scholarly journals Covid-19: When Species and Data Meet

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 772-790
Author(s):  
Catherine Price
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Human Virus ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

Abstract This article explores how species meet, in particular humans and the Covid-19 virus. It also draws attention to the digital world through the lens of contact-tracing apps. Here, I examine human-virus-data relations, with humans, Covid-19, and data meeting and intra-acting. This article examines what has led us to this situation with Covid-19 and the role data is currently playing. The article offers an answer to two questions. How do humans, Covid-19, and Covid-19 contact-tracing apps meet and intra-act? What are the social justice issues and problems associated with contact-tracing apps? This article examines how species meet and intra-act, as well as how the Anthropocene has contributed to the current situation. The article also discusses contact-tracing apps and what these apps mean for society. Finally, the article shows how entanglements are not only constrained to those which are multispecies but also stretch out to the digital. These postdigital hybrid assemblages enable the coming together of humans, biological-more-than-human-worlds, and the digital. Postdigital hybrid assemblages enable us to push beyond boundaries, helping us understand Covid-19 and its impacts on society. Hopefully, this discussion about the postdigital hybrid assemblage will contribute to discussions in the future, and long after Covid-19, about how we are living our lives, and who and what we are living our lives with.

scholarly journals Covid-19: When Species and Data Meet

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Price
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Contact Tracing ◽  
Human Virus ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Future

This article explores how species meet, in particular humans and Covid-19. It also draws attention to the digital world through the lens of contact-tracing apps. Here, we find ourselves examining human-virus-data relations, with species and data meeting and mingling. This article does not study Covid-19 in isolation, but reaches beyond to examine what has led us to this situation and the role data is currently playing. The article offers an answer to the question: How do humans, Covid-19 and Covid-19 contact-tracing apps meet and mingle? This article examines how species meet and mingle, as well as how the Anthropocene has contributed to the current situation. The article also discusses contact-tracing apps and what these apps mean for society. In the final section, the article shows how entanglements are not constrained to those which are multispecies, but also stretch out to the digital. These postdigital hybrid assemblages enable the coming together of humans, biological more than human worlds, and the digital. Hopefully, this discussion about the postdigital hybrid assemblage will contribute to discussions in the future, and long after Covid-19, about how we are living our lives, and who and what we are living our lives with.

scholarly journals Becoming Teachers’ Little Epics: What digital storytelling might reveal

2015 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Radford ◽  
Avril Aitken
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Critical Moments

This paper discusses pre-service teachers’ use of multi-modal tools to produce three-minute films in light of critical moments in their teaching practice. Two cases are considered; each centers on a film, a “little epic” that was produced by a future teacher who attempts to work within an anti-racist framework for social justice. Findings point to how multimodal tools are effective for engaging meaningfully with unresolved conflicts. However, in the face of trauma experienced, the future teachers’ efforts to work within a social justice framework may be pushed to the margins. This pedagogy / research sheds light on the workings of the inner landscape of becoming teachers, and highlights the dynamic of education as a psychic crisis compounded by the demands of the social.

scholarly journals Los retos del derecho del trabajo en el siglo XXI. Propuestas de cambio en una época de transición

2018 ◽  
pp. 581
Author(s):  
Alejandra Selma Penalva
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Pension System ◽  
Economic Indicator ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Employment Situation ◽  
The Future

La situación laboral de un país, resulta un buen indicador práctico de su condición económica. Pero no solo eso. No se puede olvidar que las condiciones en las que se encuentre el mercado de trabajo condicionarán el nivel de recursos de los que disponga la Seguridad Social, y con ello, el futuro próximo de nuestro sistema de pensiones. De tal forma quizá sea el momento de emprender cierto tipo de reformas con el fin de incentivar la cotización y minimizar el fraude. En el presente trabajo se analizan con detenimiento los distintos problemas de los que actualmente adolece el mercado de trabajo español al tiempo que se plantean ciertas estrategias de reforma que podrían ayudar a mejorar la situación económica de la Seguridad Social.The employment situation of a country is an economic indicator, but not only that. We cannot forget that the current situation of the labour market will determine the level of resources available at Social Security, and with it, the future of our pension system. May be the time to undertake certain type of reforms to encourage the quote and minimize the fraud. This paper analyzes with detail different problems of which currently suffers Spanish laobur market to improve the economic situation of the Social Security.

