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        <title>Frontiers in Human Dynamics | New and Recent Articles</title>
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        <pubDate>2026-08-05T21:08:29.435+00:00</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Women as agents of change in community-based waste management: a thematic analysis]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author> Hilmiana</author><author>Imas Soemaryani</author><author>Rina Novianty Ariawaty</author><author>Kurniawan Saefullah</author><author>Devi Alviani</author><author>Tri Febrianti</author><author>Dara Sagita Triski</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionWaste management remains a major environmental challenge in developing countries, particularly in Indonesia, where increasing waste generation continues to exceed management capacity. Although community-based waste management has been widely promoted, limited research has examined women's participation, the barriers they encounter, and the strategies needed to strengthen their contributions to sustainable waste governance. Drawing on the Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) perspective, this study explores women's roles as agents of change in community-based waste management in Bandung, Indonesia.MethodsThis study adopted a qualitative approach grounded in a constructivist paradigm. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 13 participants actively involved in community-based waste management initiatives, including waste-bank managers, environmental educators, community facilitators, PKK cadres, recycling activists, and maggot-house supervisors. The interviews were conducted between July and September 2025. Data were analysed using Braun and Clarke's six-step thematic analysis framework to identify recurring patterns related to women's participation, challenges, and strategies for strengthening their roles.ResultsThree major themes emerged from the analysis. First, women participated extensively in waste management through household waste sorting, environmental education, waste-bank management, organic waste processing, and community leadership. Women functioned not only as waste managers but also as environmental educators, community mobilisers, and local sustainability leaders. Second, women encountered several barriers, including low public awareness, resistance to waste sorting, limited facilities and infrastructure, inconsistent community participation, inadequate institutional support, difficulties in changing community behaviour, and residents' time constraints. Third, participants identified several strategies for strengthening women's contributions, including continuous environmental training, collaboration with local stakeholders, practical community-based education, incentive and reward systems, digital environmental campaigns, strengthening women's environmental networks, school-based environmental education, and public recognition of women's environmental contributions.DiscussionThe findings demonstrate that women play a central role in connecting household environmental practices with broader community-level sustainability initiatives. Consistent with Feminist Political Ecology, women's environmental agency extends beyond domestic responsibilities to include leadership, behavioural change, and community mobilisation. However, their contributions remain constrained by behavioural, infrastructural, and institutional barriers. Strengthening women's participation therefore requires integrated efforts involving capacity building, multi-stakeholder collaboration, supportive infrastructure, institutional recognition, and long-term environmental education. This study contributes to the Feminist Political Ecology literature by showing that women are not merely environmental caretakers but active leaders who facilitate behavioural change, community engagement, and local sustainability transitions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Mindscapes and architectural heritage in rural Mexico]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Pablo Jacob Morales-Tapia</author><author>Carlos Rios-Llamas</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study examines how rural landscape mentality shapes the heritage built environment through the everyday practices and narratives of inhabitants in a former sixteenth-century pueblo de indios. It explores how ecological and cultural practices are embedded in the production, use, and valuation of natural and built spaces. The study employs a qualitative ethnographic approach, with participant observation, semistructured and open interviews, a focus group with 41 children from nine localities, and documentation and photographs collected during two field campaigns in 2023 and 2024. Landscape mentalities and heritage built environments are analyzed through a thematic approach that integrates discourse, ritual, social organization, and intergenerational transmission. The findings suggest, first, that parish exconvents and religious architectures serve as central mental habitats; second, 53.9% of residents speak an Indigenous language, primarily Nahuatl, which structure how people classify and appropriate the built and natural environments; and third, in community-based governance, churches, chapels, plazas, and streets are maintained, used, and transformed directly, while migration and architectural modernization are transforming vernacular stone and palm houses into concrete constructions, reconfiguring the heritage built environment and generating tensions. In Huatlatlauca, mindscapes are not one unified construct, but rather overlap with, age, and institutional power. It illustrates how patrimonialization processes are simultaneously inclusive and exclusionary, contributing to heritage studies, rural anthropology, and critical landscape theory. The study contributes ethnographically to the debate about how mental habitats are produced, since it argues that Indigenous rural contexts are crucial to broaden prevailing understandings. Through a more holistic approach to heritage preservation and territorial planning, it focuses on community institutions, linguistic continuity, and cosmovisional ties to landscape.