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Protecting children online? : cyberbullying policies of social media companies
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ISBN: 0262344092 0262344084 0262037092 9780262344098 9780262037099 9780262344081 9780262344104 0262344106 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluations and interviews with e-safety experts. This book raises questions about the legitimacy of expecting companies to balance the tension between free speech and child protection without publicly revealing their decision-making processes. In an environment where e-safety is part of the corporate business model, this book unveils the process through which established social media companies receive less government scrutiny than start-ups. The importance of this research for law and policy argues for an OA edition to ensure the work is widely and globally accessible to scholars and decision makers.


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Hustle and gig
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ISBN: 9780520300569 0520300564 9780520300552 0520300556 0520971892 9780520971899 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oakland, California

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Choose your hours, choose your work, be your own boss, control your own income. Welcome to the sharing economy, a nebulous collection of online platforms and apps that promise to transcend capitalism. Supporters argue that the gig economy will reverse economic inequality, enhance worker rights, and bring entrepreneurship to the masses. But does it? In Hustle and Gig, Alexandrea J. Ravenelle shares the personal stories of nearly eighty predominantly millennial workers from Airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit, and Kitchensurfing. Their stories underline the volatility of working in the gig economy: the autonomy these young workers expected has been usurped by the need to maintain algorithm-approved acceptance and response rates. The sharing economy upends generations of workplace protections such as worker safety; workplace protections around discrimination and sexual harassment; the right to unionize; and the right to redress for injuries. Discerning three types of gig economy workers-Success Stories, who have used the gig economy to create the life they want; Strugglers, who can't make ends meet; and Strivers, who have stable jobs and use the sharing economy for extra cash-Ravenelle examines the costs, benefits, and societal impact of this new economic movement. Poignant and evocative, Hustle and Gig exposes how the gig economy is the millennial's version of minimum-wage precarious work.


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Making open development inclusive
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ISBN: 9780262358835 0262358832 9780262358828 0262358824 026253911X Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

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Drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyses of how open development has played out in practice. A decade ago, a significant trend toward openness emerged in international development. "Open development" can describe initiatives as disparate as open government, open health data, open science, open education, and open innovation. The theory was that open systems related to data, science, and innovation would enable more inclusive processes of human development. This volume, drawing on ten years of empirical work and research, analyzes how open development has played out in practice.


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University and School Collaborations During a Pandemic : Sustaining Educational Opportunity and Reinventing Education
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ISBN: 3030821595 3030821587 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,

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Based on twenty case studies of universities worldwide, and on a survey administered to leaders in 101 universities, this open access book shows that, amidst the significant challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, universities found ways to engage with schools to support them in sustaining educational opportunity. In doing so, they generated considerable innovation, which reinforced the integration of the research and outreach functions of the university. The evidence suggests that universities are indeed open systems, in interaction with their environment, able to discover changes that can influence them and to change in response to those changes. They are also able, in the success of their efforts to mitigate the educational impact of the pandemic, to create better futures, as the result of the innovations they can generate. This challenges the view of universities as “ivory towers” being isolated from the surrounding environment and detached from local problems. As they reached out to schools, universities not only generated clear and valuable innovations to sustain educational opportunity and to improve it, this process also contributed to transform internal university processes in ways that enhanced their own ability to deliver on the third mission of outreach.

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Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Organization & management of education --- Educational strategies & policy --- Education --- Open Access --- Higher Education Leadership --- educational innovation --- Leading learning during crises --- pandemic of 2020 --- university teaching during COVID-19 --- educational continuity --- online platforms for students and teachers --- Professional development --- Instructional resources --- socio-emotional support to students --- Organizational learning and innovation --- Engaging university students during COVID-19 --- educational impact of the pandemic --- school system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile --- Elementary and Secondary Learning during COVID-19 in China --- basic and secondary education in Colombia during the pandemic --- distance learning for K12 education in Japan --- upper-secondary education during the pandemic --- University - K12 collaboration during the pandemic in Turkey --- Educació superior --- Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020 --- -Open Access --- -Epidèmia de COVID-19, 2020 --- -COVID-19 (Pandèmia), 2020 --- -Epidèmies --- COVID-19 --- Educació universitària --- Ensenyament superior --- Ensenyament universitari --- Estudis superiors --- Estudis universitaris --- Etapes educatives --- Abandó dels estudis (Educació superior) --- Competències transversals --- Educació clàssica --- Educació superior transfronterera --- Ensenyament de la biblioteconomia --- Estudis de postgrau --- Extensió universitària --- Lectura (Educació superior) --- Orientació en l'educació superior --- Primer cicle d'ensenyament universitari --- Seminaris --- Tercer cicle d'ensenyament universitari --- Campus virtuals --- Escrits acadèmics --- Pràcticums --- Universitats

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