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With its 12 million players World of Warcraft (WoW) is one of the most popular computer games to date. The game s versatility makes it a unique phenomenon for scientific and even philosophic exploration. However, the public's attention has mainly been directed to stories of players who are portrayed as victims to the games seductiveness.
Skouverøe, Knut Joachim Mår +1 more
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Extending isoconversional analysis of DSC data to diffusion‐controlled regimes captures the rise in apparent activation energy upon vitrification and yields TTT diagrams of RTM6 epoxy resin that remain accurate when diffusion, rather than chemistry, governs the cure rate.
Didina‐Ramona‐Casandra Cârstea +5 more
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ABSTRACT As concerns for rising rates of youth suicide and suicidal thoughts and behaviors continue to grow, there is a need to prioritize school‐based suicide prevention programs. Despite evidence documenting the effectiveness of school‐based prevention programs for reducing suicide‐related risk in adolescents, schools face numerous barriers to ...
Marisa E. Marraccini +8 more
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Program Abstracts from the GSA 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting "The Purposes of Longer Lives". [PDF]
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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An Outline of a Theory of Play
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
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Abstract Reflective teaching (RT) is influenced by a range of cognitive, pedagogical, and psycho‐affective factors in second/foreign language (L2) education. However, empirical evidence on the influence of psycho‐affective variables on teachers' reflectivity remains limited.
Lili Qin +2 more
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From Cutting Edges to the Cutting Edge: Knowing and Theorizing Through Collage Inquiry
Abstract Prompted by ongoing debates about the need for more novel and pluralistic management research, this paper explores the different ways of researching, knowing and theorizing emerging from the arts‐based method of collage inquiry. We used a problematizing approach to examine how collage inquiry has been used in management research and ...
Georgia Stavraki +2 more
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ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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