UNDERSTANDING THE EFFICACY OF TELECONSULTATION IN ASSUAGING ABUSE AGAINST INDIAN WOMEN DURING COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Covid-19 pandemic has impacted societal well-being in different and interacting contexts and its long duree consequences on human health, both biological and psychological serves to be a key element in the public discourse. The “pandemic-lockdown” in the Indian context made the health and social faultlines existing in the country hypervisible making one question the ‘normal’ we were existing with, in the pre-Covid times. As the virus took its toll on the fragile health system, nearly crushing it, individual’s rights to a safe and dignified life got threatened in the private spaces. The psycho-social effects of the pandemic arising from the exploitation in the public/private domains can be recognized as infringements with severe and sustained negative repercussions on the vulnerable sections of society. While analysing the intersecting vulnerabilities on varied fronts, another intense predicament related to women and elderly abuse in the (un)safe homely space awaits address and redressal. The nature of stressors underlying such abuse reflects on a complex interplay among several factors at an individual, community, and collective levels. The use of digital platforms, social media sites, and teleconsultation in moments of unprecedented crisis suggests towards creating an alternative paradigm for addressing the psychosocial dimension of the pandemic that lies intertwined with the “underlying injustices and social conditions”. In the backdrop of the Covid context, this paper would analyse how teleconsultation and telepsychiatry became an apparent channel to ensure health based services and extend support and safety to those victims and survivors of family abuse who remain marginalized in the society on sexist and ageist constructs.

Increasing standardization for smart(er) contracts

Legal standardization traditionally played an important role in contractual relations. With technological and commercial development and expansion of trade from the individual and collective levels to internationalization, it became necessary to create a set of standards to keep pace with this development and facilitate the contractual process. Although smart contracts are considered a leap in the contractual relationship, it cannot be overlooked that these contracts share many characteristics with traditional contracts. To gain a greater position in the global market, smart contracts also need to be well functioning and efficient. In this context, the article tackles the phenomenon of legal standardization and identifies the main weaknesses of smart contracts—to answer two crucial questions: how can these contracts be smarter, and how should we employ standardization to ensure their efficiency?

cours de langues dans le contexte universitaire : quelle place pour la compétence interculturelle à l'ère du numérique?

Este artículo tiene como objetivo aclarar el lugar significativo de la interculturalidad en el aula de idiomas. De hecho, las sociedades actuales están expuestas a cambios profundos a nivel individual y colectivo bajo el efecto de la digitalización. Esto significa que el individuo experimenta una nueva socialización, una especie de socialización digital dentro de la cual la dimensión intercultural ocupa un lugar central a través de la apertura lingüística y cultural al otro. Esta situación presenta a la escuela nuevos desafíos. Más allá de las consideraciones didácticas y puramente lingüísticas, el aprendizaje de idiomas adquiere toda su significación al poner en práctica los conceptos fundacionales de la interculturalidad como la competencia intercultural o la competencia comunicativa intercultural. Lo mostraremos a partir de los programas lingüísticos de cooperación internacional, en particular los de la asociación entre la Universidad Hassan1er en Marruecos y la Haute école d'Hénallux en Bélgica. This article aims to highlight the significant place of interculturality in the language classroom. Indeed, current societies are exposed to profound changes at the individual and collective levels under the effect of digitization. This means that the individual experiences a new socialization, a kind of digital socialization within which the intercultural dimension occupies a central place through linguistic and cultural openness to the other. This situation presents the school with new challenges. Beyond didactic and purely linguistic considerations, language learning takes on its full significance by putting to work the founding concepts of interculturality such as intercultural competence or intercultural communication competence. We will show this from the linguistic programs of international cooperation, in particular those of the partnership between the University Hassan1er in Morocco and the Haute école d'Hénallux in Belgium. Le présent article vise à éclairer la place prégnante de l’interculturel dans la classe de langue. En effet, les sociétés actuelles sont exposées à de profondes mutations sur les plans individuel et collectif sous l’effet de la digitalisation. Ce qui fait que l’individu vit une nouvelle socialisation, une sorte de socialisation numérique au sein de laquelle la dimension interculturelle occupe une place centrale par l’ouverture linguistique et culturelle sur l’autre. Cette situation met l’école face à de nouveaux défis. Au-delà des considérations didactiques et purement linguistiques, l’apprentissage des langues prend toute sa signification en mettant à l’œuvre les concepts fondateurs de l’interculturel à l’instar de la compétence interculturelle ou de la compétence à la communication interculturelle. Nous montrerons cela à partir des programmes linguistiques de coopération internationale, notamment ceux du partenariat entre l’Université Hassan1er au Maroc et la Haute école d’Hénallux en Belgique.

