Documents found
-
4021.More information
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have gained popularity among sales professionals who use them for self-directed learning and upskilling. However, research related to their intentions to continue learning is scarce. Drawing from the social cognition theory, this research aimed to address this gap by investigating the role of task-technology fit, self-development, and social recognition in sales professionals’ continued use of MOOCs. The study hinged on empirical research and used a survey to collect data from 366 sales professionals. The results suggest that task-technology fit, self-development, and social recognition play a significant role in sales professionals’ continued use of MOOCs. The study has practical implications for organizations promoting employee learning and development. The findings provide valuable information for MOOC designers and providers to develop more effective courses that meet the needs of sales professionals.
Keywords: self-directed learning, MOOC, sales professional, social cognition theory, self-development, social recognition, task-technology fit, continued intentions
-
4022.More information
This introduction to the special issue on Feminist Strike takes up the question of what remains marginalized and overlooked within dominant discourses on contemporary feminist protests. Drawing on experiences of and approaches to feminist refusal that involve questions of labour, we propose the ways in which conceptualizations of feminist strike can be employed as a lens to build a conversation between different practices, scales, and geographies, particularly across postcolonial and postsocialist contexts. Through a reading of Aliki Saragas’s film Strike a Rock (2017) about the women living around the Marikana miners’ settlement in the aftermath of a major strike, we explore how notions of feminist strike can be expanded by situating Black women’s struggles in South Africa within a long tradition of women’s resistance and showing how political resistance is bound to questions of reproductive work. To understand the intersection of postsocialist, post-conflict, and (pre-)Europeanization transformations, we consider the case of a large-scale strike and public demonstrations against the bankruptcy of the Croatian shipyard Uljanik that took place in 2018 and 2019. Our perspectives on the Marikana and the Uljanik strikes show how women in both places practise a politics of refusal and resistance against ruination, violence, and defeat. In the last section, we summarize the contents of the articles that comprise the special issue.
Keywords: grève féministe, feminist strike, travail reproductif, reproductive labour, postsocialisme, postsocialist, postcolonialisme, postcolonial, post-apartheid, post-apartheid, Marikana, Marikana, Uljanik, Uljanik, strike a rock, Strike a Rock
-
4023.More information
Urban commons as a concept and social practice represent a new socio-economic and territorial logic in sustainable urbanism. They take different forms and include several social groups, generating numerous ideas and practices, sometimes new and sometimes in continuity with the past. Experiences of how urban commons contribute to debates are explored in territorial studies, particularly around issues of citizen participation and territorial governance. Through two case studies of urban commons in the city of Bologna in Italy, the structural and contextual conditions that led to their creation are analysed, and the associative dynamics are developed. This article offers an overview of how these projects contribute to participatory territorial development by comparing six elements: inclusion and democratic practices; needs targeted and met; appropriation of urban space; political aspect; feminist values and practices; and ecological values and practices.
Keywords: Urbain commons, Communs urbains, Bologna, Bologne, citizenship, citoyenneté, participation, participation, social movement, mouvement social
-
4024.More information
In this article, I focus on the social relations related to settler colonialism (Coulthard, 2018; Wolfe, 2006) in a non-Indigenous school context. The objective pursued in this article is to analyze how the logic of erasure of settler colonialism (Veracini, 2011) manifests itself in the “settler school”. Using an interactionist approach (Blumer, 1962), I describe the “definition of the situation” of the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people through the discourse of non-Indigenous teachers in a colonial context. Thematic analysis of interviews with six high school teachers in various subjects allows us to identify that the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous is defined as external to the school situation of non-Indigenous in a logic of erasure of colonialism and Indigenous people.
