Thursday, March 20, 2014

Religion: LOVE

I announce my religion convertion from Budhist tendencies to love.

The Ethics are the ones of love; the moral is a proposition of love.

Enjoyment and delightment are the usual pray.
The respect for all the beings is the base of the interaction.
I believe in LOVE.

I don't need a cult place, a priest or a normative community!
I don't need to go anywhere after dead....

Seens againt others are: use, abuse, act on unlegitimated authority and mistreat.
Pervertion means not acting ruled by love. 

In this Religion, there is no need for suffering or penance, just for acts motivated by love.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Já arrancou o European Communication Monitor 2014 – Portugal



A Associação Europeia de Educação e Investigação em Relações Públicas (EUPRERA) lançou a edição de 2014 da maior sondagem internacional em comunicação estratégica do mundo. Os profissionais da comunicação são chamados a participar, respondendo ao questionário disponível até ao fim de Março em www.communicationmonitor.eu. Este ano apela-se à participação dos profissionais portugueses, para que a mesma seja suficiente para obter dados robustos de caraterização de Portugal. Teresa Ruão e Evandro Oliveira, Investigadores da Universidade do Minho, estão a coordenar as atividades do estudo em território nacional, que conta ainda com a parceria da APCE - Associação Portuguesa de Comunicação de Empresa.

Este estudo representativo é já uma referência internacional. A investigação está a cargo de 11 reconhecidas universidades em cooperação com a Associação Europeia de Educação e Investigação em Relações Públicas (EUPRERA) e é patrocinado pela Ketchum. 

O European Communication Monitor 2014 vai abordar temas como a comunicação em dispositivos móveis, liderança, networking e mentores, género, e outros assuntos estratégicos relevantes para a função da comunicação em organizações. Serão ainda identificadas características de departamentos excelentes, assim como semelhanças e diferenças na Europa. Serão feitas ainda análises individuais de cada país, assim como estudos de benchmark de diferentes tipos de organizações (privadas ou sociedades, sem fins lucrativos, governamentais, agências, etc), obtendo assim dados relevantes para todos os profissionais desta área.

Os participantes vão ter a possibilidade de partilhar as suas experiências para construir um quadro conciso da disciplina das Relações Públicas e Comunicação Estratégica. Todos os participantes receberão um relatório completo dos resultados e, em forma de agradecimento, estão habilitados ao sorteio de 5 modernas câmaras Lomography.

Com mais de 2,700 participantes de 43 países na edição de 2013, o European Communication Monitor é o maior observatório empírico anual nas áreas de Gestão de Comunicação e Relações Públicas a nível mundial. O estudo tem na sua base exclusivamente motivações científicas e os dados dos participantes serão mantidos anónimos. Os resultados são revistos por a equipa académica de investigação e serão apresentados a nível nacional e internacional durante o verão.

Contato em Portugal:
Dr. Evandro Oliveira
Universidade do Minho
Tel: +351 253 604 280

Contato EUPRERA:
Prof. Dr. Ansgar Zerfass
University of Leipzig
Burgstrasse 21, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany
Tel:    
+49-341-97-35040

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

SPAM me and I hate you! UMinho Spams and after reprehends me on my over usage of account and closes it

Institutional Spaming is a sin of all the authorities of communication at the University of Minho. I hate them all. They send four times the same message in different mails, sometimes twice in a row, wanting some kind of attention. I get so much spam emails, that my account is close because the University of Minho just say that I am using too much space.

I don't understand how bad communication manager must you be to Spam and therefore nerve your audience. It seems that the email is a show off and a visibility tool. They might think if I get too much emails, I will remember them. It is the old principle of even bad PR is good, as long as they discussed about me.

Well, dears... I hate all the big spamers of the University of Minho. Especially the Law School and the Enginiering Communication Office. They spam me a lot's. Sometimes I wrote an email back to explain it to some spamers, they told me is my fault because I have to get myself out of the "all students" - But so far, I didn't manage to get out and more, I never asked to come in.

