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The observed global crises call into question the existing economic model, the functioning of individual institutions, and the lifestyles of entire societies. These crises do not create new problems and challenges, but reinforce already existing and developing trends. The identification and analysis of long-term, society-wide and economic phenomena called megatrends allows us to define the most significant trends of a global and civilisational nature. Knowledge of them allows enterprises to plan an appropriate strategy of action and design directions for further development. The aim of this article was to identify changes in the behaviour of young people (generation C also known as "digital natives") in the area of the sharing economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The empirical research used a qualitative approach, using focus group interviews (FGI) as the research method. The collected empirical material was then used in the process of semantic field analysis. The explication of the dependency networks for the emerged keywords made it possible to reconstruct two definitions that clarify how interlocutors perceive the sharing economy phenomenon. The first one, more universal, defined the essence of the phenomenon. However, the second definition referred to a narrower perception of the socio-- economic phenomenon under study, namely sharing economy activity during the pandemic period.
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PurposeThis study seeks to explore digital natives' mobile usage behaviors and, in turn, develop an analytic framework that helps articulate the underlying components of mobile addiction syndrome (MAS), its severity levels and mobile usage purposes.Design/methodology/approachThe investigation adopts a survey method and a case study. The results of the former are based on 411 random classroom observations and 205 questionnaire responses, and the insights of the latter are derived from 24 interviews and daily observations.FindingsThe findings validate five distinctive signs that constitute MAS and their significant correlations with each of the Big Five personality traits. Classroom observations confirm the prevalence of addiction tendency among digital natives in the research context. Seven levels of MAS and six different mobile usage purposes further manifest themselves from case analysis. There appears to be a sharp contrast between the addicted and non-addicted groups in their mobile purposes and behavioral patterns. Additionally, family relationships seem influential in shaping non-addictive mobile usage behaviors.Research limitations/implicationsPsychological perspectives on MAS may be important but insufficient. Empirical investigation on a global scale, especially with distinctive cross-cultural comparisons, will be highly encouraged. How MAS evolves over time should also serve as future research interests.Practical implicationsTeaching pedagogy of college education might need certain adjustments to intrigue digital natives' learning interests. Future managers might also need to adopt better performance measurements for digital natives who barely separate work from personal matters in their mobile devices.Social implicationsParents and healthcare institutions may need to develop response mechanism to tackle this global issue at home and in society. The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on MAS might also deserve global attention.Originality/valueThe analytic framework developed provides an original mechanism that can be valuable in identifying MAS severity and associated behavioral patterns.
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The aims of this study are to (1) explain the forms of mixed-use of L1 to L2 codes in social media posts, (2) explain the factors that cause the use of L1 to L2 mixed codes and (3) describe language mastery. This study uses a qualitative descriptive analysis method. Data in code-mixing was obtained from secondary data, namely written posts with COVID-19 content on social media, Facebook and Twitter. A mixture of L1 and L2 codes in postings on social media includes words and phrases manifested in congruent insertion, change, and lexicalisation forms. The influencing factors are divided into (1) speaker factors, such as showing off, prestige, and language skills, and (2) linguistic factors, such as popular terms, topics, modes, speech partners, time and place/location. With the emergence of various terms related to COVID-19, the mastery of a second language for digital natives, in this case, English, is increasing. Although the use of code-mixing, there are some errors in writing, sentence structure, and cohesion, digital natives can master L2 through code-mixing, including accuracy of word writing, word selection, syntactic structure, cohesion, and coherence in the sentence. © 2023 ACADEMY PUBLICATION.
