scholarly journals A Arqueologia na Era Digital: Contexto e tendências / Archaeology in the Digital Age: Context and Trends

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Rangel ◽  
Nelson Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Development ◽  
Specific Study ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTSince its beginning, archaeology stands between the natural sciences and the social sciences and humanities. This shared position and the search for a greater understanding of its specific study objects, created the need among archaeology experts to resort to various methods (and technologies) originated from other disciplines. Similarly to other sciences, archaeology is an area permeable to experimentation and application of theoretical and practical exogenous concepts. This lead to the development of several specializations that unite archeology and other areas, such as Zooarchaeology. As happened throughout its history, academics are facing a time of change in the way the acquisition of knowledge is processed. The Digital Era of globalization is related to the shifting of paradigms and the growing need for unceasing adaptation; archeology is also affected by this reality. After a brief introduction to the humanities "digital paradigm" we review some of the main uses of the Internet as a support to research development in archeology, their main obstacles and tendencies.RESUMODesde a sua génese, a Arqueologia encontra-se entre as ciências naturais e as ciências sociais e humanísticas. Esta posição partilhada e a procura de uma maior compreensão dos seus objetos de estudo específicos, criou nos profissionais de Arqueologia uma necessidade de recorrerem a várias metodologias (e tecnologias) originárias de outras disciplinas. De forma similar a outras ciências, a Arqueologia é uma área permeável à experimentação e aplicação de conceitos teórico-práticos exógenos que levou, inclusive, à formação de diversas especialidades que unem a Arqueologia e outras áreas, como a Zooarqueologia. Como aconteceu ao longo da sua história, o meio académico está perante um momento de mudança na forma como se processa a aquisição de conhecimento. O fato de estarmos na Era Digital da globalização faz com que a adaptação do meio académico a esta realidade seja mais continuada, não sendo a Arqueologia alheia a esta transformação. Após uma breve introdução ao novo "paradigma digital" das humanidades, revemos alguns dos principais usos de tecnologias relacionadas com o uso da Internet no apoio à investigação em Arqueologia (e.g., bases de dados enriquecidas), e descrevemos algumas questões relacionadas com o uso de novas ferramentas e técnicas, seus principais obstáculos e tendências.

scholarly journals Defensa del usuario de servicios de comunicaciones en Colombia: un camino tortuoso en la era digital

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Ingrid Montes Alvarino
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nuevas Tecnologías

La masificación del Internet y la incorporación de Nuevas Tecnologías nos condujo hacia la era digital y la revolución digital, en las que emergen nuevos usuarios TIC en un entorno convergente que generan retos y desafíos distintos para la protección de sus derechos como usuarios de las comunicaciones que han seguido un tortuoso camino de PQRS desde la Ley 1341 de 2009, Resolución CRC 3066 de 2011 hasta llegar al Nuevo Régimen de Protección mediante la Resolución CRC 5111 de 2017 en la búsqueda de maximizar el bienestar social, ofrece un nuevo camino que recorrer en la era digital. .ABSTRACTThe massification of the Internet and the incorporation of Ne Technologies led us into the digital age and the digital revolution, here ne ICT users emerge in a convergent environment that generate different challenges and challenges for the protection of their rights as users of the communications they have Folloed a tortuous PQRS road from La 1341 of 2009, Resolution CRC 3066 of 2011 until arriving at the Ne Regime of Protection by means of Resolution CRC 5111 of 2017 in the search to maximize the social ell-being, offers a ne ay to cross in the digital era. KEYWORDS Communications, Users, ICT, Suppliers, digital era, digital revolution.

