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- Humor na sociedade contemporâneaPublication . Jerónimo, Nuno André Amaral; Venâncio, José Carlos GasparO trabalho aqui apresentado pretende discutir as diversas dimensões sociais do humor e da comédia numa perspectiva multidisciplinar a partir do ponto de observação da Sociologia. Da confluência entre a Sociologia da Cultura e a Sociologia do Quotidiano nasce a ilustração de casos particulares da produção humorística e a proposição de novas significações para o posicionamento dos comediantes na sociedade contemporânea. Da equivalência discursiva entre seriedade e honestidade avalia-se de forma crítica a valorização cultural das significações dos conteúdos apresentados sob o manto diáfano do riso.
- Rear Window: transparent citizens versus political participationPublication . Simões, Maria João; Jerónimo, NunoIn this chapter, more focused on the constraints on citizens’ political participation, we intend to address the challenges – some of them already enunciated by Simões (2011) – that political participation is facing. We will consider the increasing spread and depth of ICTs and other technologies as surveillance devices, either extensively through all spheres of social activity, as well as intensively penetrating the routines of our daily lives, and provide a comprehensive analysis of the ways that surveillance can constrain political participation, or even make it impracticable, at least as we recognise it in contemporary democratic societies. Concerning the threats to democracy caused by surveillance, most current studies mainly emphasises democracy-privacy trade-offs. Our approach relies on a different assumption: that surveillance challenges our autonomy as social and political actors, and the loss of or decrease in autonomy are major threats to political participation.