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Social representations of suicide: a study with comments from Twitter users
Schettino Lucas, Lorena; Bonomo, Mariana; Pires Valentim, JoaquimThis study identified the shared field, the organizing principles and the psychosocial anchoring of social representations of suicide among Twitter users. 3302 comments from Twitter users were collected in 103 reports on suicide published by the newspaper Folha de São Paulo on Twitter. 425 profiles of the users who wrote the comments were identified and data was collected regarding their political orientations....
European unification as lived memory: Shared and diverse representations in tex...
Sakki, Inari; Hakoköngäs, Emeli; Brescó de Luna, Iganacio; Csertó, Istavn; Kello, Katrin; O’Mahoney, Jennifer; Polya, Tibor; Pires Valentim, JoaquimConcerned about a lack of legitimacy, European Union (EU) institutions have increasingly engaged in memory politics to enhance European identity. Yet, memory of the EU is still closely connected to the collective identity formation of nation‐states, especially in the field of education, the focus of this study. Inspired by this dilemma, the present paper examines the representations of European unification in t...
What to do in the face of crisis? Social representations of the willingness to ...
Pires Valentim, Joaquim; Poeschl, Gabrielle; Forte, TeresaDrawing on representations theory and the responses to a questionnaire from 453 Portuguese participants, we analyzed the variations and anchoring of the willingness to act against the austerity measures in the context of the recent economic crisis. The results reveal three main positions: doing nothing, economic resistance, and civic participation. The discussion is focused on the finding that the differences b...