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“Not Just A Muslim Candidate”: Zohran Mamdani’S Mediated Political Representation On Instagram @Zohrankmamdani, Arina Naila Hanifa Sadono, Verdy Firmantoro

JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

This study examines how Zohran Mamdani’s Instagram account, @zohrankmamdani, communicates his Muslim minority identity and constructs his mediated political representation through political human branding. As the first Muslim mayor of New York City, Mamdani represents a case of Muslim minority political representation in a context where Muslim Americans face negative perceptions and discrimination. This study analyzes his New York City mayoral election campaign from June 25 to November 4, 2025, using Mayring’s qualitative content analysis to examine 48 purposively selected Instagram posts from a total of 286 posts published during the period. The findings show that his political persona extends …

A Philosophical Introduction To Elements And Relations: Aspects Of A Scientific Metaphysics, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

My book, Elements and Relations*, amplifies Bunge’s characterization of the systems project as the construction an “exact and scientific metaphysics” (ESM) different from and broader than the reductionist and physicalist ontology of conventional science. This paper discusses the scientific theories constituting this project and the central notion of “system” as a structure-function dyad, where “structure” is the system’s internal order and “function” is its participation in the external order of its environment. The paper also discusses the book’s proposal of ontology and ethics as a structure-function dyad for the systems field, an ontology of problems that exemplifies the ESM idea.

Intersubjectivity, Collaboration, And The Possibilities Of Dialogic Analysis, Karen Ross, Meagan Call-Cummings

The Qualitative Report

This article stems from a desire to counter monologic, or single-voiced, approaches to data analysis and to consider opportunities for a dialogic approach that offers opportunities to engage and discover nuance and complexity in the research process. Drawing on our own research experiences, we offer a discussion of three methods of dialogic analysis: Reconstructive Horizon Analysis (RHA), participatory analysis, and Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR). Locating each of these within a kind of spectrum of dialogism, we illustrate how different forms of dialogic analysis can create space for complexity, nuance, perspective-taking, and in the best case, collaborative, intersubjective meaning making. We …

Empowering Women In Community-Based Tourism: A Close Look At Tourism Villages, Tristanti Tristanti, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Mulyanto Mulyanto, Ratna Devi Sakuntalawati

The Qualitative Report

This study examines women's empowerment in community-based tourism in Nglanggeran Tourist Village, Indonesia. Using an interpretive phenomenological approach, it explores how women experience the empowerment process within a rural tourism setting. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with five women actively involved in tourism activities and analyzed thematically. Findings show that empowerment follows five interconnected stages: raising awareness through women's groups, identifying programs based on local tourism potential, designing need-based initiatives, implementing training and mentoring, and evaluating programs through participatory discussions. Active participation and integration of local resources drive the process. Participants reported greater self-confidence, positive mindset changes, improved employment …

Inside A Multidisciplinary Grounded-Theory Project On Corruption In Ecuador: Navigating And Negotiating Challenges, Maria-Jose Rivera, Paúl Arias-Medina, Aracely Rojas-Lazo, Dolores Sucozhañay-Calle

The Qualitative Report

Studying day-to-day corruption raises hurdles for qualitative teams that cut across methodological, emotional, and ethical domains. Rather than presenting substantive findings on corruption, this article reports a reflexive analysis of those hurdles as experienced by an eight-member, multidisciplinary research team conducting the qualitative grounded-theory phase of the CIRCLE project in Ecuador - a context where discussing corruption often triggers mistrust, discomfort, and political sensitivities. Drawing on 33 meeting minutes and eight researcher stance memos, we applied Braun and Clarke’s reflexive thematic analysis to team-generated documents to examine how challenges unfolded and were negotiated. We identified three interconnected domains of difficulty. …

Exploring Striking Moments Through Reflexive Inquiry: Case Study Of Action Learning Conversations, Mette Vinther Larsen, Sheila Mcnamee

