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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Digital colonialism, techno-sovereignty, and infrastructural power

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This paper develops a political-theoretical critique of artificial intelligence (AI), situating contemporary AI infrastructures within debates on digital colonialism and techno-sovereignty.
Artur Ishkhanyan, Artur Ishkhanyan
doaj   +1 more source

“Taking Off the Rose‐Colored Glasses”: How Justice‐Centered Science Curricula Engages Prehealth Undergraduates' in Critical Consciousness

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Health disparities rooted in systemic oppression and perpetuated by implicit bias among medical professionals remain pervasive across North America. These inequities are often sustained by providers' limited awareness of social realities that shape the lives of people from marginalized communities.
Sabah K. Elias   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India

open access: yesBig Data & Society
Scholars have used the term data colonialism to designate the extractive, asymmetrical relationship between Big Tech corporations and countries in the global South.
Sagnik Dutta, Suruchi Mazumdar
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeology in Serbia Facing the Challenges of Digital Colonialism

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi
The paper deals with the phenomenon of digital colonialism and its reflections in Serbian archaeology. This is the current form of global inequalities, characterized by imposing technological domination over the countries of the Global South, most ...
Predrag Đerković
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Global Political Economy in Community‐Based Adaptation to Climate Change—Practitioners' Experience and Opinions

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community‐based adaptation scholars and practitioners acknowledge that power asymmetries pose significant barriers to project impact. Nevertheless, there is little research on the role of the global political economy as the root cause of vulnerability.
Tom Selje, Alexandra Klepp, Boris Heinz
wiley   +1 more source

Educating Intelligence, Producing Power: Iranian Sociologists on AI, Knowledge Production, and Global Hierarchies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of World Sociopolitical Studies
This study investigates the ways in which Iranian sociologists conceptualize artificial intelligence as both an epistemic infrastructure and a geopolitical force within global knowledge production.
Seyedeh Hamideh Hosseini, Sahand Sakhaei
doaj   +1 more source

Guanxi and Wasta: 20 Years of Evolution and Future Directions for Informal Network Research

open access: yesThunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article provides an examination of the evolution of networking in China and the Arab world over two decades and provides an update to, and new insights arising from, an article called Guanxi and Wasta; A Comparison, published in Thunderbird International Business Review in 2006.
Kate Hutchings   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

11th International Communication Days / Digital Inequality and Data Colonialism Symposium Evaluation

open access: yesEtkileşim
In the digital age, while technological advancements offer numerous benefits, they also bring challenges that must be addressed, one of the most critical being digital inequality.
Yezdan ÇELEBİ
doaj   +1 more source

Archaeological heritage in the age of digital colonialism [PDF]

open access: yesArchaeological Dialogues, 2020
AbstractDigital archaeologists claim that their practices have proven to be an important tool for mediating conflict, ensuring that the digital turn in archaeology entails engaging in current political issues. This can be questioned by analysing a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph. The original was destroyed in 2015.
openaire   +2 more sources

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