Whose Country Is Digital India? Unpacking Dominant Power Relations Mediated by the Digital India Campaign

This article unpacks the material and cultural implications of the Digital India programme’s rhetoric of social transformation and digital empowerment by asking the question ‘How and whom does digital empowerment seek to empower?’ Through an analysis of the discourse on the Digital India website, this article concludes that the recurring depoliticization and dehistoricization of social differences deliberately make the programme’s intended beneficiaries vague. By flattening structural differences among caste, class, gender, and ethnicity, Digital India’s technopolitics recasts empowerment as an individual issue and naturalizes the myths of meritocracy, castelessness, and genderlessness. Furthermore, in a Hindutva regime, Digital India’s depoliticized technopolitics becomes a tool for managing citizenship that reinforces the status quo. This article argues that, by declining to define a process of empowerment that considers cultural complexities and structural hegemonies, Digital India’s call for digital empowerment remains an empty signifier.

ASSÉDIO MORAL : UM OLHAR PARA SAÚDE MENTAL DO TRABALHADOR

Moral harassment is a complex phenomenon and a reality faced in the workplace, it is a type of abuse that involves ethical principles, which can compromise the quality of life of workers, leading them to diseases and suffering in the workplace. This study describes a systematic bibliographic review search, using the following descriptors: "mental health of the worker", "moral harassment at work" and "health psychology". The results presented show that the consequences of bullying have been of great interest to several researchers, and that in general it involves some damage to safety and health at work and not only the individual issue of mental health. It is hoped that this study can contribute to reflections and debates about the impact of moral harassment on workers' health, allowing visibility of a theme that is little addressed and conveyed in the work environments themselves.

Protection of Taxpayer`s Rights in Case of Seizure within the Framework of a Tax Procedure

The article describes some of the existing issues regarding the production of seizures, which are not regulated by the current legislation quite clearly. Each individual issue is illustrated by judicial practice, and possible solutions are proposed. The main goal is to draw attention to ways of protecting the rights of a taxpayer in the course of seizure and further appeal in court.

L’amour et la révolte dans Le couteau sur la table, roman de Jacques Godbout

The novel depicts the relationship of a young couple living in Montreal. The poetics of the text not only provides the reader with an unusual aesthetic experience but also reveals interesting details about life in Canada in the 1960s. We will introduce the main characters of the novel and focus on some of its aspects, especially those moments where the political situation, whether historically distant or recent, is reflected in the life of modern society. The sixties of the twentieth century were imbued with a desire to resist authority which was lived collectively and also as an individual issue. In the novel, the theme of revolt is portrayed on both these levels, but it shows that it is not always easy to realize one’s ideas in practice.The structure of the novel which refers to the influence of nouveau roman is composed of fragmentary narrative, repetitive allusions and unfinished sentences. Using all these techniques Jacques Godbout has created a captivating text, fascinating especially by its disquieting dynamics.

Spanish phraseology in formal and informal spontaneous oral language production

The study presented in this paper aims to perform a comprehensive analysis of the use of phraseological units (PUs) in contemporary Spanish according to two different levels of oral language production: (a) spontaneous informal (on the basis of conversations uttered among the contestants of the Spanish version of the reality show Big Brother), (b) spontaneous formal (on the basis of interviews performed on Spanish radio and TV programmes). The configuration of Spanish phraseology as it is used in formal and informal spontaneous oral language production will be investigated according to four variables: frequency distribution, typological distribution, stylistic distribution, and individual distribution. It will be shown that a) the more informal the discourse context, the higher the frequency of use of PUs, b) that idioms (and not routine formulae or proverbs) are clearly dominant in both formal and informal oral contexts, c) that there are speakers in formal discourse contexts who often utter informal PUs, d) that vulgar vs. non-vulgar PUs – and not so much informal vs. non-informal PUs – is the main disagreement between formal and informal spontaneous oral contexts, and e) that using vulgar PUs more or less frequently would be a highly individual issue.

