Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported

The pervasiveness of social media in adolescents’ lives has important implications for their relationships. Considering today’s adolescents have grown up with social media, research capturing their unique perspectives of how social media impacts their relationships is needed to increase understanding and help guide behaviors that nurture social-connectedness. Utilizing multiple qualitative methods, this study explores adolescents’ perspectives of how their social media use impacts their relationships. The sample comprised 36, Year 9 students aged 15 years from four metropolitan schools in Melbourne, Australia. All participants completed a rich picture mapping activity and focus group discussions. To gain deeper understandings, a sub-sample of 11 adolescents participated in subsequent one-on-one interviews. Reflexive thematic analysis generated two overarching themes (1) developing and strengthening relationships and (2) diminishing relationships. Sub-themes included; making new friends, maintaining relationships, deepening connections, enhancing belonging, rifts and strains, and anti-social behavior. Findings revealed nuanced insights into “how” and “why” adolescents believe social media impacts relationships. Adolescents explained that social media transforms interactions through amplifying and intensifying relational experiences resulting in both beneficial and detrimental outcomes for their relationships. Cultivating the positive aspects of adolescents’ social media use whilst mitigating the negative is important toward supporting relatedness and fostering wellbeing.

Using Systems Thinking to Illustrate Digital Business Model Innovation

Digital business model innovation is discussed by bringing together systemic innovation and digital innovation. Applying the Rich Picture technique, the complexity transpiring in the digital innovation of the business models is illustrated. Further, a real world example is presented and discussed in relation to systemic innovation and digital innovation. This study further contributes by shedding light on the added complexity brought by digital innovation but also the need for a combined and mixed systems thinking approach.

Biopower

Virginia Woolf lived and worked during the ascendancy of Euro-American biopower. This essay takes up the tools of queer, crip, and antiracist theories to analyse Woolf’s engagement with three strands of biopower—state racism, heteronormativity, and ableist normativity—as well as a fourth Woolfian form elaborated upon in Three Guineas, state genderism. We can trace the entwinement of biopower in the racist and ableist elements of Woolf’s own work, accounts of how Woolf herself was treated by medical and mental health practitioners, and in Woolf’s own attempts to break down reified notions of desire and bodily comportment that are harmfully crystalized by biopolitical discourse. Woolf’s engagement with biopower is not always progressive, but the complexities of her art and work yield a rich picture of how biopower worked in the early twentieth century and how artists and intellectuals both deployed and resisted its workings.

Teaching Young Children Early Mathematics through Music and Movement

The purpose of this study was to explore the integration of music and movement elements into young children’s mathematics classrooms. Using a qualitative approach, this research was a case study. Three teachers were purposely selected as participants for this study. The teachers were interviewed to gain information about the songs and movements they chose to employ into their instruction. Additionally, their lessons were observed to attain the ways they incorporated music and movement. These sessions were video recorded to gain a rich picture of the songs and movements incorporated as well as the benefits of such practice in the teaching and learning of mathematics. The findings from the interviews (with teachers), classroom observations, and photographs exhibited that the teachers used familiar, easy and simple songs to be incorporated in their instruction. It was also evident that embedding music and movement activities into young children's mathematics lessons had a positive impact on the students' learning of early mathematics. The students focused on what the teachers were doing and repeating after them. This enhanced their mathematics learning. The implication of this study is that mathematics instruction should be employed in a fun yet meaningful way by incorporating music and movement activities as teaching and learning activities. More importantly, is that children learn mathematics with understanding.

Politicisation of Administration and Implications for Knowledge Generation in South Africa : A case of a Black University

The subject of the politics of knowledge is not uniformly understood by both scholars and practitioners. Much work in this regard is based on Northern angled perspectives, which are deficient in abilities to capture the essence of African reality. On the basis of qualitative materials and interdisciplinary discourse analysis, this article’s focus is on the politicisation of university administration in South Africa. Taking cue from my previous works on this subject, I have identified and discussed additional three central factors which impair scientific knowledge generation and development in South Africa and Africa as a whole. Among others, these factors include bureaucratisation of academic administration, academic jealousy and gangsterism and shortage of academic role models. Theoretically and in order to foster epistemic justice, this study has drawn from Afrocentricity as an alternative contextual lens to paint a qualitatively rich picture of the phenomena under study.

A dynamic systems view of clinical genomics: a rich picture of the landscape in Australia using a complexity science lens

Background Clinical genomics represents a paradigm shifting change to health service delivery and practice across many conditions and life-stages. Introducing this complex technology into an already complex health system is a significant challenge that cannot be managed in a reductionist way. To build robust and sustainable, high quality delivery systems we need to step back and view the interconnected landscape of policymakers, funders, managers, multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, patients and their families, and health care, research, education, and philanthropic institutions as a dynamic whole. This study holistically mapped the landscape of clinical genomics within Australia by developing a complex graphic: a rich picture. Using complex systems theory, we then identified key features, challenges and leverage points of implementing clinical genomics. Methods We used a multi-stage, exploratory, qualitative approach. We extracted data from grey literature, empirical literature, and data collected by the Australian Genomic Health Alliance. Nine key informants working in clinical genomics critiqued early drafts of the picture, and validated the final version. Results The final graphic depicts 24 stakeholder groups relevant to implementation of genomics into Australia. Clinical genomics lies at the intersection of four nested systems, with interplay between government, professional bodies and patient advocacy groups. Barriers and uncertainties are also shown. Analysis using complexity theory showed far-reaching interdependencies around funding, and identified unintended consequences. Conclusion The rich picture of the clinical genomic landscape in Australia is the first to show key stakeholders, agencies and processes and their interdependencies. Participants who critiqued our results were instantly intrigued and engaged by the graphics, searching for their place in the whole and often commenting on insights they gained from seeing the influences and impacts of other stakeholder groups on their own work. Funding patterns showed unintended consequences of increased burdens for clinicians and inequity of access for patients. Showing the system as a dynamic whole is the only way to understand key drivers and barriers to largescale interventions. Trial Registration: Not applicable

