The acts of citizenship framework emerged as an important innovation to the previous status- and practice-focused understanding with a landmark edited volume Acts Citizenship (2008). While theorisation through has predominantly from democratic context, theory holds that can happen in various cultural political contexts, should be studied multiple overlapping sites scales, rather than solely tho...

The increasing use of recommender systems to provide personalized news delivery influences media worldwide. Using different data sources predict what content will be interesting for specific readers, can better accommodate individual information needs, but also raise concerns about potential audience fragmentation. However, current assessments the effects personalization are predominantly based...

Eco-feedback interventions are capable of producing reductions in household energy consumption. Yet less is known about exactly how this reduction is achieved, how to maximise user engagement, or how to effectively translate engagement into energy saving. This paper discusses design opportunities for eco-feedback systems through observations of domestic energy use in both Western and rural deve...

This study emerged from a desire to understand the motivation of teachers teach in challenging school contexts on Cape Flats South Africa where legacy apartheid continues impact quality teaching and learning as communities experience abject poverty, violence, gang activity have little regard for schooling, teachers, or education. qualitative employed an interpretative paradigm personal, lived e...

This paper aims to discover the determinants of farmers’ par-ticipation in horticulture-based Education programs in the Western Azerbaijan province, Iran. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the study also tries to make a comparison between participants and non-participants, who have achieved in this program. A sample of 231 farmers (137 participants and 94 non-participants) was selecte...

The paper considers the usefulness of the concept of civil society—both as an analytical construct and a policy tool—in non-Western contexts drawing on a selected review of literature on Africa from anthropology and development studies. Rejecting arguments that the concept has little meaning outside its Western origins, and critical of the sometimes crude export of the concept by Western donors...