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This article examines the flip side of the #BalanceTaStartUp online movement, an equivalent of #MeTooAtWork, in order to reflect on updating Habermas’s ideal of deliberative democracy in the digital context, particularly in the face of epistemic injustice. Epistemic injustice arises when people’s knowledge is devalued because of prejudices linked to their identity or social status. Through a netnographic study, I explore how the #BalanceTaStartUp movement reveals abusive working conditions in French startups, and how these dynamics undermine the Habermasian ideal of deliberative democracy. I point out that anonymity, while allowing victims to share their experiences, becomes a weapon for online trolls and detractors, seeking to discredit these testimonies. This situation prevents the formation of a constructive and inclusive dialogue, which is crucial if startups are to bring about significant organizational change. Digital platforms, guided by algorithmic and capitalist logics, exacerbate these injustices by favoring sensationalist content over deliberation. Drawing on Fraser’s critique, I call for a reassessment of deliberative democracy to take account of the reality of the digital world, proposing ways forward to counter epistemic injustice and promote diverse voices in online movements such as #BalanceTaStartUp.
Keywords: plateforme en ligne, injustice épistémique, Habermas, éthique, dialogue, online platform, epistemic injustice, Habermas, ethics, dialogue
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This article analyzes the mobilization dynamics of the Tunisian diaspora in Canada in response to Tunisian political events that occurred between 1987 and 2023. The article shows that under Ben Ali's authoritarian regime (1987-2011), the Tunisian diaspora in Canada was politically « atomized ». During that period, members of the Tunisian diaspora behaved according to rational choices. The democratization in 2011 triggered a process of politicization within the diaspora, as well as a phenomenon of « crystallization » of the Tunisian diaspora, that is, the acquisition of a sense of existence as a diasporic community. However, the policy of compromises between political parties in Tunisia and the gradual failure of the democratization process in the country have weakened the diaspora's political activism.
Keywords: diaspora, Tunisie, Canada, mobilisation, autoritarisme, démocratisation, diaspora, Tunisia, Canada, mobilization, authoritarianism, democratization
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Discussions surrounding sexual assault and consent have socially increased in the past years. This research has looked at the place given to consent in the Ontario health and physical education curriculum in elementary schools to better understand the type of consent being taught. A frequency analysis, combined with a critical discourse analysis, reveal that although the concept of consent is present, it is rarely defined and even less explained. Moreover, the discourse surrounding the notion of consent focuses on sexual risks. Based on these considerations, we explore the potential of anti-oppressive pedagogies in a process of gradual learning of global consent.
Keywords: éducation sexuelle, consentement, curriculum, violences sexuelles, pédagogie anti‑oppressive, sexual education, consent, curriculum, sexual violence, anti-oppressive pedagogy, educación sexual, consentimiento, currículum, violencias sexuales, pedagogía anti-opresiva, Sexualerziehung, Einwilligung, Lernplan, sexuelle Gewalt, anti-oppressive Pädagogik
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Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused on local communities as crucial in developing and implementing timely, effective, and sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring and summer of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis response activities of refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within Bhutanese and Congolese refugee communities in a midwestern metropolitan area in the US resettlement context. Empirical findings illustrate how refugee-led groups provided case management, outreach, programming, and advocacy efforts to respond to the pandemic. These findings align with literature about community-based and strengths-based approaches to addressing challenges stemming from the pandemic. They also point to local embeddedness and flexibility as organizational characteristics that may have helped facilitate crisis response, thereby warranting reconsideration and re-envisioning of the role of refugee-led grassroots groups in crisis response.
Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, crisis response, practice with refugees
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Peer-provided services exist in many different domains and professions. However, there is a knowledge gap in the existing programs’ descriptions and grouping that hinders creating new high-quality peer support programs. The objectives of this article are two-fold in describing existing peer support programs published in the literature in the medical field and evaluating their descriptive quality. Six electronic databases, grey literature, and reference lists were systematically searched. Studies reporting the existence of a support program delivered by peers and its description or methodology were included. Studies targeting patients and children were excluded. 11 articles were included in the qualitative synthesis and explored in detail. A total of 2155 peers participated in support programs in the fields of medicine, nursing, or both. Programs in other professional fields were not found. Programs were described in five different countries. Three methods of peer support delivery were found: in person, online, and mixed varying in their goals, duration, peer training supervision and participant demographics and number. Program descriptions were rated as good, fair, or poor using a verified rating scale. There are numerous well-described programs varying in their methodology and type of delivery. Thus, the emergence of new programs can be based on such models that have been well-described in the literature.
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This article takes a look at the community of game collectors in Quebec, first by exploring how ludovideophily compares itself from classic collecting. We then isolate Quebec video game collection to identify how the community navigates through a world that is even more open and that interacts mostly in English. Do specifically Quebec centric attributes exist ? An incursion inside this group will highlight our reflection and help confirm if these collectors meld themselves in the bigger group or if they stick their head high enough to differentiate from the international communities.
Keywords: jeu vidéo, collection, collectionneur, Québec, video game, collector, collection, Quebec
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In 2020, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPCC) led a joint federal-provincial investigation into privacy violations stemming from the use of facial recognition technologies. The investigation was prompted specifically by the mobilization of Clearview AI’s facial recognition software in law enforcement, including by regional police services as well as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Clearview AI’s technology is based on scraping social media images, which, as the investigation found, constitutes a privacy law violation according to provincial and federal private sector legislation. In response to the investigation, Clearview AI claimed that consent for scraping social media images was not required from users because the information is already public. This common fallacy of social media privacy serves as a pivot point for the integration of digital policy literacy into the OPCC’s digital literacy materials in order to consider the regulatory environment around digital media, alongside their political-economic and infrastructural components. Digital policy literacy is a model that expands what is typically an individual- or organization-level responsibility for privacy protection by considering the wider socio-technical context in which a company like Clearview can emerge.
Keywords: facial recognition, policy, digital literacy, regulation, privacy
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Pressured to increase their market share and capture more people’s attention, newspapers are under influence. The search for sensationalist exclusivity leads to uniformity and rudeness. For the purpose of this article, several Albanian newspapers were examined in order to find out how the news are produced or « constructed ». We found a tendency to hide rather than publicize news, offering selected and readymade news that require little effort of hindsight and analysis. This dynamic reveals the deterioration of the conditions of access of the public to information allowing to question the politico-media news. The text ends with a call to reconnect with the journalistic ideal.
Keywords: noticias, news, nouvelles, descortés, impolite, impolitesse, sensacionalista, sensationalist, sensationnalisme, propagande, propaganda, propaganda, uniformidad, uniformity, uniformité, journaux, newspapers, periódicos