The homing of newcomers in Brussels at the intersection of bordering and urban speculation: From survival strategies to infrastructures for civic imagination and urban inclusion by Tasneem Nagi, Heleen Verheyden, An Vandermeulen, Viviana d’Auria, Luce Beeckmans

“…In doing so, they foster an alternative vision of urban citizenship, grounded in community-building and decent housing and services for all.…”
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Networked Responses to Networked Harassment? Creators’ Coordinated Management of “Hate Raids” on Twitch by Colten Meisner

“…I conclude by considering more broadly how platform infrastructures can facilitate or constrain different forms of community building among creators and their audiences.…”
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The 5 K run in popular fiction: Reading about parkrun and couch to 5 K by Ellen Turner

“…The analysis is arranged thematically around the categories of health promotion, individual transformation, and community building. I argue that these texts frequently operate as health promotion tools and can help familiarise would-be runners with how parkrun and Couch to 5 K work.…”
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A study on impact of social media on student's academic performance in UiTM Merbok, Kedah / Amani Hanina Abd Rahman And Anis Nur Atiqa Jana by Abd Rahman, Amani Hanina, Atiqa Jana, Anis Nur

“…Social media are a collection of internet websites, service and practices that help collaboration, community building, participation and sharing information (Junco.Heiberger and Loken, 2010 ). …”
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The personal presence of Jesus in the writings of Paul by Bockmuehl, M

“…Within this range of Christian expression, some may appeal to a sense of Jesus’ presence in experiences of the heart, Ignatian imagination, visionary experience of Jesus or Mary, or in their response to imperatives of charity, community-building or social justice. <br/>What does seem clear from all this is that the temporarily absent Jesus is sublimated to popular Christian experience in remarkably varying ways, which may themselves be a function of theological, cultural and indeed temperamental or psychological diversity.…”

“Ask yourself WHY you want to track yourself”: co-designing a self-tracking guide with teenagers by Freeman, JL, Curtis, AN

“…To successfully build interactive educational resources appropriate for teens&#x2019; positive engagement with health-related self-tracking tools, designers and researchers must prioritize teen-centered design with a focus on: (1) teens&#x2019; core reasons for self-tracking and (2) opportunities for social support and community-building.…”

METRICS FROM THE FIELD: Learning Together by Ken Meter

“…Even for those scholars who dedicate their careers to community-building, work at the grassroots is far more unkempt and unpredictable than working within the academic sphere. …”
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Obtaining high retention and completion rates in a New Zealand ODL environment: A case study of strategies employed by Information and Library Studies Faculty at the Open Polytechn... by Sandra Elizabeth Maathuis-Smith, Shannon Wellington, Amanda Cossham, Alison Fields, Jan Irvine, Sarah Welland, Mary Innes

“…Strategies for retention and completion in this research are discussed in the context of course selection, orientation, layered support, communication between students and faculty, support between student and faculty, social interaction, and community building in an ODL environment. …”
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Promoting Healthy Development among Adolescent Girls: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the HERstory Program by Emily MacFarlane, Lisa M. Chauveron, Amanda C. Thompkins

“…In this school-year-long program, a facilitator implements three program phases: group development activities in Community Building, self-reflective Writing Workshop exercises, and a final Creative Output project, an ethnographic theater production or literary journal developed from participants’ Writing Workshop responses. …”
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THE CIRCLE SYMBOL IN MUSIC EDUCATION by Ágnes GYOVAI, Tímea Mária HEVESI

“…The circle, as a design in space, has a distinctive role in acoustic communication, which opens up the infinity of the musical cosmos through its individual and community building force. The ancient circle walks and dances are joint experiences of wholeness. …”
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Craft micro-enterprises contributions to sustainability: the example of yarn related businesses by Alice Owen

“…These businesses themselves believe there are strong links to the social dimensions of sustainability, particularly in terms of community building. There is also a distinctive contribution to economic aspects of sustainability with the outputs of craft enterprises releasing latent financial value and attaching value associated with provenance and rarity compared to a commodity market, rather than contributing to conventional economic growth. …”
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Feasibility of a Self-Paced Educational Intervention Protocol on Standardized Assessment of Public Building Accessibility by Suzanne Burns, Jaclyn K. Schwartz, Rochelle J. Mendonca, Qussai M. Obiedat, Roger O. Smith

“…Students across five sites completed an online learning module and community building evaluations. Students were randomized into lecture or lab educational groups and then crossed over to receive the second experience. …”

An Algorithmically Woven Community: Disclosing Mental Illness and Connecting with Similar Others on an Algorithm-Mediated Platform in China by Jinping Wang, Jiayu Gina Qu, Jindong Leo-Liu

“…In this study, through semi-structured interviews with 22 China-based users of RED (i.e., an algorithm-mediated platform similar to TikTok), we investigate how users who have experienced mental illnesses (depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder) understand RED algorithms and how these algorithms shape their self-disclosure, imagined audience, and community building. Specifically, both the norms of self-disclosure and content recipients are governed by algorithms, while users with limited agency form various folk theories to navigate the process. …”
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Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities. by Lotta Braunerhielm, Lena Grip, Emilia Ljungberg, Linda Ryan Bengtsson

“…Taken together, a manifold of issues relating to media and placemaking beyond cities are covered, for example, inclusion/exclusion, representation, resistance, community building, belonging, and identification. …”
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Non-Territorial Autonomy and Political Community in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe by David J. Smith

“…By way of conclusion, it makes a case for further research on NTA 'from the ground up', focusing more squarely on the everyday practice of autonomy from a minority perspective and how this might inform and deepen understandings of minority agency within current processes of political community building in CEE and-ultimately-beyond.…”
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Exploring Complex Concepts Through Storytelling: A Synchronous Online Health Policy Course Case Study and Recommendations for Implementing Across Disciplines by Corrie Whitmore, Kathryn Schild

“… Educational experts advocate for storytelling’s community building aspects; it is also a valuable tool for deepening students’ cognitive engagement. …”
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Xexoxial Endarchy: Visual Poetry and Intentional Community at Dreamtime Village in the Midwestern United States by Lily Robert-Foley

“…In this instance, however, readings of visual poets will be interwoven not just with political resistance but with logistical ones related to the practical matters of community building: housing, eating, living. We see that in both instances, the work challenges principles of order, as they pertain to both reading and civilization, and uses paragrammatic strategies of détournement, subverting this order by recycling, cutting, pasting and rearticulating how resistance can be drawn newly from forgotten pasts. …”
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Political Polarization as Disagreement Failure by Philip T. Neisser

“…Supported in this way, cross-border, public conversation would be inherently democratic, community-building, and anti-totalitarian. Held regularly, such talk would help participants to see issues from multiple points of view, and would do so without asking them to give in to the non-thinking of mere tolerance. …”
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Doenjang in the Air: <i>Maangchi</i> and the Mediation of Korean Cultural Authenticity by Justin Sprague

“…Using the case study of famous internet chef Maangchi, I examine one of her best-selling cookbooks and her digital presence to identify the tactics she uses to exert agency in the meaning-making and community-building process, using Korean food and her role as a maternal figure as vehicles for analysis. …”
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Community, Immunity, and Vulnerability: Paradoxes and Possibilities in Postpandemic Diaconal Practice by Sturla J. Stålsett

“…Learning from recent contributions within vulnerability studies and feminist and trauma theologies, I employ Tony Addy’s concept of conviviality as a model for diaconal community building, seeking to elucidate the relevance of Esposito’s thinking to postpandemic diaconal practice.…”
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