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Young people’s interaction with media in Egypt, India, Finland, Argentina and Kenya
2012
En la actual sociedad de la información, encontrar, valorar y utilizar la comunicación es una estrategia fundamental de supervivencia. Los medios tradicionales y nuevos como las bibliotecas, archivos, medios de masas o Internet tienen una función crucial para las sociedades como fuentes de información. Este trabajo presenta los resultados de un estudio llevado a cabo en Egipto, India, Finlandia, Argentina y Kenia. Basado en una investigación empírica, ofrece una visión general de cómo los jóvenes de hoy en día utilizan diversas fuentes para la búsqueda de información y cuáles son sus implicaciones para los programas de alfabetización mediática. En concreto se explora cómo los jóvenes utiliz…
Elites and Culture: Social Profiles in the Cultivated Population
2021
Since the 1990s, the central references of the sociology of cultural practices have been the theoretical frameworks developed by Pierre Bourdieu and Richard A. Peterson around the concepts of distinction and omnivorousness. This article is based on these frameworks; it revises them together with those of Donnat and Lahire and postulates that the terms of cultural classification and especially those of the upper classes (distinguished and omnivorous) require revision. The article also claims that there are diverse socio-cultural profiles due to the fact that there is never a single logic of differentiation of tastes, and that the results of the present research demand a new conceptual frame…
Designing Deliberation Systems
2010
In a liberal democracy, the evolution of political agendas and formation of policy involves deliberation: serious consideration of political issues. Modern day political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies, which also offer the potential to revitalize and transform citizen engagement in democracy. Although the majority of web 2.0 systems enable these discourses to some extent, government institutions commission and manage specialized deliberation systems (information systems designed to support participative discourse) intended to promote citizen engagement. The most common examples of these are political discussio…
Temporality in cosmopolitan solidarity : Archival activism and participatory documentary film as mediated witnessing of suffering at Europe’s borders
2019
This article develops and extends the idea of cosmopolitan solidarity to temporality through a case study of archival activism and participatory film-making. It examines mediated witnessing within the Italian online audiovisual archive Archivio delle memorie migranti, which documents and archives the experiences of contemporary migrants in Italy. The moral basis of Archivio delle memorie migranti is cosmopolitan solidarity, which is usually understood as a practice that crosses spatial and communal boundaries. However, the ethics of solidarity also bridges past, present and future generations. Through the case of Archivio delle memorie migranti, this article demonstrates the significance o…
The Effects of Downturns on Labour Force Participation
2011
This paper uses an impulse-response function approach to assess the magnitude and persistence of the effects of downturns on labour force participation for a sample of 30 countries over the period 1960-2008. Past severe recessions appear to have had a significant and persistent impact on participation, while moderate downturns did not. The aggregate participation rate effect of severe downturns peaked on average at about 1½ to 2½ percentage points five to eight years after the cyclical peak, and was still significant after almost a decade. Youths and older workers account for the bulk of this effect. Institutional and policy settings are found to be an important factor having shaped the res…
Un estudio exploratorio sobre los presupuestos participativos infantiles en el ámbito local español
2022
Esta nota metodológica adelanta datos valiosos sobre una investigación en curso, cuyo objetivo fundamental es comprobar la validez de una serie de variables que sirvan para el estudio del fenómeno de presupuestos participativos infantiles en España durante un periodo comprendido entre el 2015 y el 2021. Al igual que ocurre con esta experiencia participativa en el ámbito adulto, su definición es complicada dada la adaptación de la metodología al entorno en el que se implementa. Para su conformación, se han realizado encuestas de pregunta abierta (35 respuestas válidas) que han sido estudiadas a través de un análisis de datos cualitativos y el uso del programa MAXQDA. La realización de este e…
La participación política de las personas inmigrantes: cuestiones para el debate
2008
En el debate acerca del acceso a la ciudadanía de las personas inmigrantes, en cuanto clave jurídico-política de plena pertenencia a una comunidad, la cuestión de la participación política parece ser el gran caballo de batalla. En el caso español, la cláusula constitucional que vincula el derecho de sufragio al criterio de la reciprocidad, limita hasta prácticamente anular la posibilidad del reconocimiento de dicho derecho a los inmigrantes. Sin embargo, varias interpretaciones al respecto son posibles para intentar activar la participación política de estas personas, comenzando por las elecciones municipales. Sin duda, los obstáculos a salvar no son fáciles y exigen no renunciar a la posib…
Analyse des comportements différentiels selon le sexe chez les 50-74 ans : le cas de la participation électorale (France et Etats-Unis)
2022
La tranche d’âges des 50-74 ans a changé de caractéristiques après la transition démographique dans les pays occidentaux : la mortalité y est maintenant faible et peu différenciée entre les sexes. Pourtant, cette tranche d’âges conserve une caractéristique qui la distingue de celle des 25-49 ans : son infécondité, en raison principalement de l’infertilité des femmes après 45 ans. L’objectif de l’étude est d’abord d’analyser la pertinence d’un découpage par tranches d’âges qui utiliserait ces critères démographiques à la place du découpage socio-économique traditionnel construit notamment autour de l’âge de 60 ou 65 ans qui correspond à l’âge de départ à la retraite. Les différences de compo…
Hybrid Engagement: Discourses and Scenarios of Entrepreneurial Journalism
2018
Although the challenge posed by social media and the participatory turn concerns culture and values at the very heart of journalism, journalists have been reluctant to adopt participatory values and practices. To encourage audience participation and to offer journalism that is both trustworthy and engaging, journalists of the future may embrace a hybrid practice of journalistic objectivity and audience-centred dialogue. As innovative and experimental actors, entrepreneurial journalism outlets can perform as forerunners of such a culture. By analysing discourses in the “About Us” pages of 41 entrepreneurial journalism outlets, the article examines the emerging journalistic ethos of entrepren…
La participación en asociaciones de los inmigrantes africanos. Vías de interpretación del distanciamiento asociativo
2013
This article is focused on the reasons for non-participation of African population in immigrant associations. To understand this question, we conducted semi-structured interviews with persons who decided consciously no to participate in associations and organizations that worked with immigrants. All this work was developed in Catalonia, Valencia and Navarra, from a multilocal research perspective. We interpret the associative detachment, as a voluntary distancing based on the absence of information, lack of time, disenchantment, proprietorship activism, passively waiting, or because they are the only user population. Nevertheless, there are other factors of greater significance, as the poli…