A Critical Look at Social Reporting Evolution

2020 ◽  
pp. 300-320
Author(s):  
Francisca Castilla-Polo
Keyword(s):  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Financial Information ◽  
Social Reporting ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Three Stages

This study analyzes the evolution of social reporting. After reviewing the literature on this topic and the main initiatives, reports, and standards, three stages can be distinguished: early moments, middle course, and current situation. All these stages have a coinciding concern that is accountability, but a very different way of putting it into practice. As the main conclusion, accountability continues to be the main objective of social reporting because companies understand the need to attend to stakeholders' demands in line with the stakeholder theory. However, voluntariness seems to give way to a regulatory horizon that allows the information received by these groups to be more relevant and reliable according to Directive 2014/95/EU for Non-Financial Information as a benchmark example of the social case in an international sphere. This contribution can help accounting regulators to address the immediate future of social reporting because understanding the past is a key to approaching the future.

scholarly journals Liderazgo: Culturally Grounded Leadership and the National Latina/o Psychological Association

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 830-856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie L. Miville ◽  
Patricia Arredondo ◽  
Andrés J. Consoli ◽  
Azara Santiago-Rivera ◽  
Edward A. Delgado-Romero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Culturally Grounded ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organizing Principles

This article, collaboratively written by the presidents of the National Latina/o Psychological Association (NLPA), presents leadership as conceptualized and practiced in NLPA. We first identify key leadership constructs in the available literature as well as relevant cultural values, describe liderazgo (leadership) through cultural lenses, and articulate the connections to counseling psychology and the social justice underpinnings that have guided NLPA’s formation and development. We then present a number of events and decisions to illustrate how we have operationalized these organizing principles in both the daily management and long-term goals of NLPA. We conclude with a discussion of the future paths and possible directions in the next decade for the organization.

The role of social work in the Spanish Armed Forces: Needs and resources

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 518-528
Author(s):  
Rocio Martinez Borrego
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The Spanish military and their families share problems with the rest of society, but they have to face them in even more difficult circumstances, such as continuous relocations, separations, restrictions on some rights, and stress and uncertainty in at-risk situations. Our aim has been to determine the social reality of this group through the role played by social work in the Spanish Armed Forces, as well as their current situation, and make proposals for the future.

scholarly journals Back to the future? The long view of probation and sentencing

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Raynor
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article reviews the history of the probation service’s contribution to sentencing and revisits the changing theories and understandings that have influenced this role at different times. Through most of its history probation was seen as an alternative to punishment and required the consent of the probationer. Since the 1990s these fundamental assumptions have been changing, and the article explores some of the social and political context of these changes. It argues (with the help of John Augustus, Charles Dickens and others) that the probation service’s input of social information into sentencing has been a contribution to social justice, but recent changes in the reporting role have made this much more difficult. Finally, some suggestions are made about how probation’s traditional input into sentencing might be restored.

scholarly journals Seeding a New World: Lessons from the FeesMustFall Movement for the Advancement of Social Justice

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-290
Author(s):  
Adam Habib
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Order ◽  
New World ◽  
Ethical Conduct ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractThe author interrogates the empirical experience of #FeesMustFall—which is extensively detailed in the book Rebels & Rage from which this article flows—with a view to understanding social movements and in turn enhancing the effectiveness of social justice struggles in the future. He discusses the value of social mobilization in effecting change, but demonstrates that this is only sustainable if the protest is structured within certain strategic and ethical parameters. He then proceeds to interrogate the issues of violence, the framing of the struggle and outcomes, the decision-making processes associated with the protest, and the importance of ethical conduct by leaders and activists. He concludes by underscoring the legitimacy of the social justice struggles but insists that these have to be more effectively conducted if they are to culminate in the establishment of a more humane social order.

scholarly journals 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. i-v
Author(s):  
Margaret E. Adamek
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Look Ahead ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
The U.S

At the dawn of a new decade, I cannot help but recall that when I started my academic career in social work in the 1990s, it was common to look ahead to how life would be in the next century. Statistical projections forecast various demographic changes, often using 2020 as the future time frame. Back then, 2020 sounded far away and almost alien. Well folks, the future is here. Now that 2020 has dawned, it seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Certainly, the specific issues that social workers address have changed over the decades, and our approaches have been modified to tackle the new issues, but the struggle to understand and meet emerging needs persists. I used to jokingly hear that the ultimate goal of the social work profession was to put ourselves out of business. Given the intransigence of intolerance for difference and the persistent emergence of needs arising from “advances” of modern living, it seems the social justice stance of our profession will never be fully met. Indeed, our social contract is continually expanding. In the Fall 2019 issue of Advances in Social Work we are pleased to present 14 papers--11 empirical, 3 conceptual--written by 29 authors from 12 states across the U.S., representing different regions of the country and Ghana. Each paper is briefly introduced below.

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