VAGINA DA ARTISTA - PERFORMANCE FEMINISTA EM POÉTICAS DE DUAS ARTISTAS MULHERES

Resumo: O artigo tem como objetivo problematizar a performance enquanto prática artística que promove a resistência, a pluralidade e a diferença, discutindo como ela pode favorecer aspectos educativos. Apresenta o conceito de performance em seus aspectos históricos, antropológicos e artísticos, bem como a performance autobiográfica, que possibilita o resgate de experiências pessoais, memórias coletivas e, no recorte apontado aqui, o exercício do ativismo feminista. Aborda aspectos do movimento feminista e analisa performances de duas artistas mulheres e feministas: a artista norte-americana Carolee Schneemann e a artista brasileira Panmela Castro. Por fim, avalia o caminho evocado pela performance como viável ao estabelecimento de estratégias de resistência e sensibilização por meio da experiência artística compartilhada entre performer e espectadoras. Ademais, aponta a performance como alternativa para instigar o pensamento crítico, a liberdade e a criação de possibilidades de transformações no âmbito pessoal e coletivo, por meio de ações que abordam temáticas identitárias que refletem as lutas de movimentos sociais, como o movimento feminista, movimento negro e movimento LGBTQI+.Palavras-chave: Arte contemporânea. Performance. Performance autobiográfica. Feminismo. Mulheres artistas. Abstract: The article aims to problematize performance as an artistic practice that promotes resistance, plurality and difference, discussing how it (the performance) can favor educational aspects. This paper presents the concept of performance in its historical, anthropological and artistic aspects, as well as the autobiographical performance, which enables the recovery of personal experiences, collective memories, and, in the clipping pointed here, the exercise of feminist activism. The article also addresses aspects of the feminist movement and analyzes the performances of two women and feminist artists: US artist Carolee Schneemann and Brazilian artist Pammela Castro. Finally, it evaluates the path evoked by the performance as feasible for the establishment of resistance and sensitization strategies through the shared artistic experience between performer and spectators. In addition, the article points to performance as an alternative to instigate critical thinking, freedom, and the creation of possibilities for transformations at both the personal and collective levels, through actions that address identity themes which reflect the struggles of social movements, such as the feminist movement, the black movement, and the “LGBTQI+” movement.Keywords: Contemporary art. Performance. Autobiographical Performance. Feminism. Women Artists.

Assessments of bilateral asymmetry with application in human skull analysis

As a common feature, bilateral symmetry of biological forms is ubiquitous, but in fact rarely exact. In a setting of analytic geometry, bilateral symmetry is defined with respect to a point, line or plane, and the well-known notions of fluctuating asymmetry, directional asymmetry and antisymmetry are recast. A meticulous scheme for asymmetry assessments is proposed and explicit solutions to them are derived. An investigation into observational errors of points representing the geometric structure of an object offers a baseline reference for asymmetry assessment of the object. The proposed assessments are applicable to individual, part or all point pairs at both individual and collective levels. The exact relationship between the developed treatments and the widely used Procrustes method in asymmetry assessment is examined. An application of the proposed assessments to a large collection of human skull data in the form of 3D landmark coordinates finds: (a) asymmetry of most skulls is not fluctuating, but directional if measured about a plane fitted to shared landmarks or side landmarks for balancing; (b) asymmetry becomes completely fluctuating if one side of a skull could be slightly rotated and translated with respect to the other side; (c) female skulls are more asymmetric than male skulls. The methodology developed in this study is rigorous and transparent, and lays an analytical base for investigation of structural symmetries and asymmetries in a wide range of biological and medical applications.

