Technology Use Among Academics With Disabilities Within a Transforming University

2021 ◽  
pp. 180-196
Author(s):  
Phefumula N. Nyoni ◽  
Tafara Marazi
Keyword(s):  
Technology Use ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Society ◽  
Access To Technology ◽  
The One ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
Depth Interviews

This chapter focuses on the experiences of academics with disability within a Zimbabwean university context. Transforming universities under the Education 5.0 policy in Zimbabwe despite its good intentions has revealed some of the unresolved challenges. This chapter reveals how transformation practices especially with increase in technology use have presented opportunities and challenges for disabled sections of academic society within university spaces. The chapter also highlights how academics with disabilities face and how they ultimately negotiate their way within diverse structures that act as enablers on the one hand whilst being equally a source of barriers on the other. In-depth interviews, observations, and literature are used. The chapter concludes by highlighting how the importance of being conscious to contextual factors and embracing day to day experiences could represent opportunities for broadening access to technology and subsequent inclusion of academics with disability whilst also aiding transformation of universities and the broader Zimbabwean society.

Paratexts, Italian style

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Barra ◽  
Massimo Scaglioni
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Main Production ◽  
The One ◽  
Original Practices ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Depth Interviews

In recent years, the completed transition towards a fully developed multichannel environment and the growth of non-linear offers has brought to the Italian television (TV) landscape unprecedented attention on the ways in which programmes are communicated to the audience and their images and identities are carefully built. The preparation and circulation of promos have therefore grown in importance and relevance in the national TV industry, as new original practices emerged and a long-lasting tradition was challenged by new formats and goals. Building on a set of in-depth interviews with professionals involved in the writing, production and distribution of promos, and analysis of other production materials, the article reconstructs the ‘promotional cultures’ of Italian broadcasters, analysing the main production processes, the different kinds of promos and the various skills involved, and the logics and constraints involved in the making of these ephemeral paratexts that more and more are pervading both the structure of programming flow and the experience of national TV viewers. Thus, the article investigates the professional practices and logics of contemporary commercial and pay TV programme promotion in Italy, defining the role played by national private broadcasters and transnational groups in shaping an Italian promotional space on TV. The ‘Italian style’ of TV show promotion emerges as a constant negotiation between local historical traditions and clichés, on the one hand, and international trends in promo production and aesthetics, on the other, with a solid path shared with other countries and broadcasters, and some peculiar specificities.

scholarly journals An unconditional basic income? How Dutch citizens justify their opinions about a basic income and work conditionality

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-300
Author(s):  
Federica Rossetti ◽  
Femke Roosma ◽  
Tijs Laenen ◽  
Koen Abts
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstractThe article focuses on one of the core but controversial features of a universal basic income (UBI): its unconditionality. Using qualitative in-depth interviews collected in the Dutch municipality of Tilburg in 2018–2019, we examine the arguments underlying popular opinions about a UBI and work conditionality. The analysis suggests that these arguments can be interpreted from two theoretical perspectives. On the one hand, respondents make frequent use of deservingness criteria referring to the characteristics of welfare recipients, such as their need and work willingness. On the other hand, they justify their opinions using arguments related to the characteristics of welfare schemes, such as their administrative and financial feasibility. Our findings offer important insights concerning political actors who support (or oppose) the real-world implementation of a UBI.

scholarly journals Prospects of News Televsion: Materials of In-Depth Interviews

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
I. I. Volkova ◽  
E. L. Proskurnova ◽  
T. T. D. Tran
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Funding Model ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
The One ◽  
Television Journalists ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Empirical Material

The issues of the development of traditional news television in the context of a single information space are considered. The goal is to look at how much content creators and consumers agree in their predictions about the future of TV. The data of in-depth interviews were used as empirical material: professional television journalists (federal TV channels) and students (PFUR “Television” department) were interviewed. The contradictions between the two basic types of media consumption, which are characteristic of addressers and addressees of television messages, are revealed. It is shown that these contradictions explain the generational gap in the perception of modern news television programs, predetermine the decrease in TV consumption of news content from federal channels designed for a mass audience. The relevance of the work is due to the rethinking of the functions and prospects for the development of traditional TV by both professional broadcasters and consumers. The conclusion is made about the further development of news television. It is noted that, on the one hand (the opinion of professionals), traditional television broadcasting will be preserved while adjusting the agenda, rethinking interaction with the audience, changing the broadcasting paradigm, mastering new competencies by professional journalists and using the opportunities of the online space. On the other hand (students’ opinion), subject-to-object news broadcasting of federal channels will cease to exist when the generation of viewers and the funding model change.

