Reacting to the Emergency by Opening Perspectives. Design-driven knit therapy as a adaptable tool to answer the change

When the COVID-19 emergency raised, the entire world -and small communities with it- had to stop, adapt, find ways to face the big ongoing challenge. The article reports the reaction and the changes undertaken with an ongoing project that was, in February 2020, experimenting, inside the hospital environment, the therapeutic effects of knitting on people with physical and psychological pathologies. The project, driven by scientific studies made in universities, hospitals and research centers worldwide, had the aim to bring the intervention of designers on the topic, to answer the emerged need to promote research in what is considered a low-investigated and high-promising field. Experimental pilot actions, designed and led by designers on-field, were going on when the emergency changed the scenario, limited the environment, shifted the eye on a new, wider target of healthy people, made knitting a tool to face new circumstances and improve everyday-life quality.Observing the newly emerged scenario and the spontaneous initiatives risen on the web (and on social media in particular) to help individuals in spending the forced time at home in meaningful ways, designers involved in the ongoing project identified in knitting an activity that could be beneficial on a psychological and physical level also for quarantined individuals. The project took a new perspective and evolved in the #IOLAVOROAMAGLIA (#IKNIT) social media campaign, linked to the globally spread #STAYHOME campaign, aimed at inviting people to remain home for preventing the diffusion of the infection, while proposing at the same time new solutions for positively living the emergency times. #IOLAVOROAMAGLIA was embraced by many users and it also became a weekly scheduled live virtual workshop, with a direct reference to the workshops in the hospital of XXXX, temporarily stopped during lockdown.The two projects, on-field and online, proved how knitting can be a meaningful solution not only for healthcare, but also for the daily life of people, both in normal times and in emergency situations.Moreover, the role of the designer and of a design driven approach proved to be fundamental, for the product and service creation, improvement and consolidation and for its communication for valorization and promotion.

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Phosphoinositide 3-kinases in platelets, thrombosis and therapeutics

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bcj20190402 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 477 (22) ◽

pp. 4327-4342

Author(s):

Agnès Ribes ◽

Antoine Oprescu ◽

Julien Viaud ◽

Karim Hnia ◽

Gaëtan Chicanne ◽

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Keyword(s):

Platelet Activation ◽

Second Messenger ◽

Expression Regulation ◽

Class I ◽

Biological Processes ◽

Class Iii ◽

Platelet Signaling ◽

New Perspective ◽

Made In

Our knowledge on the expression, regulation and roles of the different phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) in platelet signaling and functions has greatly expanded these last twenty years. Much progress has been made in understanding the roles and regulations of class I PI3Ks which produce the lipid second messenger phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5 trisphosphate (PtdIns(3,4,5)P3). Selective pharmacological inhibitors and genetic approaches have allowed researchers to generate an impressive amount of data on the role of class I PI3Kα, β, δ and γ in platelet activation and in thrombosis. Furthermore, platelets do also express two class II PI3Ks (PI3KC2α and PI3KC2β), thought to generate PtdIns(3,4)P2 and PtdIns3P, and the sole class III PI3K (Vps34), known to synthesize PtdIns3P. Recent studies have started to reveal the importance of PI3KC2α and Vps34 in megakaryocytes and platelets, opening new perspective in our comprehension of platelet biology and thrombosis. In this review, we will summarize previous and recent advances on platelet PI3Ks isoforms. The implication of these kinases and their lipid products in fundamental platelet biological processes and thrombosis will be discussed. Finally, the relevance of developing potential antithrombotic strategies by targeting PI3Ks will be examined.

