Revealing Economic Terrorists: a Slumlord Conspiracy "Sunlight is the best disinfectant" - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis A client of ours -- a small, not-for-profit, economic justice organization [EJO] -- used social network analysis [SNA] to assist their city attorney in convicting a group of "slumlords" of various housing violations that the real estate investors had been side-stepping for years. The housing violations, in multiple buildings, included: raw sewage leaks multiple tenant children with high lead levels eviction of complaining tenants utility liens of six figures The EJO had been working with local tenants in run-down properties and soon started to notice some patterns. The data I will present below is not the actual data from the criminal case. The EJO worked with the tenants and city inspectors to assess the buildings and document the violations. Figure 1 below shows how a building came under new ownership. Figure 1 The blue links in Figure 2 show ownership/business ties for each LLC. Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4
Metaliteracy.org Las Tecnologias de la Informacion y Comunicacion en el aprendizaje Las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en el Aprendizaje El gran desarrollo tecnológico que se ha producido recientemente ha propiciado lo que algunos autores denominan la nueva 'revolución' social, con el desarrollo de "la sociedad de la información". Con ello, se desea hacer referencia a que la materia prima "la información" será el motor de esta nueva sociedad, y en torno a ella, surgirán profesiones y trabajos nuevos, o se readaptarán las profesiones existentes. La dimensión social de las TIC se vislumbra atendiendo a la fuerza e influencia que tiene en los diferentes ámbitos y a las nuevas estructuras sociales que están emergiendo, produciéndose una interacción constante y bidireccional entre la tecnología y la sociedad. Para Cabero las TIC: Podríamos definir las TIC como: Existen múltiples instrumentos electrónicos que se encuendran dentro del concepto de TIC, la televisión, el teléfono, el video, el ordenador. Información multimedia. Web 1.0. Web 2.0. Básica Complementaria
The Next Big Social Network Is You - The BrainYard Three trends just now emerging will alter the social network landscape. Oh no, not another social network! Between all the noise about Facebook's upcoming IPO, the Twitter censorship imbroglio, and Google +'s constantly shifting privacy and identity policies, is the business world really ready for more social networking? Yes, and here's why. The race to acquire lots of LinkedIn contacts, Facebook connections, and Google+ and Twitter followers can quickly lead to social networking fatigue, as you spend your day updating activities, responding to various email platforms, and aligning your networking activities with business goals. Three trends emerging now will change that picture. 1. The big networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn really don't want you to leave their confines. While there are many new companies trying to address social network exhaustion, one of my favorites is Nimble. 2. How large of a social network do you want to manage? In his book, "Who’s in your Orbit?" 3.
Metaliteracy El uso de tecnologías en las escuelas no garantiza el aprendizaje: UNESCO Foto: Cuartoscuro Si bien se invierten recursos millonarios en equipar escuelas con computadoras, tabletas y conexiones a internet, esto no se traduce automáticamente en un mayor rendimiento de los estudiantes, ni en elevar la calidad de la educación si no está acompañado de mejores prácticas pedagógicas, capacitación a los docentes y currícula orientada al fortalecimiento de las habilidades. Así lo concluye el estudio Tecnología para la mejora de la educación, elaborado por Francesc Pedró, jefe de la División de Políticas Sectoriales, TIC y Educación de la UNESCO, que fue presentado el 9 de octubre pasado. El documento recoge la base de datos de la prueba PISA 2012 aplicada por la Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE), donde se revela que los estudiantes de 15 años ocupan la tecnología en la escuela al menos una vez por semana sobre todo para entretenimiento. 1) Alfabetización digital o de nociones básicas de las tecnologías; 2) profundización del conocimiento 1.
The verdict: is blogging or tweeting about research papers worth it? Eager to find out what impact blogging and social media could have on the dissemination of her work, Melissa Terras took all of her academic research, including papers that have been available online for years, to the web and found that her audience responded with a huge leap in interest in her work. In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL’s Open Access Repository – “Discovery“. I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect how much my research was read, known, discussed, distributed? I wrote about the stories behind the research papers – the stuff that doesn’t make it into the official writeup. So what are my conclusions about this whole experiment? Some rough stats, first of all. The image above shows the top ten papers downloaded from my entire department over the last year.
Introducing transliteracy Tom Ipri + Author Affiliations Transliteracy is recent terminology gaining currency in the library world. It is a broad term encompassing and transcending many existing concepts. Transliteracy originated with the cross-disciplinary Transliteracies Project group, headed by Alan Liu from the Department of English at the University of California-Santa Barbara. The essential idea here is that transliteracy is concerned with mapping meaning across different media and not with developing particular literacies about various media. The working definition of transliteracy, as put forth by Thomas, states that it is “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and films, to digital social networks.” Basically, transliteracy is concerned with what it means to be literate in the 21st century. Transliteracy is new enough to be unknown to many in the library profession. © 2010 Tom Ipri
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