Open textbooks are innovating and disrupting the traditional model of textbook publication. In celebrating Open Access Week, SFU Library was delighted to bring together a range of perspectives on open textbooks. Students spend roughly $1,000 per year on textbooks, and are increasingly advocating...
Francophones, Canada, Official-Language Minorities, Health Care Usage
Abstract
We test Landry's (2012) ethno-linguistic community development model in the context of Canadian Francophone minorities, using two social responses as indicators of social development. These minorities are spread over 12 Canadian Provinces and Territories and represent a broad spectrum of minority...
selfies, photography, social media, self-portraiture, phenomenological subjectivity
Abstract
The contemporary and rising trend of the “selfie,” or self-portrait shared online through social media, has rarely been studied. When addressed, selfies by young women are criticized by mass media as acts of narcissism and self-absorption. Selfies, and the social critique of selfies, however, can...
Kongo ritual language, Cult ritual Palo Monte, Magical-religious beliefs, Culture and language, liturgical language, Cuba religious life and customs, Afro-Caribbean cults