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Human dynamics of agripreneurial creation: the role of personality, self-efficacy, and education among Indian farmers]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-05T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Manju Rajan Babu</author><author>Mohd Umar Farukh</author><author>Mohammad Taqi</author><author>Rumpa Roy</author><author>Md. Izhar Alam</author><author>Mohammad Imran Yunus</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionYoung people in the rural areas, and the workers in the agricultural areas of developing countries might experience problems with career opportunities as farming is often perceived as low margin and high-risk work. This is why the agripreneurship-type entrepreneurial undertakings, such as farm production, processing, marketing, and value chain enhancements- have become a prospective avenue that can be used to empower rural livelihoods and generate improved employment opportunities. The relevance of realizing the agripreneurial intentions of farmers in this type of context is of great importance as it can influence the rural development policies and the type of entrepreneurship support programs. Thus, it examines how the combined influences of an entrepreneur mindset, subjective norms, self-efficacy, personality related factors, and entrepreneurship education lead to farmers becoming agripreneurs in western Uttar Pradesh.MethodsIt employed a descriptive cross-sectional survey methodology and collected data on 400 farmers in five districts through a standardized questionnaire. To measure this, Likert scale items were used to examine the items that are relevant to the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) that encompasses constructs such as personality traits, entrepreneurship education and the agripreneurial intention, in general. After this, Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was analysed; an initial examination was performed via Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to verify the measurement model followed by a transition to path analysis with the use of bootstrapping to test the direct and the mediated relationship between variables.ResultsThe findings revealed that the most effective influences on agripreneurial intention were an entrepreneurial mindset (= 0.36, p = 0.001) and self-efficacy ( = 0.33, p = 0.001). Concurrently, the impact of subjective norms was less but statistically significant (0.12, p < 0.05). Entrepreneurship education, and personality factors had both direct, and indirect influences on agripreneurial intention, through entrepreneurial attitude and self-efficacy, which suggests that there are partial mediation effects. A substantial portion of agripreneurial intention was accounted by the structural model, (R² = 0.68) and the model fit measures were satisfied (CFI = 0.94, TLI = 0.92, RMSEA = 0.05, SRMR = 0.04).DiscussionThis research work contributes to the body of literature on agripreneurship since it provides empirical data of the agricultural sector in a developing country, not to mention that it does so by applying an elaborated version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour paradigm. In general, the results highlight the importance of solidifying the entrepreneurial attitudes, self-efficacy, and the entrepreneurship education in local development programs to ensure that policymakers, education systems, and the agricultural extension departments can go back to the drawing board with practical working notes. Such efforts (in turn) can support agripreneurship and contribute towards enhancing more sustainable livelihood opportunities both of farmers, and of youth in rural areas.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Institutional archetypes of resistance to artificial intelligence]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-04T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Michal Kubovics</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionWhat is the underlying structure of resistance to the adoption of artificial intelligence in media organisations? This study is the first to combine Ising network analysis with latent class analysis (LCA) to map the architecture of barriers to the adoption of artificial intelligence and to identify individual-level archetypes of resistance, interpreted through the lens of institutional logic.MethodsData were collected in March 2026 from 151 media and marketing professionals from the UK and the US via the Prolific platform. Seven barriers were measured as binary indicators. The analysis combined Ising network analysis (IsingFit, with a comparative EBICglasso estimation and bootstrapped stability checks), latent class analysis (poLCA, K = 2–5), Kruskal-Wallis tests with effect sizes, and binary logistic regression supplemented with IRT composites.ResultsThe Ising model reveals a sparse 'hub-and-spoke' network of barriers (2 out of 21 possible edges), in which mistrust acts as a central node linking legal risk (w = 2.832) and quality concerns (w = 3.431), whilst the five remaining barriers function as conditionally independent dimensions. LCA (K = 2, BIC = 1063.6, entropy = 1.000, bootstrap stable in 99.5% of 200 resamples) identifies two qualitatively distinct archetypes: T1 Practical Opponents (42.4%, n = 64), characterised by structural and capacity barriers in the complete absence of distrust [P = 0.000 (95% CI: 0.000, 0.000)]; and T2 Distrustful Sceptics (57.6%, n = 87), defined by absolute distrust [P = 1.000 (0.934, 1.000)] and saturated legal (P = 1.000) and qualitative barriers (P = 1.000). A sensitivity LCA without distrust confirms the two-class structure (BIC = 972.2, entropy = 1.000), thereby establishing robustness beyond a simple division based on distrust. Membership of an archetype is not predicted by organisation type, frequency of AI use, or perceived risk/benefit scores (binary logistic regression, all p > 0.24; Nagelkerke's pseudo-R2 = 0.040). T2 sceptics demand significantly greater transparency regarding AI content (M = 4.44 vs. 3.97; H = 9.401, p = 0.002, r = 0.250), whilst exhibiting comparable preferences for human oversight to T1.DiscussionValidation of the theory of resistance to innovation confirms that T1 are passive resisters (functional/psychological ratio F/P = 1.16) and T2 are active resisters (F/P = 0.61; H = 70.324, p < 0.001, r = 0.682). The findings are consistent with an interpretation of archetypes as epistemological rather than structural constructs, although the absence of significant predictors does not by itself exclude measurement limitations or limited statistical power.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The shifted burden of search: how digital hiring platforms reallocate screening labor to job seekers]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-08-03T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Perspective</category>
