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- Exploring the human face of COVID-19: a reception study of chronicle and NewsDay readers in BulawayoPublication . Ndlovu, Nonhlanhla; Tshuma, Bhekizulu B.; Tshuma, Lungile A.Since Zimbabwe reported its first case of (COVID-19) in March 2020, the country, like the rest of the world, slid into a health crisis. The pandemic tested not only public health systems but also the integrity and responsiveness of media institutions. In this article, we undertake a reception analysis of the coverage of COVID-19 in two ideologically distinct newspapers, Chronicle and NewsDay, during the height of the pandemic. Drawing on reception theory and in-depth interviews with Bulawayo residents, the research explores whether audiences perceived the coverage as consistently accurate, complete, balanced and ethically responsible. Findings indicate widespread dissatisfaction due to the politicization of the pandemic, hence the need for a robust revisiting of health journalism principles. The study highlights the need for more empathetic, accountable journalism in crisis contexts.
- On a musical instrument in “The Skaters” by John AshberyPublication . Eckerson, Sara
- The role of the media in the process of young refugees’ integration and identity in the host country: an exploratory study of the Portuguese casePublication . Tavares, Sandra Borges; Dias, PatríciaThis paper explores the role of digital media in the daily lives of young refugees in Portugal, aged between 11-18 years old. As an exploratory research, we drew upon a qualitative approach, focused on participants’ media consumption and practices. Three key themes emerged from the data: Digital media practices, integration processes, and identity negotiation. Overall, participants showed a strong preference for platforms like YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram, mainly for entertainment, language learning, social connection, and self-expression. Such practices align with youth media trends that support hybrid identity formation across transnational and local contexts. Digital media also worked as educational tools, with AI, like ChatGPT, used for language learning. Participants also actively engaged with Portuguese culture, revealing a dual belonging. This study highlights that young refugees are active media users, suggesting further research in Portugal in terms of youth refugees mediatic uses and practices for integration policy and digital inclusion strategies.
- Beyond individual vulnerability: recommendations for structurally informed interventionPublication . Barros, CarlosThis research examines expert advice on interventions for populations facing social vulnerability. Based on semi-structured interviews with professionals in psychosocial support, health, education, human geography and public policy, the study employs reflexive thematic analysis to detect common themes in how vulnerability is perceived and managed in practice. The results identify three interconnected clusters: first, viewing vulnerability as a product of structural factors, highlighting issues like institutional fragmentation, bureaucratic obstacles, and policy inconsistencies rather than individual shortcomings; second, emphasising relational and recognition processes, such as trust, active listening, and respect for personal journeys as key to meaningful engagement; and third, focusing on mediation and empowerment tactics, including institutional mediation, critical education, and digital literacy, to improve access and agency without shifting responsibility to individuals. Overall, the findings suggest that effective intervention demands integrated strategies that address structural conditions, relational factors, and empowerment methods. By consolidating expert insights, the study offers empirically based guidance for practice and service organisation, emphasising the need for structurally aware, relationally grounded, and context-sensitive responses to current vulnerabilities.
- Community, credibility, and care: activist public relations in the Portuguese psychedelic fieldPublication . Müller, NaídeThis article theorises how activist public relations operates within a Portugal-based node of the contemporary psychedelic movement. Drawing on agonistic and critical public relations, legitimacy is approached as a situated and contested accomplishment through which credibility and epistemic authority are negotiated in practice. Using a qualitative single-case design, the study analyses a comprehensive website corpus (N = 313) and four role-central interviews. Findings demonstrate a hybrid choreography that coordinates pre-event digital cues, co-present encounters, and curated post-event afterlives. This choreography is sustained through temporal anchoring (cadence, cycles, annual anchors) and narrative care informed by ethics of care, including privacy safeguards, harm-reduction framing, and a deliberately non-promotional tone. Place-framing and selective partnerships further root claims in Portuguese publics and enable adjacent legitimacy while maintaining clear boundaries against treatment provision. The article contributes by specifying how place-based community infrastructure is sustained through hybrid and temporal repertoires, and by showing how care-oriented curation can widen credible voice while bounding exposure so that testimony functions as public reason rather than spectacle. Practically, the findings suggest designing communication as a sequenced arc from outreach and reminders to convening and documentation, followed by resource-oriented recaps, supported by predictable rhythms and explicit privacy and harm-reduction protocols.
- Community, credibility, and care: activist public relations in the Portuguese psychedelic fieldPublication . Müller, NaídeThis article theorises how activist public relations operates within a Portugal-based node of the contemporary psychedelic movement. Drawing on agonistic and critical public relations, legitimacy is approached as a situated and contested accomplishment through which credibility and epistemic authority are negotiated in practice. Using a qualitative single-case design, the study analyses a comprehensive website corpus (N = 313) and four role-central interviews. Findings demonstrate a hybrid choreography that coordinates pre-event digital cues, co-present encounters, and curated post-event afterlives. This choreography is sustained through temporal anchoring (cadence, cycles, annual anchors) and narrative care informed by ethics of care, including privacy safeguards, harm-reduction framing, and a deliberately non-promotional tone. Place-framing and selective partnerships further root claims in Portuguese publics and enable adjacent legitimacy while maintaining clear boundaries against treatment provision. The article contributes by specifying how place-based community infrastructure is sustained through hybrid and temporal repertoires, and by showing how care-oriented curation can widen credible voice while bounding exposure so that testimony functions as public reason rather than spectacle. Practically, the findings suggest designing communication as a sequenced arc from outreach and reminders to convening and documentation, followed by resource-oriented recaps, supported by predictable rhythms and explicit privacy and harm-reduction protocols.
