Community Feeling Research Articles

Beyond Humanity: Revisiting the Ethics of Body Politics and Violence Against Women in Partition Literature

The literary, historical, political and cultural stories of the partition which have been created by writers demonstrate that women, regardless of their cultural and religious backgrounds, were the worst affected by the recently recognized India-Pakistan border in 1947. The time period saw numerous forms of violence against women, regardless of any feeling of community. It has been a negative tradition to target all pious things for abusing, and revenging. Women have been regarded as a soft corner for all human beings. The bodies of women have been recognised as a notable tool for abusing and misbehaving. kidnapping stripping, making naked, rapping, deforming, cutting of breasts, engraving with religious symbols, and finally killing of women on the name of creed were witnessed in a great number which was the consequence of partition. The research work intends to give a complete analysis of the values and symbols of women's breasts by drawing on the ideas of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault on power politics. Many literary, cultural, historical, religious, and political texts have used the period as their backdrop. The rhetoric of mother India was framed out of chaos and violence particularly against women and generally against the mass. As a result, it is considered as a movement having wounded breasts as a metaphor for border crossing and as a terrible testament to the history of Partition, endangering the stability of the country. The world witnessed the worst partition in the history of the world. The paper attempts to examine the Partition massacre by focusing on and comprehending female corpses with scratched breasts as abject who break the bounds of normative society and show its flaws in light of Julia Kristen's abjection theory. The values, ethical considerations, political ploys, and communal sensibility presented in this piece may be seen as a terrible repudiation of a brutal decolonization process and as an occultist for feminist resistance. The misery and sadness of maimed women's bodies are used as an illustration of the dialectic between history and the body by authors like Bapsi Sidhwa, Bhishm Sahani, and Khushwant Singh. There is the development of breaches of women's rights.

Detect, trace and react: Danish senior centre staffs' awareness of and response to signs of deteriorating health or well-being among senior centre users - An ethnographic field study.

Senior centre staff members seemingly have an important organisational and administrative role, as well as engage in outreach activities, referral and follow-up in relation to health issues among senior centre users. However, their role in health promotion and illness prevention is easily overlooked and under researched. This study aimed to explore municipal senior centre staffs' awareness of and response to signs of deteriorating health or well-being among users. A multisite ethnographic field study was conducted at seven municipal senior centres in Denmark from November 2019 to February 2020. Data were obtained from participant observation and semi-structured individual interviews with 16 staff members. A thematic analysis strategy helped identify themes of importance. Senior centre staff followed a process of three steps when remaining aware of and responding to signs of deteriorating health and well-being among users: detecting, tracing and reacting. Three themes with corresponding subthemes were identified: Establishing close and trusting relationships, facilitating a community feeling and utilising joint collaboration. Each subtheme was linked to some or all of the three steps in the process. The municipal senior centre staff had a strong and explicit focus on detecting, tracing and reacting to signs of deteriorating health and well-being among senior centre users. This makes the senior centres a promising arena for illness prevention and health promotion.

Life Aspirations, Generativity and Compulsive Buying in University Students.

The study of goal-oriented behaviour, because of its undeniable repercussions on physical and mental health, is one of the target topics of contemporary research. However, the content of life aspirations, emphasised from the self-determination theory, has received little attention from the field of compulsive buying although it plays an important role in the regulation of behaviour and well-being. Generativity, the personal construct that captures the intentions and/or the need to contribute (leave a legacy) to others, has never been analysed with respect to compulsive buying although it has been the source of interest of related fields (responsible consumption). Accordingly, this study seeks to shed light on the role of both constructs (life aspirations and generativity) in compulsive buying among university students. The sample consisted of 1093 Spanish university students classified either as non-compulsive buyers or compulsive buyers. Estimated prevalence of compulsive buying was 7.9%. The results of Student’s test confirm that, besides gender (women report greater propensity to the phenomenon), compulsive buyers score higher and show statistically significant differences with respect to non-compulsive buyers in all extrinsic goals (financial success, image, popularity and conformity) and hedonism. Non-compulsive buyers show significantly higher scores for the intrinsic goals of self-acceptance, affiliation and community feeling and also report a higher generative concern. The logistic regression analysis confirms that being female and the life aspirations of image, popularity and hedonism act as risk factors in compulsive buying in university students while generativity and the importance granted to the intrinsic goals of self-acceptance and affiliation are protective factors. Potential lines of action for this worrying phenomenon are discussed in the light of the findings.

