IOSR-JHSS   Volume-31 ~ Issue-11 ~ Nov. 2026

Abstract: While traditional paremiology has historically been anchored in face-to-face oral interactions within physical spaces like the rural Souk or urban Darb, contemporary Moroccan society is undergoing a profound structural shift as oral traditions migrate onto digital platforms. This article investigates a novel sociolinguistic phenomenon: the digital remediation, memification, and multimodal reframing of traditional Moroccan gender proverbs across platforms...

Keywords: Critical Digital Discourse Analysis, Digital Folklore, Remediation, Jbali Proverbs, Gender, Morocco, TikTok.

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[3]. Fairclough, N. (1992). Discourse and social change. Polity Press.
[4]. García-Gómez, A. (2021). Critical digital discourse analysis: Embracing new categories of interaction. Discourse & Society, 32(4), 412–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926521990833

Abstract: Digital literacy has become an essential academic competency in higher education. It enables students to access, evaluate, create and communicate information through digital technologies. The present study examines the awareness, usage patterns and perceived academic impact of digital literacy skills among postgraduate students of Periyar University. A structured questionnaire was distributed to 130 students, of which 106 completed responses were used for analysis. Random sampling was adopted....

Key Word: Digital literacy, Postgraduate students, Academic performance, E-resources, University libraries, Communication

[1]. Ahammad, N., & Islam, M. S. (2025). The role of digital literacy: Assessing its impact on university students. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance.
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[3]. Agina-Obu, R., &Okwu, E. (2023). Impact of digital literacy on university students’ use of digital resources in Nigeria. Asian Journal of Information Science and Technology, 13(2), 60-65.
[4]. Sinha, P. (2022). Digital Literacy and Reading Habits of the Central University of Tamil Nadu Students: A Survey Study. arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.10093.
[5]. Mohanan, N., &Thanuskodi, S. (2021). Open access information as a platform for sustainable development: Perspectives from selected institutions in India. Linguistics and Culture Review, 5(S3), 1258-1275

Abstract: Urban identity is not determined solely by place of birth, household registration, or geographical affiliation. Rather, it is a social construct that gradually takes shape through historical urban transformations, changes in social structures, and interactions among social groups. As a typical immigrant city, Shanghai has continuously experienced population mobility, economic development, and cultural interaction, all of which have shaped its urban....

Key Word: Shanghainese identity; urban identity; identity construction; social boundaries; cultural capital

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[3] G. William Skinner, “Mobility Strategies in Late Imperial China: A Regional Analysis,” in Regional Analysis, ed. Carol A. Smith, 327–364.
[4] Susan Mann Jones, “The Ningpo Pang and Financial Power at Shanghai,” in The Chinese City Between Two Worlds, ed. Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974), 73–96.
[5] Susan Naquin and Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Society in Eighteenth-Century China, trans. Chen Zhongdan (Nanjing: Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, 2018), 48. [Chinese edition cited in the original.]

Abstract: This study assesses the practice of drivers permitting passengers to sit on goods loaded onto moving vehicles and tricycles as road-safety concern and a potential challenge to the effectiveness of existing legal regulation. Although the practice of permitting passengers to sit on goods loaded onto moving vehicles and tricycles has become normalized Road-use culture in most regions in Ghana, it has become a potential challenge to effectiveness....

Key Word: Road safety, regulation, supervision, triangulation, multi-sites triangulation

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Abstract: Background: Public Administration is an important field of social science concerned with the organization, functioning and management of governmental institutions and public affairs. Although administrative studies developed later than Political Science, Economics, Sociology and History, the expansion of the modern state gradually created a distinct intellectual and institutional space for Public Administration. In India, the subject initially developed within Political Science but progressively acquired an academic identity through university teaching, specialized....

Key Word: Public Administration; Political Science; Bureaucracy; Max Weber; Indian Administration; Development Administration; Governance; Public Policy; Administrative Studies

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