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Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has been perceived as a tool to support democracy. However, recently the media has paid more attention to its negative impact on public debate. The evolution of the collective imagination of the Internet requires that we go beyond the simple binary analysis (“advantages/limits”) of its sociopolitical issues and think about how it shapes the practices and forms of public debate according to its own standards. Seven aspects of online debate are systematically analysed in this article: the replacement of the traditional gatekeepers by the algorithms developed by search engines and social media, the disappearance of authority-based arguments that are driven by popularity indicators, the anchoring of political practices in daily discussions, the identity issues associated with information-sharing, the “push button” forms of citizen expression, the mechanisms of self-belief, and the privatisation of regulatory bodies. These changes have had an impact on media and information education that information systems professionals will have to consider in the future.
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This exploratory study focuses on the usage of Quebec scholarly journals in social sciences and humanities disseminated by the Érudit platform. Based on the analysis of 39,437,659 downloads from 2010 to 2015, the study aims to provide an overview of the usage of scholarly journal articles disseminated by Érudit according to the discipline and source of the downloads and to, subsequently, evaluate the effect of open access policies on downloads. The results demonstrate the importance of national journals for the social sciences and humanities, as well as the positive impact of open access on the diffusion of knowledge, both in Canada and abroad.
Keywords: bibliométrie, webométrie, données d'usage, téléchargements, sciences sociales et humaines, Québec, Érudit, bibliometrics, webometry, usage data, downloads, social sciences and humanities, Quebec, Érudit
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The ethic of care has been an important part of the dialogue related to learning in traditional K-12 learning environments particularly because emotional relationships and caring pedagogies have been shown to be particularly important for adolescent learners. However, as online learning has become increasingly popular, there are concerns about the perceived impersonal nature of the online medium, and how this might particularly affect adolescent learners. The purpose of this study was to examine technology choices when experiencing caring interactions in the online schooling context of Mountain Heights Academy (formerly Open High School of Utah). The caring experience of two teacher participants and four of their students was examined through interpretative phenomenological analysis. Results suggest that teacher choices regarding technology use are an integral part of creating caring relationships with students online. The ethics of caring is an essential model in understanding the communication of caring interactions in the online setting.
Keywords: presence, immediacy, transactional distance, caring pedagogy, technology-mediated caring
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The use of soil and water conservation techniques, such as the construction and protection of jessour in southern Tunisia, increased during the 1980s (jessour is an ancient runoff water harvesting technique widely practiced in the arid highlands in the south-eastern region of Tunisia, particularly in the Matmata mountain chain). However, because of the small size of these structures and the limited access to their location, their inventory and monitoring are very difficult. Therefore, the development of a methodology, based on the use of geomatic tools and identification of existing and potential sites for these structures, would be very useful. Designed within a geographic information system (GIS), the developed tool is based on a limited number of data: a digital elevation model (DEM), and free satellite imagery available in Google Earth©. The analysis and calculations steps were automated to cover large areas. Calibration was carried out in the watershed of wadi Jir (Matmata, Tunisia), whereas the validation was done in the watershed of wadi Hallouf (Medenine, Tunisia). The application of the proposed methodology has identified 94% of jessour actually existing in the watershed of wadi Jir and 87% of those existing in wadi Hallouf. The percentages are relatively high. These errors of 6% and 13% are acceptable considering that the aim of the proposed methodology is to guide people involved in the management of jessour to potential areas and not to choose a final location.
Keywords: Aménagement CES, Jessour, SIG, Bassin versant, Tunisie, Soil and water conservation technique, Jessour, GIS, Watershed, Tunisia
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With the increase of online scientific publications, the traditional primacy of print documents has become less and less relevant. In some scientific journals, notably in the field of information technology and its applications (like IJTHE), a significant part of the citations now refer to online documents. This paper first reviews the various roles played by citations in scientific texts according to the literature. It then describes the characteristics and conditions which must be met if citations to online documents are to fully play these roles. Finally, it shows how, in the French-language adaptation of the APA reference formats which was adopted by IJTHE, a few choices have been made regarding online references in order to ease the task of both referees and readers. By the same token, authors will find guidelines and suggestions which should improve the relevance and efficiency of this often overlooked dimension of scientific communication.
Keywords: Communication scientifique, références, normes bibliographiques, APA, documents en ligne, Scientific communication, references, citations, reference formats, APA, online documents