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Discovering the Changes in Gendering of Products: Case of Woman in ‘Bikerni Community’ in India

BORDER CROSSING ◽

10.33182/bc.v6i2.490 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 169-194

Author(s):

Varsha Jain ◽

Kriti Bharadwaj ◽

Amrita Bansal ◽

Vivek S Natarajan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Gender Roles ◽

Indian Society ◽

Consumption Pattern ◽

Indian Woman ◽

Projective Techniques ◽

Societal Needs ◽

New Perspective ◽

Depth Interviews

In the Indian society, gender roles have played an important role in shaping the culture. However, due to technological advancements and change in societal needs, there is an evolution in the gender roles. This evolution has created a need to understand the gendered products from a new perspective. Therefore, this paper tries to discover the factors of consumption of gendered products and role of social media in shaping the consumption pattern and motivation of women in biking industry in India. Subsequently, to address the objectives, qualitative methods such as in-depth interviews, netnography and projective techniques are applied and data is analyzed further. With the help of data analysis, it has been found that that Indian woman is motivated by a quest for freedom, independence and empowerment. The families and close-knit communities that they are part of, such as Bikerni Association of India, help them participate in a hyper-masculine product market.

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An Exploratory Study on Sleep Procrastination: Bedtime vs. While-in-Bed Procrastination

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17165892 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (16) ◽

pp. 5892

Author(s):

Paula Magalhães ◽

Vânia Cruz ◽

Sara Teixeira ◽

Sónia Fuentes ◽

Pedro Rosário

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Social Media ◽

High School Students ◽

Exploratory Study ◽

Study Data ◽

School Students ◽

New Perspective ◽

Bedtime Procrastination ◽

New Research

Sleep Procrastination literature has focused on the behaviors individuals engage in before going to bed (Bedtime Procrastination) but not on the behaviors individuals engage in after going to bed (While-in-Bed Procrastination). The main goal of this study is to explore whether this While-in-Bed procrastination is a novel phenomenon that adds to the Sleep Procrastination literature. The study was conducted online with 400 high school students (Mage = 16.56; 139 males) recruited through personal contacts and social media. The Bedtime procrastination scale was adapted and validated for this sample, whereas the While-in-Bed Procrastination scale was developed for this study. Data show a low correlation (r = 0.158 **) between Bedtime and While-in-Bed Procrastination scales, suggesting that Sleep Procrastination may be composed of the two facets. Additionally, results showed that more Bedtime Procrastination was related to later waking time and later dinnertime hours, whereas more While-in-Bed Procrastination was linked to being male, later desired time to sleep, and earlier dinnertime hour. Findings indicate that solely assessing Bedtime Procrastination as representing the procrastination of Sleep is limited and overlooks a significant part of this behavior. This exploratory study adds a new perspective to the literature by stressing the role of While-in-Bed Procrastination, thus opening new research pathways.

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Political Role of Social Media as a Field of Research and as a Field of University Level Study

Journal of Education and Vocational Research ◽

10.22610/jsds.v4i11.788 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (11) ◽

pp. 488-493

Author(s):

Dmitry Baluev

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Security Policy ◽

Policy Formulation ◽

Field Of Study ◽

Political Role ◽

Political Analysis ◽

Foreign And Security Policy ◽

The One ◽

Made In

This article is drawing out major approaches to the study of political role of social media. On the one hand, in a nearest future such researches could be one of the main hot topics of political analysis. On the other hand, this field of study is starting to be reflected in leading universitiesâ€™ curriculum. However, common theoretical base for this field of study is still absent. An attempt to clarify terminology, picture out major approaches to the role of social media in politics, formulate major trends in this sphere of public life is made in this paper. It touches upon also consequences of rising political role of social media for foreign and security policy formulation. Possible applied use of this concept is a special interest for the author.

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Producción, distribución y exhibición del cine desde una nueva mirada: la web social

Obra digital ◽

10.25029/od.2017.128.12 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 27-51

Author(s):

