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As post-secondary institutions continue the slow move towards indigenization and reconciliation, more Indigenous-centred spaces are created. But how many of those spaces are Nation-specific? In this article, we describe one example of a Nation-specific gathering, the Métis Research Symposium, and the impact that the gathering had on the mostly-Métis audience, including the enhanced sense of belonging and connection that the respondents reported. We advocate for institutions and administrators to shift towards creating more Nation-specific opportunities for students, faculty, and staff at all levels.
Keywords: decolonization, Indigenization, Métis Research, belonging
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The digital platform economy, driven by the advent of mobile Internet and breakthrough technologies such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence, has become a prominent economic paradigm since the early 2000s. These platforms are reshaping the landscape of labour, serving as intermediaries for the provision of goods and services, and they pose significant challenges to conventional employment and social safety nets. This article explores the origins, development and impacts of digital platforms on work, based on a review of the literature on the subject and on empirical data. The article begins by outlining the emergence of digital platforms, their various forms and the extent of the platform work phenomenon. It then describes the characteristics of platform workers and their employment conditions. Based on data from a survey of young Quebecers working on the Uber and Uber Eats platforms, the article then analyses why they choose this type of employment. The conclusion raises the challenges posed by digital platforms to the regulation of work.
Keywords: Work, Travail, plateformes numériques, digital platforms, impacts, impacts, working conditions, conditions de travail
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In the French-speaking world, there is a persistent romantic vision of the artist creating their work alone, through which their own genius is expressed. Comic books are no exception to this tradition, which leads to reluctance on the part of its various actors to embrace certain technological advances. In recent years, the arrival of generative artificial intelligence for text and images, their accessibility, and the rapid pace of their development have suddenly introduced new paradigms and provoked a variety of reactions. Between mistrust and experimentation, our article offers an overview of the state of the art and the issues raised today by the use of AI in the field of French-language comics.
Keywords: comics, bande dessinée, creativity, créativité, artificial intelligence, théorie philosophique de l’image, aesthetics, intelligence artificielle, esthétique, philosophical theory of the image
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Objective – In this study, we investigated the utilization of crowdsourcing practices among academic librarians in Nigeria, encompassing all 36 states across the 6 geopolitical zones of the country.Methods – We employed the descriptive survey design. The target population consisted of academic librarians who were members of the national professional online group of the association known as the NLA where scholars shared professional thoughts and advancements.Results – The findings revealed a high level of awareness about crowdsourcing among academic librarians, with their experiences spanning various areas such as knowledge discovery and management (RII = 0.76), broadcast search (RII = 0.63), the distribution of human intelligence tasking (RII = 0.62), and peer-vetted creative production (RII = 0.59). In terms of the extent of practice, electronic document exchange services received the highest relative importance index score (RII = 0.73), followed closely by e-payment platforms (RII = 0.73). The findings also indicated that crowdsourcing is considered beneficial for collection development (RII = 0.68) and is perceived to be useful in the procurement of new items for the library (RII = 0.67). However, the study identified inadequate institutional support (RII = 0.91) as the foremost challenge impeding the adoption and implementation of crowdsourcing practices in academic libraries in Nigeria. Other challenges included inadequate electricity supply and unstable Internet network systems in Nigeria which has hindered full deployment of crowdsourcing in academic library settings in the country.Conclusion – This study emphasized the importance of the adoption and implementation of crowdsourcing practices in academic libraries in Nigeria. Addressing challenges related to institutional support, electricity supply, and Internet connectivity is crucial to creating an enabling environment for successful crowdsourcing initiatives.
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This study explored the impact of digital technologies on the development of musical skills among music students. A learning experiment was conducted with 66 students between the ages of 18 and 21 from China, France, Italy, and Spain. The study used the methods of a survey and online discussions. Participants verified that the present advancement of digital technologies allows artists to participate in a professional musical environment without formal schooling. Students in the experimental group had a more positive attitude toward learning and its significance for their personal and professional development. Most survey items were rated between 3 and 4 on a 4-point scale, indicating students’ overall satisfaction with the training. The results of the online discussion also indicated a high level of support for the use of digital technologies in music education, as well as highlighting the innovative nature of the training course and the advantages of traditional music education. Three quarters of participants supported the use of digital technologies in education. Students in the experimental group were able to acquire more advanced professional musical skills, which facilitated the creation of melodies (including the composition of musical fragments on specified themes, musical arrangements of varying complexity, and the development of principles for processing musical works) compared to students in the control group (focused on the development of musical ear and sense of rhythm), who were initially trained under the traditional system. The study’s findings support the effectiveness of an integrated strategy for nurturing musical creativity that involves collaboration between students, teachers, and cutting-edge technology.
Keywords: creative musical talents, digital music creativity, music creation technology, music education, music software
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This paper provides an overview of the law relating to the taxation of income stemming from e-commerce on Indian reserves. The paper seeks to identify the opportunities and limitations for e-commerce on reserve, including the specific tax implications for bands, corporations, and individuals, and the practical barriers for Indigenous communities that wish to engage in e-commerce, such as infrastructure and capacity gaps.
Keywords: Business And Economics, Electronic commerce, Ethnic Interests, Income Tax Act-Canada, Income taxes, Indigenous peoples, Infrastructure, Native North Americans, Personal property, Privacy, Privacy Act-Canada, Reserves, Small claims courts, Tax exemptions, Taxation, First Nations, First Nations businesses, First Nations economic leadership, Indigenous
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This text presents the results of a research on proximity services carried out in six villages of the Fjord-du-Saguenay regional county municipality. The results are analyzed in relation to the social and territorial development. The links between devitalization and the maintenance of proximity services in rural municipalities are also highlighted. The situation of proximity services in the municipalities studied appears illustrative of other rural municipalities in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region, and even in all regions of the province of Quebec.
Keywords: Local services, Services de proximité, rurality, ruralité, social development, développement social, territorial development, développement territorial, dévitalisation, devitalization
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The significance of illusion as a positive force in everyday life has been underestimated in both societal discourse and in empirical science. The objective of this study is to provide a synthesis of many academic disciplines’ understanding of illusion and reality by proposing a taxonomy of functional and dysfunctional subjective realities as based on the assumption that the human mind is adaptive in an evolutionary sense and likely to be a quantum entanglement system. Assumptions and discussions needed to construct the taxonomy are generally based on empirical research drawing from evolutionary theory, neurology, biology, anthropology, psychology, psychiatry, physics and other disciplines. The purpose of the proposed taxonomy is heuristic, serving as a base for further studies drawing particular attention to the fact that, by evolutionary processes, Homo sapiens have been made dependent on multiple subjective realities where illusion and reality are not necessarily opposites. The article is concluded by discussing possible reasons for why illusions as a positive force in human behaviour has been neglected in comparison to the dysfunctions of the human mind of which research abound.
Keywords: Reality, Illusion, Delusion, Hallucination, Cognitive bias, Evolutionary function, Dysfunction, Taxonomy, Adaptation, Psychological well-being, Psychosis, Diagnosis, DSM-5, Quantum entanglement