The Qualitative Report

This paper explores how executive managers reflexively inquire into striking moments, understood as unanticipated instances that unsettle taken-for-granted assumptions, through Action Learning Conversations (ALC). ALC is a structured six-step dialogical process used at a Danish executive MBA program. Grounded in a relational-constructionist stance, the study responds to earlier empirical work showing that reflexivity could not be planned through curricular design but depends instead on relational and reflexive inquiries around unanticipated and striking moments. Using a qualitative, semi-structured case study design, the first author, who taught in the program and generated the data, traces two purposively selected cases; (1) centered on …

Cultivating Gen-Z As Cultural Heirs In The Indigenous Community Of Cireundeu, Sardin Sardin, Ade Romi Rosmia, Mohamad Hadi Ali Mutamam

The Qualitative Report

How do Indigenous leaders teach digital-native youth to value centuries-old traditions? This six-month ethnographic study examined cultural transmission in Cireundeu, an Indigenous Sundanese community in West Java, Indonesia. Existing studies often address Indigenous education and digital youth culture separately, with limited attention to leaders’ perspectives. Conducted from June to November 2024, the study drew on participant observation, interviews with 25 community members, six focus group discussions, and digital artifact analysis. Reflexive thematic analysis identified three interconnected patterns. First, leaders fostered cultural learning through graduated ceremonial participation. Second, elders practiced leader-orchestrated digital bricolage by adapting Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp for cultural …

Researching Readers And Writers: The Role Of Serendipity, Elizabeth L. Jaeger

The Qualitative Report

I trace here three case studies of readers and writers: third grade children participating in a Writing Workshop, fourth grade vulnerable readers in a tutoring setting, and adults with major mental illness interacting in a writers’ group. Specifically, I collected and analyzed data related to students extending a classroom practice called Class Meeting (during which they shared concerns and compliments) into the writing workshop context; expanding the focus of tutoring practice from children who struggled with comprehension of text to include those with English vocabulary and decoding issues; and changes when I moved from a participant in, to facilitator of, …

From Epoché To Essence: A Methodological Chronicle Of Hybrid Phenomenological Data Analysis, Mulugeta Yayeh Worku

The Qualitative Report

This article provides a personal and procedural account of the methodological journey undertaken for a doctoral study on the lived experiences of teacher educators practicing Social Reconstructionism in Ethiopian higher education. Navigating the complex terrain of phenomenological inquiry, the author details a Hybrid Phenomenological Model that integrates the procedural rigor of Clark Moustakas's descriptive method (e.g., horizonalization and imaginative variation) as a structural scaffold, with the interpretive attitude of hermeneutical phenomenology (Max van Manen, Martin Heidegger) as the guiding lens for meaning construction. The chronicle traces a five-phase data analysis process, from the initial challenge of epoché and immersion, through …

Reflexive Accounts Of Conducting Qualitative Interviews In The Mena Region, Chaima Mennai, Sana Alzahrani

The Qualitative Report

This paper provides a reflexive account of our experiences conducting qualitative research in the contexts of two Arab countries, from our perspectives as researchers trained in a Western academic context. We explore the challenges and insights gained when recruiting and interviewing participants for qualitative Ph.D. projects within what is a predominantly quantitative research culture. Drawing on Walsh’s reflexive framework, we detail the issues that emerged during the recruitment and interview processes, identifying their potentially significant implications for Ph.D. candidates and early-career researchers who were trained in the West and are choosing to conduct research in contexts where the qualitative research …

Teaching Writing With Genai: Teacher Insights On How To Adapt Learning And Assessment Practices, Thanh Thao Le, Trut Thuy Pham, Minh Tuan Duong, Thi Diem Lan Le

The Qualitative Report

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) creates two connected challenges for English as a foreign language (EFL) writing assessment: teachers need credible evidence of learner authorship and learning, while teachers and learners need practical guidance for responsible use. We investigated how nine Vietnamese tertiary EFL teachers redesigned writing tasks and assessment and whether their pedagogical reasoning varied across career stages. We generated data through semi-structured interviews at two tertiary institutions and analyzed the accounts using reflexive thematic analysis. The analysis produced four themes: (1) movement from detection to authenticity-by-design, (2) Defensive, Adaptive, and Generative response patterns, (3) integrity, equity, and feasibility as …