        <author>Stephen Santhosh</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital platforms now mediate most of the contemporary job search, and the cost of creating a job posting has fallen close to zero. One underexamined consequence is a quiet reallocation of labor: tasks that an employer’s hiring process once absorbed—establishing that an opening is genuine, that an application will reach human review, and that a role is a viable match—are increasingly borne by the job seeker, who must now screen the posting itself before investing effort in it. This Perspective argues that the digitalization and partial automation of hiring has shifted a layer of uncompensated, largely invisible screening labor onto applicants, and offers a conceptual lens for understanding this shift. We frame the problem through information asymmetry: the posting entity knows a listing’s true status, while the seeker cannot directly observe it. To organize the forms this opacity takes, we present a taxonomy of hiring-intent signals derived from a job-analysis platform, drawing on observations from 784 postings to illustrate that these signals appear routinely in practice rather than only in principle. We make no claim about how common any signal is in the labor market at large; the data are heavily clustered (most postings contributed by a small number of users, predominantly U.S.-based and in software roles) and serve only an illustrative purpose. We close with research propositions and directions for measuring the shifted burden of search and considering how platform and policy design might rebalance it.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Knowledge holder-led inquiry in sanctuary spaces with Ukrainian newcomers and diaspora in Edmonton, Alberta]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-31T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Jennifer Long</author><author>Sofiia Budianska</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Canada resettled nearly 300,000 Ukrainians under an unprecedented emergency visa program, yet its established settlement services struggled to respond at such a scale, leaving a gap that community members stepped in to fill. This paper asks how pre-existing community spaces can generate the relational conditions required for ethical, Knowledge-holder led research with newcomers and diaspora members, and how those conditions travel across research encounters. Situated within a larger community-engaged research project, this paper draws on participant observation, focus groups with Ukrainian-Edmontonian diaspora members, in-depth interviews with recent Ukrainian newcomers incorporating visual timelines, and a photovoice workshop. All data collection efforts occurred within and through an existing community “sanctuary” rather than manufacturing such conditions through research design. We argue that settlement is not a destination, but an ongoing, conditional process shaped by the realities of integration. Our multi-method approach revealed a wealth of knowledge, not likely possible from a data collection tool. For example, focus groups revealed entrepreneurial, diaspora-led resettlement initiatives; in-depth interviews with timelines uncovered the cultural texture of resettlement; and the photovoice workshop uncovered how newcomers narrate ideas of home in the past, present, and future. However, findings also show how gaps widen in a chronically underfunded settlement system and in the untargeted informal responses. We argue that participatory and creative methods are not inherently more ethical than conventional ones, but their value lies in how they are put into practice. The article contributes to the literature on participatory research by documenting how sanctuary spaces function as a relational condition, rather than a fixed location.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Digital stress, employee performance, and mental well-being: examining the moderated mediation role of social media use]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-31T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Priyanka Gupta</author><author>Girish Lakhera</author><author>Manu Sharma</author><author>Sudhanshu Joshi</author><author>Amar Johri</author><author>Seema Khurshid Qureshi</author><author>Hanen Louati</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionThe rapid digitalisation of workplaces has transformed organisational processes, creating new opportunities alongside new demands for employees. Digital stress has emerged as a critical challenge for employees' psychological well-being and job performance, yet empirical evidence on the integrated effects of digital stress and social media use remains limited.MethodsSurvey data were collected from 386 banking employees and the proposed moderated mediation model was analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM).ResultsDigital stress exerted a significant negative effect on both mental well-being and employee performance. Mental well-being positively influenced employee performance and partially mediated the relationship between digital stress and performance. Social media use significantly moderated the mediated pathway, such that purposeful, work-related use strengthened employees' psychological resilience under conditions of digital stress.DiscussionThe findings extend Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory by conceptualising purposeful and supportive social media use as a job resource for coping with digital stress. Organisations should therefore encourage deliberate, work-related and supportive use of social media while discouraging