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OBJECT‐ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND THE OTHER OF WE IN ANTHROPOCENTRIC POSTHUMANISM
Abstract The object‐oriented ontology group of philosophies, and certain strands of posthumanism, overlook important ethical and biological differences, which make a difference. These allied intellectual movements, which have at times found broad popular appeal, attempt to weird life as a rebellion to the forced melting of lifeforms through the ...
Yogi Hale Hendlin
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Digital transformation and the public sector auditing: The SAI's perspective
Abstract The ongoing transformation of supreme audit institutions (SAIs) external environment is changing the demands and expectations of its stakeholders. The changing environment triggered by technological advancements, increased demand for accountability, and transparency means a change in the way auditing is done.
Javis Ebua Otia, Enrico Bracci
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Curating change: Spatial utopian politics and the architecture of degrowth
Geographical scholarship has done much to help us understand how we have arrived at the current juncture of socio‐ecological disaster, but the discipline has been far less successful at imagining and enacting alternative systems and practices. In response, this paper examines the potentials and challenges for creative geographers to build critical ...
Cecilie Sachs Olsen
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Can I Have Your Attention? Implications of the Research on Distractions and Multitasking for Reference Librarians [PDF]
The media have identified the last decade as “the age of distraction.” People today find it harder to work on long, sustained tasks because distractions are eroding their attention span, fostering a culture of discontinuity.
Dewan, Pauline
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MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM (“I HAVE BECOME A QUESTION TO MYSELF”, AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS X. XXXIII):
This article explores a suggested radical instability of knowing human persons – selves and others – and the perennial undecidability of claims about what may be true with respect to them, by employing the novels of Philip Roth and E. L. Doctorow.
F. England
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(Un)homely Dwellings: The Usher House and the Collyer Mansion
In this paper, I analyze E. L. Doctorow’s 2009 novel, Homer & Langley, through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” While there has been a recurring claim about the significant similarities of Doctorow’s work to ...
Theodora Tsimpouki
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A polarizing multiverse? Assessing Habermas’ digital update of his public sphere theory
Constellations, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 69-76, March 2023.
Thorsten Thiel
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The Future of Personalisation at News Websites: Lessons from a Longitudinal Study [PDF]
This paper tracks the recent history of personalization at national news websites in the United Kingdom and United States, allowing an analysis to be made of the reasons for and implications of the adoption of this form of adaptive interactivity.
Schifferes, S., Thurman, N.
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Writing Up and Down: The Language of Educational Research
Abstract There is a marked tendency in educational research to marginalise the written word, and to be wary of what I here call its ‘writerliness’: its capacity to go beyond the prosaic and the utilitarian, where meaning is understood largely in terms of the success of language in reflecting reality.
RICHARD SMITH
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Summary We compared the long‐term effects of generating questions by learners with answering questions (i.e., testing) and restudying in the context of a university lecture. In contrast to previous studies, students were not prepared for the learning strategies, learning content was experimentally controlled, and effects on factual and transfer ...
Mirjam Ebersbach +2 more
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