Behind The Screen And Behind The Researcher: Reflexivity In Digital Mental Health Inquiry, Lesedi Kgatla

The Qualitative Report

The purpose of this paper is to reflexively examine how researcher positionality, theoretical commitments, methodological choices, and ethical decision-making shaped the interpretation of a previously conducted qualitative study on digital mental health activism. Drawing on my earlier digital ethnographic study of two South African mental health activists who used social media to disclose their experiences of depression, this paper presents a reflexive qualitative re-examination of the research process. The original study identified three themes: visibility through vulnerability, authenticity as activism, and community, connection, and psychoeducation. Rather than revisiting these as empirical findings, this paper examines how they were co-constructed through …

Participatory Research With People With Aphasia: Frameworks, Examples, And Implementation Guidance, Jacqueline J. Hinckley, Katie A. Strong, Brent Archer, Lauren Bislick, Suma R. Devanga, Amy E. R. Engelhoven, Anthony Pak-Hin Kong

The Qualitative Report

Participatory research (PR) improves the meaningfulness and efficiency of research and reduces the research-to-practice gap, because it includes the lived experience of those who are affected by the research in the planning, execution, and dissemination of the research. Communication disabilities, like aphasia due to stroke, or communication differences impact the way in which meaningful research collaborations can take place. The purpose of this paper is to describe the ethics, challenges, and opportunities for involving people with aphasia as collaborators in research. We highlight specific examples of PR projects undertaken by community member teams composed of researchers, clinicians, people with aphasia, …

Social Work Licensure With A Criminal Record: A Legal Mapping Project Of 56 U.S. States And Territories, Brianna Suslovic, Adrian Aira, Antara Anand, Halla Anderson, Jessica Brandon, Natalie Casal Alcaino, Nino Claveria, Nyla Conaway, Matthew W. Epperson, Louis Levy, Teya Lovell, Cea Murtha-Paradis, Zoë Phillips, Tanishq Rajan, Hannon Welch, Abbey Whigham

School for Social Work: Faculty Publications

This legal mapping paper aims to aggregate state-specific policies on the impact of criminal legal system contact—more specifically, the impact of criminal convictions—on social work licensure. Situating these policies within an abolitionist analysis and the larger history of social work in the United States, the paper attempts to expose the contradictions alive within the profession’s discourse. Social work discourses claim to value lived experience, yet social work licensure policies and practices often exclude the people and communities who, by lived experience, are uniquely qualified to do this work. Examining the language of these policies, this study poses questions concerning the …

The Effects Of An E-Learning Program On Knowledge, Beliefs, And Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Older Adults In Urban Communities: A Quasi-Experimental Study In Thailand, Chalermkwan Madsong, Naruemon Sawaengsri, Pramote Thangkratok, Thamonwan Boonprasit, Lawan Vanpirod

Journal of Health Research

Background: Delayed contact with emergency medical services (EMS; 1669 in Thailand) contributes to poor outcomes following acute myocardial infarction (AMI), particularly among older adults with limited symptom recognition. This study evaluated the effects of an e-learning program on AMI-related knowledge, health beliefs, and decision-making among older adults in urban Thailand.

Methods: A one-group pretest–posttest design with follow-up was conducted from December 2025 to January 2026. Thirty-five older adults aged 60–85 years from urban communities in Bangkok and nearby provinces participated. The two-week e-learning intervention comprised four interactive lessons based on the Health Belief Model and American Heart Association recommendations. AMI …

Predictors Of Tiktok Addiction Among University Students: The Contributions Of Fear Of Missing Out (Fomo) And Academic Stress, Dosi Juliawati, Muhammad Ikhsan, Hengki Yandri, Rasmita Rasmita, Darsi Darsi, Ainil Khuryati, Daflaini Daflaini

