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Cities across the world are increasingly labelling themselves as smart in one way or another. At the same time, this smartness appears amorphous or invisible in its built urban environment. Critical researchers writing on the smart city regularly express confusion or exasperation about precisely the difficulty to locate the smart in the city. Visibility of the smart city is not a given. This article argues that visibility in the case of the smart city is instead strategically produced, and that the strategy opted for tells us something about the kind of urban imaginary put forward. The article introduces a provisional and non-exhaustive taxonomy of strategies of visibility based on analyses of three different cases of smart city projects (in Brazil, Sweden and Canada) and identifies the ways in which the smart city is made visible (or not)—symbolic presence of smart, modelling smart and ubiquitous invisible smart—and discusses what kind of city is envisioned based on each strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In all spoken languages, speakers use demonstratives – words like this and that – to refer to entities in their immediate environment. But which factors determine whether they use one demonstrative (this) or another (that)? Here we report the results of an experiment examining the effects of referent visibility, referent distance, and addressee location on the production of demonstratives by speakers of Ticuna (isolate; Brazil, Colombia, Peru), an Amazonian language with four demonstratives, and speakers of Dutch (Indo-European; Netherlands, Belgium), which has two demonstratives. We found that Ticuna speakers' use of demonstratives displayed effects of addressee location and referent distance, but not referent visibility. By contrast, under comparable conditions, Dutch speakers displayed sensitivity only to referent distance. Interestingly, we also observed that Ticuna speakers consistently used demonstratives in all referential utterances in our experimental paradigm, while Dutch speakers strongly preferred to use definite articles. Taken together, these findings shed light on the significant diversity found in demonstrative systems across languages. Additionally, they invite researchers studying exophoric demonstratives to broaden their horizons by cross-linguistically investigating the factors involved in speakers' choice of demonstratives over other types of referring expressions, especially articles. • Both addressee location and referent distance impact demonstrative use in Ticuna. • Only referent distance impacts demonstrative use in Dutch. • Dutch speakers prefer articles over demonstratives in non-contrastive deixis. • 'Distance' effects track contrast between peripersonal and extrapersonal space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to elucidate how the image of diplomat was constructed and reproduced at Itamaraty, since the genesis of this institution in Brazil. The research's guiding hypothesis is that such an image was developed from the exclusion of women, due to the ethos of the MRE based on patrimonialism, elitism, and gender inequality. Departing from a bibliographic review and documentary research, we will address feminisms in IR, the characteristics of the Itamaratian ethos and the woman's issue in Itamaraty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the contribution of the associative movement to the community, addressing the emergence of professional associations in Brazil. This article then addresses the role of congregation in ensuring greater visibility of the occupation, the archivology professional and the recent discussions on the creation of the Federal Council and the Regional Archival Councils. This research, of an exploratory nature, undertook interviews with members of the boards of professional associations, as the instrument of data collection. The results suggest the need for greater reflection on the social responsibility of each professional in the archivology field, through greater participation as an associate. In terms of contributions, proposals are presented for a greater integration of the archivological community in the associative movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research aims to analyze the visibility and international impact of Latin American scientific papers in Metric Studies of Information published from 2011 to 2016. It identifies the most productive countries, the journals that disseminated this research, the intensity of their scientific impact, and characterizes the scope of citations received at the national, regional and global level by applying citer analysis. As a research procedure, 1,115 papers were retrieved from the Scopus database, with at least one author from Latin America We focused on 1,107 papers produced by the 10 most productive. We identified 474 journals that published these papers. The journal core comprises 20 journals responsible for the dissemination of 380 (34%) of the paper corpus. Cluster analysis was used to understand the relationships among the 10 most productive countries. In order to verify the range of the science produced by the countries analyzed, country-based citer analysis was used. The cluster analysis revealed three groups of more homogenous countries regarding the volume and impact of research production and two isolated countries - Brazil and Peru. We concluded that the Latin American research is carried out by half of these countries, especially Brazil, accounting for more than half of this production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The periguete is a 2000's phenomenon, characterized by sensual women, who stand out by the exhibition of the own body, used as a strategy for social insertion and cultural visibility. In this