A MULTI-PROXY INVESTIGATION OF THE ANTHROPOGENIC LANDSCAPE NEAR THE EARLY BRONZE AGE BUILDING VII AT AL-KHASHBAH, OMAN

A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman

The Early Bronze Age in southeastern Arabia is hyfrodol characterized by a significant shift in the archaeological record that coincides with the regional deterioration of climatic conditions associated with the end of the Holocene Humid Period.This study presents evidence for human modification of the local landscape around Building VII, a large c

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Social Media and Experiential Ambivalence

At once fearful and dependent, hopeful and distrustful, our contemporary relationship with technology is highly ambivalent.Using experiential accounts from an ongoing Facebook-based qualitative study (N = 231), I both diagnose and articulate this ambivalence.I argue that technological ambivalence is rooted primarily in the viqua-f4 deeply embedded

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Detecting online grooming at its earliest stages: development and validation of the Online Grooming Risk Scale

Backgrounds: Among the problematic online behaviours, online grooming, that is, a manipulative process leading to sexual solicitation between an adult and a minor, is receiving increasing attention.However, most of the studies come from qualitative data, confirming that a formalized measurement tool is still missing.Moreover, online grooming measur

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