excessive or non-work-related use]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When alcohol is easier to access than toilets: water, sanitation and hygiene exclusion and infrastructural inequality in Nompumelelo, South Africa]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Shadreck Muchaku</author><author>Leocadia Zhou</author><author>Mhlangabezi Slayi</author><author>Merishca Naicker</author><author>Nyasha Chiuta</author><author>Admire Dzvene</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionDespite sustained investments by the South African government, municipalities, and development partners to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services remains inadequate in many peri-urban communities. While alcohol misuse has been widely studied as a public health concern, its implications for WASH behaviours and sanitation outcomes remain poorly understood. This study investigated the paradox of alcohol being more accessible than sanitation facilities in Nompumelelo, South Africa, and examined how alcohol misuse influences WASH practices and sanitation-related behaviours.MethodsA convergent mixed-methods design was employed, integrating questionnaire surveys with 264 adult residents drawn from a sampling universe of 423 and in-depth interviews with 15 purposively selected key informants. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive statistics, qualitative data were analysed thematically in ATLAS.ti, and findings were integrated through matrix scoring to identify convergent patterns across the two datasets.ResultsThe integrated analysis identified a strong association between alcohol misuse and compromised sanitation behaviours. Alcohol misuse was most strongly linked to failure to maintain basic hygiene standards (76%), a culture of apathy towards sanitation-related health risks (75%), increased use of flying toilets (74%), alcohol-induced incontinence (73%), and overburdened sanitation infrastructure (72%). Qualitative evidence further revealed that these behaviours were reinforced by inadequate sanitation infrastructure, poor waste management, and limited access to safe WASH services, illustrating how alcohol-related practices interact with structural inequalities to exacerbate sanitation risks and undermine community health.ConclusionThe findings demonstrate that sanitation challenges in peri-urban communities cannot be addressed through infrastructure investments alone. Effective progress towards SDG 6 requires integrated interventions that simultaneously strengthen WASH service delivery, address alcohol-related social vulnerabilities, promote sustained behaviour change, and enhance multisectoral collaboration between public health, municipal, and community stakeholders. By explicitly linking alcohol misuse with WASH outcomes, this study extends current understanding of the social determinants of sanitation and provides evidence to inform more holistic and context-responsive WASH policies and interventions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Integrating real-world situation awareness cues in virtual reality to enhance user wellbeing]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-30T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Nadia Fereydooni</author><author>Bruce N. Walker</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Virtual reality (VR) can limit users' awareness of their physical surroundings, raising concerns for wellbeing, safety, and cognitive load. Grounded in the mindfulness dimension of the Positive Computing framework, this paper investigates how real-world situation awareness (SA) cues can be integrated into home-based VR environments to support awareness while preserving immersion. Two studies examined different SA cue designs: Study 1 compared Push Temporary, Push Persistent, and Pull Temporary cue delivery mechanisms and their effects on workload, situation awareness, presence, and emotional responses; Study 2 compared Textual and Embedded Pictorial cue representations across Active and Passive VR tasks. Results show that cue design meaningfully shapes user experience: Push Persistent cues were associated with more positive emotional responses, while Embedded Pictorial cues improved perceived situation awareness compared to Textual cues. However, SA cues were also frequently perceived as distracting, indicating a trade-off between maintaining immersion and supporting awareness of the real world. Overall, findings highlight that both delivery mechanism and information architecture influence cognitive and emotional outcomes, offering design guidance for more mindful and less intrusive SA support in VR.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Migration, rural development, and the balanced mobility system in the Indian Himalaya: evidence from Himachal Pradesh]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Saurav Kumar</author><author>Kusum Pandey</author><author>Laldinchhuaha Khiangte</author><author>Nem Raj</author><author>Ishwari Bhattarai</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Migration in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) is commonly framed as a unidirectional process driven by environmental change and agrarian distress, often leading to rural decline and depopulation. However, such perspectives overlook the complexity and context-specific nature of migration patterns. This study examines the nature, drivers, and development implications of migration in Himachal Pradesh to provide a context-specific understanding of migration processes in the Indian Himalaya. The study adopts a mixed-methods approach based on a complete household survey of 486 households (N = 1,894 individuals) across nine villages representing diverse altitudinal zones, complemented by focus group discussions and key informant interviews. Quantitative analyses, including descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression, were integrated with qualitative approaches to examine migration patterns, socio-economic determinants, and household-level strategies. The findings reveal that migration in Himachal Pradesh is predominantly temporary and circular, with no evidence of permanent out-migration or abandoned settlements. Migration is primarily driven by education and employment aspirations