Abstract In their efforts to find others who share experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn Instagram engage participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. Through conceptual lens digital existence, where online are regarded as constitutive transition, we draw on ten interviews an ethnography explore some struggles that exper...

Thisarticle describes critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process in­ volvingparticipatory design workaimed at transforming a local contextwhile producing an instructional design that can beused in multiplecontexts. Here, we reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques thenreified them intoadesignedartifact thathasbeen implemented in classrooms a...

Linguistic ethnography provides insight into how communication occurs between individuals and institutions, while situating these local actions within wider social, political historical contexts (Copland & Creese, 2015) has proven to be a particularly effective tool for developing our understanding of individuals’ lived multilingual realities (see Unamuno, 2014) societal multilingualism. Turnin...

The present research tries to show how race, class, and gender and intersectionality in general, have their decisive impact on the black- American women; and how Alice Walker as a womanist, in her selected short stories, tries to show that black women in the U.S. suffer two-fold acts of oppression and discrimination, i.e. male violence affects all women in social life, irrespective of age or so...