Search results for "social networks"

Empowering women in place. València summer school equals-eu

2023

Los avances hacia la igualdad de género en Europa han sido muy significativos a lo largo del último siglo, sin embargo, aún hay margen de mejora en algunas de las dimensiones clave. La Estrategia de la UE para la Igualdad de Género 2020-2025 aboga por una Europa en la que mujeres y hombres, niñas y niños, sean iguales, en la que las mujeres tengan las mismas oportunidades de participar y prosperar en la sociedad. La UE se ha comprometido a mejorar la inclusión social, económica y política de las mujeres y las niñas. Sin embargo, aún no ha surgido una estrategia concluyente para eliminar la desigualdad de género y remodelar los estereotipos institucionalizados y las prácticas discriminatoria…

The interaction between social media, knowledge management and service quality: A decision tree analysis

2020

The existing literature fails to identify to which extent the utilization of social media could be relevant for increasing the effectiveness of knowledge management, in respect to overall business operations. In order to shed some light on this area we define three goals. Firstly, we investigate to what extent the different activities of clients on social media (SM), are important to the processes of knowledge management (KM) in companies. Secondly, we examine to what extent KM functions can be relevant in attaining the quality of IT services. Thirdly, we analyze to what extent KM mediates between SM and the quality of IT services, that is, which client activities on SM should be formalised…

Educación para la ciudadanía democrática en la cultura digital

2011

Asumiendo la importancia de las nuevas tecnologías en las aulas, especialmente en las actuales sociedades de la información y la comunicación, y siguiendo las recomendaciones de la Unión Europea a favor de la alfabetización mediática, el presente trabajo reflexiona acerca de la necesidad de educar no solo en los usos técnicos y eficientes de las tecnologías comunicativas, sino también en el uso responsable y cívico de las mismas, favoreciendo así los procesos participativos y deliberativos que son el sustento de una democracia viva. El sueño griego de la «isegoría», del igual derecho de todos al uso de la palabra, puede hacerse realidad en la cultura digital, si bien es cierto que un uso hi…

“From Trust to Travel: the Role of Electronic Word of Mouth through Tourist Social Networks”

2013

A Data-Driven Approach to Dynamically Learn Focused Lexicons for Recognizing Emotions in Social Network Streams

2016

Opinion Mining aims at identifying and classifying subjective information in a collection of documents. A variety of approach exists in literature, ranging from Supervised Learning to Unsupervised Learning. Currently, one of the biggest opinion resource of opinionated texts existing on the Web is represented by Social Networks. Networks are not only a vast collection of documents but they also represent a dynamic evolving resource as the users keep posting their own opinions. We based our work relying on this idea of dynamicity, building an evolving model that updates itself in real time as users submit their posts. This is done through a set of supervised techniques based on a Lexi- con of…

The Role of Social and Collaborative Networks in the Development of in-House Multimedia Language Learning Materials

2012

The development of in-house language learning materials has being going on for many decades. In the past, it was difficult for language teachers worldwide to share their in-house materials with other teachers, and so was having access to the materials developed by others. This often produced a feeling of isolation and, very frequently, provoked a duplication of efforts and a bigger investment of time. However, thanks to the Web 2.0 teachers and practitioners worldwide can communicate with each other and share experiences and materials. While this aspect of the so-called Social Web has being successfully exploded in the past few decades, especially in the case of online communities of teache…

Social networks and robot companions: Technology, ethics, and science fiction

2019

Information technologies have become part of our everyday lives and are increasingly acting as intermediaries in our workplaces and personal relationships or even substituting them. This growing interaction with machines poses several questions about which we have no previous experience, nor can we reliably predict how they will influence the evolution of society. This has led to the convergence of technoscience and humanities in an ethical debate that is starting to bear fruit, not only with the setting of regulations and standards, but also with educational initiatives in university teaching, professional improvement, and the conformation of public opinion. Interestingly, science fiction …

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in tourism

2012

This paper is based on the idea that user generated contents (UGC) about holidays, travels and destinations, widely propagated throughout modern social networks, have a topical relevance respect to the diffusion of the image of tourist destinations. More than other information transmission mechanisms, word of mouth (WOM) strongly influences consumer behavior and decision-making, especially when ‘experience goods’ (as in the case of tourism) difficult to be evaluated before their consumption are concerned (Wilson 1994; Griffin 1995; Silverman 1997; Rosen 2002; Dall’Ara, 2002; Lambin, 2004). The advances of ICT tools and the emergence of the Internet strongly influence word of mouth, since la…

Empirically-derived subgroups of Facebook users and their association with personality characteristics: a Latent Class Analysis

2018

Abstract In recent years, considerable research effort has been directed at the identification of relationships between psychological variables and Facebook usage indicators. However, the identification of homogeneous subgroups of individuals based on similar Facebook usage characteristics still presents a challenge. This study aims: (1) to empirically determine homogeneous groups of Facebook users based on variables regarding their personal experience on Facebook, by using a Latent Class Analysis; and (2) to examine the association between an individual's personality and interpersonal characteristics and the empirically-derived profiles of Facebook usage. Eight hundred and eleven Facebook …

Multi-scale analysis of the European airspace using network community detection

2014

We show that the European airspace can be represented as a multi-scale traffic network whose nodes are airports, sectors, or navigation points and links are defined and weighted according to the traffic of flights between the nodes. By using a unique database of the air traffic in the European airspace, we investigate the architecture of these networks with a special emphasis on their community structure. We propose that unsupervised network community detection algorithms can be used to monitor the current use of the airspaces and improve it by guiding the design of new ones. Specifically, we compare the performance of three community detection algorithms, also by using a null model which t…