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This design-based research study examines the pedagogical role of social, digital annotation in teaching reading as rhetorical invention, particularly the kind of invention necessary for thoughtful democratic participation in the contemporary discursive era, often described as troubled. In this dissertation study, I deployed a classroom-based intervention meant to challenge how educators in rhetoric and composition/writing studies might directly address the acute and exigent discursive struggle in the first-year composition classroom. This study ultimately finds that social, digital annotation invites significant shifts in students' reading habits, in that Hypothes.is-based annotations yielded a far more complex, multifaceted set of reading skills, behaviors, and dispositions than the pre-intervention private annotations. The social annotation experience proved far more performative and, therefore, highly rhetorical and inventive, encouraging an agentic approach to reading that many FYC teacher-scholars crave. In addition to the performative nature of SDA (Hypothes.is, specifically), the social engagement among readers afforded by this relatively new digital tool of reading were the biggest catalysts for change. As a result, SDA may have that capacity as a technology to arrange meaning-making interactions in ways that are visible to the students themselves, shifting their perspectives on agency within reading.

SUMARIO: I. INTRODUCCIÓN.- II. LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN COMO DERECHO MORAL.- 1. Cuestiones Generales.- 2. La Libertad de Expresión como Libertad Básica en un Modelo Constructivista.- 3. La Libertad de Expresión como Garantía Fundamental de la Democracia. Algunas Buenas Razones para la Preferencia ex ante de la Libertad de Expresión por sobre el Derecho al Honor.- III. CONCLUSIÓN. LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN NO ES SÓLO CUESTIÓN DE PALABRAS MÁS O PALABRAS MENOS."Las palabras, las palabras exactas y verdaderas, pueden tener el poder de los actos" (R. Carver)I. INTRODUCCIÓN¿Tiene alguna importancia que una autoridad prefiera irse de caza, pasear por Doñana o asistir a un evento social antes que presentarse en el lugar donde acaecía una de las peores catástrofes ecológicas de la historia reciente de España? ¿Constituye esta información una intromisión en su vida privada? ¿Tienen los ciudadanos derecho a saber dónde se encontraba esa autoridad, aunque sea un hecho íntimo? ¿Tiene un funcionario público derecho al honor o a la intimidad?¿Refuerza el debate público haber conocido este hecho, en principio, privado? Éstas y otras preguntas pretenden encontrar una respuesta en el artículo que recién comienza. La idea intuitiva de que los políticos, al igual que los personajes públicos, tienen igual derecho al honor o a la intimidad será revisada y criticada durante el presente trabajo y se ofrecerá una respuesta que pretenderá colocar a la libertad de expresión en el sitial que le corresponde.

This article focuses on the various manifestations of power at play in a local peace initiative, the Guatemalan mesas de concertación – forums for consultation and follow-up of the peace agreements in English, or mesas in short. With this we hope to fill a void in the field of peace and conflict studies: the lack of a framework to systematically analyse the different dimensions of power in local peace initiatives. Drawing on qualitative data collected between 2002 and 2012, we use John Gaventa's 'power cube' approach to explore spaces, forms and levels of power and how these interact.5 This includes how power shaped the establishment and evolution of the mesas, and how the mesas simultaneously sought to challenge unequal power structures, as well as to enable underrepresented social sectors to voice their concerns over peace implementation. We argue that the mesas were not only used by different stakeholders to contest and project power. They also reproduced structures of inequality and were prey to invisible power, which made it difficult for them to effectively enable marginalised social groups to achieve empowerment. Still, raising awareness about the significance that support across different levels of society has for the successful implementation of the Guatemalan peace agreements, the mesas promoted the participation and empowerment of a variety of social sectors, contributing to a more inclusive and locally grounded peace, and therefore a more sustainable one.

