Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Carmine Clemente Author-Workplace-Name: University “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy Author-Name: Emilio Greco Author-Workplace-Name: Link Campus University, Rome, Italy Author-Name: Eliseo Sciarretta Author-Workplace-Name: Link Campus University, Rome, Italy Author-Name: Luigia Altieri Author-Workplace-Name: University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy Title: "Alexa, How Do I Feel Today? Smart Speakers for Healthcare and Wellbeing: an Analysis About Uses and Challenges" Abstract: One of the artificial intelligence applications with an increasing popularity is related to conversational agents. Indeed, the virtual assistants are conversational agents capable of handling a spoken dialogue with people providing information and various types of services. How can virtual assistants and smart speakers be used for healthcare purposes? The virtual assistant, understood as digital services designed to simulate human conversation and provide personalized responses based on input from the users, currently can be effectively exploited to realize self-care solutions for the people, who can use them to seek information, contact doctors, monitor their health parameters and adherence to therapies; but also, as a hands-free support for practitioners to optimize workflows in hospitals or small clinics. They can be used also to provide useful information for innovative health programs at large scale patient-centered. This contribution contains an analysis about the use of virtual assistants in healthcare, conducted through the exploration of scientific studies and research dealing with the topic concerning the use of conversational agents in healthcare. The analysis aims at systematizing current functionalities, through a new cataloging scheme based on contexts of use and end users. The increasing use of virtual assistants in healthcare can impact society thanks to its strengths. At the same time, a number of critical points have emerged and still exist which provide ground for further challenges need to be addressed to ensure that the associated risks are reduced. Classification-JEL: I10, I12, O30 Keywords: virtual assistants; smart speaker; healthcare; wellbeing; health education; adherence; social detachment. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 6-24 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Alexa-How-Do-I-Feel-Today-Smart-Speakers-for-Healthcare-and-Wellbeing-an-Analysis-About-Uses-and-Challenges.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:6-24 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Gianmarco Cifaldi Author-Workplace-Name: University “G. d'Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Chieti, Italy Title: "Blockchain in Record Management and Public Administration" Abstract: A good comprehension of the blockchain technology is very important for stakeholders and employees in governments as it facilitate their decisions and helps in accomplishing objectives. The technology is often seen as a fault-tolerant and indestructible system that can be successfully used as the basis for digital transactions in various areas. Blockchain is a distributed database that stores information about all transactions of system participants in the form of a chain of blocks (thus the name Blockchain). All users of the blockchain have access to the registry, acting as a collective notary who confirms the truthfulness of the information in the database. Blockchain can be used for financial transactions, user identification, creation of cybersecurity technologies, etc. Apparently, the strongest advantage of blockchain technology in public administration and record storage is the ability to store data permanently and, in a tamper-evident manner. In fact, it is extremely hard to tamper the data stored in data services based on blockchain technology due to its decentralization and cryptography. The article aims at revealing the potential applications of the blockchain technology and highlighting the challenges and possible directions of blockchain research in the public and private sector. Classification-JEL: O30, M10, M15 Keywords: blockchain; public administration; record management; public records; blockchain application. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages:25-31 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Blockchain-in-Record-Management-and-Public-Administration.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:25-31 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cinzia Truli Author-Workplace-Name: University of Rome “San Raffaele”, Rome, Italy Title: "New pedagogical dimensions of the person - training and educational reconversion in the social communities of help" Abstract: The intention of this intervention is to discuss the types of social aid organizations and identify the most suitable educational style for the development and implementation of a healthy and humanized internal government. The social organizational contexts of help are considered in the light of the contemporary political and social emergency. They are interpreted as possible spaces of educability that are transformed into training sites capable of forging subjectivity cognitively and emotionally capable of facing changes. The argument follows a reading and an exposition of pedagogical inspiration to best express the characteristics of the social community as a condensed theory and practice of human behavior. The educational function expressed examines the different ontological paradigms from care, to otherness and listening as essential educational factors of the social organization of help. For this reason, the meaning of these elements is also deepened by linking them to the importance of a solid organizational culture that aims at the integral growth of the person. Classification-JEL: I10, I20 Keywords: Pedagogical dimensions; training; educational reconversion; social communities of help; persons. