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Behavioural conditionality: Why the nudges must be stopped - an opinion piece [PDF]

, 2011
The use of behavioural conditionality has spread globally and is linked to the growth of behavioural economics and libertarian paternalism. This comment questions the ethics and effectiveness of this powerful trend and considers the alternative of moving
Standing, Guy
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Dynamic Adaptive Label Assignment for Tiny Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the development of unmanned aerial vehicle and satellite technology, the application of tiny object detection in remote sensing images is becoming increasingly widespread. Although significant progress has been made in the accuracy and speed of object detection in recent years, performance declines sharply when general object detectors ...
Shuohao Shi, Qiang Fang, Xin Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Performativity, fabrication and trust: exploring computer-mediated moderation [PDF]

, 2013
Based on research conducted in an English secondary school, this paper explores computer mediated moderation as a performative tool. The Module Assessment Meeting (MAM) was the moderation approach under investigation.
Alexander B., Andrew Clapham, Ball S., Ball S., Ball S., Banister P., Bentham J., Charmaz K., Dean M., Delamont S., DuGay P., Foucault M., Foucault M., Foucault M., Giddens A., Glaser B., Hammersley M., Hargreaves A., Hipkins R., Jeffrey B., Jeffrey B., Johnson A., Kaptelinin V., Klenowski V., Kvale S., Lyotard J., Menter I., Menter I., Monahan T., Postman N., Priestley M., Sammons P., Selwyn N., Shore C., Woods P., Woods P.   +35 more
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STREETS AS STAGES: Traffic Enforcement and the Competition for Cultural Growth in China

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In keeping with China’s desire to build soft power to parallel its economic growth, the policing of city streets has moved to the forefront as a mechanism for moral regulation and improving urban prestige. Under pressure to civilize their citizenry, many Chinese cities have become entrepreneurial cities within a type of cultural growth ...
Gregory Fayard
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is ‘missed’ by sociological literature underpinned by assumptions of presence that a missing approach can rectify? I appropriate a metaphysics of presence and an alternative focus on what is missing as ontological foci to revisit complexity studies in sociology.
Konstantinos Poulis
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The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
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Justification of panopticon in superhero movies: The Batman Movie

Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning, 2022
The French Philosopher Michel Foucault argues that power extends to all areas at the micro level in Bentham's Panopticon theory, which was inspired by the architectural design of the Panopticon.
Azime Cantaş, Aytekin Can
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Whoʼs Watching Us at Work? Toward a Structural-Perceptual Model of Electronic Monitoring and Surveillance in Organizations [PDF]

, 2006
Nearly 80% of organizations now employ some form of employee surveillance. This significant level of use infers a salient need for additional theory and research into the effects of monitoring and surveillance.
D\u27Urso, Scott C.
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Volumetric mediations: Atmospheres of crisis and unbelonging in humanitarian drone documentaries

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more‐than‐military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017) and Morgan Knibbe's Those Who Feel the Fire Burning (2014), I examine how their drone cinematography visualises the ...
Beryl Pong
wiley   +1 more source