Empowerment Paradigm Research Articles

Development of a Digital Tourism Model Using Virtual Reality as Sociological Restoration at the Foot of Mount Sinabung

Mount Sinabung is an active volcano located in the Karo Highlands, specifically in the Karo Regency of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Sinabung and Mount Sibayak, located in North Sumatra, are both active volcanoes and rank as the second-highest peaks in the province. However, it saw a dramatic resurgence and became active once more with a volcanic eruption on August 27, 2010. The most recent eruption of this mountain took place on February 19, 2018 and is ongoing. The significance of this situation prompted the study team to engage in the development of an empowerment paradigm. The objective of this study is to create a digital tourism framework for communities impacted by the eruption of Mount Sinabung, utilizing virtual reality technology as a means to facilitate societal repair. The research methodology employed is a hybrid approach. The data results are processed and evaluated using a customized technique that takes into account the specific demands of the community and parties involved in the collaborative model development. This analysis is done both qualitatively and quantitatively. The analytical stage of discussing the desired digital tourist model employs the theory of viewing techniques, which is akin to reading, in the form of the selection stage.

Draupadi and the paradigm of woman empowerment in Hinduism

This article aims to bring insights from the philosophy of Hinduism to contribute to contemporary issues related to justice/injustice, empowerment, and liberation. To make important observations, and raise significant questions in this direction, it analyzes and discusses in detail the character of Draupadi from the Indian epic The Mahabharata. The article invites critics to debate the potential for empowerment in feminine virtues through the example of Draupadi who defends her importance and value on the basis of stri-dharma (righteous feminine actions). The article also propounds that the typical masculine traits (aggression, individualistic and courageous actions, etc.) in the personality of Draupadi result from the socio-political normativity that puts Draupadi's virtue under examination because she had unconventionally married five men. Draupadi is under emotional and psychological pressure to publicly prove her virtuous self and this finds expression in emotionally-charged situations apparently as masculine traits.

Analysis of the Status Quo of Food Marketing in Social Networks under Brand Empowerment: Recommendation, Interaction and Feedback

In light of the rapid advancements in information technology and the widespread accessibility of the Internet, the landscape of media, communication modalities, and audience preferences have been subject to profound transformations. Against this dynamic backdrop, this paper embarks on an exploratory journey into the realm of the food industry across various major social platforms. Leveraging the potent tool of content analysis, this study meticulously collects and scrutinizes pertinent statistical data obtained through interactive digital channels, thereby elucidating the current landscape of food marketing in the realm of social media.This research endeavors to discern the predominant trajectories within food marketing, particularly focusing on the paradigm of brand empowerment. It engages with the intricate processes of content creation, audience interaction, and feedback loops, offering profound insights into how brands empower themselves within this digital realm. The outcomes of this analysis will pave the way for valuable recommendations aimed at both individual content creators and collaborative teams operating within the realm of new media. In essence, this study seeks to enrich our comprehension of brand empowerment dynamics, opening up new horizons for food exhibition on social networks. By shedding light on the prevailing trends and opportunities, it endeavors to chart a visionary path for brand communication in the dynamic arena of the digital food industry.

Family Empowerment Strategies for Relapse Prevention in Individuals With Schizophrenia: A Scoping Review.

The current scoping review aimed to provide an overview of family empowerment strategies used in relapse prevention among individuals with schizophrenia. Three major topics were explored: (a) the family empowerment model used in relapse prevention among individuals with schizophrenia; (b) family intervention strategies; and (c) special considerations for integrating family empowerment in relapse prevention among individuals with schizophrenia. There is a need to identify and use family resources and strengths, such as acceptance of schizophrenia, development of spirituality, involvement in daily activities, and understanding of behaviors that exacerbate symptoms, to reduce relapse risk. The family empowerment paradigm incorporates new information and coping skills, family support, meaning-making, life objectives, self-reflection, and good family experiences. Families as agents of care at home should be provided with stress management and family psychoeducation to improve family resilience. Further research is needed to understand family empowerment and develop comprehensive guidelines regarding relapse prevention management among individuals with schizophrenia. [Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 62(5), 19-27.].

