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Famine, Affluence and Morality Open
The foreword of this text is significant because Bill and Melinda Gates, co-chairs of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, make reference to the fact that in more than forty years the world has seen much improvement in curbing poverty. L…
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In some professions, women have become well represented, yet gender bias persists—Perpetuated by those who think it is not happening Open
If you think gender discrimination is no longer an issue in your profession, you may be perpetuating it.
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What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop Open
This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking…
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Delta variant: What is happening with transmission, hospital admissions, and restrictions? Open
More than 71 million doses of covid-19 vaccine have been administered in the UK, and in many areas lockdown has eased. But, as the delta variant dominates, Elisabeth Mahase asks: is another wave on the horizon?
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The Internet of Things (IoT) and marketing: the state of play, future trends and the implications for marketing Open
A revolution is happening via the Internet of Things (IoT) – one that will have tremendous impact on the world as we know it. The IoT, which involves interconnected devices, systems and services th...
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Coping Behaviors and Psychological Disturbances in Youth Affected by the COVID-19 Health Crisis Open
The COVID-19 pandemic and the quarantine undergone by children in many countries is a stressful situation about which little is known to date. Children and adolescents' behaviors to cope with home confinement may be associated with their e…
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The clothes of the emperor. An essay on RRI in and around Brussels Open
In its current Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, the European Commission identified Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as a cross-cutting issue. The responsibility for RRI as a cross-cutting issue lies w…
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Wildfires at the Edges of Science: Horizoning Work amid Runaway Change Open
Ecosystem changes are happening with surprising speed and on much shorter-than-projected time scales. This essay explores the complexities of such abrupt environmental shifts, how scientists conceptualize a runaway nature, and how uncertai…
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Reflections: Academia's Emerging Crisis of Relevance and the Consequent Role of the Engaged Scholar Open
Universities are facing a crisis of relevance. While there are multiple reasons for this to be happening, one that deserves particular attention is the extent to which academic scholars do not see it as their role to engage in public and p…
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Going Beyond the Classic News Narrative Convention: The Background to and Challenges of Immersion in Journalism Open
The disappearance of the screen's physical barrier, the fourth wall, challenges many of the narrative conventions traditionally used in the traditional journalistic account. This is an area in which we are still taking the first steps, but…
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How Democracy Ends Open
'Scintillating ... thought-provoking ... one of the very best of the great crop of recent books on the subject.' Andrew Rawnsley, Observer Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: cha…
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What’s happening to our universities? Open
In recent decades, many universities have been moving in the direction of a more hierarchical and centralised structure, with top-down planning and reduced local autonomy for departments. Yet, the management literature over this period has…
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HPV vaccination in Japan: what is happening in Japan? Open
KEYWORDS: HPV vaccinecervical cancergovernmental suspension of recommendationeffectivenessadverse events
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TikTok as a Key Platform for Youth Political Expression: Reflecting on the Opportunities and Stakes Involved Open
Reflecting on 6 years of our research—which began on musical.ly and transitioned into TikTok—we argue that TikTok is a vital space to study social movements due to its centrality in youth lives and its ability to give voice to youth politi…
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How Climate Change Beliefs among U.S. Teachers Do and Do Not Translate to Students Open
Research suggests climate change beliefs among science teachers mirror those of the general public, raising questions of whether teachers may be perpetuating polarization of public opinion through their classrooms. We began answering these…
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A changing sense of place: Geography and COVID‐19 Open
In this essay, I explain how geography offers important ideas to better understand what is happening to our sense of place during the COVID‐19 crisis, complementing the scientific understandings provided by epidemiologists and public healt…
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The introduction of design to policymaking: Policy Lab and the UK government Open
The use of design within government institutions is a rapidly accelerating trend of global dimensions. The emergent nature of these design practices, and cultures, raises questions about what exactly is happening in the interactions betwee…
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Ungrid-able Ecologies: Decolonizing the Ecological Sensorium in a 10,000 year-old NaturalCultural Happening Open
In the photo essay that follows, I share some field notes two years into a long-term research-creation collaboration with award-winning dancer and filmmaker Ayelen Liberona. Becoming Sensor mixes art, ecology, and anthropology in an attemp…
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Failing to learn: The impact of failures during making activities Open
Making is a recent educational phenomenon that is increasingly occurring in schools and informal learning spaces around the world. In this paper we explore data from maker educators about their experiences with failure. We surveyed maker e…
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Cultures and Technology: An Analysis of Some of the Changes in Progress—Digital, Global and Local Culture Open
L’analisi presenta alcune riflessioni sui cambiamenti prodotti dall’uso delle tecnologie digitali nelle società contemporanee. La finalità è capire che cosa è accaduto nel recente passato, dalla seconda metà del ‘900, e che cosa sta accade…
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The Use of Online Crime Markets by Cybercriminal Networks: A View From Within Open
In this article, we study the various functions of online cybercriminal meeting places from a unique perspective: We do not take the criminal meeting place as a starting point, but the users—the criminal networks. This allows not only for …
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Juvenile crime drop: What is happening with youth in Spain and why? Open
One of the most robust findings in criminology is the fall in crime rates throughout the Western world. However, there is still much to be learnt about this and its causes. This case study analyses the Spanish juvenile crime trends and tes…
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Crime Prediction and Analysis Using Machine Learning Open
It is critical to recognise crime patterns in order to be better prepared to respond to criminal behavior. We study crime data of states in india that was scrapped publicly available websites kaggle for our project. The goal is to estimate…
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China's Belt and Road Initiative in Latin America: What has Changed? Open
When China invited the Latin American countries to participate in the Belt and Road Initiative, it fuelled expectations of a much closer and more productive relationship with the region. In practice, however, there is little evidence that …
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Panopticism is not Enough: Social Media as Technologies of Voluntary Servitude Open
The article aims to offer a new theoretical framework for thinking about surveillance and control in social media. In the first section, the authors show how Panopticism found breeding ground in social media studies. Yet they claim that de…
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Between hope and happening: Problematizing the M and the P in models-based practice Open
Background: Advocacy through the work of many scholars in physical education and sport pedagogy highlights a significant direction towards which physical education is moving in light of calls for change. Importantly, and despite the 'newne…
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What is Happening to Our Norms Against Racist Speech? Open
Until recently, the accepted wisdom in the US was that overt racism would doom a national political campaign. This led to the use of covert messaging strategies like dogwhistles. Recent political events have called this wisdom into questio…
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Independent Ireland in Comparative Perspective Open
This article surveys independent Ireland’s economic policies and performance. It has three main messages. First, the economic history of post-independence Ireland was not particularly unusual. Very often, things that were happening in Irel…
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Virtually Being Lenin Enhances Presence and Engagement in a Scene From the Russian Revolution Open
Virtual Reality (VR) has been widely applied to cultural heritage such as the reconstruction of ancient sites and artifacts. It has hardly been applied to the reprise of specific important moments in history. On the other hand immersive jo…
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Shared decision making: everyone wants it, so why isn't it happening? Open
M. Slade1 makes a strong case, in this issue of the journal, for a wider adoption of shared decision making (SDM), while acknowledging the particular problems that must be overcome if it is to become the dominant mode in mental health care…