Environmental equity is a concept derived from the (un)equal exposure to environmental degradation by different social groups, usually minorities and low-income people exposed to major environmental risks, also known as environmental justice. It is assumed that no group of people, independent of race, ethnicity or socio-economic class, should support, either in concentrated or unevenly distributed form, the negative environmental impacts resulting from industrial, agricultural, commercial and infrastructure activities or government programs and policies. In this paper the concept of environmental equity is explored as a criterion for water management through the analysis of a typical coupled human–natural system: the Epitácio Pessoa Reservoir, located in the semi-arid region of Brazil. Inefficient water resource management has caused unequal access to water by the population, particularly during drought periods. However, census data indicate that population have practically the same access to water, which actually is not able to reflect the actual picture. This study argues that environmental equity can be an additional criterion to improve water management.

Environmental equity is a concept derived from the (un)equal exposure to environmental degradation by different social groups, usually minorities and low-income people exposed to major environmental risks, also known as environmental justice. It is assumed that no group of people, independent of race, ethnicity or socio-economic class, should support, either in concentrated or unevenly distributed form, the negative environmental impacts resulting from industrial, agricultural, commercial and infrastructure activities or government programs and policies. In this paper the concept of environmental equity is explored as a criterion for water management through the analysis of a typical coupled human–natural system: the Epitácio Pessoa Reservoir, located in the semi-arid region of Brazil. Inefficient water resource management has caused unequal access to water by the population, particularly during drought periods. However, census data indicate that population have practically the same access to water, which actually is not able to reflect the actual picture. This study argues that environmental equity can be an additional criterion to improve water management.

Purpose: To review enrollment strategies, participation barriers, and program reach of a large, 2-year workplace intervention targeting sedentary behavior. Approach: Cross-sectional, retrospective review. Setting: Twenty-four worksites balanced across academic, industry, and government sectors in Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Minnesota) and Phoenix (Arizona) regions. Participants: Full-time (≥30+ h/wk), sedentary office workers. Methods: Reach was calculated as the proportion of eligible employees who enrolled in the intervention ([N enrolled/(proportion of eligible employees × N total employees)] × 100). Mean (1 standard deviation) and median worksite sizes were calculated at each enrollment step. Participation barriers and modifications were recorded by the research team. A survey was sent to a subset of nonparticipants (N = 57), and thematic analyses were conducted to examine reasons for nonparticipation, positive impacts, and negative experiences. Results: Employer reach was 65% (56 worksites invited to participate; 66% eligible of 56 responses; 24 enrolled). Employee reach was 58% (1317 invited to participate, 83% eligible of 906 responses; 632 enrolled). Postrandomization, on average, 59% (15%) of the worksites participated. Eighteen modifications were developed to overcome participant-, context-, and research-related participation barriers. Conclusion: A high proportion of worksites and employees approached to participate in a sedentary behavior reduction intervention engaged in the study. Interventions that provide flexible enrollment, graded participant engagement options, and adopt a participant-centered approach may facilitate workplace intervention success.

PURPOSE: To review enrollment strategies, participation barriers, and program reach of a large, 2-year workplace intervention targeting sedentary behavior. APPROACH: Cross-sectional, retrospective review. SETTING: Twenty-four worksites balanced across academic, industry, and government sectors in Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Minnesota) and Phoenix (Arizona) regions. PARTICIPANTS: Full-time (≥30+ h/wk), sedentary office workers. METHODS: Reach was calculated as the proportion of eligible employees who enrolled in the intervention ([N enrolled/(proportion of eligible employees × N total employees)] × 100). Mean (1 standard deviation) and median worksite sizes were calculated at each enrollment step. Participation barriers and modifications were recorded by the research team. A survey was sent to a subset of nonparticipants (N = 57), and thematic analyses were conducted to examine reasons for nonparticipation, positive impacts, and negative experiences. RESULTS: Employer reach was 65% (56 worksites invited to participate; 66% eligible of 56 responses; 24 enrolled). Employee reach was 58% (1317 invited to participate, 83% eligible of 906 responses; 632 enrolled). Postrandomization, on average, 59% (15%) of the worksites participated. Eighteen modifications were developed to overcome participant-, context-, and research-related participation barriers. CONCLUSION: A high proportion of worksites and employees approached to participate in a sedentary behavior reduction intervention engaged in the study. Interventions that provide flexible enrollment, graded participant engagement options, and adopt a participant-centered approach may facilitate workplace intervention success.