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The limits of AI for authoritarian control
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract An emerging literature suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can greatly enhance autocrats' repressive capabilities. This paper argues that while AI presents a powerful new tool for authoritarian control, its effectiveness is constrained by the very repressive institutions it is designed to serve.
Eddie Yang
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Displaced Impacts: Visibility, Care, and Humanitarian Filmmaking in Iran
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socially oriented documentary films are increasingly expected to articulate “impact” goals to gain international distribution, yet what counts as impact for those represented remains contested. This article examines how narratives about working and displaced youth in Iran are produced and circulated through social filmmaking.
Nat Nesvaderani
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From Ethnocentrism to Transculturalism: A Film Studies Pedagogical Journey [PDF]
, 2011 This study reviews the exploratory implementation of an ‘internationalising the curriculum’ policy in relation to a cultural studies unit within a Creative Industries Faculty at an Australian university.
McVeigh, Margaret +2 more
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Reframing Ethnographic Film [PDF]
, 2008 Book description: From a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social
Basu, P
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract Kohl was ubiquitous in ancient Egypt and the Middle East, and routinely included among the toiletries deposited in burials. For Egypt, kohl recipes are increasingly well‐studied and known to use a range of inorganic and organic ingredients. Although these are often lead‐based, manganese‐ and silicon‐rich compounds are also attested.
Silvia Amicone +7 more
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Cyrkularne inscenizacje tożsamości. O jednoujęciowych filmach Shahrama Mokriego
Studia FilmoznawczeThe goal of this article is to reopen the debate over the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, using Shahram Mokri’s innovative poetics as an example.
Tomasz Poborca
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Usos do Véu: visibilidade e invisibilidade da mulher muçulmana no cinema
Revista Eco-Pós, 2011 Resumo Este trabalho analisa imagens de mulheres muçulmanas no cinema e na televisão, focalizando as vestimentas tradicionais num contexto de políticas de representação de gênero e etnicidade.
José Gatti
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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An empirical study to detect effective factors to increase number of moviegoers [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper, we present an empirical study to detect important factors, which could increase the number of moviegoers. The study distributes a questionnaire among different people at four age groups including 35.2% (men), and 64.8% (women), most of ...
Yasaman Giyahi
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