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Algorithmic Fairness from a Non-ideal Perspective [PDF]

, 2020
Inspired by recent breakthroughs in predictive modeling, practitioners in both industry and government have turned to machine learning with hopes of operationalizing predictions to drive automated decisions.
Dwork Cynthia, Feldman Michael, Kleinberg Jon M, Liu Lydia T, Miller David, Stemplowska Zofia   +5 more
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Resenha de Agnotología, Sociologia de la Ignorancia, Ignorancia de la Sociologia, de Augustin Galán Machío

Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2022
The aim of this text is to present the work Agnotología, Sociologia dela ignorancia, ignorancia de la Sociologia, written by the Spanish journalist and political scientist Agustín Galán Machío.
Lidiane Fatima Grützmann
doaj  

Researching underwater: a submerged study [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter explores the unknown territory of a lost project: an ethnography of a public swimming pool. The discussion is contextualised within my broader sociological theory of ‘nothing’, as a category of unmarked, negative social phenomena, including ...
Anderson L., Atkinson P., Augé M., Back L., Beck U., Becker H. S., Blumer H., Brekhus W., Brown P., Buber M., Croissant J., Crossley N., Crossley N., DeMunck V. C., Durkheim E., Ebaugh H. R. F., Emerson J. P., Finlay L., Frankl V., Frickel S., Frickel S., Garfinkel H., Geertz C., Gibson J. J., Gilbert G. N., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman E., Goffman. E, Gordon A., Green R., Gross M., Hall S., Hedgecoe A. M., Heidegger M., Hess D., Hodkinson P., Husserl E., James W., Levinas E., McGoey L., Mead G. H., Merleau-Ponty M., Misztal B., Moran J, Mullaney J. L., Nietzsche F., Peirce C. S., Platt J., Ravetz J. R., Ricoeur P., Rossing H., Sartre J. P., Schütz A., Scott S., Scott S., Scott S., Scott S., Scott S., Scott S., Simmel G., Smith B., Smithson M., Solzhenitsyn A. I., Strauss A. L., Thomas W. I., Turner V., Van Maanen J., Weber M., Weinberg M. S.   +72 more
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State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe

Social Policy &Administration, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 627-636, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This article details how knowledge is produced, circulated, and acted upon by migration control officials working in different sites of the European border regime. Drawing on research into the politics of knowledge in border and migration control, along with studies of street‐level bureaucracy, we trace the knowledge mobilised to craft state ...
Annika Lindberg, Lisa Marie Borrelli
wiley   +1 more source

Politics, ecology, and the new anthropology of energy: exploring the emerging frontiers of hydraulic fracking

Journal of Political Ecology, 2014
This article reviews recent literature relevant to the ongoing shale gas boom and introduces the Journal of Political Ecology's Special Section on hydraulic fracking.
Anna J. Willow, Sara Wylie
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Positioning nuclear power in the low-carbon electricity transition [PDF]

, 2017
Addressing climate change requires de-carbonizing future energy supplies in the increasingly energy dependent world. The IEA and the IPCC (2014) mention the following as low-carbon energy supply options: ‘renewable energy, nuclear power and fossil fuels ...
Arrighi, Aviel Verbruggen, Brenner, Di Nucci, Foster, Harremoës, Harvey, Komanoff, Malm, Töpfer, Verbruggen, Yuliya Yurchenko   +11 more
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Tackling ignorance about law in human rights education

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 1521-1537, June 2025.
Abstract This paper aims to unpack potential reasons why law and legal knowledge—despite its apparent importance and value in teaching and learning about human rights—appears to be largely conspicuous by its absence in human rights education (HRE) in schooling.
Suzanne Egan
wiley   +1 more source

Interview on \u3cem\u3eThe Black Box Society\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

, 2014
Hidden algorithms drive decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms. Thanks to automation, those firms can approve credit, rank websites, and make myriad other decisions instantaneously. But what are the costs of their methods?
Joseph, Lawrence, Pasquale, Frank A.
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Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors [PDF]

, 2018
Misinformation can have significant societal consequences. For example, misinformation about climate change has confused the public and stalled support for mitigation policies.
Cook, John, Ellerton, Peter, Kinkead, Dave   +2 more
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National climate scenarios: (un)building climate knowledge and inducing environmental ignorance in Mexico

Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 1, January‐June 2025.
Abstract The interactions between climate information producers and local decision‐makers have remained largely underexplored. The processes of building a local climate research agenda and informing adaptation policies are still unknown in many Global South countries.
Teresa Guadalupe de León Escobedo, Francisco Estrada Porrúa   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source