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Transferencia tecnológica y conocimientos a la sociedad

Profesionales y académicos de reconocida experiencia en contingencia y desastres naturales, se dieron cita en el marco de la presentación de los aportes científicos que ha realizado dicho Programa de nuestro plantel en los últimos años, particularmente en su colaboración con expertos del Ministerio de Obras Públicas.

Las huellas en los libros: la subjetividad de la experiencia lectora

Encontrar las marcas, escritos y materiales que dejan los lectores en los textos y tensionar el concepto de lo que es un libro, son parte de los objetivos de esta iniciativa que encabezan los investigadores Ariadna Biotti y Tomás Cornejo en el Archivo Central Andrés Bello.

Geólogos y artistas urbanos crean mural científico-educativo

La obra, inspirada en los volcanes de Chile y la energía de la Tierra, es una colaboración entre Metro de Santiago y el Centro de Excelencia en Geotermia de Los Andes (CEGA) de la Universidad de Chile que tiene como objetivo intervenir con arte y ciencia una de las zonas donde se construye la nueva Línea 3 del tren subterráneo.

Summer Internship Program: 2017 Wrap Up

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The Berkman Klein Center summer internship program is a cohesive, integrated experience that brings together students from around the world to work closely with faculty, staff, and fellows on a wide range of projects and initiatives related to the internet and society. 

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A Rights-based Approach to Information in Humanitarian Assistance

The role of eGovernment in deepening the single market

Briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service: “This briefing recognises the role of cross-border and cross-sector use of electronic identification (eID) and trust services in advancing the digitisation of public services in Europe as well as the potential impact of the implementation of the ‘once-only’ principle in public administrations.

The Smarter State: How Public Agencies are Using the Technologies of Expertise to Engage with Civil Servants

This article was also published at this link on medium.com.

Gender and Urban Mobility: Addressing Unequal Access to Urban Transportation for Women and Girls


On September 19, 2017, Data2X, an initiative of the UN Foundation that works with a variety of cross-sector partners to close gender data gaps, announced the winners of its Big Data for Gender Challenge Awards.

ICOs – New Rules for Startup Financing

Blog series ICO – Part II: Commercial relevance – who needs it? ICOs1 have achieved quite a significant commercial relevance within the last months: According to Smith + Crown a total... MORE

‘Stop Fake Hate Profiles on Facebook’: Challenges for crowdsourced activism on social media

Johan Farkas and Christina Neumayer in First Monday: “This research examines how activists mobilise against fake hate profiles on Facebook. Based on six months of participant observation, this paper demonstrates how Danish Facebook users organised to combat fictitious Muslim profiles that spurred hatred against ethnic minorities. Crowdsourced action by Facebook users is insufficient as a form of sustainable resistance against fake hate profiles.

Using Public Data From Different Sources

Chapter byYair Cohen in Maximizing Social Science Research Through Publicly Accessible Data Sets, book edited by S. Marshall Perry: “The United States federal government agencies as well as states agencies are liberating their data through web portals.

All hands on deck to tweet #sandy: Networked governance of citizen coproduction in turbulent times

Akemi TakeokaChatfield and Christopher G.Reddick at Government Information Quarterly: “While citizens previously took a back seat to government, citizen coproduction of disaster risk communications through social m

Using big data to predict suicide risk among Canadian youth

SAS Insights “Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth in Canada, according to Statistics Canada, accounting for one-fifth of deaths of people under the age of 25 in 2011. The Canadian Mental Health Association states that among 15 – 24 year olds the number is an even more frightening at 24 percent – the third highest in the industrialized world.

Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher in Communication Science / Journalism / Media Studies

9. Oktober: Einladung zur Erstsemesterbegrüßung an der HHU

Die Veranstaltung wird live in die umliegenden Hörsäle (3B bis 3D im Gebäude 23.01 sowie 2A-2D im Gebäude 22.01) übertragen.
Anschließend stellen sich auf einem Info-Basar im Foyer des Hörsaalzentrums alle zentralen Einrichtungen der Universität Düsseldorf vor und stehen den Erstsemestern mit einem großen Informations- und Beratungsangebot zur Verfügung.

Was erfahren Kinder und Jugendliche über Flucht und Migration durch die Medien?

Das von Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vowe und PD Dr. Marco Dohle geleitete Projekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Rahmen des Förderprogramms „Zusammenhalt stärken in Zeiten von Krisen und Umbrüchen“ mit insgesamt ca. 225.000 Euro finanziert. In dem Forschungsprojekt werden zum einen die von Heranwachsenden genutzten Inhalte in traditionellen und in Online-Medien zum Thema Flucht und Migration analysiert sowie die themenspezifischen Kommunikationsverläufe der Heranwachsenden in den Sozialen Medien untersucht.

Was erfahren Kinder und Jugendliche über Flucht und Migration durch die Medien?

Das von Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vowe und PD Dr. Marco Dohle geleitete Projekt wird vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Rahmen des Förderprogramms „Zusammenhalt stärken in Zeiten von Krisen und Umbrüchen“ mit insgesamt ca. 225.000 Euro finanziert. In dem Forschungsprojekt werden zum einen die von Heranwachsenden genutzten Inhalte in traditionellen und in Online-Medien zum Thema Flucht und Migration analysiert sowie die themenspezifischen Kommunikationsverläufe der Heranwachsenden in den Sozialen Medien untersucht.

Patterns of Commoning: Films and Videos about the Commons

There are hundreds of worthy films and videos dealing with issues related to the commons in one way or another – forestry, finance, water, copyright, and more. However, the number of them that deal directly with the commons as commons are fairly few. Below, some of the more noteworthy productions of the past five years. All films and videos are in English unless otherwise noted.
The Commons

EduMoc ma Moc – zapraszamy

Już po raz drugi Centrum Cyfrowe ma przyjemność być partnerem niezwykłego wydarzenia, jakim jest EduMoc. To dwunastogodzinny wirtualny maraton spotkań z ekspertami, edukatorami, nauczycielami akademickimi i specjalistami wspierającymi działania edukacyjne. Autorami pomysłu i organizatorami wydarzenia jest grupa Superbelfrów RP, nauczycieli, którzy postanowili sami zadbać o jakość nauczania i dzięki oddolnie utworzonej sieci, wprowadzają realną zmianę w szkole.

The New Municipal Movements

Eleanor Finley: Just a short time ago, the idea of the United States electing real estate mogul Donald Trump to the presidency seemed almost unthinkable. Yet now that this impossible proposition has come to pass, a new space has opened for visionary thinking. If electing Donald Trump is indeed possible, what other impossibilities might be realized?