“Spellbinding Portugal: Two British Women’s Travel Voices”

2018 ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Maria Zulmira Castanheira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Travel Writers ◽  
Women's Travel ◽  
The Way

A genre prone to the thematization of cultural difference, travel writing has, in recent decades, attracted great attention within the area of the Social Sciences and Humanities and gained the respect of both academics and critics. Travel writers are mediator fgures who, through their literary constructs, resulting from their experience of mobility and confrontation with alterity, may shape and circulate positive ideas about foreign cultural realities, thus facilitating openness to difference, empathy, acceptance, understanding, admiration. This article analyses Sybille Bedford’s and Brigid Brophy’s representation of Portugal, paying attention to the authors’ focus on the natural and built landscapes and the way they seek out what they considered to be unique to this Iberian country, thus promoting an image of it as a spellbinding place, charming and exotic, worth the journey.

A Study of Catholicism: An Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar

Horizons ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
James L. Heft
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis essay describes an intensive eight-month long interdisciplinary faculty seminar which brought together faculty from the social sciences and humanities to explore, with different methodologies, the nature and traditions of Catholicism. It describes the way in which the seminar was organized, the participants selected, the syllabus chosen and how the discussion unfolded. It concludes with an evaluation by the author of what was learned, and then provides a brief description of the research projects undertaken by the seminar participants.

scholarly journals Mobilisation for public engagement: Benchmarking the practices of research institutes

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 771-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Entradas ◽  
Martin M. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Complete Sample ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual

Studies on scientists’ practices of public engagement have pointed to variations between disciplines. If variations at the individual level are reflected at the institutional level, then research institutes in Social Sciences (and Humanities) should perform higher in public engagement and be more involved in dialogue with the public. Using a nearly complete sample of research institutes in Portugal 2014 ( n = 234, 61% response rate), we investigate how public engagement varies in intensity, type of activities and target audiences across scientific areas. Three benchmark findings emerge. First, the Social Sciences and the Humanities profile differently in public engagement highlighting the importance of distinguishing between these two scientific areas often conflated in public engagement studies. Second, the Social Sciences overall perform more public engagement activities, but the Natural Sciences mobilise more effort for public engagement. Third, while the Social Sciences play a greater role in civic public engagement, the Natural Sciences are more likely to perform educational activities. Finally, this study shows that the overall size of research institutes, available public engagement funding and public engagement staffing make a difference in institutes’ public engagement.

scholarly journals Integrating physical and human geography in the context of mountain development: the Bernese approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
P. Messerli ◽  
L. Rey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Material Environment ◽  
Dual Perspective

Abstract. Time and again, discussions at the Institute of Geography in Bern regarding the choice of new faculty or debates about how to position ourselves scientifically have inspired us to re-examine our understanding of our discipline. The structural report, for example, which the Institute’s board of directors presented to faculty and university directors in 1994, describes our scientific self-conception as follows: "Geography is concerned with humankind’s physical-material environment. As such, it is an environmental science. The physical-material environment is analysed according to a dual perspective: as a condition and constraint of humankind and its cultural development; and as a product and result of economic, social, and political processes. This dual perspective requires that the natural sciences as well as the social sciences and humanities be employed to access geography’s object of study. The natural science branches of geography examine essential parts of the ecosystem and associated productive, endangering, and limiting factors and processes; these branches use the methodology of the natural sciences and base their research concepts on the systems theories of the natural sciences. The social science and humanistic branches of geography investigate the economically, politically, and socioculturally motivated principles governing our use of the environment, as well as the significance of the physical-material world in the social constitution of the spatial arrangement of society. These branches of geography use the methods of the social sciences and humanities, applying the theories of both in their research concepts." (Direktorium des Geographischen Instituts der Universität Bern 1994: 1)

Swimming Lessons

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ehrenfeld
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Close Encounter ◽  
Systems Biotechnology ◽  
Clear View ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way ◽  
Weapons Systems

