The growth in the application of information technology to learning/training underscores the need to understand the impact of these technologies. This paper reports the results of a multi-period quasiexperiment focusing on two e-learning methods: elementK and video-based method. Drawing on the two foundational disciplines of Information Systems and Education, this study presents a theoretical m...

Communities present considerable challenges for the design and application of supportive information technology (IT), especially in looselyintegrated and informal contexts, as it is often the case of Communities of Practice (CoP). An approach that actively supports user communities in the process of IT appropriation can help alleviate the impossibility of their members to rely on continuous pro...

Abstract Research on carbon inequalities shows that some countries are overshooting their fair share of the remaining budget and hold disproportionate responsibility for climate breakdown. Scholars argue owe compensation or reparations to undershooting atmospheric appropriation climate-related damages. Here we develop a procedure quantify level owed in ‘net zero’ scenario where all decarbonize ...

Garden of the Empire: Catherine's Appropriation of the Crimea

This article analyses Hilary Mantel’s critically-acclaimed Tudor novel series (Wolf Hall, 2009; Bring Up the Bodies, 2012; The Mirror & Light, 2020) in context of Brexit. Even though Mantel has dismissed any possible analogy between Reformation and Brexit, this research builds on hypothesis that past present interact historical fiction, a genre contributed to both feeding questioning myths ...

Being and Time, Heidegger praises Kant as “the first and only person who has gone any stretch of the way towards investigating the dimension of temporality or has even let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves” (SZ: 23). Kant was, before Husserl (and perhaps, in Heidegger's mind, more than him), a true phenomenologist in the sense that the need to curtail the prete...

“Indigenous cultural knowledge has always been an open treasure box for the unfettered appropriation of items of value to Western civilization. While we assiduously protect rights to valuable knowledge among ourselves, indigenous people have never been accorded similar rights over their cultural knowledge. Existing Western intellectual property laws support, promote, and excuse the wholesale, u...