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The Democratization of Social Media A Critical Perspective in Technology [PDF]

, 2017
Social Media is part of contemporary technology that is the contentious subject matter within the society. It is paradoxical when social media should provide techniques and objects that serve human being in a positive way, but at the same time, it can ...
Mahaswa, Rangga Kala
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Ends, means, beginnings: environmental technocracy, ecological deliberation or embodied disagreement [PDF]

, 2014
Technocratic attitudes suggest that decisions about environmental policy should be led by scientific experts. Such decisions, it is expected, will be more rational than any arrived at by a democratic mediation between the narrow, short-term interests and
Machin, A., Machin, A., Smith, G., Smith, G.   +3 more
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New Economic Analysis of Law: Beyond Technocracy and Market Design [PDF]

, 2018
This special issue on New Economic Analysis of Law features illuminating syntheses of social science and law. What would law and economics look like if macroeconomics were a concern of scholars now focused entirely on microeconomics?
Pasquale, Frank A.
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The International Politics of Ireland's EU/IMF Bailout [PDF]

, 2012
In 2010, Ireland’s financial crisis threatened the stability of the global financial system, precipitating an international rescue package of 85 billion euro.
Breen, Michael
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Anything but Representative Democracy: Explaining Conspiracy Believers’ Support for Direct Democracy and Technocracy

Politics and Governance
Conspiracy theories gained considerable attention during the Covid-19 pandemic. Although studies have extensively explored their (mostly) negative impacts on various political and social aspects, like participation, health-related behavior, and violence,
Anne Küppers
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Populism and technocracy: opposites or complements? [PDF]

, 2017
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2014.995504Although populism and technocracy increasingly appear as the two organising poles of politics in contemporary ...
Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi, Bickerton, Christopher   +1 more
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Alvin Weinberg and the promotion of the technological fix [PDF]

, 2018
The term “technological fix”, coined by technologist/administrator Alvin Weinberg in 1965, vaunted engineering innovation as a generic tool for circumventing problems commonly conceived as social, political or cultural.
Johnston, Sean F.
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An Administrative View of Model Uncertainty in Public Health [PDF]

, 1997
Dr. Carrington reviews several ways to deal with model uncertainty, including those failing to acknowledge any use of models.
Carrington, Clark D.
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Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy

Histories
A key question in the literature of technology in society is the degree to which technology is a product of society and vice versa. A related question is how the differing cross-causal lines between the two change both technological and social forms ...
Cameron Elliott Gordon
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Telescopes on the Moon or pie in the sky? [PDF]

The question is examined of whether it makes sense to believe that there will one day be an interferometric array of telescopes on the Moon. The question is really one of national commitment to a lunar base, since it is not likely that a scientific ...
Pilcher, Carl B.
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