Scientific analysis of collaboration of brazilians Information Science Postgraduate Programs

Debido al creciente interés en los estudios métricos sobre la colaboración científica de los programas de posgrado nacionales, sumado a las bases teóricas y aplicadas de las Ciencias de la Información sustentadas en los estudios métricos de la información, cobró relevancia identificar cómo ocurren las colaboraciones científicas en los programas de posgrado en Ciencias de la Información. El método de investigación incluyó el uso de bibliometría y análisis de redes sociales como técnica de análisis de información. La muestra involucró 519 artículos de 421 profesores permanentes que trabajan en 27 Programas de Posgrado (PPG), entre los períodos del año 2013 al 2018. Los resultados alcanzados incluyeron la elaboración de un conjunto de indicadores que denotan las actividades de colaboración científica. Se concluyó que, en definitiva, las redes de relaciones interpersonales son relevantes para la maduración del área de Ciencias de la Información, y a su vez la internacionalización es fundamental para el desarrollo de programas. Los resultados obtenidos pueden contribuir a la mejora del PPG y del Sistema Nacional de Posgrado, maximizando la comprensión de la colaboración en Ciencias de la Información.

Colaboração como grafos

A Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS) possui aplicabilidade comprovada como método para o estudo dos mais diversos fenômenos. Contudo, sua utilização como base para análise de dinâmicas presenciais de design colaborativo ainda é relativamente escassa. Dessa forma, este artigo aborda, em caráter exploratório, a aplicabilidade da ARS como framework auxiliar para a formatação de dinâmicas cocriativas em design. Para tal, foi facilitada uma sessão generativa em contexto real de projeto de produto. As interações ocorridas na sessão foram analisadas a partir da ARS a partir da esquematização, na forma de sociogramas, das interações percebidas pelos participantes. Também são exemplificados os processos de desenvolvimento de seus materiais de facilitação, como o kit de sensibilização, e demais materiais de apoio, assim como propostas possibilidades concretas de análise dos sociogramas elaborados. Conclui-se que a ARS apresenta o potencial como ferramenta para prover uma análise e consequente intervenção sistemática em dinâmicas de Design Colaborativo.

Is it possible to scrutinize a relationship between a given pair of actors by performing a documentary scrutiny?

This is the exploratory stage of data used in a doctoral thesis that used social network analysis to scan relationships between actors with the aim of making the thesis that the exception regime in Brazil for 21 years, was already supported by a cohesive and robust of who shared an ideology. Through documentary research, a social network analysis was used in an innovative way when scrutinizing archives in the search for links between people in the period from 1964 to 1985. 374 people classified in the reports of the National Commission of Truth as responsible for human rights violations during the Dictatorship in Brazil. They are names of owners who made up an initial list of social actors to build the network of human rights violators. Through the construction of a matrix, associated with each author, it performed every fifteen events. To give depth, searches were made in the digital repositories of documents (such as their availability) for the following references: Projeto Brasil Nunca Mais de 1985, from the Archdiocese of São Paulo; National Archives and Brazilian Digital Library. With the findings, it was possible to conclude an exploratory stage with the following: It is possible to scan a relationship between a given pair of actors by conducting documentary scrutiny.

Associativity and social capital in the multicultural context of Chilean migration 2014-2017 Social networks in the immigrant response?

This article discusses Putnam’s (2007) proposal about the possibility that intercultural heterogeneity may negatively affect social capital creation in the short term while also negatively affecting associativity. This issue will be discussed in relation to the case of collective political action by migrant organizations, namely MovimientoAcciónMigrante (MAM) and Coordinadora Nacional de Inmigrantes (CNI) in Chile during the 2014-2017 period. From a social network perspective, this article describes the context of the Chilean socio-political integration model, by both characterizing these groups and exploring the existence of—or lack thereof—politicization and social capital. This exercise seeks to elucidate whether these groups may or may not be considered social networks. By using a mixed-methods approach that included interviews and social network analysis techniques, the researchers accounted for here explores the question: Which are the politicization strategies used by socio-political networks composed by multicultural migrant organizations in the Chilean public sphere? From a combined perspective of political science and network analysis, this article addresses politicization and collective action of these collectives in Chile.