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 32-38 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/New-pedagogical-dimensions-of-the-person-training-and-educational-reconversion-in-the-social-communities-of-help.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:31-38 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Nicola Malizia Author-Workplace-Name: University of Enna “Kore”, Enna, Italy Title: "A study on domestic gender crimes and the protection of orphans: the experience of social services in Italy" Abstract: The orphans of domestic crime constitute the hidden face of human and family violence. Indirect violence on children in a family unit affects their imagination, their certainties, their emotional, affective and psychic world, their present and their future. From this emerges the need to ensure preventive interventions to support fragile parenting and in situations where educational competences are most at risk. To the pain of loss are added other difficulties of a different nature: material, emotional, social and judicial. The dramatic condition experienced by orphans for domestic crimes, of which gender-based homicides are often the main cause, calls for specific attention, which requires the deployment of adequate and efficient tools, capable of providing a rapid response to their multiple needs, also with reference to the new family context. This study aims to identify the real needs and requirements of the orphans of such crimes, good practices and critical points in the system, and this in response to both the demands of Article 19 of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Adolescent, which provides for the use of all legislative, administrative social and educational measures to protect children against all forms of violence, to prevent them from being orphaned three times over, due to the loss of both parents and the indifference of the state, and to other more recent European recommendations to prevent and combat violence against children, with particular reference to the family environment. Classification-JEL: I30, K40 Keywords: Orphans; crime; family; social services; gender violence; gender homicide. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 39-49 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/A-study-on-domestic-gender-crimes-and-the-protection-of-orphans-the-experience-of-social-services-in-Italy.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:39-49 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ionuț Șerban Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania Title: " Societal security. New challenges for the world in fighting two invisible but deathly aggressors " Abstract: Societal security as a neo security concept can refer to actions, from juridical to political, meant to assure population the needed security. It can be linked to any kind of threats, from terrorism to healthcare, from economical threats to education, from energy to discrimination and food, all the threats that doesn’t allow people to live their daily life in normal, free and democratic way. All threats to peoples daily life, anything that interferers with their opportunities to choose how and where to live, where to work, how to travel, what kind of healthcare to choose and benefit from, can be considered a threat to their societal security. Any kind of induced fear to a population can be also considered a societal security matter and governments and legislators are summoned to intervene and take political and legislative actions in order to mitigate the consequences and to prevent it from happening in the future. Classification-JEL: K40, F50 Keywords: Societal security; terrorism; COVID19; juridical actions; fear; political actions; society. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 50-56 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Societal-security.-New-challenges-for-the-world-in-fighting-two-invisible-but-deathly-aggressors.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:50-56 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Cristina Ilie Author-Workplace-Name: University of Craiova, Romania Title: "Book Review: Gabriel Pricină and Florin Stancu, Factori și riscuri privind comportamentele agresive și autodistructive ale tinerilor instituționalizați [Factors and risks regarding the aggressive and self-destructive behaviors of institutionalized young people], Bucharest, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 2017, 167 pp., ISBN: 978-606-31-0346-9 " Abstract: This paper is a review of the volume Factori și riscuri privind comportamentele agresive și autodistructive ale tinerilor instituționalizați [Factors and risks regarding the aggressive and self-destructive behaviors of institutionalized young people], ISBN: 978-606-31-0346-9, published in 2017 at Editura Didactică și Pedagogică in Bucharest, written by Gabriel Pricină and Florin Stancu. Classification-JEL: Y30, K40 Keywords: Young people; aggressive and self-destructive behaviors; crime; book review. Journal: Sociology and Social Work Review Pages: 57-58 Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Year: 2022 Month: June File-URL: https://globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Book-review.-Gabriel-Pricina-and-Florin-Stancu.-Factors-and-risks-regarding-the-aggressive-and-self-destructive-behaviors-of-institutionalized-young-people.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf Handle: RePEC:edr:sswrgl:v:6:y:2022:i:1:p:57-58