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Comunicació presentada a: The Tenth International AAAI Conference on web and social media (ICWSM 2016), celebrat del 18 al 20 de maig de 2016 a Colònia, Alemanya. ; Online debate tools for participatory democracy and crowdsourcing legislation are limited by different factors. One of them arises when discussion of proposals reaches a large number of contributions and therefore citizens encounter difficulties in mapping the arguments that constitute the dialectical debate. To address this issue, we present a visualization tool that shows the discussion of any proposal as an interactive radial tree. The tool builds on Decide Madrid, a recently created platform for direct democracy launched by the City Council of Madrid. Decide Madrid is one of the most relevant platforms that allows citizens to propose, debate and prioritise city policies. ; This work is supported by the EU project D-CENT (FP7/CAPS 610349) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the Mar´ıa de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme (MDM-2015-0502)

In this paper we describe the socio-technical approach developed in the POWER project extending traditional forms of citizen engagement for local sustainability challenges with a collective awareness platform in order to increase public awareness, knowledge and engagement. We show how a citizen-centered design and implementation process integrating different technological enablers such as gamification, real-time open data integration or knowledge visualization results in a platform for sustainability issues that can drive collective awareness and collaborative knowledge sharing. Against the background of four different pilot cities with distinct water-related sustainability challenges, we present the implementation of the local platforms and how these have been effectively used by almost 1.000 active users, supporting an innovative engagement model that employed collaborative open innovation in online and offline settings for citizen-driven solution development to local sustainability challenges. We present the results from three series of citizen workshops where 150 participants provided valuable feedback, which was integrated in the further platform improvement. The evaluation confirmed its usability, enabling platform uptake among the target groups and its social impact by increasing awareness and knowledge. Finally, we derive a set of implications for similar initiatives addressing sustainability challenges helping them to overcome common barriers to participation and engagement.Keywords: citizen engagement, digital citizenship, sustainable urbanism, education, governance sustainability, gamification, water conservation, disaster risk reduction

Abstract. Background: Climate factors may offer a stronger explanation of the variations in suicide rates compared with economic variables, even in the case of patients admitted involuntarily. Aims: We assessed the role of temperature as a determinant of the increased prevalence of suicide attempts (SA). Method: The sample comprised all cases of hospitalization for SA at the Psychiatric Clinic of the IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino between August 2013 and July 2018. For ambient temperature, data were provided by the Meteorological Observatory of the University of Genoa. Results: We noted a peak in suicides that was typically found in late spring and early summer due to global warming. Limitations: Other environmental/psychological factors contributing to the onset of an acute clinical event were not considered. The cross-sectional design of the study is another limitation. Conclusion: Further studies are needed to clarify the impact of climatic factors on suicide behavior and implement early intervention and preventive strategies for mental health.

