Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2026 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
Social media has evolved into a central force in handling national and local crises. This prompts the question: Do all stakeholders in a local crisis grasp its significance when it predominantly unfolds in the digital realm of online social media? This article investigates this issue through a case study of the Roman Zadorov justice movement in Israel. Despite Zadorov’s wrongful imprisonment for Tair Rada’s murder, social media support grew, reshaping perceptions of Katsrin, the town where the murder took place. The four-fold analysis draws on social media content, youth interviews, municipal officials’ perspectives, and a population survey. It reveals how Tair Rada’s case became central to Katsrin’s image, fueled by social media’s influence. However, local officials failed to recognize social media’s crisis significance, highlighting a disconnect. The article concludes by exploring this dissonance, shedding light on crisis management challenges in the social media era and their impact on local governance....
One of the tasks of statistical analysis is related to the development of forecasts with different horizons. The results of modeling the development trend can also be used for prognostic purposes. At the same time, the assumption is made that during the forecast period, the phenomenon under study will exhibit the same patterns of development that it exhibited during the base period. Network multimedia is a unifying link in the parallel development of multimedia and communication technologies. The integrated interaction of technological solutions in the field of multimedia and computer networks is a condition for achieving a greater final application effect in the presentation of information. Experimental studies of modern network multimedia in operational conditions are important for revealing bottlenecks in their functioning. On this basis, recommendations can be made to improve performance indicators, such as performance, reliability, mode of service, etc. This publication is devoted to the experimental study of the trend and the possibility of predicting network multimedia with time series. The implemented algorithm for automated trend determination examines pre-set different trends–linear, quadratic, cubic, hyperbolic, fractional-rational, logarithmic, exponential, exponential, combined–and chooses the most effective of them....
Following Chile’s October 2019 Social Uprising, social media increased as a key arena for youth political expression, leading us to investigate how adolescents (15–17) and young adults (18–21 and 22–24) transformed their attitudes toward social media as a more effective tool than voting to voice people’s demands. To this end, we analyzed nationally representative data from the 9th National Youth Survey (2018–2019, pre-Uprising) and the 10th National Youth Survey (2021–2022, post-Uprising), employing bivariate tests and multiple linear regressions to assess age-group differences and sociopolitical predictors: political interest, satisfaction with democracy, and political identification. Our findings indicate that, in the post-Social Uprising period, support for social media over voting increased across all cohorts. This increase was statistically significant, with the largest rise observed among adolescents. Moreover, young people with lower political interest and weaker political identification were more likely to value social media over voting, while those more satisfied with democracy also tended to perceive social media as an effective channel for voicing people’s demands. Taken together, these results underscore the transformative impact of sociopolitical crises on digital engagement patterns, particularly among less politicized youth, and highlight the importance of developmental and motivational distinctions when designing civic-education programs and online engagement strategies tailored to adolescents versus young adults....
We developed and validated an animation-based assessment (ABA) method for evaluating high school students’ inquiry competencies in Taiwan’s 12-Year Curriculum. Contextualized in atmospheric chemistry involving methane and hydroxyl radicals, ABA integrated dynamic simulations, tiered multiple-choice and open-ended tasks, and process tracking on the CloudClassRoom platform, the assessment focused on measuring two inquiry skills: causal reasoning and critical thinking. The results of 26,823 students revealed that the ABA effectively differentiated student performance across ability levels and academic disciplines, with open-ended items sensitive to higher-order reasoning. Gender difference was not observed, indicating the gender-free design of the developed ABA. While the ABA supports diagnostic insights, limitations need to be addressed, including the underassessment of modeling and creative experimentation skills. Therefore, it is necessary to include open modeling tasks and AI-powered semantic scoring. The developed ABA contributes a scalable, competency-aligned framework for inquiry-based science assessments....
Teachers’ professional digital competence (PDC) refers to digital competence specific to the teaching profession. PDC serves a dual purpose: it encompasses a range of instrumental, professional, ethical, critical, and epistemic dimensions related to, on the one hand, teaching with digital tools and resources and, on the other hand, teaching pupils about digital technologies, digital skills, digital cultural expression, and broader digital and critical competences relevant to study, work, and everyday life. Teachers’ PDC is a dynamic concept that evolves in step with societal development and technological advancement....
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