article, we try to relate the mediatic emergence of the periguete as a model of consumption for the new medium class, which rose in the Brazil's economic growth, increasing its visibility as a consumer market, based on a qualitative research using bibliographic methods and documentary, under a paradigm of complexity approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses criteria for the definition of what can be discussed by the public based on journalistic production of high visibility: newspapers first page. The object used to discuss this issue is the regional political leadership of the Paraná State (Jaime Lerner) at two different periods: from 1971 to 1975 and from 1988 to 1992. The comparative analysis aims to identify whether there are differences in the treatment given to him in these two moments: the first constrained by formal censorship that affected content published in newspapers, and the second during a period of full democracy. The newspaper analyzed is Gazeta do Povo, a major newspaper in Curitiba. Because it is the same governor, public office, and newspaper, the assumptions is that if there is a difference in treatment to Lerner, it is related to the restrictions imposed by the military regime to the press, that is, the restriction was determined by external political institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on a study on the trends and characteristics of scientific production in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1996 to 2008 with particular focus on 10 major producers of the region. It states that the study, which used the data from Scopus, revealed an increase in the scientific production, with Brazil topping the production list. The study shows a lower ranking of the visibility of regional science as compared to the world average and uncertain interegional cooperation.

This article analyses the contribution of the social sciences to the visibility of children's issues in Brazilian society from the 1960s to the present day. The first regime of visibility considered childhood a relevant structural component of social inequalities, a 'social problem', stimulating social scientists to support social policies. Studies of children's labour and, most importantly, of educational issues stimulated a variety of research directions. The second regime of visibility disclosed the actor behind the child, revealing the child as a social actor and a subject of rights. Childhood studies gained impetus on account of new legislation following the internationalization of children's rights. Despite the broader scope of issues that social research on childhood has addressed, more sustained investment is needed so that childhood can attain a more equal position vis-a-vis other more salient research topics, and secure, de facto, the role of active participants in social life for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The scientific community goals for better positions and greater recognition at the national and international scientific societies and sponsoring organization, has always been tied to the evaluation system of their production. Therefore, knowing the flow of scientific communication, discovering the mechanisms to qualify science and implementing tools to identify parameters to sistematize the specificity of some areas of knowledge, has been the focus of several studies since long time. In this context, appear two internacional movements: the Open Archives Iniciative (OAI) and the Open Access (OA), and both offering great opportunities to review and study the scientific quality criteria available today. In case of the Brazilian communication science area, several questions become relevant: What is and how is the impact of this Brazilian scientific production in the national and international scientific community? What mechanisms are available to evaluate this production? What has been done to improve the area in national terms? How to increase the visibility and accessibility of this production and also enable the production of new bibliometric criterias? What services are available today and how to present their results? This article aims to bring an epistemological discussion on the international evaluation model of scientific literature used in Brazil in order to contextualize and discuss the specific situation of a subarea of applied social sciences, which is the communication sciences, and look for new options for indicators and metrics for assessing this scientific area. To this end, summarizes the main ideas and important points to answer each one of the key issues listed above, highlights some of the initiatives and opportunities available today in different countries and pinpoints Brazilian initiatives that seek to include the Brazilian area of communication sciences in the scientific national and international context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article brings analyses of institutional texts published in websites, folders and catalogs of two festivals of "film periphery", to demonstrate the existence of a political dimension of the audiovisual practices developed in Brazilian slums (favelas) and peripheries. To this end, it aligns the notion of visibility in the public sphere with the ideas of self-representation, elaboration and dissemination of discourses through the audiovisual production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes the changes in value and visibility of Catholic religious images, from their central role in the festivals of Bonfim in Bahia, Brazil to today's marginal position, while the organizers have moved to center-stage as representatives and representations of Afro-Brazilian culture, symbols extensively reproduced by the mass media, and also in art. Political justifications of the processions of the image has been discussed.