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Hermeneutic Circle In Digital Literation And Its Relevance As An Antidote To Hoax, M. Rodinal Khair Khasri Dec 2019

Hermeneutic Circle In Digital Literation And Its Relevance As An Antidote To Hoax, M. Rodinal Khair Khasri

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This article presents the results of the observations about digital literacy that were studied philosophically through Gadamer's hermeneutic approach. The reason for using this approach is to achieve an understanding of how the subject and its history play a role in the digital literacy process, where ontologically, the content of information has been visualized into the digital world so that a philosophical understanding is needed in understanding the virtual reality. This research is included in the classification of qualitative research with an analysis with three stages, namely reducing data that is very general and broad in a more specific form, …


Insomnia, Race, And Mental Wellness, Debbie D. Hendley Jan 2019

Insomnia, Race, And Mental Wellness, Debbie D. Hendley

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

This phenomenological study examines the experiences of insomnia among sixteen Americans who are descendants of people who lived in the United States during chattel slavery. The investigation is guided by the following two central questions: Is the lived experience of insomnia among African Americans the same as the experience among non-Hispanic White Americans? In addition, what is the lived experience of sleep among African Americans and Non-Hispanic White Americans? Each participant met individually with the researcher and privately reflected on their experience with insomnia defined here as a condition in which individuals have difficulty initiating and maintaining sleep that furthermore …