Need of support perceived by patients primarily curatively treated for breast, colorectal, or prostate cancer and close to discharge from hospital-A qualitative study.

To describe perceived needs of support among patients close to discharge from the hospital and at the end of primary curative radiotherapy for breast, colorectal or prostate cancer. Few studies have specifically explored patients' early support needs when ending primary curative treatment. Qualitative interview study design. A purposive sample of 27 participants with breast, colorectal or prostate cancer aged 33-88years. The interviews were analysed by qualitative content analysis. Reporting followed the COREQ guidelines. Personal support to reach a sense of control and Social support for personal growth were two main themes, highlighting that people required adapted support from health care since needs of support could change over time. This support from health care was also relying on that trust-based relationships were developed. Through mutuality with others and engagement in meaningful activities people became enabled and felt further supported. Personal support from health care seems specifically important for the patients' feelings of control and could be a facilitator for patients to identify further support for personal growth in how to manage, on the one hand, illness and insecurity, and on the other, their well-being and everyday life with cancer. To empower patients who are ending primary treatment and being close to discharge from hospital, healthcare professionals should recognise patients' shifting needs and adapt the support. Adapted support is significant for patients' sense of safety. Biomedical information is not sufficient to fully support patients. Offering easy access to supportive care when primary treatment is finished could diminish people's stress, insecurity and avoidable use of healthcare services. Even after discharge, nurses preferably should adapt and offer support tailored to patients' needs. Such support may improve patients' sense of control and safety, trust in health care, feelings of community and encourage personal growth.

UPAYA PENINGKATAN MINAT BACA MELALUI PERINTISAN RUMAH BACA “ABDI” DAN PENDAMPINGAN BELAJAR DARI MAHASISWA UNTUK DESA MENDALO INDAH

The pioneering of the ABDI reading house (Asri, Baca and Inspirasi) was based on the low interest in reading students' books. Mendalo Indah Village, which is a village close to Jambi University, does not yet have a reading house. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has overwhelmed parents of students to teach their children, especially with relatively low mastery of technology. ABDI Reading House, as a form of student and lecturer concern for the surrounding environment, is here to provide solutions to the problems of reading interest and the needs of parents for their children's learning assistance. This program is implemented by a community service team from the Pharmacy Student Association of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in collaboration with lecturers. The Village Head of Mendalo Indah provides a house to be used as a reading house and is supported by the provision of reading houses by funding from Jambi University through the Village Development and Empowerment Holistic Program (PHP2D). Learning assistance is carried out every day offline according to community demand by establishing health protocols and learning is carried out interactively with the play while learning method. This dedication has given birth to reading houses with various facilities and an increase in the number of visits to reading houses. The community feels very helped by the presence of the ABDI reading house in Mendalo Indah Village.

“The New Man” On-Demand: A Student in Lithuanian Schools of the Late Soviet Years (1964–1988)

This article presents a socio-historical study that combines an analysis of the theoretical model of the “new man” in the late Soviet period (1964–1988) with an empirical study of personal experiences of people who were students at schools in the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) during this period. The aim is to analyze how the teaching and learning process were organized during the late Soviet period in LSSR schools, how it was understood by the participants of this study, and what were the possible differences in the experiences of schoolchildren. Also, it is equally important to determine which of the schoolchildren’s experiences in this period could be qualified as “unifying experiences” that formed the mentality of the late Soviet period generation. These experiences are compared with the common Soviet vision of the “new man” education, which was also changing during the late Soviet period. While searching for the answer to how much of the theoretical “new man” model was adopted by this last Soviet generation in LSSR, we use a post-revisionist approach and focus on the narrative of everyday history – what it meant to be schoolchildren in Soviet schools. The research revealed that the formal institutionalization of collective life for schoolchildren through Pioneer or Komsomol organizations was ineffective in creating a collective community feeling between the young generation. During the late Soviet period in LSSR schools there were four main disciplinary practices: formal notices by writing or by word, unsanctioned physical punishments, preventive disciplinary practices, and informal shaming. The last informal disciplinary practice was considered by schoolchildren in todays perspective as the most effective means of discipline at schools. These practices reflected the model of monitoring each other in the adult Soviet society and formed the horizontal control system involving students, their parents, and teachers. The research revealed a preliminary informal social stratification of children in LSSR schools during the late Soviet period. It was not related to the vision of “the new man” education but encouraged an already existing division within the LSSR society. This was a complete departure from the ethical-moral visions of educating “the new man” in schools, which were based on the demolition of the established class division, enabling this “new man” to create a welfare of socialist society by their own hard work and heroic achievements.

