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1. Silicon bullets in New York -- 2. Introducing software studies -- 3. A critical imperative for software studies in education -- 4. Methods/texts, pixels, and clicks -- 5. Reimagined research -- 6. Politicians' text messages -- 7. Where the machine stops -- 8. Soft(a)wareness -- 9. Imagining education after software.

This serves as a brief introduction to Part II of the articles presented in the special issue, Qualitative Research Ethics in the Big-Data Era.

COVID-19 has impacted the world socio-economically. Unemployment, poverty, social stigma, social isolation, domestic violence and mental illnesses are the notable social issues related to COVID-19 pandemic. Framed under a review based approach, the current study searches for the link between COVID-19 pandemic and an increased vulnerability to suicide across the globe. Linking the current situation with researched determinants of suicide shows that COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating various socio-economic and psychological causes of suicide. In near future or even during the pandemic, suicide will be a key challenge for the public health sector across the globe. Besides, future research suggestions are given in light of the discussion in order to provide an impetus to researching the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide.

Automatic keywords extraction and classification tasks are important research directions in the domains of NLP (natural language processing), information retrieval, and text mining. As the fine granularity abstracted from text data, keywords are also the most important feature of text data, which has great practical and potential value in document classification, topic modeling, information retrieval, and other aspects. The compact representation of documents can be achieved through keywords, which contains massive significant information. Therefore, it may be quite advantageous to realize text classification with high-dimensional feature space. For this reason, this study designed a supervised keyword classification method based on TextRank keyword automatic extraction technology and optimize the model with the genetic algorithm to contribute to modeling the keywords of the topic for text classification.

We examine a vast, interdisciplinary, and increasingly global literature concerning skin color and colorism, which are related to status throughout the world. The vast majority of research has investigated Western societies, where color and colorism have been closely related to race and racism. In Latin America, the two sets of concepts have particularly overlapped. In the rest of the world, particularly in Asia, color and colorism have also been important but have evolved separately from the relatively new concepts of race and racism. In recent years, however, color consciousness and white supremacy appear to have been increasingly united, globalized, and commodified, as exemplified by the global multibillion-dollar skin-lightening industry. Finally, we document the growing methodological attention to measurements of skin color and social science data that incorporate skin color measures.

ABSTRACT  Multisited ethnography was advanced by George Marcus (1995) as a way to address the spatial reach of communities linked by global flows of commodities, peoples, and institutions. Although the approach is usually applied within the context of modern globalization, many of the processes that define globalization accelerated with the onset of European colonization in the 1400s C.E. Multisited research is particularly suited to the analysis of the "paradox of globalization," the simultaneous unfolding of heterogeneity and homogeneity throughout the world, which became pervasive in the colonial era. An indigenous ceramic type in eastern North America known as colonoware expresses this paradox, where variable European influence in its morphology and surface treatment can be attributed to the intersection of local practices and large‐scale population movements. [colonoware, globalization, colonialism]

"Exploring and exploiting the richness and reach of large scale action research
projects is a challenge. This challenge focuses inwards as it addresses
critical issues of enacting, managing and coordinating the actions
of the project and engaging in the reflective processes of learning-inaction
and knowledge generation by multiple actors and groups engaged
in the project. It simultaneously focuses outwards as it seeks to exploit
both the processes of the action research itself and the dissemination of actionable
knowledge to multiple audiences. This article describes and reflects
upon the challenges of exploring and exploiting richness and reach
arising in the CO-IMPROVE project, a European Union (EU) funded initiative
involving action research in complex networks of academics and
business. The objectives of CO-IMPROVE included the facilitation of
collaborative improvement of operations practice and performance in the
extended manufacturing enterprise through action research among both
managers and academics." (author's abstract)

Constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methods render an interpretive portrayal, a construction of reality, strengthened when the process of construction is acknowledged. An Irish team study uses CGT to explore intergenerational solidarity at individual, familial and societal levels, and their interface. The study data comprise interviews with 100 people from diverse socio-economic and age groups. The article contributes insights on applying CGT in team-based interview research on a topic with such breadth of scope. This contrasts with the more usual focused inquiry with a defined population. Adapting the method's guidelines to the specific inquiry involved challenges in: framing the topic conceptually; situating research participants in contrasting social contexts to provide interpretive depth; and generating interview data with which to construct theory. We argue that interrogating the very premise of the inquiry allowed for emergent reconstruction, a goal at the heart of the method.

