Social media have led to profound transformations in the ecosystem and new communication dynamics. Such platforms become a competitive source of information played decisive role facilitating dissemination false or misleading content, with particular impact on recent elections. This study analyses formats spread disinformation during Brazil’s 2018 election social media, considering countermeasur...

A B S T R AC T Research on organizational safety and reliability largely has emphasized system-level structures and processes neglecting the more micro-level, social processes necessary to enact organizational safety. In this qualitative study we remedy this gap by exploring these processes in the context of wildland fire management. In particular, using interview data gathered from 28 individu...

2011 This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2012 report. It was presented at a Meeting of experts on " Expanding opportunities for the marginalized through skills development " organized by the GMR and BMZ in Bonn, Germany (3-4 November 2010). The paper has not been edited by the team. The views and opini...

The e-Brainstorming tools represent plausible solutions to improve the e-research community activities with respect to processes regarding idea generation and idea selection. However, the existing eBrainstorming systems show methodological and technological limitations. The present work proposes a brainstorming model that aims at overcoming the aforementioned limitations by exploiting Social We...