and is shaped by differential access to resources, capabilities, and socio-economic opportunities, indicating the selective and socially differentiated nature of migration. The logistic regression shows that individuals with tertiary education are nearly ten times more likely to migrate than illiterates, while migration is concentrated among working-age adults, highlighting the central role of human capital and capability enhancement in shaping mobility decisions. Migration contributes to rural development through remittances, human capital formation, and strengthened rural-urban linkages, although these benefits remain unevenly distributed across households. Drawing on the New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM) and the Aspirations-Capabilities framework, the study interprets migration as a multi-causal and socially embedded process shaped by the interaction of household strategies, individual capabilities, and opportunity structures. Based on the empirical evidence, the study proposes the concept of a “Balanced Mobility System,” which conceptualizes how temporary and circular migration can coexist with continued rural habitation, sustained livelihood systems, and strong rural-urban linkages without resulting in permanent depopulation. Overall, the findings demonstrate that migration in Himachal Pradesh functions as an opportunity-driven and development-supporting process, underscoring the importance of context-specific interpretations of migration and contributing to a more nuanced understanding of migration diversity across mountain regions.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Aṭlāl Al-Muqāwama (ruins of resistance): digital counter-mapping, memory, and worldbuilding in the practice of contemporary West Asian artists]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Diaa Lagan</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This article examines immersive digital art practices as forms of counter-mapping and decolonial world-making within contemporary West Asian and diasporic contexts. Moving beyond dominant framings of immersive media as technologies of realism, empathy, or spectacle, it argues that immersion functions as a critical methodology through which artists contest colonial visual regimes, historical erasure, and spatial control. The study adopts a conceptual analysis approach that combines media theory, decolonial aesthetics, and comparative interpretation of selected artistic case studies. The case studies were chosen for their engagement with immersive digital infrastructures, including virtual environments, game engines, online platforms, and XR installations, and for their shared concern with displacement, memory, and contested spatial imaginaries. Through analyses of works by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Morehshin Allahyari, Razan AlSalah, and Firas Shehadeh, the article demonstrates how immersive storytelling reconfigures digital technologies historically associated with surveillance, cartography, and military simulation into sites of resistance and collective memory. Drawing on Hito Steyerl's notion of the poor image and Laura Marks's articulation of an Islamic genealogy of new media, the article situates immersive practices within alternative epistemologies grounded in fragmentation, affect, and non-linear temporality. These works mobilise glitch aesthetics, participatory navigation, and mythic reanimation to destabilise dominant representations of the Middle East and foreground communal, relational forms of knowledge production. Rather than functioning as closed narrative worlds, immersive environments emerge as provisional spaces for rehearsal, appearance, and ethical engagement. The article further addresses the ethical implications of immersive media within emerging metaverse discourses, arguing that digital environments are consequential sites where political imaginaries and cultural values are actively shaped. By reframing immersion as a spatial and ethical condition rather than a sensory effect, the article contributes to debates on digital culture, counter-memory, and decolonial aesthetics, proposing immersive media as a framework for sustaining resistance, memory, and future-oriented imaginaries under conditions of ongoing colonial violence.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The dynamics between preference for carbon-neutral children and climate change mitigation: a systematic review]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Review</category>
        <author>Arnika Tabassum Arno</author><author>Samira Jabin</author><author>Sadia Rahman</author><author>Farhana Tasnim</author><author>Shah Md. Atiqul Haq</author><author>Farhana Afrin</author>
        <description><![CDATA[While climate change and global warming are two of the most evident global issues caused by humans’ carbon footprint, having carbon-neutral children can be a way to mitigate climate change. Based on a thorough review of existing literature, this systematic review aims to explore how people view carbon-neutral children as a means of mitigating climate change, using the PRISMA guideline. Based on the results of various relevant studies, the present study reveals that having carbon-neutral children is a beneficial strategy for neutralizing the carbon footprint that children leave throughout their lives. Having carbon-neutral children contributes to climate change mitigation by balancing the carbon emissions from children with an eco-friendly dietary plan; educating them on sustainable consumption practices, such as using eco-friendly clothing, transportation, and play; planting a significant number of trees for each child; and even reducing the number of children born. Moreover, socio-demographic characteristics such as gender, age, education, income, religion, marital status, and culture were also found to be important factors that can influence parents’ intentions to have carbon-neutral children. Findings suggest that married people, women, young people, more educated people, wealthier people and religious people are more likely to have carbon-neutral children than older people, less educated people, less wealthy people, non-religious people and single people, which varies from developed nations based on the socio-cultural contexts of developing nations. It is unambiguous that parents’ desire for carbon-neutral offspring presents both possibilities and difficulties for mitigating climate change. However, it is believed that one of the approaches for lowering the carbon footprint will be the thorough investigation on how carbon-neutral children interact with climate change mitigation in the future. However, promoting the notion of carbon-neutral parents for all births necessitates integrated climate change and population policy, especially in developing countries.