Conclusion

Media psychology—understood as the study of individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions in interaction with media and communication technology—can offer important insights on what remains to be understood about the way in which individuals work. One of the key goals of this book is to challenge the understanding of who a journalist or a news ‘user’ is and how their experience forms and informs the way in which they relate to the world around them. This chapter summarizes the lessons learned throughout the book and discusses the important role that psychological processes at individual levels (e.g., identity), interindividual levels (e.g., attributions), and collective levels (e.g., intergroup dynamics) play in journalism in light of the literature reviewed throughout the book.

Paysage et identité. Ambiguïtés et ambivalences des images

"The central objective of this article is to raise questions about the relationships between identity, imaginary and landscape, which occur both at the individual and collective levels and which manifest themselves both in the body and in the landscape. Supported in different fields of knowledge related to the subject, such as anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology, we seek to highlight the instabilities, ambiguities and ambivalences responsible for the wealth of meanings and contradictions that such relationships present."

The Gateway to Well-being and Happiness: Re-defining Individualism, Voluntary Simplicity and Civilization

This article is an attempt to depict principles and philosophical lines so as to promote the well-being and happiness of people and communities. The principles of theoretical research govern the methods and tools of making analysis and inferences. In this regard, theories from positive psychology, behavioral & institutional economics, sociology, and anthropology were consulted. The study starts by reviewing the theoretical and empirical literature on the two interrelated concepts, well-being and happiness. Doing so, it looks into a systematic analysis into what factors are weighing in determining well-being and happiness at individual and collective levels. In this regard, it identifies individualism, voluntary simplicity, and civilization concepts as key variables. With the benchmark being the conventional narratives, the study tries to characterize those concepts in a way that better appeals to pillars of well-being and happiness concepts. While making characterizations on individualism, voluntary simplicity, and civilization, the study infers the drawbacks of the underlying constructs of the conventional understandings and comes up with alternative ones in a way that better serves the affective and eudemonic well-being of people. In this regard, it came up with concepts of individualism-proper, a theoretical contribution of this work in redefining the concept of individualism in a better way to promote collective well-being and happiness. It also revisits the notion of voluntary simplicity in a way to appeal business of life and at all levels, from individual to societal to country level. As such, the paper tries to frame the foundation of collective happiness and well-being by pinpointing philosophical lines, depicting moral standards and/or principles that people shall pursue in their intra-personal and inter-personal relationships. The study further evokes the academia and policy regimes to consider why and how well-being and happiness issues should be the pinpoint of their respective endeavors.

Threats Arising from Software Gamification

The appearance of gamification dates back about a decade and since this tool has been increasingly used not only in the entertainment sector but also in the industry, army, education, health and others. Studies suggest that this approach may provide added value outcomes, in particular in the users’ motivational and engagement areas, in a wide range of fields such as customer relations, skills learning, physical exercises, health management, etc. On the other hand, the consequences and potential risks related to its use remain insufficiently understood and have started to become the object of research in the last years. This chapter aims at exploring and deepening the understanding of the possible threats resulting from the use of software gamification at both the individual and collective levels. To do so, an integrative literature review was carried out on studies examining the negatives effects and challenges of this tool so as to identify the possible adverse impacts arising from them. Overall, results would show that an inadequate gamification design and implementation and its implications in terms of a flawed rewarding system and ethical issues may entail perils such as demotivating users, engendering mistrust, health issues and tarnishing the gamification credibility as well as that of the management in charge of it.

What Has Culture Got to Do with Emotions?

Emotions are relationship engagements that are dynamically and socioculturally constructed. Starting from the historic context in which the current research program originated, this chapter develops a theory in which cultural differences in emotion can be understood from the cultural context’s valued model of self and relating. It presents evidence for a “cultural logic” to emotion in the prevalence and content of emotion as well as to which experiences are associated with positive outcomes and well-being. Furthermore, it shows how a myriad of processes co-constitute the alignment of culture and emotion—processes that can be situated at the personal, interpersonal, and collective levels and that are highlighted when emotions are studied in acculturating individuals or biculturals. In concluding, this chapter presents a dynamic and sociocultural model of emotion in which people collectively construct their experiences in line with the prevalent meanings and practices of their sociocultural context.