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In recent years, there has been a growing trend towards the integration of artificial intelligence features into records and archives management practices in order to improve the quality of recorded information and multiply the opportunities of its use by users according to their needs. This raises the question of whether we can speak about a fifth archival paradigm, that is, automation, which calls for a revision of the processes by which recorded information is created, processed, disseminated and preserved over the long term. Based on Cook's archival paradigms, this article aims to explore the way automation can be part of the continuity of these paradigms and how archivists and records managers should reinvent their roles in this context.

Keywords: archival paradigm, paradigme archivistique, artificial intelligence, archivistes, automation, transformation numérique, digital transformation, intelligence artificielle, automatisation, archivists, records managers

This article is part of broader research on the well-being of teachers in Quebec; more specifically, assessing their socio-emotional competencies (SEC), which are poorly documented. In the absence of questionnaires in French (Yoder, 2014) to assess them, it was proposed to develop a new questionnaire following the seven-step approach of Frenette et al. (2019), which maximizes obtaining validity evidence. A sample of 401 teachers allowed us to accumulate various validity evidence supporting the use of this questionnaire. The analyses showed that the two-factor (intrapersonal and interpersonal) conceptual model fits the data well. According to the perception of Quebec teachers, the results highlight three findings: (1) SEC are used occasionally in classroom, (2) the interpersonal component is more present in their interventions than the intrapersonal one, and (3) young teachers present lower averages for the intrapersonal component compared to their older colleagues. Future research is needed to support these findings and justify the importance of introducing SEC into teacher training in Quebec.

Keywords: compétences socioémotionnelles, socio-emotional competencies, CASEL, CASEL, enseignant, teacher, questionnaire, questionnaire, processus de validation, validation process

Media depictions of Indigenous people have a long history of perpetuating racist, stereotyping, and victim blaming discourse. At the same time, recent scholarship asserts that news media is shifting its stance towards equity-groups involved in police-based mental health emergency response (MHER). Yet, few have sought to determine how these frames apply to police-based MHER for Indigenous people in Canada. Using an intersectional approach accounting for Indigeneity and mental illness, 168 Canadian media articles published between 1970 and 2022 were collated and analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Two overarching themes, affective realities and harms created by police involvement and normative practices perpetuating police impunity were found, as were several sub-themes. Implications for the role and function of news media in supporting the health and social policy needs of Indigenous groups are discussed.

Keywords: media framing, Indigenous health, racism, media, discrimination, policing

The bureaucratic precepts engendered by modern universities produce a slew of negative effects inimical to educational justice. Drawing on historiographical evidence from the 1968 Strax Affair, a little-known protest held at the University of New Brunswick, we identify the arts of discombobulation as a novel approach to challenge the intellectual constraints imposed by university bureaucracies. By theorizing the arts of discombobulation, we aim to counteract bureaucracy’s most alienating affective residues, equipping scholars with an administrative arsenal capable of transforming the corporate academy into a playful, joyful environment. Inspired by cultural historian Johan Huizinga’s theory of the “play-function,” we introduce five interrelated tactics—burlesque versions of both formal and informal administrative practices—that amplify the contradictions inherent to the corporate academy’s contemporary bureaucratic structure: personalization, befuddlement, signal jamming, mapping, and abeyance. Even during moments of Kafkaesque bureaucratic defeat, discombobulation can generate a sense of heightened play necessary to fuel democratic resistance.

Keywords: universities, bureaucracy, resistance, discombobulation, play

The COVID-19 pandemic prompted various public health measures, including the closure of social venues, physical distancing requirements, and general curfews. These social restrictions posed specific challenges for young gay and bisexual men, a group historically vulnerable to mental health problems and social isolation. This article is based on a study designed to understand the impact of pandemicrelated public health measures on the social and sexual relationships of young gay and bisexual men aged 18 to 26. Employing a qualitative descriptive interpretive design, the underlying study involved semi-structured interviews with 14 individuals living in Montreal. Thematic analysis revealed three themes regarding the impact of COVID-19 measures on the social and sexual lives of research participants: (1) social erosion as a marker of increasing loneliness, (2) a collective sense of injustice in a population that feltit was disproportionately burdened by often infantilizing public health measures, and (3) continued social activities despite pandemic-related fears. The results highlight the suffering and feelings of injustice experienced by young gay and bisexual men due to severe constraints on social interaction and, by extension, the loss of a spontaneoussexual life. The article includesrecommendations for improvement and further research on how Quebec-based community organizations can better support young gay and bisexual men.