I dream of some governance structure that put to everybody clear how email can and cannot be used. Two emails with the same content should and same email twice should be punished with no right to send any more emails. Second, I dream that at the UM, we, as researchers, have an email with our own name. It is not smart to communicate in a name of a number. It looks like the pre-history of modern email systems.

And that's all. I HATE UMinho SPAMERS!!

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Pela calçada portuguesa - história de uma paixão coxa


Conheci-te ao acaso e acabamos a noite os dois em danças loucas. Para mim tinha descoberto um amigo. Para ti, descobrias um amante. Eu sabia que não queria ir naquela noite para tua casa. Não conseguia muito bem concretizar o que era.

Era um desejo de não te ter como amante e o desejo de não te perder como amigo. Era um rodopio de nostalgias do meu último amor. Disse que queria ir para casa e tu pediste para pelo menos ir tomar o pequeno-almoço. E eram beijos e rodopios na pista num estilo quase malabarista.

Saímos pelas ruas. O álcool recaía sobre os dengosos abraços e passos enviesados. As ruas românticas de Lisboa não deixavam de dar um empurrão. Quando dei por isso estava nu na tua cama. Quando voltei a reparar dávamos beijos. Dava uma volta na cama e queria estar perto. Dava outra e não te queria fisicamente. Dava outra e queria que percebesses que o meu amor era platónico e não físico. Mas não te queria confrontar com a verdade. Nas reviravoltas ainda me contaste histórias de medos, fantasmas e prisão. Quase acreditei que estava condenado a uma condição de eunuco e que me teria de libertar. Por amor não quis magoar-te e por amor pressionavas. Deixei-me ir a custo. Mas no fundo sabia que não te queria como amante, queria-te profundamente como amigo. Assim descobri uma nova paixão e tu acusaste-me de traição. Amargo ficou... E amargo quiseste. Porque não consegui dizer que não àquela insistência e miado carente, que me pedia companhia para o pequeno-almoço.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

IAMCR: Discurso político sobre a crise do Euro em Portugal usa governo alemão como bode expiatório

Comunicação estratégica do governo não pode controlar debates na esfera pública europeia
O discurso mediatizado da crise do Euro em Portugal usa as políticas e atores do governo alemão como bode expiatório. Esta é uma das conclusões a que chegou Evandro Oliveira, investigador do Centro de Estudos de Média e Sociedade da Universidade do Minho, depois de ter estudado o discurso mediatizado em torno de acontecimentos chave da crise do Euro. O estudo foi apresentado publicamente hoje na Irlanda e desenvolvido em conjunto com Jens Seiffert, da Universidade de Leipzig; e Birte Fähnrich da Berlin University for Professional Studies.

 "Enquanto na discussão pública na Irlanda foram apresentadas as posições dos vários partidos alemães e explicadas as lógicas por detrás de cada uma, em Portugal as medidas foram apenas mencionadas, por vezes "diabolizadas" e comunicadas como factos consumados, mesmo que as mesmas ainda não fossem consensuais na esfera política Alemã", explica Evandro Oliveira. "Isto não exclui que as políticas alemãs também tenham sido criticadas na Irlanda", adverte o Investigador. "O que esta análise denota é uma discussão pública portuguesa enfraquecida, reforçando conjunturalmente fenómenos que podem ser lidos como o uso, por vezes estereotipado, do governo, políticas e do povo alemães como bode expiatório; para além de uma subjugação dos mesmos a uma agenda política própria em Portugal", sublinha Evandro Oliveira.

O estudo "Comunicação governamental e a crise do Euro: Estratégias nacionais e cobertura mediática" foi apresentado hoje em Dublin, Irlanda, no maior congresso mundial académico de investigação em média e comunicação da IAMCR. (International Association for Media and Communication Research) e teve um enfoque na crise do Euro e as estratégias de comunicação do governo alemão e o seu sucesso em enquadrar a agenda publica na Irlanda e em Portugal, dois países fortemente afectados durante a crise do Euro.