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In the scenario marked by digitalization, digital media have found spaces that allow them to face labor problems and at the same time face the risks and vulnerability that threaten the security of journalists. Therefore, this research is established to know some issues related to security: economic limitations of access to public information, censorship, and self-censorship in the journalistic exercise in Ecuador. The observation was carried out within the framework of the pandemic unleashed by the presence of COVID-19 and its variants. For the execution of the research, the qualitative methodology was applied with semi-structured interviews to investigative journalists of consolidated digital native media. Among the conclusions are noted that the pandemic brought with it labor precariousness;however, digital media have managed to maintain themselves with external funds or own resources. For the journalistic exercise, public information becomes a severe concern because access has been restricted, and there is little transparency in its disclosure. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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Analytical reading is a necessary cognitive skill for advancing to other skills required in the digital age. Thailand is focused on the instructional development and use of digital media to enhance the digital natives' analytical reading skills, which will assist learners of all ages in effectively and quickly adapting to changes in the digital environment. After the COVID-19 pandemic situation, educational institutions in Thailand have begun to embrace a hybrid learning approach like never before. The limitations of the existing learning process for boosting digital natives' analytical reading skills are the lack of integration between reading techniques, hybrid pedagogies, and emerging learning technologies to enhance learners' seamless learning experiences. Thus, this study aims to propose the Cloud-powered Hybrid Learning process (Cp-HL process) to enhance digital natives' analytical reading skills. This study consisted of two main stages in the research methodology: 1) learning process development;and 2) learning process evaluation. The developed Cp-HL process had four main learning phases: (1) preparation for hybrid learning;(2) presentation for interactive learning;(3) practice with analytical reading;and (4) progress reports on analytical reading skills. All the experts agreed that the newly developed Cp-HL process performed extremely well in terms of overall suitability. © 2023, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications. All Rights Reserved.
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The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 has drastically impacted almost every aspect of our daily life. Empirical evidence is lacking on which sector of knowledge in technology-enhanced teaching needs to be developed further for tourism and hospitality programs conducted online. The present study investigated teachers' technology, learners, pedagogy, academic discipline content knowledge, and context knowledge (TLPACK) in tourism and hospitality online education settings using comparative research methods. A total of 173 participants from five countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam) were surveyed online. The results revealed that, despite the fact that they were from different countries, all teachers reached a consensus that their knowledge about learners was the lowest during the online teaching period of the pandemic;meanwhile, they all ranked academic knowledge as the highest among these five variables except Vietnamese teachers who considered their knowledge on pedagogy to be the highest. Additionally, their TLPACK revealed significant differences in various countries and differences in academic discipline content knowledge are caused by the interaction of nationality and gender. This study overcomes a major limitation of previous studies on how the pandemic has affected educational praxis as the focus of previous research has been on the situation in a single country. Therefore, the present study's findings can serve as a reference for practitioners of tourism and hospitality online education in Asia-Pacific region when facing unprecedented and urgent changes of educational practices during and post the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In the scenario marked by digitalization, digital media have found spaces that allow them to face labor problems and at the same time face the risks and vulnerability that threaten the security of journalists. Therefore, this research is established to know some issues related to security: economic limitations of access to public information, censorship, and self-censorship in the journalistic exercise in Ecuador. The observation was carried out within the framework of the pandemic unleashed by the presence of COVID-19 and its variants. For the execution of the research, the qualitative methodology was applied with semi-structured interviews to investigative journalists of consolidated digital native media. Among the conclusions are noted that the pandemic brought with it labor precariousness;however, digital media have managed to maintain themselves with external funds or own resources. For the journalistic exercise, public information becomes a severe concern because access has been restricted, and there is little transparency in its disclosure. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an undeniable acceleration of time when social distancing measures were in place. Digital natives are the population group that was most accustomed to online tools, which allowed them to stay in contact and carry out their daily activities during the most critical stage of the pandemic. An important element that strengthens interaction in digital media is trust, both in the sources of information and in the medium. For this reason, quantitative research was developed in which the associations between trust in social networks and other digital communication tools in Mexican youth were analyzed. The study was conducted with students from public and private universities during 2021, when strict confinement measures still prevailed in Monterrey, Nuevo León. The study confirms some of the findings of other research in which trust is a fundamental variable in effective communication through digital channels. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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During COVID-19, universities across the globe experienced a rapid requirement to move to online learning and teaching provision. This rapid move has been explored as emergency remote education (ERE). This paper reviews and presents some emerging literature regarding ERE, demonstrating how this created an environment where technology-mediated abuse could arise within the university context. Intentional and unintentional forms of technology-mediated abuse, within a global context, are considered with account of how intersectional characteristics can impact. The paper concludes with a set of provocations explored within an example framework. The provocations are given to situate ways of thinking which are facilitative of safer and more respectful use of technological spaces. Both the provocations and example framework aim to be useful critical tools for program and module teams to adapt in higher education institutions within the online sphere. The phenomenon of ERE is an opportunity to consider what can be learned with regard to management of technology-mediated abuse. However, a focus on ERE presents limitations in the paper because of the smaller number of academic sources at this time, due to recency of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COVID-19 disruptions have driven precision agriculture (PA) education to online modes of teaching. An introductory eWorkshop on precision agriculture was designed and delivered as part of a thirdyear agronomy subject for undergraduate students studying the Bachelor of Agriculture course at the University of Melbourne. The main objectives were to: (1) establish basic understandings about PA techniques;(2) demonstrate how PA can improve agricultural productivity and sustainability;(3) link PA to key agronomy concepts (viz. to soil and crop characteristics and their spatio-temporal variability);and (4) encourage further study in PA. Designed for student-centred active and collaborative learning this three-hour workshop used Google Earth to involve students in examining and discussing ECa maps, Sentinel-derived NDVI maps and yield maps. Zoom videoconferencing platform (integrating the 'Breakout rooms' function) was used as the online teaching and student collaboration environment.
