Insights Into Undertaking a Three-Article Dissertation

While still considered non-traditional, the popularity of the three-article dissertation is increasing. This variation on the conventional dissertation format consists of three publication-ready articles that cohesively address an overarching research problem. As much as the traditional format, it showcases students' research and writing skills while providing an opportunity to engage in multiple research projects. This chapter describes the differences between a conventional dissertation and a three-article dissertation format, delving into the different phases of the latter. Based on their experiences with the format, the authors offer insight for faculty mentors and doctoral students interested in pursuing a three-article dissertation, including its associated challenges and advantages.

Speech strategy sequencing in personal ads

Traditional personal advertisements often follow an ‘X seeks Y for Z’ format. The current study analyses the presence of these different components of personal ads (referred to as speech strategies) and their sequencing across four socio-sexual groups (women seeking women, women seeking men, men seeking women and men seeking men) and distinct types of relationships desired (romantic, sexual and other) in two regions, Mexico City and London. Results indicate that the structure of personal ads varied by both factors across regions. Posters who expressed desire for romantic relationships in London diverged less from the traditional format than those who portrayed themselves as seeking sex or other types of relationships. Additionally, socio-sexual groups differed in the type and frequency of several components within their personal ads. The indexicality of the XYZ structure as well as differences in portrayed relationship desired between regions are discussed as factors contributing to regional differences.

Transformation of Entrepreneurial Activity in the Field of Recreation and Tourism in the Conditions of Digitalization

After the advent of the Internet, travel planning has become a visual process. Potential tourists book hotels, studying their interior in advance; familiarize themselves with places of recreation and infrastructure of the receiving deprivation, without leaving the house.; comparing prices; study feedback from visitors, etc. The modern tourism business is forced to increasingly use information and communication tools in competition for the client. At present, it is not enough for entrepreneurs to create tourist and recreational infrastructure facilities, it is important to form unforgettable positive emotions, atmosphere and demonstrate this not only in the traditional format, but also with the use of digital technologies. Based on a study of publications, it was revealed that Russian economists consider entrepreneurship in the field of recreation and tourism not just as a risky and profitable activity, but as an innovative one. However, the authors describe mainly economic, political, social and natural risks, leaving out psychophysiological phenomena of stress in both entrepreneurs and consumers of services, which are currently aggravated. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the role of a modern entrepreneur in the field of recreation and tourism in the conditions of digitalization and give recommendations that contribute to the further development of entrepreneurial activity in the conditions of digitalization.

Integral feedback: A qualitative analysis of students’ experience of an Enhanced Lab Calculus

The Calculus sequence has outsized importance with regards to the persistence of students in their pursuit of STEM degrees. As such, non-traditional formats have been introduced to Calculus classrooms in an attempt to improve student experience and in doing so increase persistence. This study looks at one such non-traditional format, in which a Calculus II course is paired with an applied lab component, and takes a critical perspective on analyzing the value of such a program by explicitly seeking to understand what components of the newly designed course were salient to students’ experiences. Through a combination of Grounded Theory techniques, Thematic Analysis, and construction of a comparative matrix, I identify three higher-order concepts, each of which contain several sub-themes, that were impactful to students’ experience of this non-traditional course and make suggestions for how such themes can provide foundations for further work in understanding student experiences of structural Calculus innovations.

Challenges of Online Education in a Lockdown Environment

Lockdowns in Europe, the United States and Russia have forced universities to abandon the traditional format of education and move to online. The article analyzes the statistics of a sharp decline in foreign students studying at universities in the United States, Great Britain and Russia, and examines the attempts of world universities to reduce financial losses. Comparison of the difficulties faced by the teachers of Russian and Western universities revealed similar problems, the main ones of which are devaluation of co-presence, the growth of academic cheating and the lack of control over the student's independent work. The only possible way to objectively assess the student's knowledge during an online session is to change the format of the exam, namely the introduction of the Open Book Exam. Exam questions within this format are formed in the form of a solution to a specific "case", which makes it possible to assess not the student's ability to memorize theoretical material, but his ability for critical and analytical thinking, the skills of applying the knowledge gained in practice.

CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISM BETWEEN THE TRADITIONAL FORMAT AND THE IMPERATIVE OF CHANGE

The article is devoted to the consideration of the features of contemporary journalism. Understanding the dynamics of the development of journalism makes it possible to outline a multifaceted picture of constantly changing media in the context of informational progress and the formation of a new media reality. On the basis of establishing a number of essential criteria, a possible classification of journalism is proposed, the prerequisites for the formation and context of the transformations taking place in the media sphere are revealed. The emphasis is on clarifying the relationship between continuity and innovation in this area, the potential of journalism is revealed in the manifestation of traditional forms, enriched by the emergence of new forms and paradigms of the media.

Degrees of becoming on recent Netflix docu-shows: Representations of women in Unbelievable and Mercury 13 vs. The Keepers and The Staircase

Although billed as a ‘crime TV drama’, the Netflix series Unbelievable (2019) is more of a docu-drama. The correspondence between fact and fiction creates a powerful empathic relationship with audiences, the nature of which is comprehensible through how this film, alongside more traditional format documentaries on the online platform, engages ‘the real’ through representing bodies and actions that manifest cinematically in ‘the aesthetics of the frame’. What can be described as the occurrency of these manifestations is found both in a present- and past-oriented description of material facts, whether actual or imagined, and a future-oriented sense of becoming that derives from a relationship that docu-subjects and characters have with potentiality in the progression of the story. Some films describe what people do or have done, while others write docu-subjects and characters as people who have a view to the future. This takes the form of both an objective sense of agency qua freedom and autonomy and a subjective sense of psychodynamic potential formed by representations of their conative orientations towards a future. The sense of possibility that emerges reflects a more nuanced and subjectivized sense of becoming than explained by Ilona Hongisto as constituted by the generation of ‘imagination’, ‘fabulation’ and ‘affection’.

Ease or excitement? Exploring how concept stores contribute to a retail portfolio

PurposeThe study aims to explore how concept stores (theoretically) differ from other experience-based retail formats, and hence, how they (practically) contribute to a diversified retail store portfolio.Design/methodology/approachCase study based on semi-structured, qualitative interviews with seven IKEA retail managers, three industry experts and 26 customers of IKEA concept stores in London and Stockholm.FindingsThe concept store represents a conceptual departure from other experiential store formats. It is neither fully experiential in the sense that it is not only about marketing communications nor is it sales or profit-focused. Its aim is to be an accessible touchpoint that reduces friction on a diversified customer journey with its value to the retail portfolio being that it attracts new and latent customers, mitigates existing inhibiting factors and drives them to other touchpoints.Research limitations/implicationsIdeas about the different characteristics of new store formats and their potential to shape the customer experience are extended. New formats reflect innovation in retailing and are part of a retail portfolio which generates different customer expectations and determinants from traditional store formats which provide the customers' existing reference point.Practical implicationsThe contributions of new formats should be evaluated in light of other existing formats in the portfolio and not isolated. This is particularly true when considering format cannibalisation and the potentially extended customer journey that arises when customers use traditional format stores and new concept format stores simultaneously.Originality/valuePrevious research, using sales metrics and market-based results as performance determinants, suggests negative outcomes for format diversification. Our study suggests that the contributions of the concept store format should be viewed from an overall customer journey perspective and the “performance” of different format based touchpoints are not best captured through traditional sales evaluation methods.

Implementation of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social responsibility in the educational process of cadets

This article presents the results of the implementation of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the development of social responsibility of future officers of the National Guard of the Russian Federation. The author, in the course of conducting training sessions in various disciplines, creates organizational and pedagogical conditions that promote the development of social responsibility of the cadet's personality, modifying the traditional format of conducting classes: the technology of inverted class is introduced in the lecture classes; the technology of storytelling and the case study method are used in practical classes. In the seminar classes, the order of assessment of students is changed from individual to collective (inverted assessment). The pedagogical experiment has shown its effectiveness, which is confirmed by the analytical data presented in the content of the article. The organizational and pedagogical conditions tested during the educational process (the development of social responsibility as an important component of the professional training of future officers, the organization of a system of joint activities of the subjects of the educational process, the change in the system of evaluating the activities of cadets in the context of changes in the information presentation of material and the inclusion of various pedagogical technologies) can be recommended in pedagogical practice.