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Strategic Communication in Seasonal Tourism Campaigns: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Khareef Dhofar 2023 Instagram Campaign

This mixed-methods study of the 2023 Khareef Dhofar Instagram campaign reveals that despite high reach, a strategic imbalance favoring persuasion over foundational awareness stages—termed "mid-funnel myopia"—combined with operational deficits, critically undermined visitor conversion and highlights the need for more sequential, integrated communication planning in GCC tourism.

Saja Rashid Salem Bait Maghrab, Faten Ben Lagha, Mohammed Mokhtar Satour, Mohammed Mostafa Refaat Moharam2026-09-17

📄 social science

Effect of Repeat Foster Placement Disruptions on Duration of Future Placements

This quantitative study of 26,704 Virginia foster children reveals that each subsequent placement disruption significantly shortens the duration of future placements, suggesting that insecure attachment issues drive this instability and highlighting the urgent need for targeted interventions to improve placement success.

Mark Kilgus2026-09-17

📄 social science

The Art of Recovery: Performative Retreat in 21st Century Fiction

This article applies Jenny Odell's critique of productivity-driven rest to Sue Townsend's *The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year* and Ottessa Moshfegh's *My Year of Rest and Relaxation*, arguing that despite their protagonists' attempts to escape 21st-century demands through performative retreat, systemic neoliberal forces ultimately prevent them from achieving true invisibility or autonomy.

Tory Young2026-09-17

📄 social science

Examining Middle School Teachers’ Concerns Regarding Artificial Intelligence Applications in Educational Settings Using a Mixed Methods Approach

This mixed-methods study reveals that while middle school teachers generally perceive AI as beneficial, they experience moderate-to-high anxiety driven primarily by ethical, privacy, and professional role concerns, which are significantly influenced by their AI literacy levels and age.

Gonca Şamiloğlu, Aynur Geçer2026-09-17

📄 social science

Future-oriented action interventions promote personal and civic climate action

Through two preregistered studies involving 1,586 participants, this research demonstrates that future-oriented psychological interventions targeting either personal or civic climate action effectively increase intentions to engage in both targeted and related pro-environmental behaviors, thereby helping to bridge the gap between climate concern and actual engagement.

Kirsten Lydic, Alyssa Sinclair, Danielle Cosme, José Carreras-Tartak, Omaya Torres-Grillo, Emily Falk2026-09-17

📄 social science

Artificial Intelligence Reliance and the Psychological Safety of Researchers: The Moderating Role of Ethical Determinants

This study of Yemeni university researchers reveals that while reliance on AI alone does not directly impact psychological safety, ethical determinants serve as a critical moderator that can either exacerbate anxiety or transform AI adoption into a driver of safety and productivity depending on the strength of institutional governance.

Faez Nasser mugahed, Mansour Saleh al-abdi2026-09-17

📄 social science

Functional Integration and Disruption in Scam-Compound Organisations: The SCOM Framework and the Alleged Prince Group Network

This paper introduces the Scam-Compound Organisational Matrix (SCOM) framework to analyze how industrialized fraud networks integrate and adapt to enforcement through six functional dimensions, using the alleged Prince Group network as a case study to illustrate the trade-offs between leadership concentration and operational substitutability while proposing policy interventions that target low-substitutability functions.

Raymond L.M. Tang, Bo Wen2026-09-17

📄 social science

From Phonetic Variation to Linguistic Divergence: A Dual-Axis Model of Historical Sound Change and Dialect Diversity in Arabic

This paper proposes a dual-axis model of historical sound change and dialect diversity in Arabic, arguing that fine-grained phonetic variation evolves into stable linguistic divergence through the interplay of temporal phonologization pathways and community-space social dynamics, using the /nt/ > [tː] alternation and other Arabic sound shifts to demonstrate that dialect variation represents a constrained archive of historical possibilities rather than a linear chronological sequence.

Saddam Issa2026-09-17

📄 social science

Integrating Interactive Algorithm Learning Media and Problem-Based Learning to Improve Students’ Algorithmic Learning Outcomes in Vocational Information Technology Education

This quasi-experimental study demonstrates that integrating interactive algorithm learning media with the Problem-Based Learning model significantly enhances vocational students' algorithmic learning outcomes more effectively than using either approach independently.

Sugihartini Nyoman, Agustini Ketut, Tresna Dewi I Gusti Ayu, Widhiarjaya Ida komang, Amalia Faizatul, Nurul Laili Sa'ada (…)2026-09-17

📄 social science

From Mobility to Situated Competencing: Chinese Scholarship Students’ Global Competence Development in UK Higher Education

This qualitative study of 14 Chinese scholarship students in the UK argues that global competence is not an automatic result of mobility but is instead developed through "situated competencing," a recursive process where professionally experienced students actively assemble knowledge, agency, and responsibility within specific institutional and sociocultural conditions.

ZHI MA2026-09-16

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