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nonlinear effects of the digital economy on urban-rural integration: a case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Yanxiao Yin</author><author>Xuanguo Xu</author><author>Haoyu Lin</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study addresses the existing literature gap concerning the non-linear effects and operational mechanisms of impact of the digital economy (DE) on urban-rural integration (URI). To this purpose, panel data from 110 cities within the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) are employed, spanning the period 2013–2022. Building upon the quantification of the DE and URI, this study employs the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model and the mediation effect model to examine the impact and of the DE on URI from a dynamic, non-linear perspective. The results showed that from 2013 to 2022, both the DE and URI in the YREB followed a consistent upward trend year on year, while regional disparities gradually narrowed. The DE showed increasing marginal effects across all dimensions of URI—economic, social, spatial, and social cohesion—exhibiting a nonlinear pattern. Moreover, it mitigated urban-rural resource misallocation to foster integrated development, with labor misallocation mitigation serving as the primary pathway. Furthermore, the role of the DE in alleviating capital misallocation remained less pronounced, compared to other mechanisms. These findings provide quantitative evidence and theoretical support for leveraging the DE to foster URI.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The role of digital sports management in achieving job satisfaction and psychological well-being for employees in the sports sector]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-28T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Ziad AL-Tahayneh</author><author>Rawan AL-Saliti</author><author>Mohammad A. Tashtoush</author><author>Khaled Momani</author><author>Abdelrahim Ismail</author><author>Alaaeldin Hamid</author><author>Sultan Almughyirah</author><author>Ashraf Zaher</author>
        <description><![CDATA[This study aims to identify the level of digital sports management, job satisfaction, and psychological well-being among employees in the sports sector. It also explores differences based on gender, age, educational qualifications, years of experience, type of sports organization, as well as the predictive power of digital sports management and certain demographic variables regarding psychological well-being. The study sample consisted of 103 employees in the Jordanian sports sector. A descriptive, correlational, and predictive approach was used to achieve the study's objectives. The study employed a digital sports management scale, a job satisfaction scale, and a psychological well-being scale. The results show that the levels of digital sports management, job satisfaction, and psychological well-being among employees in the sports sector are high. In addition, the results reveal no statistically significant differences in the level of digital sports management, job satisfaction, and psychological well-being, attributable to gender, age, educational qualifications, years of experience, or type of sports organization. Moreover, the results demonstrate a positive impact of digital sports management on employees' psychological well-being. Digital sports management significantly contributed to predicting the level of psychological well-being as well as educational qualifications. The results of this study suggest the importance of digital transformation in developing the sports work environment and enhancing the mental health and job satisfaction of employees in sports organizations.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[New advertising model for the society 5.0 Era]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-27T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Hatice Havva Yazici</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Although technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT) are extensively discussed in contemporary advertising research, there is currently no comprehensive framework that explains the collective impact of these technologies within the Society 5.0 paradigm. This study aims to fill this gap by developing a new advertising model specifically designed for the Society 5.0 era. A hybrid methodology was employed, combining a strategic literature review with text mining analysis of 175 peer-reviewed academic articles published between 2017 and 2024. The research employed qualitative coding and quantitative frequency analysis to identify core technological patterns and their functional roles within the advertising process. The study identifies six core technology themes categorized as “C-6”: Personalization, Automation, Creativity Enhancement, Measurement, Physical-Digital Integration, and Ethics. These themes have been systematically aligned with a five-stage advertising sequence comprising Data, Insight, Creativity, Presentation, and Measurement. Together, these elements form an integrated advertising model structured along the “C-6 × 5 Block” axes. This article presents the first text-based conceptual model that systematically links Society 5.0 technologies with the infrastructure of modern advertising. Offering a multidimensional tool for academics and industry professionals, the proposed model facilitates the design of technology-focused yet human-centered advertising strategies, providing both theoretical robustness and practical applicability in an increasingly digital society.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From algorithmic engagement to sustainable work: a TRUST-AI framework for human-centered HR analytics in emerging economy workplaces]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-24T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Conceptual Analysis</category>
