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Participatory rural appraisal of ecosystem services of wetlands in the Amazonian Piedmont of Colombia: elements for a sustainable management concept

Ricaurte, Luisa ; Wantzen, Karl ; Agudelo, Edwin ; Betancourt, Bernardo ; Jokela, Jukka

In: Wetlands Ecology and Management, 2014, vol. 22, no. 4, p. 343-361

Towards a global participatory platform : Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence

Buckingham Shum, S. ; Aberer, K. ; Schmidt, A. ; Bishop, S. ; Lukowicz, P. ; Anderson, S. ; Charalabidis, Y. ; Domingue, J. ; de Freitas, S. ; Dunwell, I. ; Edmonds, B. ; Grey, F. ; Haklay, M. ; Jelasity, M. ; Karpištšenko, A. ; Kohlhammer, J. ; Lewis, J. ; Pitt, J. ; Sumner, R. ; Helbing, D.

In: The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2012, vol. 214, no. 1, p. 109-152

FuturICT: Participatory computing to understand and manage our complex world in a more sustainable and resilient way

Helbing, D. ; Bishop, S. ; Conte, R. ; Lukowicz, P. ; McCarthy, J.

In: The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2012, vol. 214, no. 1, p. 11-39

Use of old and new media by ethnic minority youth in Europe with a special emphasis on Switzerland

Bonfadelli, Heinz ; Bucher, Priska ; Piga, Andrea

In: Communications, 2007, vol. 32, no. 2, p. 141-170

Community multimedia centers in Mozambique : exploring and experimenting co-design

Cumbula, Salomão David ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2017 ; 2017COM002.

The overall aim of this doctoral thesis was to elucidate the premises and conditions in which a co-design approach can be used with rural communities in Mozambique and the usage of Information and communication technologies for development as a tool for supporting rural communities on daily activities. The doctoral thesis includes five papers, a systematic literature review, and four case...

ICT and gamified learning in tourism education : a case of South African secondary schools

Adukaite, Asta ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2016 ; 2016COM012.

Tourism is often introduced as a subject in formal education curricula because of the increasing and significant economic contribution of the tourism industry to the private and public sector. This is especially the case in emerging economies in Asia and Africa (Hsu, 2015; Mayaka Cuffy et al., 2012). Tourism in South Africa – which is the geographical setting of this research...

1001stories+ : An effective and affordable multi-media, multi-format communication framework for cultural heritage institutions

Negrini, Michela ; Paolini, Paolo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM013.

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing number of technologies and devices (including smartphones, tablets and alike) able to provide new perspectives for the use of multimedia applications in the field of Cultural Heritage. This work arises from the interest in providing better authoring/delivery possibilities to cultural heritage institutions (small and medium sized in particular). ...

Empowering minority voices

Sabiescu, Amalia Georgiana ; Paolini, Paolo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2013 ; 2013COM007.

Minority cultures have a history of voicelessness. If in the past lack of voice was conditioned by dominating majority groups and discriminating social structures, at present this needs to be seen in relation to the unequal distribution of tools and platforms that can enable expression, communication, and participation in the public sphere of discourse. The growing importance and ubiquity of...

LoDE - Learners of Digital Era : From the analysis of the current debate to an empirical study emphasising the learners’ perspective

Rapetti, Emanuele ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM006.

Since the 1990s, a wide debate has been generated around the "learners-new media dichotomy", with a consequent journalistic reverberation. In particular, expressions like “digital natives”, “Y” generation, or “net-generation” contributed to diffuse the hypothesis that– since the 1980s – a generation of learners with typical characteristics related to their great familiarity with...

Cultural destinations’ communication and promotion

Inversini, Alessandro ; Paolini, Paolo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2010.

This research focuses on the online communication in the cultural destinations’ domain. Cultural destinations’ online communication has been poorly studied so far, and this work intends to analyze, describe and understand the domain. Destinations websites and particularly cultural destinations’ websites have their own communication strategies but they act as hubs with respect to the other...