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Tweeting the Dalai Lama, Are Cell Phones Becoming the New Vajras? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
On February 22, 2010 the Office of the 14th Dalai Lama joined the online microblogging site Twitter. Twitter is an internet based community, ranked the world’s third most used online social network by Compete.com.
Green, Ronald S.
core   +1 more source

The normative dimensions of new technologies

open access: yesEtikk i Praksis: Nordic Journal of Applied Ethics, 2015
This special issue of Etikk i praksis features papers that articulate and discuss approaches and methodology that seek to make normative research activity and research output productive in contexts of ongoing societal and technological decision-making ...
Lars Ursin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing changes in the study of religious communities in digital religion studies

open access: yes, 2016
This article provides a focused review of researches undertaken within Digital religion studies in the last three decades, specifically highlighting how religious communities have been studied and approached within this area.
Heidi A. Campbell, A. Vitullo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
wiley   +1 more source

Review of 1918 Shikoku Pilgrimage of Takamure Itsue translated by Susan Tennant [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This book is a collection of 105 short reflections and poems by Takamure Itsue (1894–1964) on her travels to and around Shikoku in 1918, when she was twenty-three years old.
Green, Ronald S.
core   +1 more source

Body, society, and subjectivity in religious studies.

open access: yesJournal of the American Academy of Religion. American Academy of Religion, 2012
Attention to bodies has transformed the study of religion in the past thirty years, aiding the effort to overcome the discipline's Protestant biases by shifting interest from beliefs to practices.
Constance M. Furey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the ...
Marie Abbey   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Subjective Well-Being of Individuals With Different Religious Status

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Spirituality and religiosity have been found to be positive predictors of subjective well-being, even if results are not altogether consistent across studies.
D. Villani   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mexican consumers' attitudes toward irradiated and imported apples

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study centers on analyzing Mexican consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for imported US fresh apples subjected to irradiation, contrasting it with the more prevalent postharvest chemical treatments. We collect data using a survey tool in Qualtrics designed to explore the impact of information dissemination through two distinct narrative ...
André D. Murray   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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