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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"digital practices"”.
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Primary student-teachers' perceptions of the role of digital literacy in their lives
… investigates the nature of student-teachers’ ‘digital insidership’. It explores seven primary studentteachers’ perceptions of the role of digital literacy in their lives both within and beyond primary classrooms. Adopting a methodology influenced by phenomenology, it draws primarily from …
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Adoption in the USA: The racialised digital representation & monetisation of children
… USA are represented and monetised by a range of digital ‘adoption advocates’, including governments, private adoption agencies and adoptive parents. Though there have been extensive studies on the racialised political economic forces that shape US adoption practices, and separate research into …
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The digital lifeworlds of young Nigerians – Exploring rural and urban teens’ practices with, and negotiation of, digital technology
This study investigates the digital lifeworlds of rural and urban 13- to 18-year old young people in an African, specifically Nigerian, context. Children and young people’s digital lifeworlds and practices with technology in the global North is well researched and documented. By contrast, research …
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Supporting registered early childhood educators through online collaborative professional practice discussions (CPPD project)
This study examines the digital competence and technology use of a small sample of Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs) in an attempt to gauge their readiness for fully online professional learning. A multi-phase mixed-methods approach was used to gather data on RECE digital practices. …
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Frequency of Communication on Facebook as a Factor in Four Dimensions of Perceived Social Support
… Graduate School of Social Work and the Emergent Digital Practices program were surveyed. Correlation and regression analyses were used to examine the relationship between the variables. Findings from the analysis indicated that the frequency of posting statuses on Facebook and the frequency of …
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A case study of digital readiness and technology adoption at a theological college in Cape Town, South Africa
… new technologies. This study aims to explore the digital readiness and technology adoption of faculty and staff at a theological college and to understand the current digital practices and views of key stakeholders regarding the drivers and barriers of digital readiness and technology adoption. …
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Social Media, Radical Democracy, and the Popular Public Sphere: Digital Politics in Contemporary France
… Can new democratic promises be gleaned in digital practices that are otherwise incompatible with deliberative norms? What emancipatory perspectives can we retain from social media, and what new shortcomings do we see, when we look at them from a radical-democratic, instead of a …
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Living Migration Through Digital Connectivity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Migrant Belonging
… this study explores how connected migrants use digital means to navigate everyday life in Greece and sustain transnational ties, and how these practices shape their feelings of belonging. By adopting a translocational framework that sees belonging as situated, relational, and positional, and a …
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iGeneration: The Social Cognitive Effects of Digital Technology on Teenagers
<p>Into today’s world, digital technology changes so rapidly and integrates into our society at such an accelerated rate, it is hard to keep up with it, let alone reflect on the effects it has on our lives. Although Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, did not exist a mere decade ago, they are now …
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Exploring enhanced data quality assessment: a framework for asset data management of the built environment
… is undergoing a significant shift toward digital practices, driven by the global momentum of digital transformation. Consequently, asset managers in the built environment are now responsible for handling significantly larger volumes of data to support the operational phase of asset …
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A Cultural analysis of resistances to digital poetries
… their relation to expressions of resistance to digital media poetries from correspondents associated with the print media publication of poetry in the UK in the period 2012-2017. The PhD also consists of a practice-led element which aims to generate a typology of resistances to digital poetries. …
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iPad: A Virtual Studio in my Handbag
… space, through filmmaking, photography, and digital drawing and painting. The practice-based element of this doctorate is interwoven with an investigation of relevant critical theory and is presented as a descriptive analysis of my virtual studio. The research explores the contemporary …
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Theatre, Performance and Digital Tools: Modelling New Modes of Political Engagement
… think about intermediality as a lens that covers digital practices as both form and content. I also consider the value, challenges and dangers of asking spectators to interact with performers and digital tools in order to model new modes of political engagement, and question how various artistic …
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Social Media and the Dual Role of Lawyers from Supporting Human Rights to Activism in the 2019 Algerian Hirak
… Mobilisation Theory. The study investigates how digital tools shape legal advocacy, political expression and professional identity in a repressive political context, by means of this framework. The findings reveal that social media platforms, especially Facebook and WhatsApp, served as vital …
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Branding Museums through UGC in China: Insights from the Cultural and Creative Industries in the Era of Digitalisation.
… UGC mediates museum branding within China's digitally participatory cultural environment. Conceptually, the study moves beyond institution-centred branding models and revisits classical critiques of the culture industry in light of contemporary digital participation. Rather than viewing …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… immersive documentation with co-authored digital storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community confronting dispossession and cultural enclosure—the project co-creates …
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RAP IN EXILE: SYRIAN DIASPORA, HYBRIDITY AND DIGITAL CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN GERMANY
… and political subjectivity through sonic and digital practices. Situated within scholarly debates on diaspora, transnationalism and cultural citizenship, the study contends that rap operates as a pivotal medium through which exiled creators articulate experiences of fragmentation, …
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Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection
… practice is contextualised during the process of digital visualisation and ethnographic research. The investigation utilises a two-pronged approach to examine music related projects from an archive, the Seán Ó Riada Collection, and focuses on how mid-twentieth century Irish artist Seán Ó Riada …
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The effects of Web 2.0 online platforms on diplomatic activities [before doctoral defense]
… organisational reforms, but through the everyday digital practices of its practitioners. The rapid global spread of Web 2.0 online platforms has fundamentally reshaped the ways diplomatic actors communicate, gather information, coordinate tasks, and engage with both domestic and international …
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Reading in the Digital Age: A case study of print and digital literacy practices and dominant discourses around reading in the homes of middle-class children in Cape Town across Grade R and Grade 1
… children who are learning to read are exposed to digital technology from a very young age and many contemporary families have access to a range of digital devices. This project investigates the reading practices, both digital and print-based, of six middle-class suburban children in Cape Town and …
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