Keywords: COVID-19, COVID-19, gai, gay, mental health, santé mentale, social life, vie sociale, Montréal, Montreal

This article examines cryptocurrency trading in Turkey, focusing on the ‘gamblification’ of this emerging market. Based on 18 months of ethnographic research (2021-2022) conducted during an economic crisis exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the research reveals how Turks engaged with cryptocurrencies are considering the structural parallels between trading and gambling. The article also incorporates the perspective of Turkey's Directorate for Religious Affairs (Diyanet), which has declared cryptocurrency trading impermissible, highlighting the tension between contemporary financial practices and traditional Islamic frameworks. The article links the perception of cryptocurrency trading as a modern game of chance, as articulated by research participants, to Turkey's economic instability and their technological shift from traditional state-regulated games of chance (lotteries, betting on sports, and horse racing) to cryptocurrency trading. My ethnographic method brings new empirical data and qualitative analysis to understand the cultural and religious dynamics shaping this emergent financial phenomenon in the under-studied context of Turkey. I argue that cryptocurrency adoption in Turkey is driven by more than economic necessity; it reflects a cultural transformation valuing modernity and innovation. Many Turks view cryptocurrency as a viable alternative to traditional financial systems and a representation of the future of money. This shift signifies a departure from conventional monetary practices and reflects a collective idealisation of the future of finance. The article thus illuminates how Turkish individuals navigate risk and speculation during economic crises, demonstrating their adaptability in engaging with non-monetary financial markets.

Keywords: cryptocurrency, gambling, Turkey, trading, Islam

This study reports a systematic review and meta-analyses of the construct social presence in online higher education settings. The research objectives are to: 1) determine the overall impact of scale-based measures of social presence on student learning outcomes, and 2) determine the overall impact of scale-based measures of social presence on student satisfaction outcomes. A thorough examination of the research literature from 1995 to 2022 was conducted, employing a three-stage screening process to identify 53 studies suitable for inclusion in the meta-analyses. Utilizing a random effects model for analysis, the study investigated the two outcome measures with subgroup analysis. The results affirm that social presence has a moderate effect on both student satisfaction and learning outcomes, with no evidence of publication bias identified. In conducting a subgroup analysis to help explain some of the heterogeneity, significant effects were found for mode of delivery and for the scale-based instrument used. The paper concludes by advocating for enhanced rigour in research design to facilitate empirically validated investigations into improving social presence in online learning environments.

Keywords: evidence synthesis, synthèse de données, enseignement supérieur, higher education, online learning, apprentissage en ligne, revue systématique, systematic review, meta-analysis, méta-analyse, conception de cours, course design, enseignement, teaching, technologie, technology, présence sociale, social presence

Algorithms pervade our reality and promise to universally enhance our lives, but what happens when this promise is reserved for cisgender people while subjecting trans people to legacies of anti-trans violence that implicate trans liveability? Despite this key question, existing critiques engage only sparingly with the violent legacies perpetuated by algorithms that trans people encounter, rarely go beyond notions of bias, and therefore fail to centre trans experiences. In this article, I extend scholarship on critical algorithm studies, trans studies, and necropolitics through three accounts of lived trans experiences to show the vicious algorithmic operations on trans lives. Centrally, this article argues that algorithms are not neutral, distinct, or progressive. Rather, as a vicious “cis-tem” (playing on the word system), algorithms enact forms of violence towards the possibility of transness, violence that is rooted in legacies of capitalist, colonial, and cisheteronormative power that violate trans lives and radicalise transphobia. Contrasting trans voices against the algorithmic machines, this article offers a novel perspective on the entanglement between algorithms and trans liveability through the lens of algorithmic violence. I demonstrate how algorithms embody racialised and gendered ideals of the human that target trans people through engineered transphobic feedback-loops, cisnormative default, and capitalist profit based on fear. I conclude by reimagining liberatory digital futures.

Keywords: algorithmic violence, violence algorithmique, qualité de vie des personnes trans, cisheteronormativity, colonialism, études numériques sur les personnes trans, nécropolitique, digital trans studies, cishétéronormativité, necropolitics, colonialisme, trans liveability

The objective of this introduction is to present the contributions to this issue on happiness. Beforehand, we tackle a few themes that seem to have great interest : the « rewards » of happiness, its contagion, the reticence toward it, the connection with nature and fine arts that form good constituents of happiness and, lastly, genetic and epigenetic aspects of happiness.

Keywords: bonheur, émotions positives, émotions négatives, happiness, positive emotions, negative emotions

Collaborating with the Canadian Council on Aboriginal Business (CCAB), the authors investigate how Aboriginal Economic Development Corporations (AEDCs) responded to and, in most cases, weathered the commercial disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from survey interviews, supplemented by business data from previous CCAB national surveys and other governmental information, the authors explore the challenges that CEOs faced and how they managed their companies through the COVID crisis. For many of the AEDCs respondents, the problems they were facing were not necessarily brought on by the pandemic but were outgrowths of pre-existing socioeconomic disparities that had been exacerbated by COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, these CEOs battled to maintain operations, manage and support staff in trying circumstances, and keep their assets operating or safely managed. They frequently assisted their home communities with services not normally within their purview, including producing PPE products and delivering groceries and medicine to remote communities. This report focuses on crisis management and can be a useful reference point for policymakers and decision-makers looking to create coherent responses to whatever the next crisis faced by EDCs might be.

Keywords: Indigenous economic development, business response to COVID, resiliency, digital divide, social inequality