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In our increasingly digitalized society, do we really have a choice about whether or not to adopt technology? How does this digitalization impact the elderly in particular and their ecosystem? What are the ethical issues raised by this digitalization? This text aims to provide some food for thought in relation to these issues from the perspective of various experts in the fields of technology, aging and bioethics. These experts met during a symposium held in Angers, France, in October 2019. The text is a report of the exchanges and points of view of these experts, as well as of the open discussions they had with the audience, on the main issues raised by this digitalization from the perspective of the elderly, family caregivers, caregivers, society and research.
Keywords: vieillissement, technologie, société, éthique, aging, technology, society, ethics
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Keywords: vinyl, jazz, record production
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools transitioned to online learning. Utilizing sociomaterial assemblages and visual methods alongside interviews to prompt children’s voices, we collected drawings from primary students at two Eastern Canadian schools to achieve a multimodal understanding of children’s online learning experiences. Younger children’s drawings reflected the issues with technology and lack of socialization, while older children’s depicted their enjoyment with online learning with the agency afforded by learning from home. We found that pedagogical creativity and innovation were essential to successful online learning. This research demonstrates the efficacy of a sociomaterial perspective on children’s drawings for eliciting children’s agentic voices.
Keywords: children's drawings, children's voice, online learning, sociomaterial literacies
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This research examines how doctoral students in medicine search for the information they need to complete their thesis. A questionnaire and semi-directed interviews were used to collect data from doctoral students in medicine at the Health Sciences Training and Research Unit in Burkina Faso. Analysis of the results indicates that digital resources are more used than printed ones. The most important barriers for students are: direct costs for accessing information, that is, the fees required to order scientific articles (economical barriers); power cuts, unstable Internet connections and limited resources in university libraries (environmental barriers); time constraints (situational barriers); scarcity of scientific medical literature in French and of reports on research conducted in Africa (barriers related to source characteristics). Our results show, however, thanks to their resourcefulness and creativity, that students find strategies to overcome some of these barriers.
Keywords: information behaviour, comportement informationnel, comportement dans la recherche d’information, information-seeking behaviour, sources et outils d’information, information sources and tools, barriers, barrières, doctoral students in medicine, étudiants au doctorat en médecine, Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso
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In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, the authors in this special issue came together within the Massive Microscopic Sensemaking (MMS) writing project in the spring of 2020. Collectively grappling with the impact of the extended pandemic, each paper in this issue touches on experiences of social isolation, making do, and a technological reaching out under conditions of a public health crisis. This introduction describes the issue’s ‘patchwork’ development which reflects an attempt to break from traditions of academic scholarship that often fail to recognize the value of emergent, and therefore uncertain, cross-disciplinary and collective work.
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Implicit in the notion of understanding and enacting open social scholarship is that there is something broken with the current model of scholarly communication. This introduction outlines issues in the current models of academic publication while the essays explore potential futures in the academic publishing industry.
Keywords: open social scholarship, academic publishing, INKE