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

open access: yes, 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.   +35 more
core   +1 more source

How Do I Measure up? Social Influence and L2 Motivation in the Algorithmic Age

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Comparative thinking is a fundamental human drive and a hallmark of contemporary life. For social action, such as the learning and use of additional languages, a target for appraisal (an L2 attribute) is evaluated in relation to a comparison standard (an appraiser's standpoint).
Alastair Henry, Meng Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The Crime Lab in the Age of the Genetic Panopticon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Scientific evidence really nails this man to the wall, the Harris County, Texas prosecutor told the jurors in closing statements. At trial, George Rodriguez claimed he was innocent and that he had been working a factory the day of the crime.
Garrett, Brandon L.
core   +3 more sources

Spaces of observation and obscurity: cinematic prisons of light and dark [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In The Eye of Power, Foucault delineated the key concerns surrounding hospital architecture in the latter half of the eighteenth century as being the ‘visibility of bodies, individuals and things'.
Fiddler, Michael
core  

The psychiatric fix

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

A Foucauldian Analysis of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات
In his work Discipline and Punish (1995), Michel Foucault applies the concept introduced by Bentham's Panopticon. He argues that the panoptic structure illustrates the connection between an abstract notion like punishment and a tangible reality like the
Farah Chassib Hasan, Sana Lazim Hasan
doaj   +1 more source

Guidelines for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse and Wrongful Allegations against Staff at Danish Childcare Facilities

open access: yesSocieties, 2019
Since the 1980s, the fear of child sexual abuse (CSA) has become a major cultural feature of a large part of the Western world. Internationally, the unintended consequences of the fear surrounding CSA are rarely investigated and doing so is often ...
Else-Marie Buch Leander   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Detailing spaces and processes of resistance: Working women in Dundee’s jute industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Recent and ongoing calls within labour geography and social and cultural geography have highlighted the importance of resistance, its spatial productions and manifestations.
Wainwright, E
core   +1 more source

Secrecy: An Epistemological Account

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
wiley   +1 more source

Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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