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- Youth generations, new technologies, and a new kind of tourism – Trends and challengesPublication . Braga, Inês; Abreu, António; P. Afonso, AnaThis investigation is based on the trilogy of Youth generations, technologies and tourism, and its objective is to carry out a theoretical reflection on the theme, bringing together scientific information from different countries, which allows for a characterization of the new trends in tourism that is increasingly manifested digitally, requiring a close intrinsic relationship with technologies and implying new tourist experiences on the part of individuals, namely the youth generation. The methodology used is a literature review covering themes on the evolution of mass tourism toward a New Tourism or Post-Tourism, the use and impact of new technologies in the context of the offer of tourist experiences, in the research and publication of information in social media by new tourists, with a focus on the Youth generations. A characterization of the generations of Millennials and Post-Millennials is made, tracing their respective profiles, taking into account their way of acting in social media in the current tourist context. The User-Generated Content (UGC) is highlighted, whose information is related to the tourism experiences lived by young people and shared by them on social networks, information, and communication channels with growing impact and alternatives to those that disseminate paid information and published on the net. In the final considerations, some of the most important conclusions of the research are taken up again. Some recommendations are reinforced in these matters collected in the research and which can serve as a reflection and alert so that the stakeholders involved in this new tourism can obtain better performance and results.
- CTDI Licenciatura de Ciências e Tecnologias da Documentação e Informação: 20 anos de memóriasPublication . Carvalho, Milena; Martins, Susana; Braga, InêsNo ano de 2021, a Licenciatura de Ciências e Tecnologias da Documentação e Informação (LCTDI) completa 20 anos. Certos de que não há melhor do que um livro para preservar a memória coletiva, o Politécnico do Porto, através da sua Editora Politema, promoveu a produção de «A Licenciatura Ciências e Tecnologias da Documentação e Informação: 20 anos de memórias» para assinalar o acontecimento. Pudemos contar com a participação de antigos e de atuais colaboradores da Licenciatura através do relato de um testemunho dos respetivos percursos académicos e profissionais. Assim, foram recebidas setenta e nove contribuições de autores, oriundos de distintos universos, com histórias de vivências que abarcam um período temporal que vai desde 2001 à atualidade. [...]
- Interdisciplinarity: Making the Teaching-Learning Process Global and MotivatingPublication . Braga, InêsThe concept and the role of interdisciplinarity in the 21st century teaching-learning process should aim to overcome the rigid compartmentalization of individual syllabus and thus contribute to a more global and integrative education. The formal structure of academic curricula reflects an over-specialization of knowledge that causes an undesirable disconnection of contents between disciplines and, sometimes, within a single discipline. The interdisciplinary approach presupposes a break from more traditional teaching methods. It poses a challenge and requires a behavioural resetting of faculty and students, teacher training, the implementation of new educational policies, and a consequent redesign of syllabuses and curricula. Adequate governance policies, financial incentives, and marketing policies are essential. Though the interdisciplinary approach may seem complex due to the integration of diverse syllabus, disciplines, and individuals from both academia and community, it is a motivating and advantageous pedagogical strategy. The methodology used in this article is to review the literature on this topic, providing a theoretical / scientific framework for the account and analysis of positive experiences conducted and/or observed by the author - a teacher in higher education.
- Uma licenciatura adequada a Bolonha e aos desafios da Sociedade de InformaçãoPublication . Braga, InêsNos primeiros anos da viragem para o século XXI e num contexto dominado pelo paradigma digital e pelo overload informacional, em que importa saber gerir a informação de uma forma eficaz, reflete-se sobre a experiência de coordenação de um curso superior politécnico que, em 2001, em Portugal, foi um dos primeiros a fornecer formação superior e de raiz na área da Ciência da Informação. Trata-se do relato da experiência de Coordenação da licenciatura de Ciências e Tecnologias da Documentação e Informação da Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão do instituto Politécnico do Porto, no período que abrange o segundo ano lectivo de funcionamento do curso, em 2002-03, até ao ano lectivo de 2008-09. Será de relevo o período de adequação da licenciatura bietápica a licenciatura, no âmbito do Processo de Bolonha e as alterações daí decorrentes que marcaram uma viragem na conceção do ensino-aprendizagem, conferindo um papel de destaque aos estudantes, protagonistas das suas aprendizagens e encarando os docentes como mediadores desse mesmo processo. Os diplomados de CTDI, com uma formação teórico-prática sólida e ancorada em metodologias e situações pedagógicas diversificadas e próximas da realidade profissional, provam que estão à altura dos novos desafios da sociedade da Informação.
- How misinformation and disinformation affect the organization and its employees' performance in the digital eraPublication . Pinto, Cláudia; Carvalho, Milena; Martins, Susana; Braga, InêsIt is crucial to understand how information, when well managed, becomes the primary factor of intelligence and competitive advantage of an organization. Information management makes an essential contribution to achieving the organization's mission and strategy, affirming its business or area of operation, making its human resources and tangible resources profitable. Information is therefore so indispensable to the organizations that they often structure and classify it based on its organization, its functions and activities, that is to say, based on documentary production, information flows between departments, archiving and proof that this information constitutes. In 21st century organizations, where the digital paradigm is omnipresent, it’s crucial that the information manager be aware that misinformation and disinformation are real threats to quality information and that can jeopardize the success of effective information management. Through the literature review, we intend to reflect on various theoretical issues, highlighting ideas and good practices to combat the danger of this negative reality. These include the need for all employees of an organization to have media literacy skills, which can be fostered and formally provided by the institution through lifelong learning.
- The Information Professional during a curation process at WhatsApp Business. 2020.ISBN: . p.122-130Publication . Oliveira, Dalbert Marques; Miranda, Patrícia; Rodrigues, Luis Silva; Braga, InêsThis paper describes how Information Professional manages information during a content curation process through WhatsApp Business (WB) to ensure that information transmitted, individually or in groups, is current, true and verifiable. Such an approach is justified by the great importance that information currently assumes, the increasingly common practice of information exchange through dialogues, online, by peers or groups and the danger that false and / or wrong information may cause to individuals and / or groups. The Information Professional, as a group curator at WB, is in touch with new challenges and opportunities. Among these challenges, it is possible to cite issues related to the information life cycle, especially regarding its verifiability and obsolescence. With respect to opportunities, the Information Professional will be the information facilitator as an important asset capable of enriching the lives of individuals or groups. The purpose of this paper is to address various aspects of this curation process, taking advantage of a real case of curating information about Portugal for individuals interested in the country. In this work it was possible to verify that the curation process can be facilitated with the knowledge and application of several free technologies, available online, which help in the verifiability and timeliness of the transmitted information, as well as the WB tools themselves.
- Collaborative training: faculty and Library combat plagiarism: the case of the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto LibraryPublication . Braga, Inês; Moura, Isabel Santos; Valente, Iolanda; Abreu, AntónioThe study focuses on plagiarism in higher education and on the need for collaborative work between students, faculty, and librarians to prevent it. The university library assumes a significant role as an information literacy training agent, transmitting the importance of an ethical use of Information and the respect for intellectual property and copyright laws. The literature review includes: a theoretical reflection on the concept of plagiarism; on plagiarism legislation; on how Higher Education Institutions—HEIs—cope and embrace training as a pre-emptive measure. In our capacity as faculty and as librarians at Porto Polytechnic Accounting and Business School—ISCAP—we conducted an empirical study on the library, applying a case study methodology, and documental research as data collection technique. This study mapped the Information Literacy training provided by the library over a period of seven years (2015–2021) in response to a strategic design to improve academic success and to make students aware of the correct use of scientific information. The results obtained demonstrate that the library already has a sustained training program, well-defined audiences, contents aligned with the objectives of the educational process, and a fruitful dialogue with faculty. Yet, this dynamic should be expanded in the future by a more systematic and diversified training offer.
- To be or not to be... a plagiarist: training for the ethical use of information in academiaPublication . Braga, InêsIn a world dominated by the digital paradigm, the ethical use of information is one of the Information Literacy (IL) skills which is important for the survival of individuals of the 21st century in various contexts, such as the professional. Also in academia, the widespread absence of this skill in students represents a complex problem, resulting in something undesirable: plagiarism. Many authors have reflected and published on the subject, which has been the focus of our attention in the context of higher education. We are of the opinion that preventing plagiarism before it happens, should be better than having to fight it, once detected, with punitive measures. However, in addition to the imperative need for training, we argue that this must be precocious and take place before entering higher education. This research starts with a real problem that the researcher has as a teacher of higher education, and that corresponds to the question: How to avoid plagiarism, as a trainer? Thus, a review of the literature on the subject is made and an empirical study is presented. It took place in a Portuguese secondary school, with 10th graders, describing the way in which an IL training project took place, which involved the referred students, their Philosophy teachers, the School librarian and the researcher, in the role of the teacher librarian. One of the main objectives of this pedagogical experience conceived and implemented by us in the school library was to provide the students with skills that would help them to do, in a correct way, the academic work requested by the teachers. In order to reach this objective, the methodology we adopted was to provide a theoretical and practical training whose contents were: copyright, plagiarism and norms for the ethical use of information. To complement this information, we organized a conference on the theme "To plagiarize or not to plagiarize ... this is the question" given by a lawyer who addressed in a pedagogical way the issue of plagiarism and associated issues that will be described in this paper. The technique of collecting data to know the target audience and structure the training session, so as to better match the needs of the students, was a questionnaire given to a sample of students before that session. Another questionnaire was applied in the practical part of the session, in the form of a worksheet, a strategy that allowed to evaluate the knowledge learned by the students in the first theoretical part of the session. The results of the evaluation of the worksheet were quite good, which allows concluding that teaching to avoid plagiarism has positive practical effects. In addition, it was concluded that collaborative work involving students, teachers, librarians, information law specialists and school boards in a formal context is critical to sensitize and train students to use information properly and ethically and not to commit plagiarism. This collaborative dynamic is essential to overcome the absence or insufficient formal training on the subject in academic curricula at various levels of education. We believe that, in order to combat the scourge of plagiarism, there is no single solution but the adoption of several pedagogical strategies that lead to the training and awareness of those who are in a learning situation and that must deal ethically with information in various formats, with different objectives and public.
