📄 social science

Reconciling Technocratic Modernization With Socio-cultural Realities: A Systematic Literature Review on Culturally-responsive Digital Governance in Public Administration

This systematic literature review analyzes the implementation gap between technocratic digital governance and socio-cultural realities to propose a Culturally-Responsive Digital Governance (CRDG) model that prioritizes sociocultural embeddedness, institutional reflexivity, and mediated accountability for successful public sector transformation.

Edio Mariano Piedade Soares2026-09-09
📄 social science

Rational Withdrawal: Victim Responses to Online Hate Speech and the Limits of Institutional Protection in Norway

This mixed-methods study of 111 respondents in Norway reveals that both direct victims and witnesses of online hate speech predominantly respond with anger and avoidance rather than legal action, suggesting that their withdrawal is a rational adaptation to structural constraints and institutional fragmentation that ultimately threatens civic discourse.

Carol Azungi Dralega2026-09-09
📄 social science

Tale of Two Storylines:An NLP-assisted Corpus Study of Open AI’s Identity Construction

By integrating Natural Language Processing with the Discursive Positioning Framework, this study analyzes OpenAI's blog communications to reveal a dual narrative structure where its public identity as a safety guardian, innovator, and collaborator contrasts with an underlying storyline of operational tensions between its ethical rhetoric and practices as a data scrutinizer and market consolidator.

Kaiwen Cheng, Ying Lan, Gang He2026-09-09
📄 social science

Before Prediction Becomes Punishment: Governing AI in Bangladesh's Criminal Justice System

This article argues that while Bangladesh possesses the infrastructure and emerging legal frameworks to integrate AI into its criminal justice system, it must adopt a strict five-gate regulatory framework to prevent algorithmic tools from automating inequality and violating due process, ensuring that such technologies only support, rather than dictate, coercive state decisions.

Shanjida Israt Jahan Efat2026-09-09
📄 social science

Unraveling perceived discrimination in Latin America and the Caribbean: the intertwined roles of skin color, ethnicity and gender

Using 2023 Americas Barometer data, this study reveals that perceived discrimination in Latin America and the Caribbean is driven by a complex intersection of skin color, ethnicity, and gender, where darker skin tones increase discrimination risks differently across ethnic groups and gender lines, while strong correlations between discrimination types highlight significant attributional ambiguity shaped by national historical contexts.

Santiago Gómez-Echeverry, Koen Steenks2026-09-09
📄 social science

Feasibility study of the Strength in Numbers program in secondary school classrooms

This single-arm feasibility study demonstrates that the "Strength in Numbers" program, which integrates brief resistance training with mathematics instruction, is feasible to implement in secondary school classrooms, as evidenced by high recruitment, full delivery of sessions, and strong teacher acceptability.

Katie Jane Robinson, Myrto F. Mavilidi, Rebekah Parkes, Genevieve F. Nihill, Angus A. Leahy, Narelle Eather, Zara Ersozl (…)2026-09-09
📄 social science

Mapping the global trends of publications of Vicarious Trauma among Social Work Professionals- A Bibliometric Analysis

This bibliometric analysis of 442 Scopus-indexed articles from 1990 to 2026 reveals an exponential rise in research on vicarious trauma among social work professionals, highlighting the United States as the dominant contributor while noting the significant underrepresentation of low- and middle-income countries.

Yatheesh Bharadwaj, S Sachina Prasad, M Sivaranjini, Jayalakshmi KJ, Aleena Anna Koshy, Xavier B, M2026-09-09