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Digital nudging model for learning management systems: Saudi Arabia perspective
HeliyonDecisions related to education are complex and have long-term consequences. For higher education students, most of these decisions are made when students are young and with little academic experience; these decisions can potentially influence students to
Salihah Alotaibi +4 more
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Waiting for the sun - can temporal flexibility in BEV charging avoid carbon emissions?
Energy Informatics, 2018 Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are claimed to foster climate-neutral energy and transportation systems. However, the use of the BEVs shifts emissions only geographically.
Julian Huber, Christof Weinhardt
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Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World [PDF]
, 2019 Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incomes, and so on to manipulate us.
Nissenbaum, Helen +2 more
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Comparing Travel Time Estimates of Routing Applications in Vienna. [PDF]
, 2020 How are travel times displayed by different navigation apps? Do the way in which these work differ for different modes of transportation? We found unexpected divergence in the way travel time is displayed both between apps and within apps, when ...
Wagner, Ben, Winkler, Till
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Plant phenology is crucial for understanding plant growth and climate feedback. It affects canopy structure, surface albedo, and carbon and water fluxes. While the influence of environmental factors on phenology is well‐documented, the role of plant intrinsic factors ...
Yunpeng Luo +8 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Playing the Game, or Not: Reframing Understandings of Children’s Digital Play
Cultural Science, 2019 Everybody seems to have an opinion about the value, risks and opportunities of children playing digital games. Popular media conveys messages to parents and the public alike of addicted, violent, desensitised, and anti-social children and of the privacy ...
Magladry Madison, Willson Michele
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Branding so Good: from Jeppestown to Maboneng Precinct [PDF]
, 2019 Cities globally, have long felt the necessity to distinguish themselves from each other, to proclaim their eccentricity in a quest for various economic, political or socio-psychological objectives.
Gumbo, Trynos, Letlape, Bonolo Helen
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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