- Author preferences for open access in Portugal: survey findingsPublication . Carvalho, Milena; Boock, Michael; Todorova, Tania Yordanova; Martins, Susana; Braga, Inês; Pinto, CláudiaIn its relatively short existence, open access—the free, online, and immediate availability of scientific outputs in journals and repositories—has contributed to the availability and impact of scientific knowledge across the globe. As a result, the authors hypothesize that researchers and students increasingly prefer that their work appears in open access journals or open access repositories, resulting in improved access to quality, peer-reviewed scientific information and faster scientific and technological advances. Surveying authors at doctoral-granting institutions of higher education in Portugal, the authors seek to determine the extent to which this is true among Portuguese university teachers and researchers, to gauge their familiarity with open access, the importance they attach to open access when choosing a publication outlet, and to determine their preferences for achieving open access. The results show that Portuguese researchers are aware of the benefits of open access, regularly publish in open access journals, and deposit their papers in institutional or disciplinary repositories. The authors recommend continued improvement of training on institutional open access policies, European open access goals, and funding body requirements to increase open access to the fruits of Portuguese research still more.
- Do uso ao abuso da Informação: que medidas tomar?Publication . Braga, InêsDe acordo com a globalização do século XXI, em que as Novas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação imperam, permitindo um acesso alargado e fácil aos cidadãos do mundo à Informação, colocam-se questões importantes acerca do modo adequado de os indivíduos lidarem com a referida Informação que abunda em proporções tais que, muitas vezes, atingem a superabundância perigosa do overload informacional. A evolução tecnológica, galopante, tem vindo a modificar o estatuto passivo do consumidor da informação, permitindo-lhe, nos tempos atuais, uma participação ativa, já que lhe é facultado o poder de produzir também a informação e divulgá-la, através de diversas Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação, aos outros, tornando-o num chamado “prosumer”, ou seja, produtor e consumidor da referida Informação. Nesta conjuntura, novas competências deverão ser exigidas a todos que querem viver e sobreviver com sucesso numa Sociedade do Conhecimento com desafios novos. Esse caminho prepara-se nos bancos da Escola e fora dela, com uma formação que contribua para os jovens de hoje, nado-digitais, serem cidadãos info-incluídos, integrados e participativos na sociedade. O presente estudo trata de questões relacionadas com a Formação para a Literacia da Informação no ensino superior, numa escola politécnica portuguesa, em que se incide na questão das competência de literacia, destacando-se aqui o uso ético da Informação e do plágio, através dos dados recolhidos num estudo empírico. Os instrumentos de recolha de dados foram questionários aplicados a docentes e estudantes de licenciatura. Do cruzamento de perspetivas sobre o assunto parece resultar a necessidade do desenvolvimento da competência do uso ético da Informação através de estratégias de formação e com envolvimento institucional. Para tanto, deverá ser exigido, da parte dos intervenientes do processo de ensino-aprendizagem – estudantes, docentes, Bibliotecários, órgãos de gestão da instituição e outros - um trabalho colaborativo. A aposta numa formação deste tipo, por ser transversal a qualquer curso de ensino superior do quadro de Bolonha, deverá ser uma prioridade que se tem adiado, por motivos vários, na maior parte dos casos, mas à qual se deverá atribuir a devida importância e visibilidade porque dela se colherão bons frutos. Esses refletir-se-ão em estudantes dotados de competências de Literacia da Informação essenciais para o seu sucesso académico, profissional e social e preparados para mobilidades várias, dentre as quais a internacional.