Addressing problematic consumption: an action research experience from the Social Network Analysis

This paper is classified under the trend of studies that make use of ‘Social Network Analysis’ (SNA) to serve as guidelines for social intervention. Within the field of SNA, work has been carried out based on what is referred to as the socio-centric approach, with the aim of revealing a type of complete network, the Subjective Communities Networks, which are built from Community Treatment Groups pertaining to the Argentine Office of Drug-related Comprehensive Policies (SEDRONAR for its Spanish acronym) in order to address problematic abuse in socially vulnerable backgrounds. These groups belong to the ECO2 model, which was devised to intervene in a wide range of social suffering phenomena, and uses the SNA as a theoretical and methodological viewpoint for assessing people and communities. This thought is an attempt to answer the following question: how does SNA help formulate social intervention strategies for SEDRONAR groups in the Province of Mendoza?

Teaching Burnout: a conceptual cartographic review

Burnout syndrome is a problem in healthcare workers in the field of health and education. From the 1970s to the present it has been the focus of growing interest in various research. The professional attrition of teachers, in particular, has been addressed in studies published in journals of scientific relevance, which highlights a phenomenon in the educational field that is of concern in different contexts. Conceptual cartographic diving is proposed in SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) of the most cited articles related to teacher burnout. We work on theoretical categories that allow us to penetrate discussions about burnout in teaching through the use of the software QDA Miner 5 and WordStat 7. The analysis allows us to review psychosocial contributions regarding the syndrome in literature, feedback questions, and anticipate new concerns in relation to recent and impact investigations.

The internal structure of the state protection of children in Mendoza: the actors and their movements (1995-1999)

The state protection of children in the last 30 years has a critical reflection of the ratification of the first human rights treaty for children and adolescents. Multiple glances focused on the bureaucratic normative apparatuses that operated/operate on children's bodies, to glimpse the configuration of institutional practices. This article attempts to reconstruct the circuits generated through the articulation and power networks related to the state protection of institutionalized childhood (1995 - 1999), through the study of the actors involved in the institutionalization in the province of Mendoza. The methodology used is hermeneutical, heuristic and will be carried out from the analysis of the case of the “witnesses”. For this, three cases of institutionalized boys, girls, and adolescents have been chosen, reflected in institutional files. The results raise the relevance of four institutional actors that are key in institutional actions, whose profiles could be translated into the decision-maker, the communicational control, the sentinel, and the public force. On the other hand, in the minimal networks of the cases presented, the subordination of one (executive) power over another state (judicial) power is proposed. Finally, differentiated power dynamics are indicated between the center and the peripheries of the province of Mendoza, Argentina.

Retweet or reply? Covid-19 and Twitter. The case of the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina)

The unprecedented global context caused by COVID-19 has generated various changes in society and forced the governments of different countries to adopt containment measures. However, this crisis occurs in a globalized international context, where the mass use of various digital platforms allows the generation of a significant amount of information and the study of interactions between individuals. In this work, in particular, the impact on public opinion about the coronavirus crisis in the city of Bahía Blanca (Argentina) is analyzed from the Twitter digital platform, trying to identify the main actors in the production of messages, find out which users having a greater capacity to control its diffusion and measure the relevance or authority in the interactions analyzed using Social Network Analysis techniques. The main result is the fragmentation of information between individuals, being the resulting interaction scarce. On the other hand, it was found that in the analysis of retweets the main actors are not relevant outside the digital platform, while in the analysis of the responses the main actors are characterized by having a prominent role in the political scene or in communications locally.

Social Network Analysis (SNA) applied to current issues. Guidelines for its implementation in research and management projects

Social Network Analysis (SNA) has become the most demanded relational approach in the field of basic science and applied science in the last 20 years. Researchers and professionals from traditional social, natural, and exact disciplines agree on the interest in what some identify as the paradigm across the field of traditional sciences problems. While SNA deepens and grows in its developments, analysis, and tools, the demand for courses of graduate and postgraduate academic training increases; as well as the instances of professional updating in both public and private development and management sectors. Based on the supposition that both sectors are related with research work trajectories rooted in institutional and current issues, in this work we aim to present the basic guidelines of our strategies for putting together courses about SNA. Considering three levels based on epistemological, methodological, and transference criteria for the resolution of problems, we propose five lines to be taken into consideration in order to know, develop and apply relational research. The procedures for the design of tools that will allow the collection and construction of databases or the identification of appropriate information for a study of SNA. The analytical path must be explained both in its complexity of combined methods and in the strategies for the identification of patterns as well as the construction of models. Finally, the problems and study frameworks, the research procedures, and the transference instances can be controlled and assessed by testing results and model approximation. Academic and professional training courses provide tools for the appreciation of SNA conceptual fields together with the approximation and delimitation of feasible empiric problems to be studied by SNA.