MODEL KONSEPTUAL PENGELOLAAN PENGETAHUAN DI POKDARWIS WONDERFUL SANGIRAN DENGAN PENDEKATAN SOFT SYSTEM METHODOLOGY

This study aims to develop a conceptual model of knowledge management for Kelompok Sadar Wisata (a tourism-aware group) Pokdarwis Wonderful Sangiran. Knowledge management system is needed to develop their skill, ability and maintain their adequate knowledge and information as a knowledge-based tourism guide. Conceptual Model is developed using the Soft System Methodology approach, consisting of 7 stages, starting from the situation considered as problematical, the Rich-picture development, the root definition, the conceptual model development, the comparison conceptual model with reality, and determining a change and proposal. The preparation of rich-picture is based on the primary data obtained from several informants, i.e member of Pokdarwis, researchers, academics and government officials selected using purposive sampling. This employs a qualitative method to develop a conceptual model that could bring out ideas for Pokdarwis activities in the future in relation to their knowledge management. Recommendations on developing a knowledge management system could be the media for knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing within the Pokdarwis itself, from Pokdarwis member to researchers, academics, government to Pokdarwis member, and from Pokdarwis to the younger generation. Knowledge management conception in the form of personalization and codification and knowledge creation could be referred to in developing the technology-based knowledge management system.Keyword: soft system methodology; conceptual model; knowledge creation; knowledge management system ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk membangun sebuah Model Konseptual pengelolaan pengetahuan bagi Kelompok Sadar Wisata (Pokdarwis) Wonderful Sangiran. Sistem pengelolaan pengetahuan dibutuhkan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan dan keterampilan anggota Pokdarwis serta menjaga kecukupan informasi dan pengetahuan sebagai pemandu wisata berbasis pengetahuan. Model Konseptual dibangun menggunakan pendekatan Soft System Methodology (SSM). Pendekatan ini terdiri dari 7 tahapan, mulai dari tahap pengenalan masalah, tahap pengembangan Rich-picture, tahap pendefinisian akar masalah, tahap pengembangan model konseptual, tahap pembandingan model konseptual dengan realitas, tahap menetapkan perubahan hingga tahap menentukan usulan. Pengembangan Rich_picture didasarkan pada data primer yang diperoleh dari beberapa informan, antara lain: anggota Pokdarwis, peneliti, akademisi dan pegawai pemerintah, yang dipilih berdasarkan kriteria tertentu (purposive sampling). Penelitian kualitatif yang dilakukan menghasilkan sebuah model konseptual sebagai usulan bagi aktivitas atau kegiatan Pokdarwis di masa mendatang, terkait dengan pengelolaan pengetahuan. Rekomendasi pengembangan sistem pengelolaan pengetahuan dapat menjadi media Knowledge Transfer dan knowledge sharing, baik bagi inter-anggota Pokdarwis, maupun dari peneliti, akademisi, pemerintah ke anggota Pokdarwis, serta dari anggota Pokdarwis ke generasi muda. Konsepsi pengelolaan pengetahuan berupa strategi personalisasi dan kodifikasi serta proses knowledge creation/conversion dapat menjadi acuan dalam pengembangan sistem pengelolaan pengetahuan berbasis Teknologi Informasi.

Empires of Opportunity: German naturalists in British India and the frictions of transnational science

This article examines the little-known but exceptionally well-documented German Schlagintweit brothers’ expedition to India and Central Asia in 1854–58, under the auspices of the British East India Company and the king of Prussia. The brothers’ careers present an instructive study of the opportunities and conflicts inherent within transnational science and the imperial labour market in colonial India in the course of the nineteenth century. Until now, historians have largely emphasized the ways in which European East India companies provided scientific practitioners with professional mobility from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. In these accounts, German scientific practitioners are represented as especially mobile, moving more or less freely within foreign empires, because at the time no ‘German’ empire existed that might compete for allegiances and make them appear suspect. My article, in contrast, offers a revisionist account of this globalizing picture in two senses. First, a close look at the local everyday practices of the Schlagintweit brothers’ expedition highlights the considerable tensions and frictions that accompanied imperial recruitment to South Asia—even for German scientific practitioners. What emerges instead is a rich picture of the contradictory interpretations of supposedly cooperative projects among contemporaries, and the instrumentalization of scientific activities for political ends in the Indian subcontinent, for both established and aspiring colonial powers. Second, the ways in which the Schlagintweits’ scientific expedition was represented and remembered in subsequent decades shows how the politics around transnational science projects only intensified with German unification.