Este lunes 24 de septiembre el destacado sociólogo y ex presidente de Brasil (1995-2002) participó de la inauguración de las actividades por la celebración de los 60 años de la carrera de Sociología de la U. de Chile. Junto al académico Manuel Antonio Garretón, el ex mandatario conversó sobre el devenir de la sociología en las últimas décadas, y los temas que actualmente se abren como desafíos para la disciplina. "Escuchar las redes sociales es una locura porque dicen cualquier cosa.

A los 98 años falleció este lunes 24 de septiembre el instrumentista, compositor, radiodifusor, director de orquesta y coros, Vicente Bianchi Alarcón. El Premio Nacional de Artes Musicales 2016 compuso a lo largo de su carrera más de 150 obras para piano, orquesta y canto en lo folclórico, popular y clásico, grabando más de 300 obras, caracterizándose por su vasto conocimiento musical y amplia versatilidad.

Durante más de un mes, académicos y estudiantes de las universidades de Chile y Andrés Bello tomarán muestras del sedimento y suelo marino para obtener información científica sobre peligros geológicos y minerales e hidrocarburos del fondo marino entre Puerto Montt y la Península de Taitao.

Joe Marion at Healthcare Informatics: “By now, everyone is aware of Apple’s recent announcement of an ECG capability on its latest watch.  It joins an expanding list of portable or in-home devices for monitoring cardiac and other functions.  The Apple device takes advantage of an established ECG device from 

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Case studies prepared by Jessica Espey and Hayden Dahmm for  SDSN TReNDS: “But what is the ROI of investing in data for altruistic means–e.g., for sustainable development?

Sophia Fairweather is eight years old. She’s an inventor, a startup creator, a mentor, and a proud champion of women in STEM-related fields. She’s also a big advocate of Wikipedia and getting more people to edit the free encyclopedia.

Book by Tom Baldwin: We all know something has gone wrong: people hate politics, loathe the media and are now scared of each other too. Journalist and one-time senior political advisor Tom Baldwin tells the riveting–often terrifying–story of how a tidal wave of information overwhelmed democracy’s sandcastle defenses against extremism and falsehood.

In November 2017, the Internet Society hosted the inaugural Indigenous Connectivity Summit in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The event brought together community network operators, Internet service providers, community members, researchers, policy makers, and Indigenous leadership to work together to bridge the connectivity gap in indigenous communities in North America. One of the participants shared his story.

Derek Thompson at The Atlantic: “Historians may look back at the early 21st century as the Gilded Age 2.0. Not since the late 1800s has the U.S. been so defined by the triad of rapid technological change, gaping economic inequality, and sudden social upheaval.

Elizabeth Woyke at Technology Review: “Ask Tim Corcoran about the most popular destinations for bike-share trips in South Bend, Indiana, and he can give you a list, or even GPS latitude and longitude coordinates. As the city’s planning director, Corcoran is responsible for overseeing a program that enables residents to rent bicycles via a mobile app and then pick them up and drop them off pretty much wherever and whenever they want.

Tajha Chappellet-Lanier at FedScoop: “A cadre of senators is looking to prompt the federal government to be a bit more proactive in utilizing artificial intelligence technologies.

Dissertation by Jeong Hyun Kim: “…examines direct democracy’s implications for political equality by focusing on how it influences and modifies political attitudes and behaviors of marginalized groups. Using cases and data from Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States, I provide a comprehensive, global examination of how direct democratic institutions affect political participation, especially of political minority or marginalized groups.

Die DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) ist die weltweit  größte Förderorganisation für den internationalen Austausch von Studierenden und Wissenschaftlern. Jährlich wird ein Preis verliehen, der  herausragende, ausländische Studierende und Promovierende auszeichnen soll, die sich durch besondere akademische Leistungen und bemerkenswertes gesellschaftliches oder interkulturelles Engagement hervorgetan haben. In diesem Jahr geht der Preis an Toshihiro Wada, der bei der WWU am ITM als Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft tätig ist.

Open Access Book edited by Harald Hornmoen and Klas Backholm: ” This book is about how different communicators – whether professionals, such as crisis managers, first responders and journalists, or private citizens and disaster victims – have used social media to communicate about risks and crises. It is also about how these very different actors can play a crucial role in mitigating or preventing crises.

Colin J. Bennett and Charles D. Raab at Regulation & Governance: “The repertoire of policy instruments within a particular policy sector varies by jurisdiction; some “tools of government” are associated with particular administrative and regulatory traditions and political cultures. It is less clear how the instruments associated with a particular policy sector may change over time, as economic, social, and technological conditions evolve.

Chapter by Ana Pego and Maria do Rosário Matos Bernardo in Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurship and Marketing for Global Reach in the Digital Economy: “Urban living labs (ULL) are a new concept which involves users in innovation and development and are regarded as a way of meeting the innovation challenges faced by information and communicati

Following the activities that took place during the cultiMake event, organised last August in Ioannina (Greece) in the context of the Distributed Design Market Platform project, the P2P Lab’s aim was to communicate further the outcomes of the event. To this end, two of our participants presented some of the technological solutions that were developed during the workshop.

Die Aktion „pART of Research“ fand in diesem Jahr bereits zum dritten Mal statt. Auf die Ausschreibung unter dem Motto „Diversity in Research/Objekte-Orte-Menschen“ gingen 27 Einsendungen ein, die universitätsweite zur Abstimmung gestellt wurden. Mit 1400 Stimmen wurden die zwölf beliebtesten Bilder ausgewählt, die nun Teil des pART of Research-Kalenders 2019 sind.

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