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Although the impact of social media on early adolescents is a global concern, research on this topic in Greece—particularly from parents’ perspectives—is limited. This study addresses this gap by exploring Greek parents’ views on early adolescents’ social media usage. Using an exploratory, qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 parents in western Greece, and the data were thematically analysed. Our results indicate that while parents acknowledge some benefits of social media, they are concerned about its effects on early adolescents’ behaviour, mental health, academic performance, and linguistic skills. The parents viewed early adolescents as being highly impressionable. They felt unprepared to manage their children’s exposure to social media influences due to a lack of relevant information and education. Understanding these parental perspectives can help guide the development of support services to enhance digital well-being among families.
Keywords: social media use, early adolescents, parents’ perceptions, Greece, qualitative research
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Marcello Vitali-Rosati, in the essay “The Writer is the Architect” complimented by other works, provides a two-part thesis. The first argues that space is a chiasmic structure (as inside-outside); and the second argues that this structure reveals the productive role of the subject in constructing digital space (as architect). The essay here seeks to elucidate this logic and to expose it to a Lacanian critique: that it is a hysterical discourse unable in principle to emancipate digital spaces because it entails a purely immanent subject—in short, a subject which is solely product, not producer, of digital space
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The rapid evolution of information technologies has driven the exponential growth of big data, creating opportunities to leverage data analytics across sectors. In higher education, Big Data Analytics (BDA) holds promise for improving decision-making, enhancing student outcomes, and driving institutional efficiency. However, its implementation remains limited due to technological, organizational, and environmental challenges. This study examines the readiness and use of BDA within selected Canadian higher education institutions, focusing on Southwest Ontario. Utilizing the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework, the research adopts a qualitative approach, drawing on semi-structured interviews with 10 academic and administrative staff from selected universities in Southwestern Ontario. The result identifies several barriers to BDA readiness and use, including a fragmented data landscape, integration challenges, and resource constraints. The study emphasizes the need for strategic investments in technological infrastructure, leadership engagement, and updated policies to improve BDA adoption. The study concludes with recommendations addressing barriers within the technological, organizational, and environmental contexts to enhance institutional performance and student outcomes.
Keywords: éducation supérieure, big data analytics, higher education, analyse des données massives, cadre technologie-organisation-environnement (TOE), technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, institutional readiness
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This article relates lessons learned about Indigenous supplier engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. It explores how the Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), and the National Indigenous Organization partnered to form a COVID-19 supplier taskforce to drive PPE and COVID-related service contracting opportunities to Indigenous suppliers to help businesses survive a prolonged economic shutdown. It was successful when both governments and organizations found a way to work together. Challenges included determining ways to support long-term working relationships and agreements, developing required tools and processes, and identifying contracting opportunities. This article describes the journey partners took under the leadership of Cando. Finally, the article concludes with actions taken by the taskforce to ensure that Indigenous suppliers have a place in Canada's economic recovery.
Keywords: Business And Economics, Companies, Coronaviruses, COVID-19, Economic recovery, Equipment, Ethnic Interests, Immunization, Indigenous peoples, Masks, Medical supplies, Pandemics, Personal protective equipment, Shortages, Suppliers, Supply, Support services, Indigenous businesses, Indigenous economic leadership, Indigenous economic development
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This paper proposes and assesses a replicable game (co)design technique to encourage social perspective taking in the higher education classroom. Fully embracing the potential of research creation approaches, this discursive game design methodology approaches games as mediators of knowledge, emphasising the process of (re)creating, modifying, and comparing different game iterations. The paper reports on two classroom exercises that draw inspiration from Dungeons & Dragons and the Checkered Game of Life to foster perspective taking across different “learner personas” and different world views. Finally, this paper discusses how notating game modifications affords continuous game-based dialogue across student generations.
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Context: Rates of traumatization among residential child welfare professionals are alarmingly high. The well-being of these professionals is associated both with their intention to stay in their jobs and outcomes of children in their care. Several risk factors threaten the well-being of child welfare professionals, including primary and secondary exposure to experiences with the potential to provoke posttraumatic stress reactions. Objectives: This manuscript details experiences empirically shown to have potential negative impacts on professional well-being, discusses why these impacts are of particular concern for residential childcare workers, and describes the types of organizational cultures and climates that appear to mitigate these negative impacts. Implications: Trauma-informed care at the organizational level is proposed both as a means to reduce harm to child-welfare professionals and promote the rehabilitation of children within the child welfare system.
Keywords: residential childcare workers, secondary traumatic stress, trauma-informed care, child welfare, educators
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For years, the Russian authoritarian regime has been seeking to expand its surveillance capacity and collect information on the whole population. The arrival of digital services has made it possible to collect vast amounts of data on their users. Since digital services are frequently designed to assist with various mundane tasks, state-affiliated individuals can also use them, sharing a range of personal data. In Russia, a legal framework has been developed to oblige private digital companies to share collected data with investigative and intelligence agencies. Simultaneously, the collected data, including data on the powerful, may not be adequately protected and, therefore, can be hacked and leaked, thus facilitating sousveillance. This paradox is at the centre of this study, which explores it via the example of the Yandex.Eda, a food delivery service, leak and its use by investigative journalism. This paper, drawing on the concepts of authoritarian surveillance assemblage and mundane surveillance, portrays how authoritarian regimes, through the means of law, engage private digital services in the mundane surveillance of the population. Additionally, the paper draws on the concepts of sousveillance and assemblage of resistance to explore how data leaks from mundane digital services collaborating with authoritarian regimes can stimulate investigation into state actors’ corruption through the work of leaktivism and investigative journalism. The paper shows that although high-profile political actors did not appear in the leak, people closely related to them, along with some lower-ranking special services agents, did. This paper argues that precisely because the app has a mundane nature and sharing personal data with it facilitates its use, these actors left some pieces of their personal information there. In turn, this data sharing has contributed to sousveillance over them.
Keywords: authoritarian surveillance, Digital Sousveillance, Russia, data leak, Surveillance Assemblage, resistance, Apps
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Keywords: stratégie d’enseignement, classification, taxonomie, typologie, revue intégrative
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Despite the contributions that postmodernism has made to teaching and learning in the computer age, several scholars and practitioners in education persist in proclaiming its demise or death. This philosophical survey challenges this argument by recalibrating Jacques Derrida’s and Jean-François Lyotard’s contributions to postmodern thought as complementary meditations on the simultaneity of differences. With this reset in mind, one discovers that the evidence critics use to substantiate the end of postmodernism in education is often tenuous and paradoxical. In fact, the simultaneity and indeterminacy at the core of postmodern thinking make it indispensable in contemporary debates on the dichotomy between human and non-human entities, especially as artificial intelligence and robots become increasingly efficient partners and rivals in our classrooms and workplaces. While robot slavery has been introduced as a resolution to the binary opposition between humans and non-humans, postmodernism reminds us that this remedy is contentious and not new. Before robots such as Figure 02 and Mobile ALOHA, there was Rastus Robot, a technological innovation that courts the idea of a black mechanical slave. This study reveals how postmodernism and technological advancements continue to inform our conversations about education and trouble the border between humans and the robot slaves of tomorrow.