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The Future of Double Consciousness: Epistemic Virtue, Identity, and Structural Anti-Blackness

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
This paper considers two conceptual expansions of Du Boisian double consciousness—white double consciousness (Alcoff 2015) and kaleidoscopic consciousness (Medina 2013)—both of which aim to articulate the moral-epistemic potential of cultivating double ...
Emmalon Davis, Orlando Hawkins
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Information retrieval or document retrieval? Terminological confusions and unrealistic goals in information science, exemplified in relation to generative artificial intelligence

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract ChatGPT and related technologies have revived an old issue in information science (IS) concerning information retrieval (IR) versus document retrieval. Since 1950, the term IR has primarily been used as a misnomer for document retrieval. This problematic terminology reflects a desire to go beyond documents and provide, in response to user ...
Birger Hjørland
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Active Inference with Dynamic Planning and Information Gain in Continuous Space by Inferring Low-Dimensional Latent States

Entropy
Active inference offers a unified framework in which agents can exhibit both goal-directed and epistemic behaviors. However, implementing policy search in high-dimensional continuous action spaces presents challenges in terms of scalability and stability.
Takazumi Matsumoto, Kentaro Fujii, Shingo Murata, Jun Tani   +3 more
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Characterizing mathematical problem solving in physics-related workplaces using epistemic games

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
In order to support physics students in their future careers, there is a need to understand the relationship between undergraduate education and professional practice in physics-related fields.
Dehui Hu, Kingston Chen, Anne E. Leak, Nicholas T. Young, Brianna Santangelo, Benjamin M. Zwickl, Kelly Norris Martin   +6 more
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A dancing bear, a colleague, or a sharpened toolbox? The cautious adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies in digital humanities research

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping the research landscape and carries significant implications for Digital Humanities (DH), a field long intertwined with computational methods and technologies. This study examines how DH scholars are adopting and critically evaluating GenAI in their research. Drawing on an
Rongqian Ma, Meredith Dedema, Andrew Cox
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Non-verbal markers of modality and evidentiality in MarENG

Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015
This article examines a variety of options for expressing speaker and writer stance in a subcorpus of MarENG, a maritime English learning tool sponsored by the EU (35,041 words). Non-verbal markers related to key areas of modal expression are presented; (
Silvia Molina
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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Geographic and epistemic pluralism in the sources of evidence informing international environmental science–policy platforms: lessons learnt from the IPBES values assessment

Global Sustainability
Non-technical summary This article examines the challenges and opportunities to integrate diverse sources of evidence in assessments produced by international platforms working at the science–policy interface.
Louise Guibrunet, David González-Jiménez, Gabriela Arroyo-Robles, Mariana Cantú-Fernández, Victoria Contreras, Daniela Flores Mendez, Arlen Valeria Ocampo Castrejón, Bosco Lliso, Ana Sofía Monroy-Sais, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Unai Pascual, Brigitte Baptiste, Mike Christie, Patricia Balvanera   +13 more
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Rethinking Knowledge, Unthinking the Brahminical

Caste
This article introduces a Dalit decolonial feminist standpoint as an epistemic and political framework that redefines feminist thought through four interrelated pillars.
Uthara Geetha
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