In Ch 27, Moses Kansanga, Elijah Bisung & Isaac Luginaah reflect on the the ‘rural’ as an evolving socio-spatial construct & draw upon experiences in diverse ruralities in Africa to highlight the complexities of doing research in rural settings.
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I don't mind my papers being rejected, that's whatever. What does suck: I reviewed 16 papers for #chi2023, and championed each paper's positive attributes. 100 hours of service so far. In return, I get a sub-100-word review that suggests the paper is unredeemable garbage.
"'Top performing' water firms dumped sewage into rivers 177,000 times." "Ofwat is useless".
Pretty impossible to disagree really.
At what point I wonder does @10DowningStreet finally get the idea that @DefraGovUK, @Ofwat & @EnvAgency are all useless?
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"Three Cornwall beaches polluted after sewage overflow."
In 2021 local water company @SouthWestWater paid a "special dividend", of £1,500,000,000 to shareholders.
Company CEO Susan Davy was also paid £1,700,000 in salary and bonuses.
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It is weird that we currently rely so much on social spaces that are owned by weird individuals which have full control over them.
Our own research often needs to be fully open access but then we bind us to closed & unethically run platforms to stay in touch/communicate.
Members of the #GOALD team @janoveliz, @john_ritchie73 & @SGaudl & colleagues are editing a special edition of Journal of Responsible Innovation @JResInnov & are calling for papers to be submitted 👇🏾 Please get in touch if you'd like more info.
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Here's the actual pipe in St Agnes that is dumping all that sh*t onto the beach and into the bay.
And @DefraGovUK, @Ofwat & @EnvAgency do what exactly?
When a company breaks a product and wrecks decades of work it's natural to feel fury. Companies know this, so they try to deflect your rage by blaming their suppliers. Sometimes, it's suppliers who are at fault - but other times, there is plenty of blame to go around. 1/
📢I'm excited to announce the launch of my blog on #gamesUR and #gamesAnaytics with a special focus on visualization techniques for game data. Interested? Please surf to https://t.co/yWMNmtGK0j to check it out. #infoviz#chiplay2022
"Kotlin is now the recommended programming language for server-side JVM usage at Google, set to replace Java while still providing access to a large existing Java ecosystem."
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