        <author>Mansi Arora Kapoor</author><author>Sona Vikas</author><author>Saumya Sharma</author>
        <description><![CDATA[AI-enabled HR analytics is changing how organizations understand employee engagement, workforce risk, and managerial intervention. These tools can help organizations identify problems earlier and design more targeted responses. However, they also raise an important governance question: when does analytics support employees, and when does it become a source of surveillance, opacity, and control? This question is especially important in emerging economy workplaces, where rapid digital adoption often occurs alongside uneven digital literacy, developing data-governance systems, hierarchical managerial cultures, and limited employee voice mechanisms. This conceptual analysis argues that AI-enabled HR analytics should be understood as a human-centered governance practice, not only as a predictive tool. The article develops the TRUST-AI framework for responsible and sustainable HR analytics. The framework includes six dimensions: transparent data relations, responsible algorithmic stewardship, user and employee voice, sustainable well-being orientation, trust-building managerial use, and accountable intelligence. Together, these dimensions show how organizations can move beyond algorithmic engagement measurement toward sustainable work by strengthening data legitimacy, interpretive fairness, employee participation, managerial responsibility, and long-term human sustainability. The article contributes to digital HRM, responsible AI, employee engagement, and sustainable HRM scholarship. It shows that the value of AI-enabled HR analytics lies not only in prediction or efficiency, but also in whether employees experience data-driven HRM as understandable, contestable, fair, supportive, and trustworthy. Practically, the framework offers HR leaders, line managers, technology vendors, and policymakers a governance guide for implementing AI-enabled HR analytics in ways that strengthen transparency, employee voice, accountability, trust, and sustainable work.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[“Leveling up” in Love: processual social exchange trajectories in digital dating among Chinese university students]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Aian He</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Digital dating apps have proliferated rapidly among young people in China, yet existing research has largely focused on static characteristics such as usage motivations and partner preferences, with comparatively little attention to how users dynamically recalibrate exchange logics and relational expectations across sustained platform engagement. Drawing on Social Exchange Theory (SET) as its primary analytical framework, this study employs an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design-combining a two-stage survey, semi-structured in-depth interviews, and walkthrough observation—to examine recurring perceived patterns among university students aged 18–25 in Shanghai. It should be noted that the study adopts a cross-sectional design; the dynamic processes identified are grounded primarily in users’ retrospective accounts, and the patterns described represent perceived trajectories rather than developmentally verified stages. Three experiential levels are proposed: Level 1 (exploratory entry), characterized by uncertainty-driven motivational logic and heightened attention to immediate interactional feedback; Level 2 (strategic recalibration), marked by increasingly selective filtering and efficiency-oriented cost management as experience accumulates; and Level 3 (reflexive negotiation), in which users attend more closely to relational sustainability and begin to reflect on the meaning of intimacy itself. The study further identifies “underground usage” as a culturally specific pattern of stigma negotiation shaped by Chinese face (“mianzi”) culture, and introduces “love-efficacy” to describe users’ perceived shifts in subjective confidence in navigating digitally mediated intimacy. By extending SET from a static “costs-rewards” evaluation model toward a processual account of the “matching–interaction–feedback–adjustment” cycle, this study repositions digital dating as an intimate socialization process co-shaped by platform structures, exchange logics, and cultural norms.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nothing about us without us: rethinking positionality and power in refugee research]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-22T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Shaden Sabouni</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionParticipatory and reflexive approaches in migration research are often presented as ethical alternatives to extractive forms of knowledge production. Yet participation and insider proximity do not automatically dissolve power asymmetries. This methodological reflection examines the ethical, emotional, and epistemic consequences of researching one's own displaced community.MethodsThe article draws on relational ethnographic fieldwork and reflexive autoethnographic analysis with Syrian refugee families in Germany. It is grounded in sustained engagement with Syrian refugee adolescents and families between 2022 and 2024, as well as earlier community-based educational work that became a critical entry point into the field. The analysis brings feminist situated knowledge, autoethnography, ethics of care, debates on migration knowledge production, and literature on secondary traumatic stress into dialogue with ethnographic vignettes.ResultsThe article shows that refugee positionality can open forms of trust, shared language, and affective recognition through which otherwise hidden or fragmented narratives become speakable. At the same time, insider proximity produces unstable boundaries between researcher, teacher, community member, mother, and trusted listener. Insider positionality is therefore conceptualized not as an automatic epistemic advantage, but as a liquid, relational, and power-laden condition that enables access while also creating blind spots, expectations of care, and forms of double exposure to trauma.DiscussionThe article contributes to debates on “Nothing About Us Without Us” by showing that refugee-led research requires more than inclusion or representational proximity. It demands critical attention to authority, vulnerability, institutional power, emotional labour, and the costs of producing knowledge from within displacement.