Reporting racism: what you say matters

This project seeks to understand the type of experiences people have, and the extent and nature of material that people experience that is racist or vilifying. It aims to raise awareness of racism and to build capacity for victims and bystanders to report racism and vilification when they experience it. Some people think racism doesn’t happen anymore, or that it is a rare and isolated incident. However, the Commission regularly receives stakeholder feedback and complaints from Victorians who are confronted with behaviour that is intimidating, abusive and vilifying because of their racial or religious background. For many people, it is the daily, sometimes unconscious but persistent, racism they face, that has the most profound impact. In 2012 the Commission ran an on-line survey. 227 people took part. As well as providing evidence of racism and vilification the survey helped to identify actions and solutions that we can all take to help address racism and vilification. In addition, key informant interviews were undertaken with peak and community organisations in Victoria to understand both the prevalence and severity of racist conduct within their communities. The Commission also reviewed and collected incidents of racial and religious hate speech online and in the media, including in social media sites. To collect evidence on the nature and extent of racism in Victoria, the Commission conducted an online survey, interviews with a broad range of community stakeholders and a review of online content. This project seeks to understand the type of experiences people have, and the extent and nature of material that people see, experience, hear, are sent or simply come across in their daily lives that is racist or vilifying. This might include flyers and stickers, graffiti, websites, blog material, verbal abuse or other treatment that people experience as racism or vilification because of their race or religion

The interview as narrative ethnography : seeking and shaping connections in qualitative research.

Acts of counter-subjectification in qualitative research are always present but are often submerged in accounts that seek to locate the power of subjectification entirely with the researcher. This is particularly so when talking to people about sensitive issues. Based on an interview-based study of infertility and reproductive disruption among British Pakistanis in Northeast England, we explore how we, as researchers, sought and were drawn into various kinds of connections with the study participants; connections that were actively and performatively constructed through time. The three of us that conducted interviews are all female academics with Ph.Ds in anthropology, but thereafter our backgrounds, life stories and experiences diverge in ways that intersected with those of our informants in complex and shifting ways. We describe how these processes shaped the production of narrative accounts and consider some of the associated analytical and ethical implications

Privacy and Relationships of Roommates in the Situation of Covid 19

The lack of privacy affected the student roommates' relationships. This study investigates the relationship between privacy and roommates' relationships in the COVID-19 situation and investigates the relationship between sensitivity to the lack of privacy and relationship status among roommates during COVID-19. Data was collected by behavioral traces in 4 bedrooms, conducting interviews and focus group discussions with eight students, and distributing questionnaires to 61 students. Findings found that in COVID-19, half of the sample felt more negatively about their privacy being disturbed. Privacy and relationships were positively correlated, and relationship status did not affect sensitivity to the lack of privacy. Keywords: human comfort; Japanese Modernism; tropical architecture eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2023. The Authors. Published for AMER & cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), College of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v8i24.465

The Support to Improve Self Efficacy and Healing of Drugs Addict

Appropriate counseling and education can be adopted to achieve a change in attitude, knowledge and perception. Still there is a wrong perception of a given intervention. Peer support through a process of social learning, the process of growing understanding of how to process information from experience, observational include: attention (attention), given (retention), reproduction of motion (reproduction), motivation (motivation), and communication. The purpose of this study was to analyze resident self-efficacy to regardless of drug addiction through family support. This study employed qualitative approach with case study design. Subjects in this study were residents, ex drugs user, peer support, and resident family. The results showed that peer support from fellow residents and the support of the major on duty (MOD) very meaningful and helpful for resident in the healing process

An investigation of how specific social backgrounds shape the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers within the mobilities paradigm

Using the mobilities paradigm, this thesis aims to try to explain the uniqueness of a certain group of young Chinese travel bloggers, who were also tourists. It considered that the characteristics of young Chinese travel bloggers, both in their motivations and behaviours, do not appear in the realm of tourism only. This thesis explores where their characteristics come from and how to interpret them in contemporary China

Can We Be Coworkers and Friends? An Inductive Study of the Experience and Management of Virtual Coworker Friendships

abstract: Scholars and practitioners increasingly recognize that coworker friendships are integral to both individual- and organizational-level outcomes. At the same time, though, the rapid increase in virtual work has taken a principal source of adult friendships – workplaces – and drastically changed the way that individuals interact within them. No longer are proximity and extra-organizational socializing, two of the strongest predictors of coworker friendships in a co-located workplace, easily accessible. How, then, do employees become friends with each other when interacting mostly online? Once these virtual coworker friendships are forged, individuals must balance the often-conflicting norms of the friendship relationship with the coworker relationship. How, if at all, are these tensions experienced and managed when co-worker friendships are virtual? My dissertation seeks to answer these questions through a longitudinal, grounded theory study of virtual coworker friendship in a global IT firm. The emerging theory articulates the “barrier of virtuality” that challenges virtual coworker friendship formation, necessitating that individuals employ two sets of activities and one set of competencies to form friendships with one another: presence bridgers, relational informalizers, and relational digital fluency. The data also suggest that the coworker friendship tension process itself is largely similar to the previously articulated process in co-located contexts. However, the virtual context changed the frequency, types of shocks that elicited the tensions, and management of these tensions. My findings have numerous implications for the literatures on relationships at work, virtual work, and organizational tensions. They also suggest significant ways in which individuals and organizations can more effectively foster virtual coworker friendships while minimizing the potential harm of virtual coworker friendship tensions.Dissertation/ThesisDoctoral Dissertation Business Administration 201

The Phenomenon of Failure Sharing

Individuals in organizations are often confronted with failure. Failure can be costly for organizations and may stigmatize individual careers and organizations reputations. Failure can, however, be a valuable opportunity that allows individuals and organizations to learn from it to improve performance. Current learning from failure literature implicitly assumes that failure is shared at work. However, no empirical study has investigated the behavior of sharing failure. Therefore, this study explores sharing failure and failure experience in the workplace by asking three major research questions: RQ1: Why do individuals share, or not share, failure with others? RQ2: When they do share failure, why did individuals choose the respective target to share failure with? RQ3: What do individuals learn from sharing failure? This study found that two factors motivate individuals to share their failures with others: help seeking and help giving. On the other hand, several other factors deter individuals from sharing their failures with others: fear of repercussions, managing impressions, and protecting others. Once an individual decides to share their failure and failure experiences with others, the individual is selective about whom they will share their failure with. Several attributes of the potential target(s) influence this choice: perceived ability of the target, desired help, and proximity. This study found that post sharing failure with others, sharers learned more about their failure and their failure sharing behavior and/or gained psychological benefits. The three research questions are independent, but findings are interdependent, such that each part is required for learning from sharing failure. Taken together, these findings contribute to the learning from failure and knowledge sharing literature to give researchers and practitioners a deeper understanding of the dynamics of sharing failure and failure experiences. Also, these findings are relevant and important to individuals as well as organizations as they can modify their failure sharing behaviors with the goal of learning from failures