- Visibility without agency: how gaming audiences read intersectional characters in Assassin's CreedPublication . Ferreira, Cátia; Ganito, CarlaDigital games, which have billions of players worldwide, are among the most popular cultural activities of the twenty-first century, impacting how people perceive the past and create their identities. They frequently integrate historical elements as cultural environments, but they frequently contribute to the consolidation of westernized worldviews. Focusing on Assassin’s Creed III, Origins, and Liberation, this article looks into how racial minorities are represented in the Assassin’s Creed series. Using an intersectional qualitative approach, integrating semiotic and narrative analysis of the games with thematic analysis of user comments on Reddit and YouTube. It examines the ways in which gamers from various cultural backgrounds embrace, challenge, or reframe racialized representations. By analyzing the symbolic negotiations between creators and audiences, the article expands the critical understanding of how digital games reflect and reshape cultural memory, identity, and power.
cultural memory, identity, and power. - Spacetimes of (in)hospitality: working through and historical relationality in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s Adas RaumPublication . Lindemann Lino, VerenaThis article explores the memory work in Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel Adas Raum (2021) (Ada’s Room/Ada’s Realm, 2023) and its contribution to rethinking historical relationality and the impact of contemporary forms of working through historical violence. It discusses Otoo’s novel as a repository of disruptive ways of telling and seeing that do not yield to a recuperative ‘historical desire’ (Arondekar 2015) and the evidentiary models that it enables, but instead claims room for a memory that problematises forms of (in)hospitality and discrimination in present-day Germany. Linking the figure of Sankofa to Walter Benjamin’s philosophy of history, the article analyses how Adas Raum entangles past, present, and future in a specific time–spaceconstellation of connective loops that suspend an understanding of history as a progression of linear time. It argues that this articulation of space and time does not only draw attention to the complexity of historical relationality, but also to the problematic exclusionary effects of national cultural memory. Working through does not thereby become a means to advance an untroubled narrative of hope, but rather a necessary way to (re)imagine a mode of remembering-learning that enables alternative forms of belonging and homemaking in the present.
- Présentation de la plateforme DeepFLE au service des enseignants de Français Langue EtrangèrePublication . Louchet, ChantalAs inovações tecnológicas consideradas revolucionárias e a sua introdução nas salas de aula sempre suscitaram apreensão, uma vez que transformam radicalmente não só a aprendizagem, mas também o ensino. Ensinar e aprender na era da inteligência artificial suscita muitas preocupações, seja sobre as capacidades de redação, seja sobre a noção de inteligência, seja sobre a veracidade dos conteúdos e das fontes a que a IA se refere, seja ainda sobre a noção de plágio. É por todas estas razões que a introdução da IA deve ser legalmente bem enquadrada. No entanto, é experimentando algumas ferramentas de inteligência artificial que avançaremos. É isso que vos proponho ao descobrir a plataforma DeepFLE, criada por uma equipa de investigadores da Universidade de Nice e destinada a facilitar a avaliação de textos escritos em francês.
- Estudo exploratório sobre os contributos da liga extraordinária dos futuros intérpretes para a formação de estudantes surdos e ouvintes de tradução e interpretação de Língua Gestual PortuguesaPublication . Gil, Cristina; Sousa, Joana Conde e; Santana, NeuzaEste estudo tem como principal objetivo avaliar os contributos e o impacto da Liga Extraordinária de Futuros Intérpretes (LEFI), uma atividade de educação não-formal organizada no âmbito de duas licenciaturas que formam intérpretes de Língua Gestual Portuguesa (LGP), em Portugal: Tradução e Interpretação em Língua Gestual Portuguesa (TILGP) da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (ESES/IPS) e LGP - Interpretação da Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (ESEC/IPC). A iniciativa surgiu quando as docentes e autoras deste artigo identificaram a oportunidade de fomentar a colaboração entre pares, promovendo uma melhor integração dos estudantes Surdos e ouvintes tanto nos estágios académicos como na entrada no mercado de trabalho. Assim nasceu a LEFI, cuja experiência positiva levou à continuidade do projeto. Para avaliar o seu impacto, realizou-se um estudo exploratório de abordagem mista, baseado em três questionários online aplicados a uma amostra total de 218 estudantes participantes nas três edições. As atividades de team building desenvolvidas, incluindo jogos, exercício físico, workshops e momentos sociais, reforçaram laços interpessoais, aumentaram a confiança e a coesão entre estudantes, preparando-os para uma futura colaboração profissional mais eficaz numa área em que o trabalho em equipa é essencial, mas ainda limitado.