 "Mesmo quando as propostas de instrumentos económicos foram fruto de reuniões conjuntas com Nicolas Sarkosy, nunca assistimos a ataques nominais ao presidente Francês em Portugal. Contudo, a chanceler Angela Merkel foi várias vezes usada como bode expiatório nos comentários políticos portugueses da direita à esquerda, à excepção de um artigo que revelava esta mesma tese", acrescenta Oliveira.

O estudo propõe como leitura dos resultados que o governo alemão não conseguiu enquadrar os debates na Irlanda e em Portugal, sugerindo a existência de fortes culturas de discurso nacionais, agendas politicas distintas e diferenças nas situações económicas e sistemas mediáticos na esfera pública Europeia. Estes factores revelam-se em formas marcadas e, de acordo com os cientistas, consequentemente indicam que o enquadramento dos discursos nacionais na esfera pública europeia não podem ser controlados por comunicação estratégica governamental.

Monday, May 20, 2013

The naked lover running away from the husband punishment and the EURO crisis - viral or true? (with video)

Viral or true? A video that is becoming popular on the social networks and was news on the Portuguese yellow press. Some say it is a viral from Sony to promote a new soap opera because the fireman have old equipment. I saw it and had a laugh about the situation that materialize an urban myth on latin societies. I had a laugh because I was born and raised in southern europe. I am not sure if a north european would laugh so much. But even if it is viral and not true, it appeals to a sense of cultural interpretation of a situation or at least a possible representation of it within a sort of dominant culture and that justifies the popularity.



After watching the video and start reflecting, I just remember how far away from my reality these scenes are...but one second after, I just recall a very famous gossip in Porto in the 90's about a very known politician and his affair with a girl that had a mode store. One day, the wife found them having sex on the store of that woman and the scandal started on a small shopping mall. The woman had to walk half naked out and end up on one of the main streets of Porto, until she could escape the wife with a Woodstock running after her and calling her bad names.

Then in this moment, I recall that for me, those stories were part of the society, they had a certain normality. Nowadays it is like the middle ages in my mind. In that instant moment I realize again how much I am not Latin anymore and how much Nordic mentalities are so different than the southern European ones.

Looking at the name that they call the husband that is trying to catch the lover, we see a deep macho culture. The folks call him "cornudo" meaning the one that is betrayed and has "horns". The pressure is put up by actually making the judgment of the only one that was the victim in the situation. He was the one that was betrayed. But for the popular Latin culture he is the one that was either not good enough in bed, was not satisfying his wife or just trusted her too much.  Or do you see any other way of him interfering in the case? So then he is judged upon something that he became and should be ashamed even if he had done anything. I imagined in the north they would probably finish the relationship on the spot or just wait for the other guy to get out of the house to solve the issue among the couple. I know a true story of a husband having sex on the back of the company building in the netherlands and the survillance cameras caught it - next day, his wife was confronted with the situation as she worked for the security team. But there was never even a word exchange between the colleague that had sex with her husband and the wife. I know they split shortly after and all three kept working for the company.

In a Latin imaginary and cultural context, so goes the story in the bed and so goes the stories all over  the society! And so, we can realize that the European dream is just a dream. Because only in the day that a German or a Dutch guy - not even to speak about the Nordics like in Sweden or Denmark - can see themselves in one of the positions in that video, then we have a chance. When you get a Nordic to imagine he would want to beat the other guy; or the wife doing that scene; or the other escaping from the window; or the fireman helping; or one of the cheering folks, then you can think that the Euro is possible and European Union can go on. I personally even doubt that the Fireman would come and if they did, the person would have to pay about 600 Euros for that service. Public Services in the north are not meant for that kind of dramas and popular emotional personal breakouts... and if someone needs it, then they have to pay.