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Purpose This study seeks to explore digital natives' mobile usage behaviors and, in turn, develop an analytic framework that helps articulate the underlying components of mobile addiction syndrome (MAS), its severity levels and mobile usage purposes. Design/methodology/approach The investigation adopts a survey method and a case study. The results of the former are based on 411 random classroom observations and 205 questionnaire responses, and the insights of the latter are derived from 24 interviews and daily observations. Findings The findings validate five distinctive signs that constitute MAS and their significant correlations with each of the Big Five personality traits. Classroom observations confirm the prevalence of addiction tendency among digital natives in the research context. Seven levels of MAS and six different mobile usage purposes further manifest themselves from case analysis. There appears to be a sharp contrast between the addicted and non-addicted groups in their mobile purposes and behavioral patterns. Additionally, family relationships seem influential in shaping non-addictive mobile usage behaviors. Research limitations/implications Psychological perspectives on MAS may be important but insufficient. Empirical investigation on a global scale, especially with distinctive cross-cultural comparisons, will be highly encouraged. How MAS evolves over time should also serve as future research interests. Practical implications Teaching pedagogy of college education might need certain adjustments to intrigue digital natives' learning interests. Future managers might also need to adopt better performance measurements for digital natives who barely separate work from personal matters in their mobile devices. Social implications Parents and healthcare institutions may need to develop response mechanism to tackle this global issue at home and in society. The long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on MAS might also deserve global attention. Originality/value The analytic framework developed provides an original mechanism that can be valuable in identifying MAS severity and associated behavioral patterns.
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This research provides a study on analyzing emotional intelligence in the New Normal using Metaverse application for digital native generation. Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has created new behavior and characterized human life to be more aware of the new digital applications. Significantly, research results show that the digital native generation, whose internet environment was typical from their birth, is optimistic in New Normal life amid COVID 19. In 2021, Metaverse set off a new generation of online interactive user behavior concepts. According to some research, the developing concept of Metaverse fits precisely in line with the future living of the digital native generation. However, some psychological side consequences should be revealed concurrently with the positive impact conceived. People's emotional intelligence argues for reduction due to the dissatisfaction of rapid adaptation to the New Normal condition. Thus, this research demonstrates an analysis to mitigate the psychological side effects of emotional intelligence when people are bound to the New Normal life. The improvement of the Web-based Extended Reality (WebXR), a critical development field of Metaverse, is proposed together to assist the immersive experience demands in addressing the problem-solution methods. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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Information and communication technologies have generated transformations in the behaviour of digital native university students, which affect the teaching-learning process in the scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective of this study was to systematize the scientific evidence on university teaching strategies related to the behaviour of digital natives and the characteristics of their learning. The method employed was a systematic review of scientific articles from the EbscoHost, Scopus, Proquest, Eric and Scielo databases through the Boolean operators AND and OR. Initially, 51 638 records were obtained, of which only 26 met the inclusion criteria (years of publication, language, subject matter, free availability). The results show in the articles that most digital natives actively use social networks on a daily basis, while others conduct research or produce digital content with varying degrees of difficulty, some adapt quickly to new innovations related to technology, and many easily multitask and perform self-regulated learning, while demanding a more flexible teaching where learning is fast and practical. However, the attention of digital natives is dissipated by other interests such as social networks (generating cyber laziness), a situation that can lead to antisocial behaviour and self-exclusion from physical reality (phubbing). In conclusion, digital natives require greater attention from their university teachers, who must innovate in the teaching-learning process using the virtual environment, raising the interest of digital natives, to generate an autonomous learning where they can strengthen their skills and competencies for the achievement of their professional development. © 2022 Vitvitskaya et al.
