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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

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Lost in translation: The need for updated messaging strategies in invasion biology communication

open access: yesPlants, People, Planet
Societal Impact Statement As with any complex environmental challenge, information about the “invasive species problem” must be communicated effectively to generate widespread public trust, understanding, and engagement in solutions.
Rachel A. Reeb, J. Mason Heberling
doaj   +1 more source

Depicting and tackling the waste problem: An (eco)stylistic study of Rob Greenfield’s “I wore all my trash for 30 days” TEDx Talk

open access: yesCrossroads
This paper analyses the way the waste problem is depicted in Robin “Rob” Greenfield’s TEDx Talk “I wore all my trash for 30 days.” It first explains the chosen framework – critical stylistics and conceptual metaphor theory – to conduct the analysis ...
Florence Floquet
doaj   +1 more source

De la esterilidad fecunda al parto perruno: reproducción y desvío en las Novelas ejemplares de Cervantes

open access: yesE-Spania, 2022
This paper examines the structure of Cervantes’ Exemplary Novels focusing on a network of metaphors that stem from the Prologue and that connect the first and last novels in the book.
Clea Gerber
doaj   +1 more source

Rendering the ungraspable graspable : the use of metaphors in Swedish palliative cancer care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Good communication is of utmost importance in all forms of cancer care and especially so in the palliative context. To render the ungraspable graspable, metaphors are frequently used drawing on their capacity to capture the intangible in terms of more ...
Gustafsson, Anna W.,   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Cross‐disciplinary integration: Information practices and a role for information scholars. An annual review of information science and technology paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Cross‐disciplinary research is a priority for many academic institutions, with a growing body of scholarship dedicated to studying the central practice of cross‐disciplinarity: integration, or the synthesis of knowledge, information, and data across disciplines and domains.
Ciara Zogheib
wiley   +1 more source

Unsafe AI for Education: A Conversation on Stochastic Parrots and Other Learning Metaphors ⚠️

open access: yesJournal of Interactive Media in Education
This interview article discusses the impact on popular and educational discourses of the metaphor for a Large Language Model of a “stochastic parrot”. The metaphor comes from the title of an influential paper on the harms of large language models from ...
Emily M. Bender   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chapuzones e inmundicias en la fuente Castalia. Metáforas de la creación en la poesía burlesca del siglo xvii

open access: yesCriticón, 2007
Burlesque metaphors of poetic creativity, systematically studied, are not a mere inversion of the traditional topics about inspiration, but they create a new field of meanings that explain the composition process from a more realistic point of view and ...
Ángel Luis Luján Atienza
doaj   +1 more source

When AI outputs become documents: Documentation activity in human–AI dialogue

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) generate texts that increasingly circulate as documents in knowledge infrastructures, yet their documentary status remains theoretically underdetermined. Unlike traditional documents, LLM outputs lack identifiable authorship, stable provenance, or testimonial grounding.
Sascha Donner
wiley   +1 more source

Personal Metaphors as Motivational Resources: Boosting Anticipated Incentives and Feelings of Vitality Through a Personal Motto-Goal

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Motto-goals describe a desired mind-set and provide a person with a guiding principle of how to approach a personal goal or obligation (e.g., with the inner strength of a bear I am forging ahead).
Thomas H. Dyllick   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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