Analisis Asumsi-Asumsi pada Program Food Estate di Papua

The issue of the food crisis sticking out long before the Covid-19 pandemic occurred since 2008 and has become a hot topic discussed by regional and global institutions. The recommendation to maximize the private or corporate sector with the support of global scale financialization to move investment in the field of food production is one of the "goals" of the recommendation to create a large-scale food warehouse called a "food estate". This paper aims to analyze the assumptions of the Food Estate Program in Papua. Discussing the assumption that the assumptions of the offices tend to be late so that the importance level is low, there should be an effort to analyze it before there is a decision making, even if the MIFEE program from the central government. The assumption that the community feels disadvantaged by the existence of the MIFEE program, that the loss of forests due to deforestation and the loss of a foraging culture due to ethnocide has led to the disadvantaged community to give the MIFEE proposal a review. The presence of DPRD and NGOs is weak and only able to slow down the program, not until it is canceled. The government as the upper-right quadrant actor has clear strengths and important assumptions, because it is supported by economic and political plans and is oriented towards economic growth. The conclusion is that the assumption of the offices tends to be late even though the MIFEE program from the central government, the assumption of the people who feel disadvantaged by the existence of the MIFEE program, is that the presence of DPRD and NGOs is weak and it slows down the running of the program. The government as an actor in the right-hand quadrant has clear strengths and important assumptions.

Retirement in Residential Parks in Australia: A Smart Move or Move Smart?

ABSTRACT Residential parks and manufactured homes are a small but significant housing market for seniors and retirees in Australia. Residents own their home and rent the ground upon which the home sits from the park operator who owns the land and the infrastructure. However, residents’ long-term housing security could be compromised because there is no guarantee of on-going tenure. The research discusses issues affecting park residents and canvasses ideas for improvements. Nevertheless, residents’ satisfaction with the park lifestyle was found to be quite high due to feelings of community belonging, mutual reciprocity and a perception of greater personal safety.

Peningkatan pengetahuan dan ketrampilan menyediakan makanan sehat dan hand sanitizer alami dalam menghadapi pandemic Covid19

The covid 19 pandemic has not ended and there are still many people who have not received the vaccine scheduled by the government so all citizens must remain vigilant against Corona 19 virus infection. Viral infection is a self-limiting disease that can heal itself if our immune system is strong. There are many things that can increase the immune system, one of which is nutritional intake from food and proper processing methods. Fulfillment of macro nutrition in the form of energy and protein sources can be obtained from animal and vegetable sources, while micronutrients in the form of vitamins and minerals can be obtained from meat, fish, vegetables, colored fruit or not. The content of micronutrients that increase immunity is in the form of antioxidants contained in vitamins A, B, C, E, zinc, Fe and several other minerals. Washing hands with soap or hand sanitizer is a government program to prevent the spread of the covid 19. The high cost of hand sanitizers and the scarcity of goods have led to creative ideas to empower people in making hand sanitizers that are cheap, easy to obtain and safe for all ages. The aim of this community service is to provide understanding to the community about sources of nutrition to increase the body's immune system and how to properly process food ingredients without damaging nutritional content and improve skills in processing food ingredients and making hand sanitizers from environmentally friendly natural ingredients that can be taken from around us. Community service can be carried out well, the community feels very helped by the counseling and training provided. Evaluation of activities is carried out by assisting the community's creativity in processing nutritious food and making hand sanitizers with natural ingredients around our environment.

EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENTAL UNIVERSITIES’ OUTDOOR PUBLIC SPACES “An inductive study on the reality of Egyptian governmental universities’ outdoor public spaces, and its impact on universities’ development plans”

