Apresentação do dossiê "Cenas musicais: performances artísticas, consumos e estilos de vida"

Um modelo sistémico de gestão da informação: da flexibilidade organizacional à interoperabilidade do sistema

The paper introduces the Active and Permanent Information System Management Model (MGSI-AP). It results from an investigation that discussed concepts and perspectives about Information Management, positioning it as a transversal and applied area within Information Science, focused on info communicational flow, in a complex institutional context the Portuguese public University and related information services. The University is assumed in a complex and systemic double facet, between the forma...

Content syndication in news aggregators: towards devaluation of professional journalistic criteria = La sindicación de contenidos en los agregadores de noticias: Hacia la devaluación de los criterios profesionales periodísticos

The growing expansion of Internet access and mass-scale usage of social networking platforms and search engines have forced digital newspapers to deal with challenges, amongst which are the need to constantly update news, the increasing complexity of sources, the difficulty of exercising their function as gatekeepers in a fragmented environment in which the opinions, biases and preconceptions of pundits, their followers, Twitter users, etc. has taken on a new and decisive weight and the mount...

An historical perspective on community resilience: The case of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake

The study of community resiliencethat is, of the ability of a community to anticipate, respond to, and recover from sudden or slow onset shockstraces its origins to the earliest days of contemporary disaster research. In recent decades, conceptual frameworksand precise empirical indicatorsof community resilience have entered the literature for purposes of reducing disaster vulnerability at the community level. Given the long arc of research on community resilience, however, it is appropriate ...