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Test anxiety is a common experience shared by college students and is typically investigated in the context of traditional, face-to-face courses. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of universities, and many students had to rapidly shift to and balance the challenges of online learning. We investigated how the shift to online learning during the pandemic impacted trait (habitual) and state (momentary) test anxiety and whether there was variation across different demographic groups already vulnerable to performance gaps in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Quantitative analyses revealed that trait and state test anxiety were lower in Spring 2020 (COVID semester) than in Spring 2019 and were higher overall in women than men. We did not find a difference in either trait or state anxiety in first-generation students or among persons excluded because of ethnicity or race. Qualitative analyses revealed that student priorities shifted away from coursework during Spring 2020. While students initially perceived the shift to online learning as beneficial, 1 month after the shift, students reported more difficulties studying and completing their coursework. Taken together, these results are the first to compare reports of test anxiety during a traditional, undisrupted semester to the semester where COVID-19 forced a sudden transition online.
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Since the breakout of Covid-19, the number of online classes skyrocketed as conducting in-person classes in school has been discouraged. This led to the sudden shift into the adaption of online classes, blurring the line between traditional in-person classes and modern technology. In the Republic of Korea, the nation where it is known for its speed of Internet and high rate of digital natives amongst its citizen, there have been numerous attempts to incorporate virtual reality (VR) into the existing curriculum but has not been getting satisfactory results back. Through interviews and research, this paper tries to assess the current position of VR in the marketplace and suggest possible solutions that can support the expansion of the system into the school. The main purpose of this essay is to analyze whether Google Arts and Culture, one of the most accessible VR assimilated educational platforms, can be blended into the Korean education programs. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The study is devoted to the digital shift in management, forced by the precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of remote management, its challenges and opportunities faced in remote working by digital natives, young undergraduate students. The bibliometric analysis with VOSviewer revealed five research avenues on remote management in 2018–2021, that are digital transformation, technologies and supply chain;consumer behaviour, ICT and small business;business innovations and COVID-19 challenges;Industry 4.0 and manufacturing;sustainability. The paper includes an exploratory study of the opinion of undergraduate students regarding modern management practices. Based on the results of the qualitative research, the authors identify key benefits and challenges of remote management for the employees, employers and organisations. The respondents consider that remote work format is a driver of positive and negative organisational change that impact different organisational aspects – decision making, communication, conflict, organisational culture, leadership and motivation. The paper discusses the results and raises new questions that further research needs to answer. © 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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This book pulls together insights into how children and young people (CYP) can be active co-producers in shaping their learning experiences. Not only is it helpful for thinking about the role new digital natives play in their own educational journey and for supporting their mental health and wellbeing in today's rapidly changing virtual climate, but the varied and innovative interventions and initiatives it outlines will surely continue to inspire and have relevance down the line. The book addresses teachers, parents and carers, educators, social workers and others who work directly with the new digital native generation, and crucially it can help make a real difference to the lives of those children and young people. The enduring battle against the COVID-19 crisis has brought the plight of CYP's mental wellbeing further into the spotlight, with new as well as existing challenges to overcome. It is imperative that government policies and strategies worldwide are robust and well targeted to protect the mental wellbeing of all CYP and prevent the onset of more serious problems taking hold. This will require an understanding of the complex and intersecting nature of the issues facing CYP, many of which predate the pandemic. The book highlights some of those crucial factors and, moreover, showcases some innovative and insightful projects which offer simple, practical approaches to help ameliorate CYP's mental wellbeing. The interventions and initiatives presented in this book offer an insight into a range of approaches which have the common purpose of supporting mental wellbeing for children growing up in a digital age. The theoretical framework of the book aligns with social models of mental health which contrast with the traditional biomedical focus on individual deficits and treatment approaches. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)