With the multiplicity of challenges facing Egyptian governmental universities’ outdoor public spaces its outdoor public spaces (as an integral part of the university campus) are affected by those challenges, affecting its role in supporting the educational process, and in achieving the plans and goals of developing the campus. In addition, the lack of an appropriate classification of these spaces. Which limits the development of appropriate plans to deal with it. The study aims to present and discuss the challenges facing Egyptian governmental universities’ outdoor public spaces. relies on an inductive approach in reviewing those challenges and their implications on design and development objectives of the university campus. The study concluded that image and role of the university is not only affected by its indoor spaces and the equipment it provides, but extends to its outdoor public spaces, so paying attention to its challenges is a pivotal step in the university’s development. Emphasizing the role of those spaces in restoring the university’s role by providing opportunities for social and cultural communication, and the transfer of community experiences among students. Finally, stressing the need not to neglect the university’s endeavour to establish an attractive educational environment using outdoor public spaces for its great role. The study recommended to establish a comprehensive vision for the development of Egyptian public universities that seeks to use outdoor public spaces in providing an attractive educational environment capable of keeping pace with developments that occur at the educational, political, economic and social levels. And the need to work on reviewing plans to take advantage of them to achieve financial sufficiency, in a way that serves the university’s plans to enhance communication and community feeling. Finally, the need to work on developing mechanisms to review and measure the role of outdoor public spaces in Egyptian public universities. مع تعدد التحديات التي تقابلها الجامعات الحکومية فإن فراغاتها الخارجية (کجزء اصيل من الحرم الجامعي) تتأثر بهذه التحديات، بما يؤثر على دورها في دعم العملية التعليمية، وفي تحقيق خطط وأهداف تطوير الحرم الجامعي. مع غياب التصنيف المناسب لهذه الفراغات؛ بما يحد من وضع الخطط المناسبة للتعامل معها. حيث تقسم الدراسة هذه التحديات إلى تحديات إدارة الفراغ، تحديات صياغة الفراغ وأخيرا، تحديات العلاقات بالفراغ. وتهدف الدراسة الى عرض ومناقشة التحديات التي تواجه الفراغات الخارجية بالجامعات الحکومية المصرية في مختلف المجالات، وعلاقتها بخطط وأهداف تطوير الحرم الجامعي. باستخدام المنهج الاستقرائي في مراجعة تحديات الفراغات الخارجية بالجامعات الحکومية المصرية ومردودها على أهداف تصميم وتطويرها الحرم الجامعي. وخلصت الدراسة الى عدم تأثر صورة ودور الجامعة فقط بفراغاتها الداخلية وما تقدمه من تجهيزات ولکنها تمتد إلى فراغاتها الخارجية، لما لها من دور کبير خاصة مع تطور أساليب التعليم والتي أصبح فيها الطالب مؤديا وليس متلقيا فقط، والتأکيد على أثر الفراغات الخارجية بالجامعات في استعادة دور الجامعة بما تقدمة من فرص للتواصل الاجتماعي والتبادل الثقافي ونقل الخبرات المجتمعية بين الطلاب. وأخيرا التأکيد على ضرورة عدم إهمال سعي الجامعة إلى تأسيس بيئة تعليمية جاذبة، لدور الفراغات الخارجية لما لها من دور کبير خاصة مع تطور أساليب التعليم. واوصت الدراسة بالعمل عل تأسيس رؤية شاملة لتطوير الجامعات الحکومية المصرية تسعى إلى استخدام الفراغات الخارجية في توفير بيئة تعليمية جاذبة قادرة على مواکبة التطورات التي تحدث على المستويات التعليمية، والسياسية، والاقتصادية والاجتماعية. وضرورة العمل على مراجعة خطط الاستفادة من الفراغات الخارجية في الجامعات في تحقيق الاکتفاء المالي وبما يخدم خطط الجامعة في تعزيز التواصل والشعور المجتمعي. وأخيرا، ضرورة العمل على تطوير اليات مراجعة وقياس دور الفراغات الخارجية بالجامعات الحکومية المصرية.

Penerapan Teknologi Media Tanam Hidroponik untuk Mewujudkan Wisata Pertanian di Desa Cimekar

Agricultural-based tourism villages are a great opportunity for rural communities to explore the potential of their area. Through hydroponic plant processors on limited land it provides a special attraction for visitors / tourists. This article reviews how the socialization and outreach activities of hydroponic planting media to residents of RW 28 Cimekar Village, Cileunyi District, Bandung Regency. The goal is to generate a climate for agricultural tourism in Cimekar Village and increase employment and income for the surrounding community. The method used is one of them by directly visiting the community which is concentrated in several places to conduct counseling. Socialization activities are carried out by conducting direct simulations on how hydroponic plant technology is able to develop in limited land. The result is that the community feels how the transfer of technology for this hydroponic growing media can be easily practiced.

