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- Building a web tracking browser information system: the online panel as a research method in internet studiesPublication . Montargil, Filipe; Di Fátima, Branco; Ruiz, CristianInternet research requires internet-based research methods and tools. Since the commercial adoption and the rapid expansion of internet use in civil society, social scientists have tried to understand the impact and contribution of this technology in the shaping of contemporary human existence. However, academic research has been based mainly in mature and traditional data collection and analysis methods, previously established, like survey research or social network analysis. Some authors suggest that this trend represents a challenge for the social sciences’ ability to champion innovative methodological resources, underlining the need to create also native digital methods. The authors developed, considering this challenge, an online panel of internet users – a method already used in the market research industry to monitor and characterize audiences and consumer behaviour, but not usually explored in social science academic research. Following a case study approach, the current paper presents the information system and technological infrastructure developed to support this online panel.
- Comunicação, Igreja e SociedadePublication . Montargil, FilipeEsta apresentação no VII Seminário de Comunicação Social - Mídia e religião: as novas conceções de relação com o sagrado, organizado pela Arquidiocese de São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, de 22 a 24 de outubro de 2020, partilha uma reflexão sobre a relevância da comunicação e sobre as oportunidades, na comunicação da Igreja, decorrentes da utilização de recursos relacionados com os conceitos de inovação social e de citizen science (ciência cidadã). A apresentação divide-se em 3 partes: (i) é, em primeiro lugar, realizado um enquadramento sobre a importância da integração social, como consequência da forma de organização e de funcionamento da Igreja, permitindo distinguir entre igrejas com elevada intensidade de integração social e igrejas com baixa intensidade de integração social; (ii) são, em segundo lugar, abordados os conceitos de inovação social e de citizen science e discutida a capacidade de poderem contribuir para a função de integreção social, e, por fim, (iii) são apresentados e discutidos dois estudos de caso (um na área da inovação social, disponível através de uma aplicação mobile, outro na área de citizen science, através da plataforma Zooniverse).
- Building a web tracking browser information system: the online panel as a research method in internet studiesPublication . Montargil, Filipe; Di Fátima, Branco; Ruiz, CristianInternet research requires internet-based research methods and tools. Since the commercial adoption and the rapid expansion of internet use in civil society, social scientists have tried to understand the impact and contribution of this technology in the shaping of contemporary human existence. However, academic research has been based mainly in mature and traditional data collection and analysis methods, previously established, like survey research or social network analysis. Some authors suggest that this trend represents a challenge for the social sciences’ ability to champion innovative methodological resources, underlining the need to create also native digital methods. The authors developed, considering this challenge, an online panel of internet users – a method already used in the market research industry to monitor and characterize audiences and consumer behaviour, but not usually explored in social science academic research. Following a case study approach, the current presentations discusses the information system and technological infrastructure developed to support this online panel.
- Turismo de interior, turismo de natureza, participação e tecnologiaPublication . Montargil, FilipeEsta apresentação no II Seminário Internacional sobre Turismo de Interior partilha uma reflexão sobre as oportunidades, na área do turismo de natureza, decorrentes da utilização de recursos relacionados com o conceito de citizen science (ciência cidadã). A apresentação divide-se em 3 dimensões fundamentais: (i) é, em primeiro lugar, realizado um enquadramento sobre o conceito de ciência cidadã e sobre as suas origens (através dos conceitos de Community-Based Environmental Monitoring e de Volunteered Geographic Information, por exemplo); (ii) é, em segundo lugar, apresentada uma plataforma para projetos de citizen science (Zooniverse), em que são partilhados projetos de investigação abertos à participação voluntária de cidadãos e, por fim, (iii) é explorado e discutido um estudo de caso (Gorongosa WildCams), como ilustrativo das oportunidades para as estratégias de desenvolvimento de conteúdos e de envolvimento de cidadãos, no turismo de natureza.
- 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.