I still like to be emotional and poetic in a way that only Portuguese can be, but for sure I am reintegrated in a Nordic way of socializing and sometimes cannot undertand anymore the culture I come from. If you ask me to decide wich side of me I can let go, I say nothing. But if you say where I want to be, I say: nowadays in the north... With some visits down there. In between, please stop this european madness and get the systems deal with their problems by finding their own solutions and not trying to copy strategies that worked in the north but will never do in the south! THIS IS EUROPE. Between war and European Union, can be a third way (forget about UK but think about Giddens)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

What is the better way to silence someone? The Vatican knows it… Francis will never speak out or do anything

Sometimes I do believe that it is important not to have property. If we do possess a car and a house and so many other stuff, we might end up not possessing ourselves, but rather being at the service of the system that gave us that material items on credit and asks us for to pay it with high interests. To get this money, we need to be in the system and that also means we cannot be free, we have to give up on many of our owns ideas, believes and even nature, to keep it like it should be. And then we teach our children the same.

Flickr/Images_of_Money CC





Maybe this example is just too radical. But when I was living in New York, I notice that you get a lots of money and you get the pressure to spend this money by having some expensive practices, like having a $400 meal. This is paid by your boss. But your boss wants your life, not your working time like (still) in Europe. At the end, you are the slave of your own practices and you live to maintain it. Therefore, you are able to be put under pressure.

And that lesson is also known in the Vatican city. I have a good friend that is one of the stolen babies from Argentina and his story is very strong. It is a story about suffering and human rights abuse with own identity damages forever. How can you love your mother, if you mother stole you from your biological one? (What it is? here). Now some news articles like this article in spanish are just placing the new pope in this story and claiming justice for his support of the dictatorship, among strong opinions against women's or gay rights, and a very very conservatite attitude "old boys school".

And this should be a new hope for a church that,

except their believers, has almost nothing positive left?

Flickr/Catholic Church (England and Wales) CC

I now have my theory that the pope has to have one important characteristic: be able to be easily put under pressure. So, Francis I is a good candidate to be easily silenced if he even comes to the idea of trying to solve one of the Church issues. Like was Ratzinger and his past connections to Nazy regime. The mission in Rome is to choose one that will keep all the things like they are ... probably. If he intends to change it, he is put under pressure with his own past mess.


Imagine that their Jesus and their Maria were on Earth. 

What would they do about the Catholic Church? 

 

In Portugal, they educate children by beating them - I am one example - I was educated on the most hard catholic schools in Portugal and I learned that all the children are bad and should be beaten - In Germany they cannot beat since some decades, but they do do it psychologically.
 
News reports of spending 23million euros by buying some flats in Rome in the same building of a gay sauna that even promotes sex parties ads for priests (bbc article) (link for the video: I saw the video ad but it seems is now a private video - here a screenshot on the left - you could see this guy dressed as a priest and stripping while you could read in the headline: Bruno, "a hairy, overweight pastor of souls, is free to the music of his clergyman, remaining in a thong, because he wants to expose body and soul" -  and nothing against they being gay, or going to gay saunas to have sex, just the double moral they have with their own believers). Then, some of them abuse sexually of children, others just support extreme human right abuses by supporting regimes and all of them don't support equal rights for the human being by discrimination against women and minorities.

Now it is clear. They are the own anti-Christ. Their Christ speaks about LOVE. Where is the love on all this catholic stuff? The most I have seen is Mercy... and that doesn't go with love - Mercy is for me a downgrading hierarchical attitude toward others just to shut down one's own conscience.

 

I wish all the catholics could free themselves from this Roman Catholic System, even if they do believe in this religion. Or just demand for a change. The same way we have to learn how to be independent from this financial system and demand for a change. THEN, WE CAN BE FREE (or at least a bit more) and WE CAN LOVE!