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Technology for Whom and for What? A Global South View of Tech Diplomacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International politics is linked to its technical‐social character. Also, technology is socially constructed and thereby not entirely neutral or impartial. A tech‐driven geopolitical landscape has been a defining feature of contemporary world politics.
Eugenio V. Garcia
wiley   +1 more source

Death in digital games : a thanatological approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Analysing our time is an important part of our understanding and modi operandi. At the same time, of equal importance is the analysis of the end of time, that is, the time of death.
Ntelia, Renata E.
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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

The Relationship between School Resource Center Roles and Student Civilization in Digital Age

open access: yes, 2022
School Resource Centers (SRCs) are also known as School libraries serve as a catalyst that encourages students to read by providing high-quality information resources, both printed and non-printed.
Abdul Majid, Mayasari   +5 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China

open access: yesAsia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Kompetencje cyfrowe we współczesnej cywilizacji medialnej

open access: yesAnnales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, 2016
This article aims to show the role of digital competences in the light of some directives and guidelines of the EU and in relation to their model approach presented in the Polish Framework Catalogue of Digital Media of 2014. The author describes the role
Agnieszka Ogonowska
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Between Gaps and Voids: An Archaeometrical Study of Degraded Fibers in a Sherd From the Cueva dos Chinches Muertas, Siltzul (Raxruha, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, excavations at the Cueva dos Chinches Muertas carried out by the Raxruha Viejo Project uncovered a small ceramic sherd distinguished by a stratified structure composed of multiple layers of textile imprints, both superficial and transversal.
Marie Ramelet
wiley   +1 more source

Civilizing Parents in the Digital Age

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractAfter almost half a century of the Internet being a part of everyday life for billions of people, the jury is still out on whether the coming of the digital age is a blessing or a curse for humanity. Even the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic—which has forced whole sectors of social life, including teaching, exercise, religious celebrations, and ...
openaire   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
wiley   +1 more source

The Discontinuity of Cultural Process in the Digital Civilization. Main Dangers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Keynote presentation on ETHICOMP2001.The aim of this paper is to present a "black" scenario of development of the digital civilization. It foresees the discontinuity of the cultural process which leads to the creation of a "supernomadic ...
Kocikowski, Andrzej
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