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Revisiting women empowerment through a cultural lens a in-depth analysis of empowerment methodologies in horticulture in rural Ethiopia Vlerick Business School
As previous research in international development has clearly demonstrated (see Banerjee and Prasad, 2008 for an overview), cultural values have an impact on the conceptualization of empowerment. In this paper we explore the implications of Power Distance as a cultural dimension for the use of participatory methodologies toward achieving women empowerment in rural areas in the Global South. Our critical analysis of cultural differences between ...
Revisiting women empowerment through a cultural lens a in-depth analysis of empowerment methodologies in horticulture in rural Ethiopia Universiteit Gent
Patient empowerment in young persons with chronic conditions: Psychometric properties of the Gothenburg Young Persons Empowerment Scale (GYPES) KU Leuven
PURPOSE: Empowerment in patients can lead to a higher participation in care and self-management skills. However, there are a limited number of high-quality instruments to assess empowerment and its various dimensions in young persons. The aim was to develop and assess the psychometric properties of the Gothenburg Young Persons Empowerment Scale (GYPES). METHODS: The GYPES is a 15-item questionnaire designed to measure patient empowerment in ...
Empowerment of people experiencing poverty: report for the Committee of Experts on Empowerment of People Experiencing Poverty Universiteit Antwerpen
Nurse managers' perceptions and experiences regarding staff nurse empowerment Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
AIM: To study nurse managers' perceptions and experiences of staff nurse structural empowerment and its impact on the nurse manager leadership role and style.
BACKGROUND: Nurse managers' leadership roles may be viewed as challenging given the complex needs of patients and staff nurses' involvement in both clinical and organizational decision-making processes in interdisciplinary care settings.
DESIGN: Qualitative phenomenological ...
Online privacy in social media: a conceptual exploration of empowerment and vulnerability Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Current transitions in the media and technology landscape go together with a shift from mass media and personal media to media for 'mass self-communication'. This is illustrated by the way that Web 2.0 or social media (like social network sites and micro- blogging) are becoming commercially engrained in Western everyday life, and the belief that the user is in the driver's seat of socio-technical innovation. However we observe a paradox. On the ...
Empowerment at the heart of housing production. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Empowerment is a vector of sustainability in housing. This article attempts to verify this hypothesis based on a study of historical developments in the notion of empowerment and the community land trust (CLT) model as a model of land management and social housing construction.
The article traces the interwoven development of these two notions, which originated in the US, then analyses the Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) project in ...
The article traces the interwoven development of these two notions, which originated in the US, then analyses the Community Land Trust Brussels (CLTB) project in ...
User Empowerment and Audience Commodification in a Commercial Television Context Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This paper aims to provide insights into the concept of 'user empowerment' in current -digital and connected- media industries. We start by defining empowerment as a concept rooted in certain research traditions that focus on user behaviour and capabilities in dealing with digital and connected technologies and the production, aggregation, distribution and consumption of content. We then oppose 'user empowerment' to 'audience commodification', a ...
New Media Technologies and User Empowerment Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Recent developments in new media devices and applications have led to the rise of what have become known as 'social media', 'Web 2.0', 'social computing' or 'participative web'. This shift in ICT, from unidirectional to conversational media of mass self-communication has lowered the technological thresholds for everyday users to cooperate for their own benefit, to participate in online environments and social network sites, to co-create business ...