IMPACT LIMITATION OF SOCIAL SCALE WITH THE MOVEMENT SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL DISTANCING OF ANXIETY SOCIETY FOR PANDEMIC DISEASE CORONAVIRUS 2019 (COVID-19) IN PEKALANGAN CIREBON

Background: Pandemic outbreak is a time of global emergency. Large-scale social restrictions during a pandemic are a contributing factor to psychiatric comorbidities. One of the psychological problems that arise during this pandemic is anxiety. Objective: To analyze the impact of Large-Scale Social Restrictions with social and physical distancing movements on public anxiety during the pandemic outbreak Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). Methods: This study is a qualitative research approach using a phenomenological study. Participants / informants were taken purposively. The analysis technique used is data triangulation. Results: The results showed five main themes: (1) Community description (2) Public perception (3) Community feeling (4) Community action (5) Change in people's physical health. Conclusion: During the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak, participants experienced mild to severe anxiety, which was largely influenced by almost all aspects, but the most prominent aspect was the economy, which was the source of increased stressors and changes in the coping response of the community.

NTNU WriteFest 2020

October is when the NTNU University Library usually offers physical writing events, assisting students with academic writing. For obvious reasons this was not possible in 2020, so we decided to create a digital event instead. We wanted to gather students who needed motivation and inspiration, and lecturers and librarians who could help, on the same platform at the same time. Our intention was to create a feeling of interdisciplinary community among the students as well as the employees, even though we weren’t in the same place physically. Not only did we want to reach out to all NTNU students across Norway, but also include the international students located abroad.The festival took place 12-16 October 2020 in The Virtual Library in Zoom (NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket, 2020), established during the lockdown in the spring of 2020. Events took place during the entire week, with the main event on Wednesday evening. The program focused on academic writing and related topics. We had lectures and courses with multiple internal and external contributors from NTNU, in addition to other services we offered during the week and evening. Parts of the event were also streamed to Facebook.
 There were a lot of firsts in the making of the festival. A digital writing festival for all students at NTNU had never been done before. The project group also consisted of members from different cities and departments and met only through online meetings. Working digitally presents new and other options when it comes to digital solutions and how to work together.
 In this presentation we will talk about our experiences, the do’s and don’ts we made along the way, and during the event. Things that work fine physically do not necessarily function well digitally.

Discourse on Safety/Security in the Parliamentary Corpus of Latvian Saeima

The discourse on (individual and public) safety and (social) security in the political communication has an impact on community feelings through the ideas of risk and emergency. Indeed, the many aspects of insecurity / un-safety make this to be elaborated in speeches as a rather manifold and complex concept. How is this conceptual nexus used and perceived in the speeches of MP’s of Latvian parliament, and what impact it may have had on political discourse in general and construction of identities and power relations between political elites and the people in this discourse? These are the main issues addressed in this research that combines critical discourse analysis and corpus analysis tool created for Corpus of Debates in Latvian parliament - Saeima (1993 – 2017) (http://saeima.korpuss.lv/)). Findings show that the discourse on safety and security is provided by Latvian MP’s mainly from protectionist point of view. The main stream of discourse indicate the uses of the meaning of ‘security’ or “the state of being free from danger or threat”; this is why it is sometimes referred to as taken for granted or the term is often used in Saeima debates in both administrative and populist contexts.

Societal acceptance increases Muslim-Gay identity integration for highly religious individuals… but only when the ingroup status is stable

ABSTRACT Reconciling religious beliefs with a sexual minority identity can be challenging. After coming out, many gay men report to renounce their religious identity or experience increased identity conflict between their religious and sexual identities. Giving up one’s own identity or identity conflict are known to predict negative wellbeing, and it is important to find ways to reduce this conflict and increase identity integration. In this experiment, we conceptualized identity integration as a social creativity strategy, and we examined whether societal acceptance (vs rejection) and ingroup experience (e.g., whether gay community feels stability or improvement about their status) would alter one’s level of Muslim-gay identity integration. We found that Muslim-gay identity integration was highest among highly religious gay men when societal acceptance was present and ingroup experience was stable. Overall, we discuss our findings by drawing parallels between social identity theory and bicultural identity integration framework, and provide implications to increase identity integration for those with multiple conflicting identities.