Keywords: Québec, Quebec, settler colonialism, colonialisme de peuplement, erasure, effacement, interactionnisme, interactionism, éducation, education, personnel enseignant, teachers
-
4025.More information
The recent advent of commercial artificial intelligence (AI), especially in natural language processing (NLP), introduces transformative possibilities for wrongful conviction research. NLP, a pivotal branch of AI that forms the basis for Large Language Models (LLMs), enables computers to interpret human language with a nuanced understanding. This technological advancement is particularly valuable for analyzing the complex language found in case documents associated with wrongful convictions. This paper explores the effectiveness of LLMs in analyzing and extracting data from case documents collected by the Innocence Project New Orleans and the National Registry of Exonerations. The diverse and comprehensive nature of these datasets makes them ideal for assessing the capabilities of LLMs. The findings of this study advance our understanding of how LLMs can be utilized to make wrongful conviction case documents easily accessible by automating the extraction of relevant data.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Wrongful Conviction, Police Misconduct, Large Language Model
-
4026.More information
Byung-Chul Han’s pivotal works display a provocative examination of digital technologies, capitalism and its commodification of life, achievement society and its pathologies. This article examines these issues in relation to the end of the disciplinary and immunological paradigm and the shift toward a neuronal model at the base of the present-day human subject and its social and political consequences. The relationship between new technologies and self-exploitation, pornographication of the ego and the disappearance of the Other is explored in conjunction with the overload of information and entropy, and an agonizing democracy.
Keywords: Byung-Chul Han, digital technologies, capitalism, achievement society, exhaustion, narcissism, depression, immunological paradigm, democracy and “infocracy, ” sovereignty, human agency, information age, epistemological crisis and post-facticity, eros and the Other, dialectics
-
4027.More information
This piece of conversational co-thinking about waste and its impacts encompasses an array of themes that ranges from physical and conceptual multiplicity to emotional and temporal dimensions of objects/places via economic/political/social values. The format is intended to disturb a certain normativity in scholarship: ideas bubble up spontaneously and hang in the air without necessarily being brought back down to Earth. In point of fact, our ruminations came together through bottom-up conviviality in environments that might seem light-years away from research outputs, not least chatting on a bench in a bustling square during an hour’s lunch break—such shared breathing space is full of potential for slow scholarship.
Keywords: affect, literature, migration, time, value, wasting
-
4028.More information
Through a case study of South Korean citizens’ YouTube quarantine vlogs, this study examines the cultural narratives and practices surrounding pandemic surveillance, mainly the government-mandated quarantine monitored via the quarantine mobile app. Moving beyond the dichotomous understanding of surveillance as an act of control either to be resisted or accepted, we draw on the framework of playful surveillance and surveillance imaginaries and examine how Korean citizens creatively vlog their experience in quarantine. Through a critical visual analysis of forty quarantine YouTube vlogs, we illustrate how Korean citizens build playful surveillance imaginaries, which are imaginaries about surveillance constructed through playful frames that perceive participation in surveillance as agentive, pleasurable, and relational. Their playful surveillance imaginaries introduce novel ways of perceiving the self, surveillance technologies, and others in surveillance cultures and the relations that bring them together into a mutually beneficial and caring network. However, the subversive potential of this empowering and relational mode of surveillance may be limited by Korean society’s normative understanding of care.
Keywords: pandemic surveillance, quarantine mobile application, COVID-19, surveillance imaginary, YouTube, vlogs
-
4029.More information
Although millions of community members have come together in various ways to sponsor and resettle refugees for decades, scholars are just now beginning to study why people get involved and how they organize themselves to accomplish the practical, organizational, and emotional tasks community sponsorship requires. This article contributes to this emerging literature with a meso-level analysis of actions taken by one student-led local committee (LC) to revitalize the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Student Refugee Program (SRP) nested at its university. Over 2,200 refugee youth have been sponsored through the WUSC SRP to study and settle in Canada since 1978, yet little is known about how campus LCs navigate their responsibilities or evaluate and sustain their program. Analysis of in-depth interviews with executive members was guided by and informs research on community sponsorship and theories of group action, community of practice, and stewardship.
Keywords: WUSC SRP, refugee resettlement, private sponsorship, meso-level analysis, community of practice, stewardship theory, Canada
-
4030.More information
Emerging from a larger study that focused on stories of becoming and being an early childhood educator (ECE) in Yukon, this paper presents an exploration of Yukon’s current early learning context from the perspective of six ECEs. By focusing on their lived experiences, this paper highlights the challenges ECEs face in their daily practices and presents the wisdom generated from their voices as they share their policy and curriculum recommendations, aiming to inform government decision makers and stakeholders in Yukon’s early learning sector.
Keywords: early childhood educator, voices, Yukon, policy