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Configurational pathways from AI-enabled FinTech adoption to business financial inclusion in SMEs: the role of digital financial capability in northern Peru]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-21T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Liliana Correa Rojas</author><author>Alexander Haro Sarango</author><author>Jorge Alejandro Tejada Carrera</author><author>Daniel Jesús Castro Vargas</author><author>Nixon Arnaldo Barboza Chuquilín</author><author>Olegario Heiner Cabrera Cabrera</author><author>Tattiana Katerine Fernández Miranda</author><author>Julio Roberto Izquierdo Espinoza</author>
        <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence-enabled financial technology is reshaping the ways in which small and medium-sized enterprises access, use, and evaluate formal financial services. The theoretical problem addressed in this study is that firms with comparable levels of AI-enabled FinTech adoption may achieve substantially different levels of business financial inclusion. This inconsistency suggests that adoption creates a technological opportunity structure, but does not by itself ensure effective access, use, quality, or value creation. Digital financial capability is therefore positioned as the capability-conversion mechanism through which SMEs transform AI-enabled financial tools into meaningful financial participation. This study identifies the configurational pathways through which AI-enabled FinTech adoption and digital financial capability are associated with high business financial inclusion among small and medium-sized enterprises in northern Peru. A quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional design was applied to 120 complete responses from owners, managers, and administrators with direct knowledge of their firms’ financial and digital operations. The analysis used fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, incorporating six causal conditions: AI-enabled FinTech adoption, digital financial capability, perceived usefulness, AI familiarity and integration, digital financial skills, and digital financial self-efficacy. The findings show that no single condition is strictly necessary for high business financial inclusion. Nevertheless, digital financial capability emerged as the condition closest to necessity. The intermediate solution identified two equifinal configurations leading to high inclusion, both combining AI-enabled FinTech adoption, digital financial capability, perceived usefulness, and digital financial skills, while AI familiarity and digital financial self-efficacy operated as alternative reinforcing mechanisms. The results also confirmed causal asymmetry, as low inclusion was explained by configurations centred on deficits in capability and AI-FinTech adoption rather than by the simple inverse of high-inclusion pathways. The study extends FinTech and financial inclusion theory by demonstrating that business financial inclusion is not a direct result of AI-enabled FinTech adoption, but an outcome of capability conversion operating through multiple configurational pathways.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Integrating digital reading among pre-service teachers: a call for strategic policy in teacher education]]></title>
        <pubdate>2026-07-17T00:00:00Z</pubdate>
        <category>Original Research</category>
        <author>Fatima Zahra Sali</author><author>Nilo Jayoma Castulo</author><author>Bonjovi Hassan Hajan</author><author>Pearlhana Dianne V. Sali</author>
        <description><![CDATA[IntroductionIntegrating digital reading into teacher education is critical for preparing pre-service teachers (PSTs) for 21st-century classrooms. This study addresses a significant research gap by investigating PSTs’ perceptions of digital reading within a specific, underexplored context. This study aims to understand how digital platforms influence PSTs, identify effective integration strategies, and pinpoint key barriers and enabling factors to inform strategic policy development in teacher education.MethodEmploying a qualitative case study design, this research engaged ten PSTs from a teacher education program in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis facilitated by Atlas.ti software (Version 25). This approach allowed for an in-depth exploration of the participants’ lived experiences and perceptions of digital reading.ResultsThe analysis revealed that PSTs perceive digital reading tools as instrumental in fostering critical and creative thinking, flexible and personalized learning, digital literacy skill development, and motivation through community building. Key strategies for effective integration include constructivist approaches, blended learning models, collaborative opportunities, and culturally relevant content. However, significant barriers persist, including limited access to technology and digital resources, gaps in institutional policy and support, resistance to pedagogical change, and a lack of linguistically and culturally relevant materials.ImplicationsThese findings underscore the necessity of strategic and policy-driven actions in teacher education. To harness the benefits of digital reading while mitigating barriers, this study proposes a policy framework incorporating a contextualized digital reading curriculum and intensifying sustainable digital training and professional development programs for both teachers and pre-service teachers to ensure a culturally responsive learning experience. Such strategic measures are essential for cultivating a digitally competent, pedagogically innovative, and culturally responsive teaching workforce.]]></description>
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