scholarly journals Transnational alternative policy groups in global civil society: Enablers of post-capitalist alternatives or carriers of NGOization?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
William K. Carroll ◽  
Jean Philippe Sapinski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Network Data ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Formal Organization ◽  
Alternative Policy ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Two Bodies

Since the 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have generated visions and strategies pointing to alternatives to capitalist globalization. However, TAPGs are also embedded in networks of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and foundations, and may thus be subject to NGOization. This paper examines two bodies of data relevant to this issue: (1) network data that highlight TAPGs’ links to major sources of funds as well as key IGOs; (2) reflections of TAPG protagonists gleaned from in-depth interviews conducted at these groups. While our network analysis is consistent with the NGOization narrative, and while our participants offered many narratives of their own in line with it, they also provided more nuanced accounts that begin to specify the contingencies mediating between, on the one hand, resort to formal organization and to working with IGOs and foundations, and on the other hand, descent into hegemonic incorporation. In a neoliberal political-economic environment, the future of counter-hegemonic politics hinges partly on our identifying how ‘preventative measures’ can be brought to bear on processes of NGOization.

scholarly journals Akhlak Tasawuf Basis Pendidikan Multikultural Di Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
Hadarah Rajab Rajab
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Multicultural Education ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Education System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana sikap aklah yang diajarkam ilmu tasawuf dapat menjadi landasan Pendidikan multicultural. Metode yang digunakan adalah dengan metode penelitian kualitatif fenomenologis, dengan melalui pendekatan wawancara mendalam dan pengamatan langsung di lapangan, serta observasi. Adapaun hasil dari pene;itian ini adalah  desain Pendidikan Multikultural  yang  berbasis Akhlak Tasawuf. Kolaborasi antara konsep pendidikan multicultural di satu sisi dan perilaku sufi  pada ajaran tasawuf dilain sisi. Pada dasarnya kedua unsur tersebut sudah berjalan dengan waktu yang cukup panjang dan telah merimplikasi ke berbagai aspek[1], namun pada bagian ini menawarkan kolaborasi kedua unsur dalam sistim pendidikan multikulturak berdimensi sufi[2] yang dimungkinkan menjadi suatu pola baru yang lebih teduh dan menciptakan kedamaian untuk bangsa Indonesia This study aims to describe how the attitude that is taught by Sufism can be the basis of multicultural education. The method used is phenomenological qualitative research methods, through in-depth interviews and direct observation in the field, as well as observation. The results of this study are the design of Multicultural Education based on Moral Tasawuf. Collaboration between the concept of multicultural education on the one hand and Sufi behavior on Sufism on the other hand. Basically these two elements have been running for quite a long time and have been implicated in various aspects, but this section offers collaboration between the two elements in a multicultural education system with a Sufi dimension which is possible to become a new pattern that is more shady and creates peace for the Indonesian people   [1] Hadarah and Gani, ‘The Implementation of Tarekat Naqsyabandiyah’s Sufism Values in South Celebes’. [2] Enok Rohayati, ‘Pemikiran al-Ghazali tentang Pendidikan Akhlak’, Ta’dib: Journal of Islamic Education (Jurnal Pendidikan Islam), vol. 16, no. 01 (2011), pp. 93–112.

scholarly journals Why does intellectuality weaken faith and sometimes foster it?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Emre ÇAĞLAR
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Cognitive Map ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Initial Choice ◽  
Made In

Abstract Intellectuality and religiosity are controversial concepts in terms of their relationship. Numerous studies suggested that intelligence and exposure to higher education reduce religiosity. Others posited, religiosity is positively associated with these factors or is unresponsive to them. The author asserts a dynamic model to address this ambiguity. Individuals make a choice when they are young, between holding a certain belief or disbelief on the one hand, or being a skeptic on the other. Subsequent intellectual achievements strengthen the chosen paradigm and makes a person’s belief or disbelief stable but increases or decreases the suspicious belief based upon the situation. Intellectual development distort the internal consistency of the “dogmatic map” and people react to this distortion in different ways to make the dogmatic map consistent again. Believers ignore the distortion in favor of dogma, in the hope of a future solution or re-organize their dogmas to fit their intellectual achievements. Skeptics generally abandon their dogmas they suspect and begin to establish an independent cognitive map. Across the study, this model was tested through in-depth interviews with 53 subjects. The findings suggested that, increasing or decreasing belief and therefore to some extent religiousness; is an enhancive or reductive reading of the initial choice made in favor of doubt.

