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Digital genotyping and haplotyping with polymerase colonies [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003
Polymerase colony (polony) technology amplifies multiple individual DNA molecules within a thin acrylamide gel attached to a microscope slide. Each DNA molecule included in the reaction produces an immobilized colony of double-stranded DNA. We genotype these polonies by performing single base extensions with dye-labeled nucleotides, and we demonstrate ...
Robi D, Mitra   +5 more
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COLONIALISM, INDEPENDENCE AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

open access: yesAoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
Conventionally, the African continent is largely written out of accounts on technology. If discussed, technology is often framed as the result of outside influences or the product of technology transfer from the West but rarely are Africans taken seriously as makers or active users of technology (Mavhunga, 2014, 2017).
Sophie Toupin   +3 more
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Digital marginalization, data marginalization, and algorithmic exclusions: a critical southern decolonial approach to datafication, algorithms, and digital citizenship from the Souths

open access: yesJe-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2022
This paper explores digital marginalization, data marginalization, and algorithmic exclusions in the Souths. To this effect, it argues that underrepresented users and communities continue to be marginalized and excluded by digital technologies, by big ...
Chaka Chaka
doaj   +1 more source

Where Does the Buck Stop? Ethical and Political Issues with AI in Music Creation

open access: yesTransactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2021
AI applications for music creation have been available since the last century but, until recently, their adoption has been limited to a small niche of researchers and engineers and their ontology limited to experimentation in computational creativity ...
Fabio Morreale
doaj   +1 more source

Feeling Seen: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTIQ+ Peoples, (In)Visibility, and Social-Media Assemblages

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
This article explores shifting social arrangements on social media as experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) peoples.
Andrew Farrell
doaj   +1 more source

Digital Economy and Trends of Political Development in Modern Societies

open access: yesКонтуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2020
The article is devoted to a theoretical analysis of the possible consequences of the digital transformation of modern societies. The authors carry out a comparative analysis of three political and economic models of digital transformation: the cognitive ...
V. D. Nechaev, S. Yu. Belokonev
doaj   +1 more source

Labouring and Smiling: Re-Imagining Digital Colonialism in Africa, Silicon Valley Big Techs, and the Politics of Prosumer Capitalism in Nigeria

open access: yestripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
Does Africa suffer from the paucity of epistemic inquiry on digital capitalism, mostly, spearheaded by social media platforms within the confines of the global digital economy?
Paul A. Obi
doaj   +1 more source

The Chilean constitutional-making process

open access: yesTechnology and Regulation
The Chilean constitution making-process appears to be one of the most interesting democratic exercises of recent times within the context of a connected society and the increased interest in constitutionalism as a way of shaping and countering digital ...
Verónica Mery
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating digital colonialism: Sovereignty models and development paths in the Global South

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
This study examines how Global South countries confront the pressures of digital colonialism while seeking digital sovereignty and sustainable development.
Yang Liu, WenLong Song
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for Colonizing Death: The Online Dead, Griefbots, and Transhumanist Dragons

open access: yesReligions
Digital immortality and transhumanist longevity proposals are currently researched and debated independently. This essay claims that both ideas represent two sides of the same cultural denial of death, reconceptualizing them as interconnected forms of ...
Raquel Ferrández
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