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Digital Dignity: The Shibboleth of Digitalization in Europe?

open access: yesLaw, Technology and Humans
This article analyses the uses to which ‘dignity’ is put in regulating and conceptualising our digital era. It considers the example of Europe, and particularly the European Union’s uses of dignity in policy-making and regulatory innovation in the ...
Cemre C Kadioglu Kumtepe, Stephen Riley
doaj   +1 more source

Data Activism in Light of the Public Sphere

open access: yesKrisis, 2018
The spaces for dialogue, consensus and networked action generated by proactive data activists with the purpose of producing diagnosis and solutions to social problems can be theorized as a revision of the public sphere, conceived as an ideal place where ...
Miren Gutiérrez
doaj   +1 more source

Wearable Smart Patches on Sustainable Chitosan With Reversible Microbial Growth‐Inhibitory Properties

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chitosan, a polysaccharide upcycled from biowaste, has long promised sustainable, biocompatible, and antimicrobial films and devices, an appeal reinforced by its recent regulatory recognition, with several chitosan‐based antibacterial dressings gaining clearance through the Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) pathway.
Jacopo Nicoletti   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

The making of a state-centered "public sphere" in Turkey : a discourse analysis [PDF]

open access: yes
Why is it that state-centered recognition of the public sphere has prevailed in Turkey during the last decade? The frame analysis of the “public sphere†discourse during the 2002-2009 period revealed that the contingency of the discourse on the ...
Hazama, Yasushi
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New technologies and deliberation: Internet as a virtual public sphere or a democratic utopia? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Contemporary democratic theories have sought alternatives to make democracy more participatory, approaching voters from government decisions. In this sense, deliberative democracy has emerged as an alternative, which emphasizes the ideal of democracy and
Morais, Ricardo
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cancel Culture and the Reconfiguration of Public Legitimacy in Indonesia’s Digital Public Sphere

open access: yesKhazanah Sosial
This study aims to examine how cancel culture operates as a structured mechanism of digital power that produces material consequences within Indonesia’s creative industry, using the controversy surrounding actor Abidzar Al Ghifari in the Indonesian ...
Qisthy Rabathy   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The public sphere on a digital plane: The influence of the new digital media on Ghana’s democracy and the Public Sphere

open access: yesInverge Journal of Social Sciences
This paper examines how social media is providing a new digital public sphere and shaping the democratic process in Ghana. It draws on Habermas's public sphere theory to explore how social media has occupied a digital public sphere that creates spaces for democratic participation and public discourse.
Ernest Darkwa   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Mechanical Programming of PEGDA‐β‐CD Polyrotaxane‐Based Hydrogels via Host–Guest Molecular Recognition

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A mechanically programmable hydrogel for tissue engineering is developed by modulating the molecular threading density of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate‐β‐cyclodextrin (PEGDA‐β‐CD) polyrotaxane and combining it with β‐CD‐modified gelatin. The polyrotaxane‐guided transition from disordered pores to laminar microstructures enables precise tuning ...
Shiyi Chen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Diversity and the European Public Sphere [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper is an exercise in asking new questions from old theories. New questions that lead to new theoretical considerations, and to new ideas for how to design studies and analyze data. The American psychologist Abraham Maslow reputedly said ‘When all
Helene Pristed Nielsen
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