Unpacking (the) secret: Anonymous social media and the impossibility of networked anonymity

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 4177-4194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tzlil Sharon ◽  
Nicholas A John
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anonymous Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study focuses on the perceptions and practices of anonymous communication with friends enabled by tie-based anonymous apps. Based on qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with users of the application Secret, the strategies deployed by interviewees in order to de-anonymize other users are emphasized and placed within the broader context of the real-name web. The article shows that Secret was not only based on pre-existing social networks but also drew on the network as a structure of thought. The concept of networked anonymity is introduced to account for the ways that anonymous actors imagine one another as “someone,” rather than as an unknown “anyone.” As such, the survivability of this communicative model is inherently limited by competing forces—the drive to connectivity, on the one hand, and to anonymity, on the other.

Shame and passion: The affective governing of young unemployed people

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabina Pultz
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Phenomenological Dimension ◽  
Governmentality Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Formal Status ◽  
Empirical Material

This study investigates how young, well-educated, unemployed people are governed and how they govern themselves through affective capacities, focusing here on shame and passion. The empirical material consists of field observations made at an unemployment fund and in-depth interviews with 33 young unemployed people in the Danish welfare state. Inspired by governmentality studies including recent contributions concerning affectivity, I analyse how affect, emotions, and feelings are pivotal instruments of governmentality. On the one hand, unemployed people are encouraged to cultivate a passion for their profession and display this passion in their quest for a job. On the other hand, they are encouraged to feel ashamed for receiving unearned money from the state. The study applies the theoretical framework from governmentality studies and combines it with concepts in Ahmed (2014) in order to unfold the affective sides of governing young unemployed people. The study contributes theoretically by developing Ahmed’s idea of “sticky emotions” in an explicit psychological manner by identifying an embodied and a phenomenological dimension. It concludes that shame and passion influence unemployed people differently in relation to their subjective life courses as well as in relation to their social and societal circumstances and that people deal with the stickiness of unemployment shame in different ways. Some get rid of it by sticking it to other unemployed groups and some by dis-identifying with their formal status and instead conducting themselves as freelancers. The study begins to fill in the gap of how the more diffuse sides of governing can be made psychologically identifiable and in doing so it sheds light on the intimate relationship between politics and psychology.

scholarly journals Patterns of social exclusion in mixed neighborhoods:

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-124
Author(s):  
Ceren Kulkul
Keyword(s):  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Places ◽  
Depth Interviews

For a newcomer in a city, the process of getting familiar with urban places does not only refer to memorize the roads but to learn how to live as a local. In this article, I argue that the changing urban structure and discourse of locals may form subtle ways of social exclusion and discrimination which may have an impact on social positionality of the newcomers in a mixed neighborhood. This study reflects on high skilled young newcomers from Turkey to Berlin with the aim of understanding transnational disparities and exclusion on the one hand, social contact and inclusion on the other. I propose to look into both ways because there is not only exclusion in a mixed neighborhood; there is also acceptance and coexistence. By focusing on Kreuzberg and Neukölln in Berlin, I search for dynamics of neighborhood use of migrant youth, (in)visibility, ‘public familiarity’ (Blokland, 2003) and daily interaction to show the connections among urban structure, practice and discourse. The sample of this qualitative research is high skilled young professionals from Turkey with high education degrees, who came to Berlin over the last five years. The data comes from thirty in-depth interviews conducted by me in the period of October 2018 to March 2019 for a different topic but a related research.

scholarly journals Communication, migrant activism and counter-hegemonic narratives of Haitian diaspora in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-85
Author(s):  
Denise Cogo
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Haitian Immigrants ◽  
Haitian Diaspora ◽  
The One ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Selection Of

This article presents ongoing findings of a larger research project oriented towards the analysis of counter-hegemonic narratives produced and shared in digital media by Haitian immigrants during 2015 and 2017. The analysis demonstrates how these narratives evidence racism experienced by these immigrants residing in Brazil. The analytical corpus is comprised of a selection of these media narratives as well as the examination of in-depth interviews conducted with Haitian immigrants in the Southeast, South and Mid-East areas of Brazil. Results show two dimensions in these narratives. On the one hand, the recognition and denunciation of racism marks the insertion and trajectory of Haitians in Brazil; on the other hand, the growing efforts for producing other representations in Haiti and Haitians in Brazil.

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