La consciencia colectiva, sin duda alguna, influye en el comportamiento individual de las personas, por tal razón la presente investigación pretende conocer aspectos generales y específicos que permitan dar respuesta al interrogante: ¿Cómo influye la conciencia colectiva en adultos jóvenes de la comunidad Makaguan ubicada en el resguardo indígena Macarieros en la resolución de sus conflictos? Objetivo: analizar la forma en que se manifiesta la consciencia colectiva en procesos de resolución de conflictos mediados por adultos jóvenes. Método: Mixto con diseño exploratorio secuencial (DEXPLOS) modalidad comparativa, donde a la recolección de datos cualitativos y cuantitativos se les hace un análisis por separado para luego hacer una interpretación del análisis completo. Resultados: Existen dos conflictos generalizados en la población que son el consumo de alcohol y drogas alucinógenas que no han sido resueltos por la muestra y que conllevan a que se presenten otros conflictos a nivel de pareja, familia y sociedad en general, afectando la convivencia. Conclusiones: la consciencia colectiva en procesos de resolución de conflictos en la población investigada se ve reflejada en la forma como las autoridades del cabildo indígena solucionan los conflictos de la población, siendo acatada las decisiones sin censura por parte de la comunidad. ; Resumen 1 Capítulo 1. Introducción 2 1.1 Descripción del contexto general del tema. 3 1.3 Pregunta de investigación 4 1.4 Objetivos 4 1.5 Justificación 4 Capítulo 2. Marco de referencia. 6 2.1 Marco conceptual. 6 2.1.1 Conciencia colectiva. 6 2.1.2 Adultos jóvenes 6 2.1.3 Comunidad Makaguan. 6 2.1.4 Conciencia social. 7 2.1.5 Conflicto. 7 2.1.6 Psicología colectiva. 7 2.1.7 Resolución de conflictos. 7 2.1.8 Tame – Arauca. 7 2.2 Marco teórico 8 2.1 Psicología colectiva 8 2.2 Conciencia colectiva. 9 2.3 La conciencia colectiva en diferentes ámbitos sociales 11 2.4 Resolución de conflictos 12 Capítulo 3 14 Metodología 14 3.1 Tipo y diseño de investigación 14 3.2 Participantes 14 3.3 Instrumentos de recolección de datos. 14 3.4 Estrategia del análisis de datos. 15 3.5 Consideraciones éticas. 15 Capítulo 4. Resultados 16 4.1 Discusión 18 4.2 Conclusiones. 21 4.3 Limitaciones. 23 4.4 Recomendaciones. 23 Anexos 29 Anexo 1. Encuesta sociodemográfica. 29 Anexo 2. Entrevista semiestructurada 30 Anexo 3. Lista de verificación 31 Anexo 4. Resultados gráficos encuesta 32 ; The collective conscience, without a doubt, influences the individual behavior of the people, for this reason the present investigation tries to know general and specific aspects that allow to answer the question: How does the collective conscience influence in young adults of the Makaguan community located in the Macarieros indigenous reservation in the resolution of their conflicts? Objective: to analyze the way in which collective consciousness manifests itself in conflict resolution processes mediated by young adults. Method: Mixed with sequential exploratory design (DEXPLOS) comparative modality, where the collection of qualitative and quantitative data is made a separate analysis and then an interpretation of the complete analysis is made. Results: There are two generalized conflicts in the population that are the consumption of alcohol and hallucinogenic drugs that have not been resolved by the sample and that lead to other conflicts occurring at the level of the couple, family and society in general, affecting coexistence. Conclusions: the collective conscience in conflict resolution processes in the investigated population is reflected in the way in which the authorities of the indigenous council solve the conflicts of the population, with decisions being followed without censorship by the community.

In this volume the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects on his self-professed, lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. Strauss democratizes sociology by making sure that relativities of status, power, and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life, and by recognizing that all collective life is subject to negotiation, rearrangement, and reconstruction. Represented here are some ideas for which Strauss is best known. He addresses work, leisure, culture, illness, identity, and policy. These disparate topics are linked by Strauss' "web of negotiation" by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with discussion about problems of method, consultation, and teaching, affirming Strauss' commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation. Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology, the work of Anselm Strauss represents the very best thinking in modern sociological and psychological analysis. Those interested in the origins of his major conceptual frameworks will find this an essential volume. --

"Perhaps unique among the animal species, humans are aware that they will ultimately die. Terror management theory (TMT) posits that investing in a social group helps people to manage paralysing anxiety stemming from death awareness. In line with this proposition, research to date has shown that when reminded of their own mortality, people increase their identification with a relevant group and defend its beliefs, values, and practices. In the reported study, we demonstrate that a mortality salience induction enhances people's perceptions of group temporal endurance—or perceived collective continuity (PCC), as we define it. Enhanced PCC leads, in turn, to enhanced group identification. This is in line with the TMT assumption that death awareness leads people to invest in a social group because this constitutes a temporally enduring meaning-system that imbues life with meaning, order, and permanence, and promises death transcendence to those who meet the prescribed standards of value." [author's abstract]

The world is facing a growing number of societal challenges such as inequality rise, political upheaval, ageing population, etc. Governments are struggling to keep up to theirs existing service offers, making it difficult for tackling overarching social challenges alone. The active involvement of citizens in partaking social innovations is seen as potential solution to those wider challenges. However, the majority of the population lacks an understanding of social innovation and on how to contribute. In this work, we present a social innovation methodology catering citizens without previous social innovation experience and accessible via an ICT platform. We describe the designing process of the methodology, the core aspects of the resulting methodology and its validation.

Given the recent exposure of alleged child sexual abuse at Penn State, as well as a uniform portrayal by mass media, authors strive to produce alternative and personal narratives and to critique the institution's culture of silence through the medium of postcard art and public display. Along with the Graduate Art Education Association, they organized the exhibition, "Post Silence," at Penn State's Zoller Gallery. They provided a public space where all community members could express how they felt about these incidents by creating postcards and exhibiting them at the gallery, thus allowing diverse voices to be heard. The visual responses show the story's entanglements: tragic abuse, the involvement of esteemed and powerful figures, and the sense of shared disgrace. In this article, the authors discuss the implementation and public pedagogical impact of Post Silence.