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- Data, technology and journalismPublication . Silvestre, Cláudia; Frazão, PedroTechnological development has had a major impact on all levels of our societies [3], namely in the way of thinking and practicing journalism [5]. Consequently new job types like data journalist or infographic designers have been evolved in newsrooms. This reveals that jour nalism students should be trained to learn the contemporary technologies. “Interestingly, although transformation of journalism practices after the artificial intelligence and algo rithms is on the agenda of recent communication studies, the reflection of this technology in journalism education is still a neglected field of study.” ([4]:170). This technological change also include the way we teach data analysis, since data are really used as a primary source for telling a story [6]. Thinking about that, we carried out a small project using Python programming language. Communication students usually do not have any contact with a programming language, but it is a valued skill [1]. The goal of this project was to perform a statistical analysis of the Portuguese media coverage of the pandemic, focused on news headlines. We have chosen three Portuguese large-circulation newspapers, two daily newspapers: Di´ario de Not´ıcias and P´ublico, and a weekly, Expresso. The data set have 2025 headlines related to pandemic and were collected between between January and March, 2021. Data cleaning was the first step. Incomplete data and duplicate news were removed, after that we got 2020 headlines. Then we enriched the dataset by adding more variables, such as, news is on the first page (yes/no), references to numbers in the headline (yes/no) and the tone of the news (positive/neutral/negative). With this analysis we can conclude that most (80%) news had a neutral tone, and numerical information was rarely used (10%), but when it was used it often highlighted positive or negative information. The most common words used in headlines were pandemia (pandemic), vacinas (vaccines) and COVID. And headlines with numbers generally referred to the pandemic evolution, like number of infected, dead or recovered, and to COVID-19 crisis economic impact. Although this project is quite simple, we find it useful to introduce a programming lan guage, namely Python [1]. It also helps to increase technological skills knowledge which is ”one of the requirements of the modern era in additional of traditional journalism courses in journalism education” ([2]:7471).
- How to analyze online behavior as a source for political information in the Portuguese 2019 European Parliament election?Publication . Silvestre, Cláudia; Rodrigo, Pinheiro; Montargil, FilipeThe internet plays an important role in our society, namely in the circulation of political ideas [2] knowing that, political actors have been using web’s potential to invigorate their campaigns [4]. Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign is a well-known example [1]. In this study, which is part of a larger one about European elections, we intend to examine Portuguese’ use of online media in relation to political involvement in the 2019 European Parliament election. This project, which is being developed in partnership with Netquest (an opinion and market research company), uses a database of web navigation actions (WNA) from its Internet user panel in Portugal. This data set includes navigation actions on computer and mobile devices, for a sample of 1,288 users. Our data were collected between April 26 and June 26, 2019 (a period of two months, around the elections, held on May 26, in Portugal), and contains 20,137,355 WNA. In order to analyze this data set we applied the CRISP-DM (Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining) methodology [3]. After business and data understanding, we are in phase 3, the most time-consuming task - data preparation. In this phase a binary variable was added to identify if a WNA refers to an online media or not. This classification was based on the list of media provided by the Entidade Reguladora para a Comunica¸c˜ao Social (Portuguese Regulatory Authority for the Media). The next step is to identify which of these WNA of Portuguese media are about politics. First, we select subdomains or tabs of the WNA URL address that contains the words: “politica” (politics), “eleicao” or “eleicoes” (election). Other options will be apply text mining to news titles in the WNA url address or use HTML scraping and text mining algorithms to analyze online news content. This study is focused on challenges we faced during data preparation. To make sure that the database is consistent and does not include duplicate or redundant information it was necessary to understand what each variable actually represented. Then we recoded the data to numerical values. And some variables were grouped, such as the region, the level of education and the area of study. We have also turned date of birth into age and standardized standardized the time spent online. In addition, mobile and desktop WNA information have been tuned to be expressed in the same way. Finally, we present the preliminary results of the identification of WNA related to policy issues and an exploratory analysis of the information will be carried out.