Never in history has life been so complicated and full of sudden changes. Technology, the environment, and the way we work and relate to one another are all in upheaval. With wit, humor, a calm voice, and great authority, Swimming Lessons gives a clear view of what our world has become - not just our successes, but also the destruction set loose by our own genius and inventions. In addition, it offers practical, non-utopian suggestions for keeping afloat in the dangerous waters of the 21st century's globalized civilization. Whether it is describing a comical brainstorming session in a Washington boardroom or a close encounter with an Alaskan grizzly and her cubs, Swimming Lessons is a delight to read. Trained in history, medicine, and zoology, David Ehrenfeld brings a grand perspective to his challenging task. He writes not just as a scientist, but as one who values and understands the social sciences and humanities as well. In the first half of Swimming Lessons, we learn to recognize the lies we live: about education, new military weapons systems, biotechnology, electronic pseudocommunities, and accelerated obsolescence. We also learn about the deadly corporate economics that affect every aspect of our lives, even environmental conservation. The second half reveals the pitfalls and opportunities in the main tasks we face: relating to nature in a manmade world and restoring our damaged communities.

scholarly journals Structuralists contra Serialists? Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Boulez on Avant-Garde Music

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Goldman
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Pierre Boulez ◽  
The Social ◽  
Serial Music ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Musique Concrete ◽  
Intellectual Movement ◽  
The Way

The adepts of serial music since the end of the 1950s seemed destined to ally themselves with structuralist thought—the broadly defined intellectual movement that profoundly marked the social sciences and humanities. The importance of the metaphor of language to the serialist project of Pierre Boulez in particular seemed sufficient to pave the way towards a conceptual alliance between avant-garde music and structuralist thought. Nevertheless, Claude Lévi-Strauss’s acerbic pronouncements on serial music as well as musique concrète that appeared in the famous “Overture” to The Raw and the Cooked (1964) made it clear that Lévi-Strauss was no friend of the serialist project. Drawing on recent research by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, Nicolas Donin, and Frédéric Keck, this article will argue that the serialist compositional project of the postwar era, embodied primarily in the figure of Pierre Boulez, can be considered “structuralist” in the sense of the intellectual movement promulgated by Claude Lévi-Strauss, despite the latter’s denunciation of serial music.

The quest for soul-touching research in the social sciences and humanities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Interesting Part ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Statement ◽  
The Way

This short personal statement represents a kind of memory aid regarding the way forward for me to pursue what I call “soul-touching research projects.” With this statement, I also aim to help my research team understand an interesting part of research life.

scholarly journals Absent Data: Engagements with Absence in a Twitter Collection Process

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrine Meldgaard Kjær ◽  
Mace Ojala ◽  
Line Henriksen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Missing Data ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Automated Data Collection ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
New Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Data Collections

This paper considers the ways in which silences and absences are a central part of research that relies on automated data collection from social media or the internet. In recent years, automated data collection driven or supported research methods have gained popularity within the social sciences and humanities. With this increase in popularity, it becomes ever more pertinent to consider how to engage with digital data, and how both engagement and data are situated, messy, and contingent. Based on experiences with “missing” data, this paper mobilizes the framework of hauntology to make sense of what relationships may be built with missing data and how silences haunt research practices. Ultimately, we argue that it is possible to reimagine absent data not as a limitation but as an invitation to reflect on and establish new methods for working with automated data collections.

Academic Performance as a Function of Task Requirements and Cognitive Style

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1017-1020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Pohl ◽  
Lawrence A. Pervin
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Aptitude Tests ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Task Requirements ◽  
Completion Test ◽  
And Performance

In a study of the relation between cognitive style and academic performance in 4 departments (Engineering, Natural Science, Social Science, Humanities) 150 Princeton upperclassmen completed the Schroder Paragraph Completion Test which was used to measure cognitive style. Scores on the PCT, together with scores on verbal and mathematical aptitude tests, were related to performance in each of the four departments. A relationship was found between the cognitively concrete style and good performance in Engineering, and the cognitively abstract style and performance in the Social Sciences and Humanities. There was no significant relationship between cognitive style and performance in the Natural Sciences. The data support the view that performance can best be understood as the result of an interaction between personality (cognitive style) and environment (task requirements).

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