Yasmín Magna Sayán Casquino

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Production Chain ◽

New Concepts ◽

The Social ◽

Production Distribution ◽

El Sistema ◽

Social Media Tools ◽

New Perspective ◽

Web Social

El cine en Latinoamérica enfrenta problemas con respecto al financiamiento y a la difusión de proyectos desde el sistema tradicional. Sin embargo, hoy, la influencia del internet, la pantallaglobal, la web social y la participación colectiva han cambiado los hábitos de consumo dando herramientas para poder terminar elproceso de una película. La audiencia no solo consume, también produce. Los nuevos realizadores han aprovechado este cambio para replantear el modelo de negocio y la cadena de producción a la hora de contar historias. Nacen nuevos conceptos que ayudan a esta modificación de la cadena productiva, como el crowdfunding, que modifica la forma de financiar proyectos, experiencias como la wikipeli demuestran que se puede generar una nueva forma de producción y realización, eliminando intermediario en la etapa de distribución, y por último, la transmedia y el storydoing que no solo modifican la narración sino que generan la creación de una marca que reviste al producto. Se tratará demostrar el rol de plataformas digitales vinculadas a la web social como un sistema alternativo en la cadena de producción audiovisual mediante una metodología de análisis descriptivo-cualitativo de casos de éxito, entrevistas y plataformas.Cinema production, distribution and exhibition from a new perspective: the social webAbstractThe film industry in Latin America has to deal with financial and distribution problems for projects in the traditional film system. Nevertheless, nowadays the influence of the internet, the globalscreen, social media, and group participation have changed consumer behavior, giving rise to new tools for the film production and viewing cycle. Audiences do not only consume, but alsoproduce. New filmmakers have taken advantage of this change to rethink the business model, and the production chain for telling their stories. New concepts that help to transform the productionchain include crowdfunding, which modifies the financing of projects, products such as the “wikipeli”, which use new methods of production and creation, without distribution intermediaries, and transmedia and storytelling, which modify narration and create a product brand. We seek to show the role of social media tools as alternative audiovisual production mechanisms through a descriptive qualitative analysis of examples of success, interviews and platforms.Keywords: Crowdfunding, prosumer, global screen, hypercine, 2.0 distribution, transmediapp. 27-51

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Language in Social Media: Exploiting Discourse and Other Contextual Information

Computational Linguistics ◽

10.1162/coli_a_00333 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 663-681 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Farah Benamara ◽

Diana Inkpen ◽

Maite Taboada

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Language Processing ◽

Contextual Information ◽

Written Language ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Social ◽

Media Texts ◽

New Perspective ◽

Past Experiences

Social media content is changing the way people interact with each other and share information, personal messages, and opinions about situations, objects, and past experiences. Most social media texts are short online conversational posts or comments that do not contain enough information for natural language processing (NLP) tools, as they are often accompanied by non-linguistic contextual information, including meta-data (e.g., the user’s profile, the social network of the user, and their interactions with other users). Exploiting such different types of context and their interactions makes the automatic processing of social media texts a challenging research task. Indeed, simply applying traditional text mining tools is clearly sub-optimal, as, typically, these tools take into account neither the interactive dimension nor the particular nature of this data, which shares properties with both spoken and written language. This special issue contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of these interactions to process social media data from a new perspective in discourse interpretation. This introduction first provides the necessary background to understand what context is from both the linguistic and computational linguistic perspectives, then presents the most recent context-based approaches to NLP for social media. We conclude with an overview of the papers accepted in this special issue, highlighting what we believe are the future directions in processing social media texts.

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The Politics of Pulpit Religiosity in the Era of Covid-19 in Kenya

Frontiers in Communication ◽

10.3389/fcomm.2021.616288 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 ◽

Author(s):

Susan M. Kilonzo ◽

Bryson O. Omwalo

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Religious Practices ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

To Come ◽

Role Of Religion ◽

Made In

This essay centres on the role of religion in the era of Covid-19. We juxtapose social media and religious practices in a way that challenges the conventional religion of the pulpit to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions around spirituality in the era of Covid-19. We show the transformation of worship from physical worship places, particularly churches, to virtual engagements through social media. Through observation, close relations’ accounts, personal experiences and media perspectives, we analyze the politics that surrounded religious observances in the first 7 months of Covid-19 pandemic in Kenya. We make a case that, discoveries made in these seven and other months to come, will most likely influenced the myths and misconceptions about religion and religious practices in the Country. From these accounts, we project a future that is likely to reap from the benefits of technology, and especially social media, which has revolutionized exchange of ideas, sermons, prayers and music. We challenge the very notion of pulpit religiosity, and the myths and misconceptions that religion cannot be without physical fellowships.

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