Pengembangan Website Desa Dalam Meningkatkan Kualitas Pelayanan Publik di Desa Bona, Gianyar

The poor quality of public services in Indonesia must be addressed by the government. One of the government's efforts to improve the quality of public services is to take advantage of advances in information technology in the process of governance. This is known as e-government or electronic or internet-based government administration. The process of implementing e-government goes through several stages, namely presence (web presence), interaction (interaction), transactions (transactions), and transformation (transformation). This study aims to determine how the implementation of e-government through the provision and operation of village websites can improve the quality of public services in Bona Village. This research is a qualitative-descriptive type of research that describes and explains the results of research based on relevant data collected through observation and literature study. The analysis of the research data used the Miles and Huberman model which included the initial data collection stage, the data reduction stage, the data presentation stage, and then the conclusion drawing stage. The results of this study are the application of e-government is carried out through the provision and operation of village websites as a means of public services that are easy, practical, and efficient. There are several services related to village administration including writing business letters, complaint reports, writing letters for other purposes, and essential telephone services. These services can be accessed by the village community easily and through a mechanism or procedure that is not complicated, so that the community feels satisfied with the public services they get. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that the application of e-government through the provision and operation of village websites that provide easy and practical public services can improve the quality of public services in Bona Village. Through the application of e-government, the implementation of village government can be carried out effectively, efficiently, transparently and accountably.

Implementation Corporate Social Responsibility Of Regional Owned Business Agencies To Help Handling Covid-19 In Kendal

Abstract 
 Improve the welfare of the community in the area around the company and corporate responsibility. This can happen because the community feels affected by the environment that comes from the company's operations. The improvement of conditions in the social environment is one way of fulfilling the responsibilities known as corporate social responsibility or CSR. The definition of economic democracy in the national economy is based on the principles of unity, equity, sustainability of function, environmental mobilization, independence, and in maintaining the balance of development and national economic unity, it is important to support the 'main economic institutions; to determine the welfare of the people. CSR activities for the community are a process of migration and are related to the existing resources in the community. Currently, Social Welfare is no longer voluntary in nature but it has become the responsibility of many companies to implement it, although so far there have been no serious sanctions imposed on non-CSR companies.
 Keywords: CSR; Corporate social responsibility; Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 40 of 2007; Community Welfare

Relationship between Facebook Usage and Academic Performance of College Students under the Royal University of Bhutan

The development of social media like Facebook has changed the lives of many people principally the students. Several opinions are shared on how social media have a negative consequence on college students and lead to worsening their academic performance. Facebook usage is extremely prevalent among most undergraduates and approximately 85% of students use it particularly the first-year college students as it offers students a feeling of community and friendship. Of the total 365 students surveyed, 344 were Facebook users while 21 were non-users. Majority of respondents having Facebook account use mobile phones i.e., 48% of total respondents, 42% use their personal laptops and remaining 10% use college computer. Students are more often subjected to reading social media updates than reading academic-related books. Hence, it revealed that those who spent more time on social media spent less time studying i.e., users spent 0.33 to 1-hour studying per day and non-users spent 2 to 5 hours studying. Pearson's correlation test showed that the time spent on Facebook was negatively associated with students’ GPA (r = -.198, p = .000). More the time a student invests on Facebook, the lower the average grade point will be. However, blocking Facebook is not a solution since students can easily access it via their mobile phones. As a result, rather than blocking the site, higher education institutions such as Universities and Colleges may encourage students to use Facebook for educational purposes by offering appropriate arrangements and training.

Exploring Feelings of Student Community across a Geographically Distributed University

Options for students to learn and connect with each other have diversified in recent years, with online resources and campuses playing an increasing role. Flexibility and comfort are becoming a priority as students choose when, where and how to pursue learning goals. Nonetheless, students want to feel sense of community with their peers and instructors; institutional bonds are in turn associated with enhanced learning. In this paper, we explore the feelings of community among students studying at a geographically distributed university. We seek to understand how the students understand community, the levels of community they feel and how their campus location may affect these feelings. In this paper, we present findings from both a survey and an interview study and consider the implications for tools that might promote community.

Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue Based on Papers Submitted at the Business Model Conference 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused many events around the world to be cancelled, including the Business Model Conference 2020. The Conference Chairs, the Scientific Committee, and the Conference Committee discussed the possibility of hosting an online conference but thought that meeting virtually would not have provided participants with the same sense of community feeling experienced in previous years, when the Business Model Conference brought together international academics and practitioners from a multitude of disciplines to discuss the latest research and innovative teaching methods. Therefore, the decision was made to cancel the 2020 Conference.Despite this, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Models did not want the papers submitted to be a wasted effort; thus, it selected and reviewed the 11 papers included in this Special Issue. Originality, significance, and rigor were the three criteria thatguided the selection and the review process, leading to a mix of papers that tackle business model issues from different angles and employ different research methods.