Université de Fribourg

Changer le travail ou changer la société ? : Les hackers entre conformation à l'ordre social et volonté d'innover

Zufferey, Eric ; Surdez, Muriel (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2018.

Cette thèse vise à interroger le hackingcomme source de changement social, voire de subversion de l’ordre social. En mettant en jeu une forme d’autodidaxie et un décloisonnement social entre amateurs, professionnels et militants, il fait espérer des changements dans l’accès aux savoirs, ainsi que dans les manières de penser le rôle de la technologie au sein de nos sociétés. Dans le...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Fostering teamwork and socialization in collaborative working environments : Insights from a situated study on a university research team

Meschitti, Viviana ; Carassa, Antonella (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM005.

Collaborative practices in real groups are rarely studied as they develop in research teams, despite the importance of the topic. The present study aims to address this lack and is focused on how collaboration develops in an academic research team. It draws specific attention to group practices that enhance mutual engagement within the team and the socialization of doctoral students....

Università della Svizzera italiana

Family conversations : The relevance of context in evaluating argumentation

Arcidiacono, Francesco ; Pontecorvo, Clotilde ; Morasso, Sara Greco

In: Studies in communications sciences, 2009, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 79-92

This paper investigates how to reconstruct and evaluate argumentation in the context of Italian family conversations. By means of a case study, we show how understanding context is essential for the analytical reconstruction of argumentation. Within conversations at dinnertime, we rely on insights from Conversation and Discourse Analysis in order to interpret context-bound communicative and...