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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Problems Facing Teachers in Online Discussion Forums

open access: yesGaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2012
The research was carried out with the participation of teachers working in Gaziantep and was a qualitative study with a maximum variation sample. The data were obtained by focus group interviews.
Mehmet Sincar, C. Teyyar Uğurlu
doaj  

Critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions: examining the role of the student facilitator [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper is part of a larger study that investigates the types of facilitation techniques exhibited by student facilitators and how these techniques may foster in-depth levels of critical thinking in asynchronous online discussions. Data were collected
Cheung, WS, Hew, KF, Jumain, SN
core  

Talking to the crowd: What do people react to in online discussions? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper addresses the question of how language use affects community reaction to comments in online discussion forums, and the relative importance of the message vs. the messenger.
Fang, Hao   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Graphical Interface for Visual Exploration of Online Discussion Forums [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2006
Studies have shown that visualization can be an effective methodology in analyzing a large amount of data rapidly by exploiting the user's perceptual cognition. Especially, where the information space is filled by considerable amount of noise. This paper
Beomjin Kim, Philip Johnson
doaj  

Computerised Content Analysis for Measuring Critical Thinking within Discussion Forums

open access: yesJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2012
The growing popularity of online education has seen an increasing acceptance of the use of discussion forums as a means of promoting collaboration and interaction among distance education students. The fact that transcripts of these discussion forums can
Stephen Corich, Kinshuk Hunt, Lynn Hunt
doaj   +1 more source

Where is the "Frugal Olympics"? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The one-year countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and its media fanfare have come and gone, leaving behind persistent calls for an "economical and practical" Olympics to counteract perceived waste and excess in preparing for the Games. Increasingly, in
Bonny Ling, Trevor Lee
core  

Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automated Detection of Non-Relevant Posts on the Russian Imageboard "2ch": Importance of the Choice of Word Representations

open access: yes, 2017
This study considers the problem of automated detection of non-relevant posts on Web forums and discusses the approach of resolving this problem by approximation it with the task of detection of semantic relatedness between the given post and the opening
Bakarov, Amir, Gureenkova, Olga
core   +1 more source

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