- Metodologias de trabalho de Vasco Araújo: artes plásticas e cenografiaPublication . Vicente, Sara Rodrigues; Nogueira, Mariana SáO presente relatório tem como propósito retratar os projetos de artes plásticas e cenografia acompanhados no decorrer do estágio curricular com Vasco Araújo, com foco nas metodologias do artista e formas de interseção disciplinar por ele utilizadas. Centra-se nos processos de pesquisa, conceção e produção de Araújo, quer nas suas obras plásticas, quer nos projetos de cenografia para a companhia Cão Solteiro. Para apurar os procedimentos do artista neste contexto, o trabalho parte dos projetos nos quais Araújo esteve envolvido entre setembro de 2020 e março de 2021, sendo dedicado a cada um deles um capítulo: 1 - Pathosformel; 2 - Um oásis ao entardecer; 3 - Heading against the wall; 4 - Azul vermelho Azul manteiga; 5 - trabalho de estúdio. Para cada trabalho, é efetuada uma análise formal e temática, que culmina na descrição das metodologias envolvidas na criação. Ademais, reflete-se neste relatório sobre questões inerentes à prática artística e cenográfica de Vasco Araújo, designadamente enquanto criador português. Nessa medida, cada um dos trabalhos analisados suscita questões acerca da realidade artística nacional, relação entre artista e curador, preponderância da cenografia na dramaturgia dos espetáculos, pontos de comunicação entre metodologias de artes plásticas e cenografia, interdisciplinaridade e modos de exposição. De molde a enquadrar as obras de Vasco Araújo nas práticas de artes plásticas e cenografia contemporâneas, o relatório faz-se acompanhar de entrevistas conduzidas não só junto do artista, mas também de alguns membros da companhia com a qual colabora. A par destes textos, o presente trabalho recorre a registo fotográfico e a documentos de trabalho para refletir a dimensão prática dos projetos. Por fim, e considerando que este relatório decorre de um estágio, procura um posicionamento relativamente às práticas observadas, contribuindo para uma formação metodológica e artística que preconiza, no plano pessoal, a interseção disciplinar e mediática.
- Biopic - A convergência entre realidade e ficçãoPublication . Roberto, Ana Rita Salgueiro; Souto, Jorge; Lopes, Pedro Miguel FerreiraPartindo de um estudo e enquadramento teórico detalhado, este projeto pretende compreender como tem sobrevivido e evoluído um dos géneros mais controversos do cinema, o filme biográfico ou biopic. A forma de estudar, analisar e fazer cinema tem mudado nas últimas décadas e o género biopic tem acompanhado o ritmo através de mutações e metamorfoses em conteúdo, forma e comunicação, dando origem a subgéneros contemporâneos. As modificações de género por vezes transpõem as fronteiras entre realidade, ficção e factos históricos. O estudo de como convergem a realidade e a ficção na escrita do filme biográfico funciona como epígrafe para a escrita de um argumento, uma longa-metragem, onde se pretende desafiar as convenções predefinidas sobre escrita de vida e ver respondida a pergunta sobre como convergem as fronteiras de um género clássico que se modernizou nas últimas décadas.
- The Hallyu Wave as Soft Power: a portuguese case studyPublication . Moita, Inês Quintas; Montargil, Filipe; Sousa, VandaABSTRACT: The entertainment industry has always been mostly dominated by the influential and powerful West. Either through cinema or music, the main figures of the field are, most often than not, North Americans and Europeans. However, in the last decades, thanks to globalization and certain technological advances, artists and creators from the East have started to conquer their own spot in the limelight of entertainment. From the Cool Japan strategy to the recent Hallyu Wave, Asian countries have invested in ways to export their culture to the rest of the world. The South Korean Hallyu Wave is no more than a materialization of culture flows in a globalized world. Thus, there is a need to understand what exactly is the ‘Wave’ and how it came to be. The main point of this project is to understand what the Korean Wave consists of and its repercussions as a Soft Power instrument.
- A sociological portrait of the Portuguese, based on their religiosity and values: a cross-time comparison with EuropePublication . Lousão, Maria Paula; Silvestre, Cláudia; José Luís, CasanovaRoccas and Schwartz [4], and Schwartz and Huismans [5] showed that there is a correlation between people’s religiosity and the human values defined by SH Schwartz: conformity and tradition values positively correlate with religiosity, while hedonism, self-determination, achievement and power have negative correlations. The remaining human values are not significantly related, however safety and benevolence are positively correlated while uni versalism and stimulation are negatively correlated. The purpose of this communication is to present the evolution of human values taking into account the religiosity of people in Portugal, from a perspective of European comparison. This communication also intends to trace the sociological profile of people who claim to belong to a religion (called religious) and people who do not belong to any religion (called non-religious) in relation to human values. To achieve this objective, several sociographic variables are used to characterize the individuals and also two indices, created from European Social Survey (ESS) variables, the Index of Relation to Religion (IRR) and the Index of Religious Practice (IPR). As can be seen in Figure 1, throughout all rounds, in Portugal, Tradition, Hedonism and Stimulation stand out as the most differentiating values between individuals who practice a religion and those who do not, the most prominent differentiator for Tradition in the last rounds observed. Data processing and analysis focused on the nine rounds of the European Social Survey, between 2002 and 2018. After preparing the data for analysis, statistical techniques used, such as Multiple Correspondence Analysis, and non-parametric tests of mean difference were obtained using IBM SPSS version 27.0 software. By comparing the averages of human values, it is concluded that Portugal is closer to European values, from round 6 (2012). Multiple Correspondence Analysis allowed us to conclude that, as expected, people who belong to a religion have a formal relationship with it. While those who do not belong to any religion are associated with a residual or null relationship, but also with informal relationships, and sometimes medium or intense. Which means that, even though they do not belong to a religion, they may have some kind of relationship with it.