Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Anchoring race: improving the construction of race dimensions in word embeddings. [PDF]
Ohamadike N, Durrheim K, Primus M.
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Applying Fuzzy Ontologies to Implement the Social Semantic Web
Edy Portmann +2 more
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Inconsistencies in Semantic Social Web Applications
The semantic social web or web 3.0 is the movement of integrating popular social web (web 2.0) applications with ideas from the semantic web. Techniques like semantic wiki systems, social tagging of weblogs and other web 2.0 applications as well as FOAF (Friend of a Friend) specifications are some of the results of this movement.
Maleković, Mirko +2 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Web Science 2.0: Identifying Trends Through Semantic Social Network Analysis
Peter A. Gloor +4 more
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Dynamic Virtual Ontology using Tags with Semantic Relationship on Social-web to Support Effective Search [PDF]
Hyun Jung Lee, Mye Sohn
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Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence as Web 4.0: The Next Generation of the Internet
ABSTRACT This study utilizes systems thinking to explore and entwine an evolving metaverse scholarship to a relatively underexplored phenomenon of Web 4.0. We adopt a soft systems thinking framework to guide the interpretation of complex and evolving metaverse scholarship, using bibliometric mapping of 5587 publications sourced from Scopus.
Anton Klarin +3 more
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Pretrained language models for semantics-aware data harmonisation of observational clinical studies in the era of big data. [PDF]
Dylag JJ, Zlatev Z, Boniface M.
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To address interactionally troublesome exchanges (e.g., bullying, discrimination, or harassment) in the workplace, giving a name to negative personal experiences is crucial. Drawing on discussions of hermeneutical injustice, we explore the emancipatory potential of naming in post‐hoc tellings of these experiences, with particular attention to ...
Minna Leinonen +2 more
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