The Internet and computers increasingly determine our daily lives. This goes for almost everyone in the Netherlands. Still, it is mostly teenagers who are well informed on how to use all the possibilities of new technologies. They are building a digital world of their own that parents usually know very little about. This booklet intends to inform teachers, parents and other interested parties on what teenagers are actually doing online and how important it is to keep abreast of the new developments that the Internet and computers bring into their world. On the basis of research into these issues in the Netherlands and abroad we attempt to indicate what the digital world of teenagers looks like and how it differs from that of grown-ups. What do they do, exactly, and why? We also look into teenagers’ ICT behaviour and into dangers and abuse of the Internet. Moreover we provide tips for parents and teachers on how to handle certain phenomena. This book does not pretend to provide an exhaustive overview of the digital world of teenagers. It is focused on some important characteristics and parts of that world. It reports on research of the INHOLLAND Centre for eLearning into various aspects of ICT behaviour among teenagers. The research was undertaken in the spring of 2006, focusing mainly on texting, networking, gaming, dangers and abuse on the Internet and the digital relation between school and the home. Ultimately we are especially concerned with the question of what teenagers really learn in their digital world, and how education can profit. This book also addresses that issue.
Europeans live their lives at a time when certain collective expectations of how the world should function no longer seem to describe their experience of what actually happens. This bifurcation of experience and expectation is causing some severe symptoms of dislocation. Truth turns relative and his- tory seems in need of radical revision. Even time itself seems topsy-turvy, in a way that some Messianic beliefs find very much to their taste. This is the hallmark of the contemporary moment and why, this essay will argue, that in lieu of any other generalising term, we need to make the most use of ‘contemporary’ and ‘contemporaneity’ for emancipatory purposes.
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Er is wereldwijd een groeiende groep milieuvluchtelingen. Voor deze mensen, die vluchten als gevolg van bijvoorbeeld een tsunami, dijkdoorbraak, hoge concentraties vrijkomende giftige stoffen bij een industrieel ongeval, verwoestijning, uitputting van de bodem of langdurige regenval, bestaat nog geen adequaat internationaal beschermingsregime. Ons vorige artikel in Applied Research Today (april 2013) bracht in kaart welke soorten milieuvluchtelingen bestaan, en betoogde dat de bescherming van deze groep plaats kan vinden onder het VN-principe The Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P omvat onder andere een integrale aanpak die gericht is op het voorkomen, reageren en opbouwen, waarbij de verantwoordelijkheid is ondergebracht in drie pijlers: 1) een staat is zelf verantwoordelijk voor de bescherming van milieuvluchtelingen, 2) de internationale gemeenschap heeft een verantwoordelijkheid een staat hierbij te assisteren, en 3) de internationale gemeenschap heeft de verantwoordelijkheid om collectief snel en beslissend te reageren indien een staat zelf zijn milieuvluchtelingen niet kan of wil beschermen. Dit vervolgartikel formuleert hoe de integrale aanpak van The Responsibility to Protect kan worden geoperationaliseerd voor de bescherming van milieuvluchtelingen. ABSTRACT The number of environmental refugees is growing. An adequate international legal protection regime is lacking for people who, for example, flee as a result of a tsunami or levee breach; high concentrations of toxic substances from industrial accidents; desertification; soil depletion or prolonged rainfall. Our previous article in Applied Research Today (April 2013) described eight different groups of environmental refugees and argued that the protection of these groups can be ensured under the UN principle the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). R2P offers an integral approach that focuses on prevention, reaction and rebuilding. In first instance, the responsibility to take protective measures lies with the state itself. Secondly, the international community has a responsibility to assist. Lastly, when a state is not able or willing to protect its environmental refugees, the international community has the responsibility to respond in a swift and decisive manner. This follow-up article formulates how the Responsibility to Protect concept could be operationalised to protect environmental refugees.