Traffic congestion in Buenos Aires: diagnosis and public policy recommendations for a more sustainable city

In recent decades, traffic congestion has had a central place on the transportation agenda in the City of Buenos Aires. Despite imposing works that benefited -in the short term- the traffic flow, traffic jams are persistent, and the phenomenon has even spread beyond the city center, reaching different points of the suburbs. The mere fact of traveling with a telephone throughout a city generates endless data that can be collected and analyzed to make investment or public policy decisions. In this work, the cost represented by the existence of congestion in Buenos Aires will be estimated and studied through a characterization approach of the variables, thoroughly investigating its causes and its consequences using programming tools and emphasizing the importance of Big Data in building a more sustainable city. Tentative public policies will also be proposed to mitigate the effects of congestion in the city, based on the data observed in the first instance and considering the new paradigm of smart cities, ecological infrastructure, and empowerment of public transport.

Collective Data Harms at the Crossroads of Data Protection and Competition Law: Moving Beyond Individual Empowerment

In an era of big data, harms caused by data technologies can no longer be effectively addressed under the predominant regulatory paradigm of individual empowerment. Even a sophisticated consumer cannot fully protect herself against collective harms triggered by others’ privacy choices or by technologies creating competitive harm without processing personal data or targeting individuals. While data protection and competition law can be applied more proactively to address such harms, difficulties are likely to remain. We therefore submit that stronger regulatory interventions are required to target collective, and sometimes competitive, harm from technologies like pervasive advertising, facial recognition, deepfakes and spyproducts. Big data, individual rights, societal harms, exploitative abuse, enforcement priorities, blacklists, pervasive advertising, facial recognition, deepfakes, spyproducts

Mosque Community: Economic Empowerment and Legal Counseling (Strengthening the “Thoriqul Huda” Mosque Congregation in Dorokenong Hamlet, Tulung Village, Sampung District, Ponorogo Regency)

The mosque is not only a place for congregation to pray five times a day. Mosques have social, educational and even economic functions. LP3M IAIN Ponorogo has developed mosque posdaya with the aim of empowering the community on the basis of a mosque. The principle of empowerment used is emancipatory, which is to organize the community by placing the community as the subject (subject) with the empowerment paradigm that rests on the community (community based development). The program called the mosque's Posdaya is centered at the Thoriqul Huda mosque, Dorokenong Hamlet, Tulung Village, Sampung Ponorogo District. The revitalization of the function of the Thoriqul Huda mosque is carried out by empowering the economy of congregations who are economically disadvantaged or called pre-prosperous communities. Economic empowerment activities are manifested through entrepreneurship training activities for plastic bag making and marketing. The activity is aimed at providing life skills for preprosperous families of mosque congregations. In the next stage, improving the life skills of congregations from underprivileged families must be supported by capital and network access. Mosques develop amil zakat institutions and mosque cooperatives by strengthening mosque religious management.

URGENSI DAKWAH PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DI ERA INDUSTRY 4.0

Community empowerment is part of da’wah activities which are often interpreted as oral activities. Da'wah in the form of community empowerment activities is known as Da'wah billhal. Preaching by action (bilhal) is not only aimed at improving the quality of your faith, but also as an effort to improve the standard of life of the people as mad'u. Improving the standard of living of the community can be done with empowerment patterns. In tune with the paradigm of community empowerment, that preaching has the aim to change the situation of honey through economic, social, political, cultural, educational, health and so forth. Community empowerment positions madu as both subject and object in da'wah activities. In the Islamic perspective community empowerment has a noble goal of eliminating socioeconomic gaps between one another. So that in Islam the principles of social justice are taught, the principle of equality, the principle of participation, the principle of respect for the work ethic, and the principle of help. There are two ways taken in Islam in community empowerment, namely consumer empowerment that is consumptive and community empowerment that is productive.

