Enabling Entanglements to Emerge

From October 5 to 10, 2020, Performance Curators Initiative (PCI),1 a network of artists, curators, performance-makers, cultural workers, educators, practitioners, and enthusiasts based in the Philippines, held their third conference online via Zoom and streamed it on YouTube. Entitled “Conversations on Curation and Performance in the Time of Halting and Transformation,” I participated in this conference that opened a digital space for curators and performers around the world to talk about the effects of the global pandemic on the live arts. Connections, conversations, creative research, collaborations—as PCI founder and conference organizer Roselle Pineda notes—are the main focus of the network, which seeks to look at the relationship between “[p]erformance and curation, the role of curation in performance and role of performativity in curatorial practice” (from the network’s website). Pineda had invited me to register for the conference, which was focused on the role of curator as one who activates enabling spaces.

Black Lives, Green Books, and Blue Checks

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a publication that offered resources for the Black traveler from 1936 to 1966. More than a directory of Black-friendly businesses, it also offered articles that provided insights for how best to travel safely, engagement with readers through contests and invitations for readers to share travel stories, and even civil rights advocacy. Today, a contemporary counterpart to the Green Book is Black Twitter, where people share information and advocate for their community. By conducting qualitative open coding on a subset of Green Book editions as well as tweets from Black Twitter, we explore similarities and overlapping characteristics such as safety, information sharing, and social justice. Where they diverge exposes how spaces like Black Twitter have evolved to accommodate the needs of people in the Black diaspora beyond the scope of physical travel and into digital spaces. Our research points to ways that the Black community has shifted from the physical to the digital space, expanding how it supports itself, and the potential for research to strengthen throughlines between the past and the present in order to better see the possibilities of the future.

Research of actual characteristics for describing of the target audience for digital marketing

The article examines the current characteristics of the target audience in the digital marketing. The problem of the discrepancy between the classical ways of describing audiences and the advertising inventory of digital promotion channels has been actualised. Analysis of advertising campaigns and web analytics systems has identifed six main groups of characteristics that can be used to describe the target audience for any advertising service in the digital marketing. The new features complement existing audience description methods and allow target groups to be described in terms that are understandable to different specialists, and are available on any advertising channel in the digital marketing. The result of the study will increase the effectiveness of promotion in the digital space due to more precise settings of advertising messages.

A Solution Focused Consideration of Cyberchondria

In this chapter, the authors consider the digital space and its technologically enabling effects on clients suffering from cyberchondria. Anonymised accounts are used to explore how, in the digital space of cyberchondria, rational people like Paul, Simon, and Tracy are broken down into assembly of compulsive behaviours and anxiety, always with an escalating nature. Using solution focused techniques like ‘the miracle question', ‘exception seeking', ‘problem free talk', and ‘detailing scales', the authors share their experiences of the murder and snake oil that is cyberchondria. They review how the literal and hypothetical ideals of solution focused practice offer new perspectives to the treatment of cyberchondria as clients require not logic but hope to retake control of their post-cyberchondria recovery.

Semi-Private Spheres as Safe Spaces for Young Social Media Users' Political Conversation

The incorporation of social media as spaces for political participation performances—especially among youth—has brought various issues into debate, including the formats of these practices and, at the same time, the significances of these repertoires for public conversation. In order to address this topic, this chapter explores the digital practices of political participation among young people in Argentina. Based on a qualitative approach in which 30 in-depth interviews to people from 18 to 24 years old were carried out, the findings of this research note that these segments of the population join the discussion of issues on the public agenda using emojis and hashtags and prefer reduced digital spaces to talk with their close contacts about polarized issues in order to avoid the aggression and violence that they say they observe in the digital space.

EDUCATIONAL ROBOTICS AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING PUPILS’ AND STUDENTS’ COMPUTATIONAL THINKING

The accelerating development of technology over the past decades has brought many radical changes in all aspects of life and has unquestionably affected the functioning of our society. The expansion of the digital space and the technological innovation in industry, commerce and household have given rise to a large number of new concepts relating to digital and information technology and their use. In the context of supporting these activities and needs, the FEP document has been updated for the educational area Information and Communication Technology in elementary schools but also in general and technical secondary schools. This innovation is built primarily on the development of computational thinking, which is based on two pillars—algorithmization/programming and educational robotics. The present paper uses educational research to analyse the area of educational robotics as one of the important tools for promoting the concept of developing computational thinking including a description of the specific tools for the implementation of this type of teaching. The aim of the research study was to analyse the current level of pupils’ awareness of and practical experience with educational robotics, both in school and in extracurricular activities. The research tool for data collection was an online questionnaire designed by the authors.

E-Filantropi Pembiayaan Pendidikan: Gerakan Altruisme dalam Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Perbatasan di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19

This article examines a new pattern of humanitarianism through digital technology, known as e-philanthropy. The utilization of digital space with social media has become an e-philanthropy concept amidst the covid-19 pandemic that happened to all levels of society. This study used a qualitative descriptive with virtual ethnographic methods. The object of this research is a program of #beasiswaArjuna, Pondok Pendawa, Bogor that implemented the altruism movement by collecting online donations to finance education for border communities. This article shows that philanthropy has shifted from conventional to digital forms, especially amidst the covid-19 pandemic. E-philanthropy manifests as an altruism movement in strengthening humanitarian solidarity by eliminating all selfishness and helping border communities to continue their education. The practice of philanthropy in the altruism movement amidst the covid-19 pandemic calls everyone to engage in altruistic actions to create happiness for everybody.