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Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...social and digital media. Several reports have highlighted the increasingly influential role mainstream and social media play in shaping both the perceptions and outcomes of population movements into western democracies. Mainstream media discourses rely on: broad portrayals which stereotype; the use of aggregated statistics, and, often, the de-personalizing of complex...
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COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice
Society, Politics & Law

COP26 Glasgow and questions of environmental and social justice

...social justice history as the host city...Glasgow and COP26 After a delay, due to the COVID pandemic, COP26 finally went ahead in Glasgow, meaning there has been considerable international attention on the city. In recent decades Glasgow has been portrayed as an example of a city that has undergone a successful ‘transformation’ from an industrial hub to a vibrant...
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Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell
History & The Arts

Maintaining social order with gruesome images of Hell

...social order. The frescoes pictured damnation and torture, but employed a touch of modern advertising techniques. Angeliki Lymberopoulou, a Lecturer in Art History at The Open University, explains the meaning of a fresco in the church of Kitiros in Crete. The project "Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-Dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries)" has been funded by the...
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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative of feral children...Owen Jones has taken on a big job documenting the way most of the citizens of these islands are commonly portrayed. It’s a task long overdue given the changes that have turned "the salt of the earth" into the target of routine abuse by The Sun and Daily Mail, the...
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Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...Social media and social networks Outside our work context, many of us use social media or networks to connect and share information about ourselves. It can be useful to understand the difference between social media and networking, as, to some extent, the terms are used and understood interchangeably. Here are a couple of definitions: ‘Social media ......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...work relationships, introduces the concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation...Learn about trust in the organisational context. This free course, Developing high trust work relationships, introduces the concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation....Developing high trust work relationships:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...work contract between capital and labour has been at the centre of economics since it developed as a social science 150 years ago. Now we're watching economists broaden the nature of what that contract is, recognising how people feel about their work, how they relate to it as a dimension that's pretty important in any calculation about productivity. I think that...
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Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...work with young people in these years included work done by the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.2 Young people and social exclusion - [A photograph of a group of four teenagers, sitting on a wall at the side of a street.] Figure 3 The creation of the SEU was particularly significant in the development of partnership...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs