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This paper aimed to identify the existence of a canon of authors, schools and subjects in the teaching of contemporary political theory in the undergraduate programs of Political Sciences currently taught in Colombia. From this canon it was formulated a diagnosis of the main approaches and theories in the teaching of contemporary political theory, taking as analysis criteria the way that the canon resolve four epistemological tensions in the sub-discipline: monism vs. pluralism, local vs. global, modernity vs. post-modernity, and disciplinary vs. interdisciplinary. This analysis allowed to conclude that the canon is characterized by a pluralistic, interdisciplinary, local, and modern perspective, and demonstrates a process of redefinition of its problematic borders as well as a relatively refractory spirit to the influx of the Anglo-Saxon political theory.

The difficulty of including women in a male dominated environment is a current problem, leading to important factors such as the role of women in society, whose rules were always imposed and created by men. Specifically in the Information Technology (IT) field, there have been a growing concern as projects are being created with the main goal of studying this issue and reverse it. This work explores what motivated undergraduate students of Computer Science and Information Systems courses of Fluminense Federal University (UFF) to choose this area and how they are experiencing the first years in college. This research was conducted with a qualitative methodology in order to understand the main fears and difficulties they had while choosing those courses and how they are dealing with a mostly male environment. Our results are based on activities from #include <meninas.uff> project, organized by female professors at UFF to attract more girls to technology courses and to support undergraduate students already enrolled. The female students affect by the project show to appreciate how it is raising an important question about the gender gap and the issues they have faced since they chose a course in the IT field.

Women fighting for space respect and equality is a frequent habit on social ambit. In games context it is not different, recognition as a potential public and representation demand in games are goals to be achieved. This article intends to discuss witch factors leads to these consequences of representability and recognition lacks. Through literature, it was possible to present some possible causes, such as gender differences establishment that leads to a market segmentation by industry. By showing some games characters, it was possible to demonstrate some stereotypes impregnated to the female figure and how much it's reflex leads to the mentioned lacks in the game, as well as it affects the female public. On the other side, it was possible to present some out-of-stand character, confirming that it is possible to have diversity and representativity in games.

This paper presents an analysis about the number of incoming and graduate students,considering women and men, at the Department of Informatics (DIN) at State Universityof Maringá (UEM), in Brazil. The data were collected considering three graduate courses,Data Processing Technology (extinct in 1997), Computer Science and Informatics. Theresults show that the number of women is dropping drastically from the late 1990s. InComputer Science, from 1994 to 2016, of the 622 graduate students, 127 were women.In Informatics, from 2000 to 2016, only 38 women had graduated, of the 275 students.In 2017, there were 211 students enrolled in Computer Science, and 208 in Informatics.On average, 8.11% were women (34), being 8.65% in Informatics (18), and 7.58% inComputer Science (16). These percentages are lower than the national one in Brazil,which is 14.19%.

The field of Computer Science has been of little interest for girls straight out of high school, when considering undergraduate majors in Brazil. At the University of Bras ??lia’s Department of Computer Science, female students compose less than 10% of the student body. In an effort to understand the girls’ lack of interest in computer related courses, we applied an anonymous questionnaire, from 2011 to 2014, regarding their perceptions of the field. The participants were 3707 females students who completed an anonymous questionnaire. We applied Association Rules in Data Mining and Principal Component Analysis to analyze these responses . The knowledge gained through this study could guide future research on the matter and guidelines for motivating girls to pursue careers in Computer Science.

The career evolution of computing professionals has been studied very little, especially in Latin America. In a previous study (LAWWCC 2016) we reported results of an exploratory study that aimed to characterize the professional development model of people that studied Computer Sciences in Costa Rica.  It reflects the roles and the industrial sectors with which they began their professional career and in which they report are currently working.  No important gender differences were depicted in it amongst men and women, since they report similar choices regarding their professional evolution. As a result, some valid concerns were raised regarding the question: do these results represent the female (and male) behavior in all professional career stages?  In this study, results, obtained from an online survey responded by 611 professionals in Computer Sciences, are now shown by generations. Professionals are grouped in four generational categories: Baby Boomers, Generation X, Young and Mature Millennials. The main finding is that the professional evolution, with respect to the role and sector in which they perform, revels different behaviors for professionals of different generations.  It also reflects that male career evolution shows more role and industry changes than that of female professionals.

This article presents the main results of a research project that aims to analyze the construction of cultural memory through fictional series that represented the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Based on interviews and focus groups with young people between 18 and 24 years old who did not live this historical period, the importance of the melodramatic structures of the series is discussed to promote learning about the recent past, thus emphasizing the public pedagogical role that television fills.

This article explores the mediatization of epidemics as object of public discourse through content analysis of news coverage of the A (H1N1) influenza pandemic of 2009 in Argentina, the United States and Venezuela. The results indicate that newspapers followed efforts by public health authorities to create public engagement and, simultaneously, to contain a sense of alarm and control discourse about the pandemic.

This article analyses the different television audience measurement (TAM) systems used in European countries and reflects on the challenges posed by the arrival of new competitors, such as over-the-top (OTT) service providers, in the current media landscape. The results show that although tam companies are trying to adapt to these changes, their systems and methods still ignore important new players like Netflix and are yet to reflect the audiovisual content consumption habits of today’s audiences.

This paper explores a form of digital communication among young people that arises with the cheapening of digital technologies and the emergence of the Internet: sexting. Based on a qualitative methodology and a gender theoretical approach, it explores the forms of experience and significance of this practice in young people aged 15 to 19, from two Mexican cities. It is concluded that sexting should be understood as a collective practice, not individual, inserted in a framework of gender relations and, therefore, of power. It seeks to contribute to the understanding of a new and hardly studied communicative phenomenon in Mexico.