Where’s Social Work? A Critical Analysis of Gender Invisibility, Ethical Conflict, and Advocacy in Medical Teams

The traditional biomedical and person-in-environment (PIE) perspectives are often found in conflict when framed within broader gender discrimination and consumerist health care practices. Our critical feminist analysis addresses the case of Katie, a vulnerable health care recipient, whose intersecting identities fall outside of the “margins of acceptability.” Communication deficits among team members and a lack of clear care protocols become evident. Insurance demands to justify coverage undermine the processes of beneficence and the ethic of care required for emancipatory advocacy. We present the tripartite paradigm of transformative complicity, cultural humility, and systems-based empowerment to address the complex ethical dilemmas that emerge. Strategies informed by experimental ethnography help us model effective transdisciplinary dialogue by inviting voices/commentators to rise from the margins (foot/endnotes) and decenter authorial power. Using an emancipatory social work framework, we offer actionable steps which, as revealed by our commentators, are often lacking from the medical team's and care recipient’s toolbox. We call ffor discursive courage to chip away at the socially constructed myths of biological and moral deficit that merge gender, colorism, class, and invisibility in the web of historical and structural discrimination. In addition, we welcome service seekers, as therapeutic colleagues, in the process of systemic empowerment.

KKN-PPM: Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Pengelolaan Sanitasi Air Bersih pada Kawasan Perdesaan Prioritas Nasional di Desa Loeha Kecamatan Towuti

Real Work Lecture Program-Community Empowerment Learning (KKN-PPM) STIKES Bhakti Pertiwi Luwu Raya Palopo is one of the community service activities carried out routinely by universities. The KKN PPM concept is intended to change the concept of "working for the community" to "working with the community". In addition, to improve its contextualization, KKN-PPM is carried out by changing the development paradigm into an empowerment paradigm. Purpose: The KKN-PPM activities are aimed at empowering and fostering the community to live healthy so that the health status of the village community can be fulfilled. The KKN-PPM implementation program is carried out using two models: the eco-e-development model, and the Center for Environment and Societal model. KKN-PPM activities have produced simple air filters in each hamlet in the village of Loeha with basic materials that can be obtained by residents in the village of Loeha. The incidence of diarrhea decreased or was not included in the list of most diseases in the working area of Bantilang Public Health Center. Increased knowledge and skills of the community about clean water sanitation management technology. It is expected that the level of public health in the village of Loeha can improve. Increase the soul of clean and healthy life, so that they can utilize a larger air source than a clean air source to save community life. The people of Loeha Village are very responsive to this activity, specifically, in making simple clean air filtration, this is evidenced by the considerable number of people present.

Theoretical Perspectives and Current Challenges of Outcome-Based Education Framework

AbstractOutcome-Based education is a performance-based approach for the curriculum development, a future-oriented learner-centered ‘Empowerment Paradigm’ that empowers and endorses all learners with future success. It is an influential and tempting way of restructuring and reorganizing engineering education. Washington Accord, an International accreditation convention, an independent agreement between signatory organizations to provide an external accreditation to undergraduate engineering programs. The accredited engineering programs that qualify an engineer to enter into the practice of professional engineers are equally recognized and acknowledged by other signatory countries and responsible organizations Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) is a full signatory to the Washington Accord and a regulatory organization for the accreditation of engineering programs in Pakistan. To keep up the permanent membership status, it is the requirement of PEC to implement Outcome-Based in engineering degree awarding institutes in Pakistan. The main aim of Outcome-Based education in engineering education is to empower engineering students with the essential characteristics required to switch themselves into the engineering profession as a global and professional engineer. The focus of current research is to explore the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of Outcome-Based education. Moreover, to unveil the current challenges in the implementation of OBE framework in engineering education.

