Why universities and scientific world should stay away from the tobacco industry. Journey in Big Tobacco deception [PDF]
, 2018 Universities are institutions dedicated to improving life through the research and dissemination of knowledge. They facilitates the "peer to peer" communication among young people; the acquisition of knowledge and skills to improve personal and community
Cattaruzza, Maria Sofia +6 more
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Brave Sperm and Demure Eggs: Fallopian Gender Politics on YouTube [PDF]
, 2015 A narrative analysis of videos of human conception from medical and nonmedical sources aired in the democratic space of YouTube finds that stereotypical gender roles are consistently assigned to cellular behavior.
Nettleton, Pamela Hill
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Postdigital interfaces and the aesthetics of recruitment [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in emergent digital materialities of game design. It extends recent work examining dimensions of hybridity in playful products by turning attention to interfaces, practices and spaces, rather than devices.
Apperley, Thomas +2 more
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Uncertain Knowledge: The Medicalisation of Intersex People and the Production of Ignorance
Social SciencesIgnorance is produced through mechanisms related to power relations and socio-cultural context. This article examines whether the theoretical conceptualisation of agnotology may be useful when exploring intersex and the way it has been erased socially ...
Michal Raz
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The role of pseudo-cognitive authorities and self-deception in the dissemination of fake news
Open Information Science, 2019 This paper draws together insights from a variety of fields (including philosophy, psychology, information studies, sociology, politics, and media studies) to synthesize insight into why fake news is created, disseminated, sustained and authorized so as ...
Froehlich Thomas J.
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Understanding incomprehensibility: Misgivings and potentials of the phenomenological psychopathology of schizophrenia. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Wendler H, Fuchs T.
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From the 1930 International Johannesburg conference on silicosis, to “tables” of occupational diseases, France, 2000 onward: A comparative reading [PDF]
, 2014 Through the concept of “thought collectives” in particular, Ludwik Fleck was a pioneer in demonstrating how much scientific knowledge is inherently made up of social and historical material.
Braunstein +16 more
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The Vaccine and Its Simulacra: Agnotology, Ontology and Biopolitics in France, 1800–1865
, 2018 The advent of smallpox vaccine in France in 1800 inaugurates a new relationship between administration, public health and the definition of medical facts.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
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Affective and Effective Truths: Rhetoric, Normativity and Critical Management Studies [PDF]
, 2019 In an era of Brexit, Trump and the detritus of post-truth politics, this paper calls upon critical management scholars to reflect upon the efficacy of their critique. We examine the post-truth critiques of PR firms working for tobacco corporations in the
Parker, S., Racz, M.
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The Environmental Toll of Digital Technologies
FilozofiaThis study delves into the complex connection between digital technologies and environmental sustainability in the face of the worsening climate crisis.
João Ribeiro Mendes
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