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- Assistive technologies as rights enablersPublication . Encarnação, Pedro; Cook, Albert M.The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability establish the rights for all children. For some children, enjoying those rights depends on or is facilitated by assistive technology, that is, products adapted or designed for improving the functioning of disabled people and all services inherent to the selection, acquisition, and use of assistive products. This chapter reviews the definition of assistive technology and briefly describes assistive products categories to show the breadth of assistive products available. It then discusses children rights and how they can be mediated or moderated by assistive technologies. Some of the challenges and ethical issues of assistive technology provision for children are also examined.
- Uso problemático generalizado da internet em adultos : papel preditivo da regulação emocional e da autoestima durante a pandemia de COVID-19Publication . Morgado, Patrícia Daniela Macedo; Maia, Berta Maria Marinho RodriguesIntrodução: O uso problemático generalizado da internet pode gerar repercussões negativas na vida do indivíduo, tendo influência na forma como enfrenta as adversidades. Uma regulação emocional disfuncional acarreta uma maior probabilidade de se envolver em comportamentos aditivos, de modo a abstrair-se das emoções negativas. Igualmente, uma baixa autoestima tem-se mostrado suscetível a um uso problemático da internet, percecionando as interações virtuais como mais seguras e compensatórias. Método: Explorar o papel preditivo da regulação emocional e da autoestima no uso problemático generalizado da internet, durante a pandemia por COVID-19, numa amostra de 138 adultos portugueses. Foi utilizado um questionário sociodemográfico, a Escala de Uso Generalizado Problemático da Internet 2, a Escala de Dificuldades na Regulação Emocional e a Escala de Autoestima de Rosenberg. Resultados e conclusões: Resultaram diferenças estatisticamente significativas na relação entre a regulação emocional, autoestima e o uso problemático generalizado da internet. Ou seja, uma baixa regulação emocional e baixa autoestima atuam como preditores para o uso problemático generalizado da internet. Adicionalmente, ser mais jovem, ser do sexo masculino e uma idade de início de uso da internet mais precoce resultaram significativas na sua relação com o uso problemático generalizado da internet.
- The collective dream : Egyptians longing for a better lifePublication . Nagaty, Sarah; Hanenberg, Peter Heinrich; Tygstrup, FrederikThis research conceptualizes the collective dream in light of two historical moments in Egypt's history. Firstly, the period of President Gamal Abdelnasser, or what is known as the Nasserite period (1956–1970) – in particular the building of the High Dam as a larger-than-life national project which acted as the materialization of anti-colonial, socialist, pan-Arab aspirations. Secondly, the Revolution of the 25th of January 2011, which succeeded in overthrowing President Hosni Mubarak after thirty years in power and raised the slogan: “Bread, Freedom, Social Justice.” Collective dreams, I argue, are born from transformative historical moments in which a heightened sense of hope allows a group of people to dream together of better lives. The collective dream interweaves the singular dreams of many individuals and connects personal welfare to the welfare of the collective. It sustains a sense of belonging to an overarching framework within and through which people look forward to something. It is the dream of a “better life”, as vague, simple, and unfathomable as this statement is. It is more complex and much bigger than specific demands or aims. Its hallmark is a general, powerful, oneiric tendency characterized by vagueness, generality, hopefulness, and fear. How does it feel for subjects to enter into this attachment? What is it like when the attachments cease to be promising? How does the collective dream exist in its afterlife? And how does this experience re-constitute its subjects? This research aims at advancing a study of collective consciousness of a society by shedding light on its ephemeral, often incoherent structure of feelings (Raymond Williams). Thus, my approach runs contrary to the prevailing trend of studying of a society in light of fully organized experiences, smoothing out their inconsistencies and contradictions. It shifts attention onto how the material reality of experience is “felt”, particularly during historical moments in which the promise of a better life seems near and real. I use various cultural representations which articulate the rise and the demise of the collective dream during both the period of the Nasserite project and Egyptian Spring of 2011. These representations include the poetry of Abdelrahman al-Abnudi, Salah Jahin, and Tamim al-Barghouthi, the reportage The Man of the High Dam (1967) by Sonallah Ibrahim, Kamal al-Qilish, and Raouf Mousad, revolutionary graffiti (2011–2013), and semi-structured personal interviews.