Streaming freedom in illiberal Eastern Europe

The article asks how we begin to assess the connections and mutual influences between television’s increasing globalisation facilitated by digital distribution platforms and the globalisation of crisis borne by the failure of the neo-liberal free market paradigm, which has resulted in the rise of nativist nationalisms, xenophobia and authoritarianism. I argue that, considering these contradictory developments as interconnected disrupts some of the epistemological paradigms inherited from the Cold War and simultaneously helps us understand – and demystify – emerging paradigms of consumer empowerment associated with streaming in television and media studies. In particular, I demonstrate the importance of resisting sweeping assessments about the globalisation of the ‘HBO-type quality drama’ by considering the operations of HBO Europe, whose pioneering localisation practices in Eastern Europe have thrived within increasingly illiberal political conditions in the post-socialist Eastern European region.

Multicultural paradigms of student empowerment in educational discourses: Azerbaijan, UK and USA as case studies

ABSTRACTThe principal goal of this paper is to examine the transformation of the university policies in Azerbaijan as they are affected by UK and USA university discourses. I develop a framework that delineates modal verbs of very strong versus neutral stance and classify them according to (a) American and British Englishes, and according to (b) traditional and student-centred educational approaches. The above-mentioned categories of modal verbs are studied through various university documentations with a preliminary aim to analyse the frequency of modal verbs’ occurrence and the cultural and ideological values they denote regarding power relationships. Based on the findings, the research provides a tentative theory of the effectiveness of modalities in interpreting educational policies, in particular with regards to the empowerment or manipulation discourses.

The UK Domestic Gas Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act: Re‐regulating the Retail Energy Market

AbstractThe UK retail energy market has witnessed multiple regulatory interventions since its liberalisation almost two decades ago. Such interventions reached their peak with the enactment of the UK Domestic Gas Electricity (Tariff Cap) Act in July 2018. The Act puts in place a requirement on the independent regulator, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), to set an absolute price cap on poor value tariffs. As such, it signals a repudiation of the overarching paradigm of consumer empowerment that has informed regulatory remedies to date. Rather than advocating for a different paradigm, this article highlights the difficulties inherent in reconciling price caps – both practically and conceptually – with the competitive process and consumer empowerment. It also discussses other instruments, not necessarily exhausted in retail price regulation, that can render affordable energy prices, without sacrificing consumer empowerment.

Millennials empowerment: youth entrepreneurship for sustainable development

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge and theory building in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship development.Design/methodology/approachThis paper critically examines the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN) programme and its relevance as a youth economic empowerment programme through the lens of the UNDP Youth Strategy entry points for promoting economic empowerment of youth and extant literature on critical youth empowerment using participatory development theories.FindingsWhile YouWiN is a significant intervention towards entrepreneurship development, it presents some flaws and limitations in the design and implementation process, which may challenge sustainable economic development. Hence, there is a need to explore the millennials empowerment paradigm in light of three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship development.Originality/valueThis paper proposes three key complementary action-oriented approaches to youth entrepreneurship policy/programme design, implementation and evaluation for the multilateral agencies, private and voluntary sectors. These are in the form of facilitating participatory engagement and diversity, managing drivers (push/pull factors) of entrepreneurship, and ensuring access to enablers/support. There is the need for further debate and critical inputs to improve theory building towards a normative framework in youth empowerment and entrepreneurship. This contributes to ending poverty, and promoting intergenerational equity and sustainable development.

