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Can't help falling in love… with a bot? A mixed-methods analysis of public discourses of AI intimacy and companionship on YouTube. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Shekhar A, Mabaso C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Reconciling Goffman and Disability Studies: “Interactional” and “Structural” Stigma in the Lives of Parents of Learning‐Disabled Adults

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Erving Goffman cuts a divisive figure in disability studies. Some criticize his conception of “stigma” as deviance‐focused and as ignoring structural forces that shape personal encounters. Others praise his recognition of stigma as an interactional phenomenon.
Gareth M. Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Digital habitus and the sociotechnical transformation of everyday life in the United Arab Emirates: a hybrid framework of governmentality, surveillance capitalism, and Gulf state modernity. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Abulbasher A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Process of Valorization in the Platform Capitalism

AbstractIn this essay, I use two different words to express the concept of productive human activity. The first is the Latin term ‘labor’, whose etymology means ‘pain’, ‘punishment’, ‘torture’, ‘suffering’. The second one is the term ‘opus’, again from Latin, which means creative activity that unleashes the human being’s capacity for doing and thinking.
openaire   +1 more source

The Reflexive Turn in Systems Engineering: A Disciplinary Response to Complexity

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Future of Systems Engineering (FuSE) programme has called for the discipline to evolve as a transdiscipline capable of engaging complex eco‐socio‐technical challenges. Yet the pace of that evolution has been slower than the arguments for it would predict. This article examines why.
Raul Leal Ascencio
wiley   +1 more source

Relational Ontology in a Digital World: Integrating African Personhood and Platformized Nursing. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Bayuo J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Hype and Fear: Decolonizing ELT Materials Through Generative Artificial Intelligence

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite calls from critical applied linguists to decolonize ELT materials that reproduce colonial ideologies, teachers working under neoliberal constraints and attendant time pressures often have to deliver textbook content as is rather than revising it.
Steven Yeung, John Gray
wiley   +1 more source

State-amplified platform inequality: The economic geography of digital cultural policy in China. [PDF]

PLoS One
Su LD, Pang ZH, Tan ZH, Wen ZX, Ren M, Zhang Y.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi, Renzo Cordina, David M. Power   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A multimodal discourse analysis of select Indian queer advertisements and representation of negotiated queer visibility in mass media. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Aswani SS, Preetha R.
europepmc   +1 more source