@techreport{TR-IC-08-30,
  number = {IC-08-30},
  author = {Elaine Cristina Saito  Hayashi and Vânia Paula de Almeida
                  Neris and Leonelo  Dell Anhol  Almeida and  Leonardo
                  Cunha  Miranda and Maria Cecília Martins and Maria
                  Cecília Calani Baranauskas},  
  title = {Clarifying the dynamics of social networks: narratives from
                  the social context of e-{C}idadania},
  month = {October},
  year = {2008},
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 33 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       e-Cidadania  is  a research  Project  inspired  by  one of  the
       current grand challenges of Computer Science research in Brazil
       for the  next years: the Participative and  Universal Access to
       Knowledge for the Brazilian Citizen.  This Project investigates
       the relationship people establish in their informal communities
       organized around some special  interests, how they use societal
       artifacts, including computational technology. This work builds
       on  Participatory  Design  (PD) techniques  and  Organizational
       Semiotics (OS) artifacts to conduct the 2nd Semio-Participatory
       Workshop   of   e-Cidadania   Project   and  to   analyze   its
       achievements.  The Workshop aimed at clarifying the dynamics of
       social networks  through narratives the  participants record on
       special  cards. Results  of  this practice  will inform  design
       elements for an inclusive social network system.  This research
       report illustrates the use of the PD and OS artifacts, presents
       the main achievements of  the Workshop and discusses results of
       the semiotic-informed analysis.
  }
}