Through the lens of COVID-19

PurposeThe purpose of the IJHG Review is to enable readers to gain a quick overview of articles contained in an individual issue.Design/methodology/approachAll current articles are read by the Review Editor who then prepares the Review.FindingsCommon themes are identified and key concepts are extracted from each article.Practical implicationsThe Review enables readers to prioritize articles of the greatest interest to them.Originality/valueThe originality value of the IJHG Review is that no other Emerald Journal offers a Review section of this kind.

The Landscape of Differential Attainment in Medicine

Differential attainment is the unexplained variation in results in assessment, training, and recruitment outcomes seen in candidates based on factors other than academic ability when compared to their peers. This is seen in both the medical school curriculum and in many professions beyond. It is an unfortunate fact that in spite of recognition and awareness at a systemic level, there is little if any resolution. DA must be recognised as a systemic bias rather than an individual issue. More research into the causes is required, as well as the implementation and evaluation of potential solutions. Interventions need to be made in the learning environment, culture, educational governance, leadership, support for educators, in the development of responsive curricula and fair assessments. In order to build a fairer training system, it is important that we review and act on existing inequality through organisational change.

What do I get? How do states’ negotiation alternatives influence the concessions they receive in multilateral negotiations?

When will states receive concessions in multilateral negotiations? And on which issues are those concessions likely to be received? I highlight two factors that influence the likelihood a state will receive concessions on an issue in multilateral negotiations: (1) the degree to which the issues linked together in the negotiation are “differently valued” by the negotiating states, and (2) the costliness of states’ “best alternative to a negotiated agreement” on each individual issue. The former creates the opportunity for an exchange of concessions; the latter creates the incentive for that exchange to occur. It is the interaction of having more differently valued issues on the table and having a more costly best alternative to a negotiated agreement on an issue that makes a state more likely to receive concessions on that issue. This argument stands in contrast to the standard negotiation literature, which has shown that having a more beneficial best alternative to a negotiated agreement will yield greater concessions. I argue that these contradictory assertions exist because there are two types of best alternatives to a negotiated agreement that must be taken into account – one at the negotiation level and those at the issue-specific level. The current literature has tended to focus on the former while I focus on the latter. I test my argument on an originally constructed dataset of concessions states received in the Uruguay Round trade negotiations of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. For each issue in the Round, I coded the costliness of each state's issue-specific best alternative to a negotiated agreement and the level of concessions it received on that issue. The results provide insights into the workings of multilateral negotiations.

Bringing People Closer: The Prosocial Effects of Immersive Media on Users’ Attitudes and Behavior

This experimental study examined how varying the degree of immersiveness of a short documentary about a remote health issue influenced users’ reported spatial presence, empathic parasocial interaction, and individual issue involvement. Higher-order responses, namely, the desire for information and willingness to donate to the cause, were also analyzed. The documentary was shown to 85 participants using three different technologies with varying degrees of immersiveness (high, moderate, and low). The results show that the level of the technology’s immersiveness gradually increases the spatial presence, empathic parasocial interaction, and issue involvement of the user. While participants of the highly immersive condition reported a higher desire for additional information, the results on donation behavior were less conclusive.

Nudge Effect of Fact-Check Alerts: Source Influence and Media Skepticism on Sharing of News Misinformation in Social Media

This study extends the nudge principle with media effects and credibility evaluation perspectives to examine whether the effectiveness of fact-check alerts to deter news sharing on social media is moderated by news source and whether this moderation is conditional upon users’ skepticism of mainstream media. Results from a 2 (nudge: fact-check alert vs. no alert) × 2 (news source: legacy mainstream vs. unfamiliar non-mainstream) ( N = 929) experiment controlling for individual issue involvement, online news involvement, and news sharing experience revealed significant main and interaction effects from both factors. News sharing likelihood was overall lower for non-mainstream news than mainstream news, but showed a greater decrease for mainstream news when nudged. No conditional moderation from media skepticism was found; instead, users’ skepticism of mainstream media amplified the nudge effect only for news from legacy mainstream media and not unfamiliar non-mainstream source. Theoretical and practical implications on the use of fact-checking and mainstream news sources in social media are discussed.