medical shared decision-making. The patients were often overwhelmed by the complexity of the illness and the therapy and did not want to as…
Developing empowering health counseling measurement
2006
Abstract Objective This article describes the derivation of an instrument (Empowering Speech Practices Scale) for assessing the empowerment of dyadic counseling, the evaluation of the validity and reliability of the ESPS and the results acquired with the instrument from hospital counseling. Methods ESPS was constructed on the basis of empowerment theory and foregoing conversation analytic research. Nurses and patients assessed the same counseling session by way of parallel statements. Structure and reliability of the scale were evaluated with Cronbach alpha, percentage of agreement, factor analysis and logistic regression analysis. Results According to these preliminary results, ESPS descri…
Four Strategies of Social Media Use Among Indonesian Politicians
2017
Part 14: Current Issues; International audience; This study aims at unveiling strategies based on the patterned use of social media by politicians. Using an interpretive case study involving Indonesian politicians from national, provincial, and district level parliaments, the study identifies four strategies: nominal, instrumental, manipulative, and genuine. The selected strategy is reflected by internal and external affordances of social media perceived by the politicians, and influenced by a variety of constraints. These include poor Internet connection, limited capabilities of politicians, low ICT literacy among constituents, security issues, personal attack, unsupportive regulation, and…
Sport and Quality of Life
2022
Negli ultimi trent’anni lo sport ha assunto un significato molto rilevante nella vita delle persone e, seppure con notevoli differenze, sia nei paesi a sviluppo economico avanzato, sia in quelli in via di sviluppo. A livello individuale, esso ha costituito un’area di investimento identitario quando ha assunto la forma di sport spettacolo del quale fruire, alimentando la pratica del tifo e il fandom o costituendo il modello di uno stile di vita vincente; ma anche quando ha assunto la forma di pratica del tempo libero attraverso la quale tenersi in forma, facendo crescere, in questo caso, la diffusione di una cultura della salute e del benessere. Si tratta di due modalità di approcciare al co…
¿Quién decide qué y cómo? el conflicto en torno a la participación ciudadana en el contexto del desarrollo de la iniciativa urbana: Cuenca-San Antón …
2018
This article describes the main results of an ethnographic study on citizen participation carried out in the context of the development of the Urban Initiative (2007-2015): Cuenca-Barrio de San Antón. Managed by the City Council of Cuenca and financed by the European Regional Development Funds (FEDER) under the Ministry of Economy and Finance at the Government of Spain The results of the research show how in the context of the application of neoliberal policies, citizen participation becomes the trigger for new conflicts between institutions and citizens. In this sense, it is worth noting how, in practice, institutions in their capacity as experts and not willing to dis-empower themselves, …
Z zagadnień społeczeństwa obywatelskiego cz. I - podstawowe pojęcia
2019
Społeczeństwo obywatelskie może się realizować w pełni w państwie prawa. Warunkiem koniecznym jego powstania są odpowiednie normy prawne, które określają stosunki między obywatelami i ich organizacjami, a organami państwowymi. Społeczeństwo obywatelskie jest również jednym ze wskaźników rozwoju państwa. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest wyjaśnienie podstawowych pojęć związanych z zagadnieniem społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. Przedstawiono zarówno historyczne, jak i nowoczesne rozumienie społeczeństwa obywatelskiego oraz jego interdyscyplinarność. Wskazano na rolę obywateli i państwa w tworzeniu, a także rozwijaniu społeczeństwa obywatelskiego
The need of political governance: The political sphere as main thrust and guarantor on Walzer’s theory
2014
Tomando como pretexto la teoría política de Walzer, el presente artículo pretende mostrar la necesidad de política en los tiempos y sociedades actuales. A pesar de lo depauperada y defenestrada que ésta pudiera parecer, sigue siendo necesario articular su papel en nuestras sociedades y mostrar su rol clave para librarnos de problemas tan omnipresentes como puede ser la corrupción en nuestros días. Para ello trataremos de indagar en cuál es el papel de la política y cómo es su relación con la sociedad civil y otras esferas de actuación, poniendo en valor su necesidad. Using as a pretext Walzer’s political theory, this article aims to show the need for politics in our times and contemporary s…
The construction of school participation. The Geoforo Iberoamericano in 2017
2017
La participación escolar es una situación compleja, pues oscila entre las voluntades de su realización y los obstáculos para canalizar los deseos de las personas que son parte integrante de la sociedad educativa. En el caso del Geoforo Iberoamericano hemos asistido al aumento del número de visitas y de opiniones vertidas sobre sus foros de debate pero era preciso analizar cómo se fraguaba dicha participación. Un primer paso es el estudio de qué conceptos se repiten en las opiniones que se manifiestan por alumnos y docentes; una cuestión que abordamos en este balance de 2017. Más adelante ya llegará la fase de las interrelaciones entre sujetos. Además, al mismo tiempo, asistimos a la interna…