Buletin Konseling Inovatif

he surging popularity of TikTok among university students has raised serious scholarly concerns regarding the escalation of digital behavioral addiction and its detrimental impacts on higher education outcomes. Aims and scope of paper: This study aims to investigate the concurrent and partial contributions of Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and academic stress as predictors of TikTok addiction among undergraduate higher education students. Employing an associative quantitative design with a cross-sectional approach, this study involved 54 active students selected via purposive sampling based on specific digital intensity and institutional criteria. Data were gathered using three validated Likert-model psychological instruments: the FoMO …

Self-Regulated Learning As A Predictor Of Learning Motivation Among High School Students With Fear Of Failure, Luky Kurniawan, Auliana Ayu Sholekhah, Natri Sutanti

Buletin Konseling Inovatif

Self-regulated learning is one of the important factors in determining students' success in achieving academic goals. This study aims to examine the role of self-regulated learning as a predictor of learning motivation in students with a tendency to fear of failure. This study uses a quantitative-correlational approach with a survey method. The research sample consisted of 159 high school students who are selected by using purposive sampling. The instruments used in this study were a fear of failure scale used for screening, a self-regulated learning scale, and a learning motivation scale. The validity of the instruments that were tested using …

Primitive Accumulation In The Late Twentieth Century: Mexico, The United States, And Nafta, Mark Huffman

Scholars Week

Between 1971 and 1994, American capital succeeded in redirecting state action toward the interests of the largest transnational firms, facilitating extreme concentrations of wealth and capital alongside a profound defeat of organized labor and the dismantling of social programs. The post-Keynesian political economy produced the North American Free Trade Agreement, an event which demonstrated both the ideological capture of the American state by neoliberalism and the purpose of the ideology as a social force (as opposed to a strictly economic one). This article investigates the neoliberal turn generally and NAFTA specifically as engines of social dislocation in North America and …

The Strauma Protocol: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Improving The Time It Takes To Receive Critical Treatment, Chance Swanson, Joshua M. Justice, Michelle Luschen, Jordan S. Rahm, Bailey Segura, Darrell Hunt

Cumberland Medica

Introduction

The STRAUMA alert is a protocol that combines elements of a stroke and trauma alert that allows assessment from a multidisciplinary perspective without a delay in providing critical treatments in a timely manner. Our study sought to find a difference between the time it took to receive a computed tomography (CT) scan of the head between patients who did and did not have a STRAUMA alert called on them.

Methods

The time it took to receive tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) was also measured, along with the number of diagnosed strokes among these groups. Data was collected retrospectively from a …

Conference Chair's Introduction, Glen Goodknight

Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings

Introduction by conference chair Glen GoodKnight.

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Series Editor's Introduction, Janet Brennan Croft

Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings

An introduction by the Mythopoeic Society Seminar Proceedings Series Editor Janet Brennan Croft.

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How Ai’S Data Centers Thirst For Water Will Leave The Rest Of Us Dry If Left Unregulated, Emma Sawko

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Flexibility Of The Rule Against Perpetuities As Applied To Mineral Top Leases, John W. Ponder

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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From Pore Space To Policy Space: The Costs, Benefits, And Constitutionality Of North Dakota’S Ccs Long-Term Liability Transfer Standard, Lainey Morrow

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Opening The Door: Copyrightability Of Interpreted Seismic Models After Gsi V. Tgs, David Logan

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Beyond Produced Water: Extending Cactus Water To Lithium And Other Oilfield Waste, Louis W. Krivanek Iv

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Beneath The Surface: Addressing The Ownership And Development Rights Of Geothermal Energy Resources Under Oklahoma Property Law, Kobe K. Gipson

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Aesthetic Considerations In Nuisance Claims Against Texas Wind Farms, Ellie Duggan

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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Ownership Of Produced Water And The Path To Domestic Lithium And Critical Mineral Commercialization, Emily Davis

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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The Eleventh Circuit’S Narrow Interpretation Of Nepa In Alligator Alcatraz, Madison Crow

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

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