PENDEKATAN PENYULUHAN PARTISIPATIF DALAM PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT BERBASIS BUDAYA LOKAL DI DESA KAMPUNG BARU KECAMATAN KOTA AGUNG

In the perspective of social change based on the empowerment paradigm, development communication activities as a process of change are also carried out in a participatory manner. The process of participation and empowerment can be studied through awareness theory. a process of awareness to them about the circumstances of the environment, needs, desires, and abilities. The awareness process must be done through a dialogue process. While the process of dialogue is a continuous two-way communication process so as to find an understanding and understanding that form an awareness. This awareness will happen to the dialogue parties. Such parties can be individuals in the community as well as individuals in government institutions. Communication process is often referred to as a model of convergence communication. Implementation of participatory extension approach is the most appropriate approach to be used in the process of community empowerment, because besides it will naturally give rise to a collective awareness of the problem and its potential, it will also place the community as subject and responsible actors of change.

Empowering people: Role for political social work in South Asia

South Asian governments have initiated political reforms engaging in rhetoric that resonates with the paradigms of good governance and empowerment of people. This article, applying a political social work framework, analyses reform policy in Pakistan and India in South Asia. By doing so, the article investigates the politics of local governance reforms in Pakistan and India within the context of domestic politics, institutional power and dynamics, and bureaucratic traditions and civil society activism. The article argues for renewed South Asian political social work that catalyzes robust local governance through citizen participation, resulting in the empowerment of people.

ZAKAH EMPOWERMENT OPTIMIZATION THROUGH BAITUL IKHTIAR COOPERATION AS AN EFFORT IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN BOGOR REGENCY

The Indonesian government and other concerned parties have conducted various programs looking for strategies for poverty alleviation, however, the poverty rate has not decreased significantly. One of zakah based empowerment paradigm is transformation paradigm that is a process in motivating the society with new values which can enlighten the soul, spirit and the common sense, so that they can rediscover their way of life from being a mustahiq (a person who receives zakah) to muzakki (person who gives zakah). This empowerment was an important development pillar in stimulating development growth and equality, providing the societies’ welfare, creating jobs opportunity and alleviating poverty. The research is conducted by surveying the respondents in three sub districts in Bogor Region. The respondents are 254 mustahik that consists of 66 mustahik vegetables producers in Cibungbulang sub district, 85 mustahik as sate skewers producers in Tenjolaya sub district and 103 mustahik as shoes-sandals producers in Taman Sari sub district. The field research was conducted in 2013. The research instrument/questionnaire was based on the concept of empowerment and independence. The method used in the research was descriptive statistic and T-test.

“We Always Say: And Then Came The Water…”1 Flint’s Emergent Latinx Capacity Building Journey During the Government-Induced Lead Crisis

ABSTRACTThis critically intersubjectively engaged ethnography focuses on incipient Latinx lead crisis rehabilitation efforts in Flint, MI and the role of education in the context of multicultural struggles for validation. We employ the paradigms of cultural humility, transformative complicity, and empowerment with a focus on organizing strategies that honor faith-based, union, and urban gardening histories. New Orleans and El Caño Martín Peña environmental crisis research inform our comparative analysis. Our popular pedagogical methods promote agency with detained youths from Kalamazoo who join Flint coauthors through protest music, testimonies, and commentaries to interweave, support, and disrupt authorial and community leader privilege.

Promoting LatinX Generativity: Cultural Humility and Transformative Complicity Through Geriatric Teams

This article highlights social work, critical thinking, and an ethic of care in geriatric teamwork to promote generativity and the well-being of LatinX elderly. We offer the tripartite paradigm of cultural humility, transformative complicity, and empowerment to reduce power imbalances between service providers, elderly persons, and their communities. A force field analysis considers the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) to understand the restraining and driving forces affecting the institutionalization of inter/transdisciplinary teams. Effective evidence-based models that humanize geriatric services are offered to counter the current biomedical emphasis of Medicare/Medicaid policies and less-than-responsive geriatric institutional and educational systems. We highlight Bloom and Farragher’s Sanctuary Model of compassionate and democratic practices to address the negative effects of moral entrepreneurship and ageism. The case of Florence, an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and questioning) grandparent with multiple health issues, is analyzed from biomedical, person in the environment, and a strength-based perspective.