The Dearfield Dream Project is a collaborative research initiative to conduct historical, cultural, archaeological, and environmental studies on the early 20th Century African-American colony site of Dearfield, Colorado, USA. Because the breadth and significance of the Dearfield Project requires an interdisciplinary research team, a network of research collaborators has been assembled. This research network seeks to discover, preserve, and disseminate knowledge of the site and its surrounding farmsteads' economic, social, political, and environmental history for better understanding and interpretation of its contributions to Colorado and U.S. history. Herein, we detail progress that has been made on this important historical/cultural research project. Further, we outline the future of the Dearfield research network along with our current and anticipated subjects of inquiry.

This article aims to reflect on the aporias and paradoxes of a postcolonial, collaborative research approach to ethnographic collections dating from colonial times. While, at least in Germany, 'provenance research' and 'collaboration' have become politically opportune, important questions concerning the possibilities or impossibilities of overcoming colonial categories, epistemologies and imbalances of power remain to be answered. Based on research and collaboration with stakeholders over the course of two projects on the Tanzania collections of the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, this article asks how far 'collaboration' and 'decolonization' risk remaining merely empty, fashionable phrases, if, on the one hand, today's concern with the colonial context of collections in European museums seems to be to a great extent self-referential and avoiding radical criticism of today's power asymmetries; and, on the other, the deconstruction of colonial class, gender, race, and ethnic categorizations, and of the resulting representations is hindered – if not made impossible – by the epistemologies implicit in the order of the collections themselves but also by identity politics

To understand political behavior we must appreciate both the cognitive & affective processes that influence actors' preferences & their perceptions of the world around them. Strategic choice analysts, who focus on the situational incentives associated with interdependent outcomes, contend that we may often adequately account for actors' behavior without examining cognitive or affective processes in any detail. The result is two research programs, both of which capture key pieces of politics but speak almost entirely past each other. This paper identifies three kinds of bridges between the cognitive & strategic choice research programs. Identifying these bridges serves two purposes. They will give each research agenda a stronger positive heuristic on its own terms, one that will help both sets of scholars to explain the distinctive questions that interest them. By suggesting how these connections can be identified, we also contribute to a set of shared reference points that could facilitate conversations across different scholarly communities. Adapted from the source document.

In this study, researchers found that veterans with college training were more likely to become employed when they also received job search assistance and job placement assistance, as well as that veterans without such training increased their probability of employment after receiving diagnoses and treatment of impairments, VR counseling, job placement assistance, rehabilitation technology, and other supports. In practice, the results of this study provide important information for rehabilitation counselors, vocational counselors, and other practitioners working with veterans with disabilities. In policy, policymakers should work to support and expand state VR programs to reach a wider population of veterans. Suggestions for future study include going beyond whether or not technology services were received, performing a more in-depth analysis of how the various components of rehabilitation technology affect the outcomes of veterans enrolled in VR programs, and exploring whether veterans' service needs vary based on whether or not they are enrolled in higher education programs.

This volume assembles a wide range of perspectives on populism and the media, bringing together various disciplinary and theoretical approaches, authors and examples from different continents and a wide range of topical issues. The chapters discuss the contexts of populist communication, communication by populist actors, different types of populist messages (populist communication in traditional and new media, populist criticism of the media, populist discourses related to different topics, etc.), the effects and consequences of populist communication, populist media policy and anti-populist discourses. The contributions synthesise existing research on this subject, propose new approaches to it or present new findings on the relationship between populism and the media. With contibutions by Caroline Avila, Eleonora Benecchi, Florin Büchel, Donatella Campus, María Esperanza Casullo, Nicoleta Corbu, Ann Crigler, Benjamin De Cleen, Sven Engesser, Nicole Ernst, Frank Esser, Nayla Fawzi, Jana Goyvaerts, André Haller, Kristoffer Holt, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Marion Just, Philip Kitzberger, Magdalena Klingler, Benjamin Krämer, Katharina Lobinger, Philipp Müller, Elena Negrea-Busuioc, Carsten Reinemann, Christian Schemer, Anne Schulz, Christian Schwarzenegger, Torgeir Uberg Nærland, Rebecca Venema, Anna Wagner, Martin Wettstein, Werner Wirth, Dominique Stefanie Wirz