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Although the impact of social media on early adolescents is a global concern, research on this topic in Greece—particularly from parents’ perspectives—is limited. This study addresses this gap by exploring Greek parents’ views on early adolescents’ social media usage. Using an exploratory, qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 parents in western Greece, and the data were thematically analysed. Our results indicate that while parents acknowledge some benefits of social media, they are concerned about its effects on early adolescents’ behaviour, mental health, academic performance, and linguistic skills. The parents viewed early adolescents as being highly impressionable. They felt unprepared to manage their children’s exposure to social media influences due to a lack of relevant information and education. Understanding these parental perspectives can help guide the development of support services to enhance digital well-being among families.

Keywords: social media use, early adolescents, parents’ perceptions, Greece, qualitative research

As a communicative activity, argumentation has been characterized as a specific type of speech act. In the analysis of the speech act of arguing, I have distinguished two illocutionary levels: one related to the speaker’s utterance and the other related to the communicative exchange involving the speaker and the interlocutor. In this article, I argue that these two levels are associated with the speaker’s meaning and the joint meaning, respectively. The two-level analysis of meaning makes it possible to account for cases in which commitment attributions are at stake and that may, as a result, give rise to a special form of discursive injustice.

Keywords: commitment attribution, joint meaning, normative effects, speaker's meaning, speech act of arguing

Over the past decade, new technologies have been increasingly deployed in a manner that allows designers to remotely collect usage data, facilitating the development and rollout of updates and adjustments after their release. By retaining control over product stabilization, designers can discourage technologies from being used in manners other than that which they prescribe, thereby reducing interpretive flexibility. As a result, end users are increasingly shepherded towards use-patterns that reflect the interests of designers. This paper explores this agential shift using three case studies. The first considers the evolution of a video game series, exploring how expanding data-collection practices in subsequent releases changed design processes and user experiences. The second case examines the evolution of social media design and the rise of algorithmic nudging. The third case broadly analyzes humanitarian design, demonstrating how dataveillance has expanded beyond consumer electronics. By maintaining control over use-patterns, designers can reduce uncertainty and increase profitability. However, these subtle power shifts also have consequences for user agency and interpretive flexibility, reanimating debates about technological determinism.

Keywords: dataveillance, interpretive flexibility, technology designers, technological determinism, Surveillance Capitalism

Keywords: Revue narrative systématisée, médicalisation des naissances, accouchement non assisté, obstrétrique

Keywords: aide médicale à mourir, consensus, droit constitutionnel, handicap, euthanasie, suicide assisté

Inaugurated in September 2014 within the social department of the Haute École HELMo in Liège, the undergraduate program for specialized educators in socio-cultural and sports animation is the result of a delicate weaving between the teams’ concerns and the needs on the ground. Over the course of 10 years, the program has gradually been structured around the concept of collective action, co-active projects, critical digital literacy, and a balanced alliance between artistic and sports techniques. The integration of social ecology theories, which provide a holistic vision of a more equitable, supportive and sustainable world based on social justice and environmental respect, encourages future graduates to engage in the heart of this change by promoting practices that address these global challenges. Their work is meant to align with a global dynamic to shape responsible and critical citizens, capable of acting for a better future.

Keywords: éducation spécialisée, educación especial, special education, sociocultural community development, animación sociocultural, animation socioculturelle, formación, training, formation, cambio social, social change, changement social, co-action, co-action, coacción

In 2019, Washington, DC was the fastest gentrifying city in the United States (Helmuth 2019). Once known as a Chocolate City, tens of thousands of Black residents have been displaced in recent decades. Anacostia, a predominantly Black neighborhood east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC, is one of the areas intensely impacted by gentrification. This article examines the use of storytelling as resistance to gentrification in Anacostia, through the radio show Anacostia Unmapped. Through oral history analysis, I demonstrate how Black residents of Anacostia use storytelling to create alternative maps of their communities, countering dominant maps that erase them. I argue through radio, residents share and create Black geographic knowledge, despite narratives of gentrified modernity assigning them as ungeographic. I analyze three vignettes from Anacostia Unmapped to demonstrate how residents unmap cartographic exclusion and housing displacement, and remap geographies of care and intimacy. My analysis of Anacostia Unmapped shows how the medium of radio produces space at varying scales, forefronting residents' sense of place outside of the modern visual and cultural aesthetics of modernity, and narrating Black relationships to the city at intimate scales. I extend scholarship on Black soundscapes and gentrification, arguing the stories aired on Anacostia Unmapped are sonic maps of retention, resistance, and care. My work also brings an examination of racial power to Euro-centric scholarship on radio geographies.

Keywords: Washington, DC, black geographies, oral history, gentrification, Anacostia, public radio

This essay examines four verbs from Dante’s Commedia that relate to music. Sections 2 and 3 discuss alleluiando and osannar, respectively. Section 4 considers the verb inneggiar—regarded, until Giorgio Inglese’s 2021 edition, as a corrupt reading of inveggiar—and argues that its similarity to the previously discussed denominal verbs, alleluiare and osannare, further supports inneggiar as the original lectio. Section 5 explores the meaning of alternando, a term with distinct, if not immediately obvious, musical resonance. As an introduction to the subject matter, section 1 provides an overview of the Commedia’s musical lexicon.

Keywords: Dante, music, lexicon