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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca +2 more
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Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz +2 more
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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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Fifty Shades of Blue and Grey: Civil War Torture Porn? [PDF]
Over the past few days I\u27ve been thinking about violence. We are a culture of violence. We idolize blind rage and violence, we normalize it and worship it....
Rudy, John M.
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Biomass‐derived carbon provides a sustainable, porous, and conductive scaffold that stabilizes nanomaterials for bifunctional hydrogen evolution reaction/oxygen evolution reaction catalysis. This review summarizes design strategies (defects, heteroatom doping, heterostructures, single atoms), mechanistic/density functional theory insights, degradation ...
Paricha Jebin +8 more
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Abstract This chapters unravels the concept of the digital grotesque. It examines how grotesque aesthetics have been part of the creative process of artists, from sounds to images. The chapter suggests that artists and writers have experimented with ugliness throughout history as a form of political protest as well as affective resonance.
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Abstract This paper examines how Palestinian English teachers (PETs) working at Jewish–Israeli schools navigate trauma in an educational space that both requires and negates them. Driven by labor market demands rather than efforts at educational integration, PETs operate under constant affective and political tension, forced to comply with colonial ...
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
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I propose to take the grotesque, both as a discursive genre and a cultural attitude and practice, as a point of departure that allows us to comment more widely on Bakhtin‘s Rabelais book and its significance for current debates on subjectivity.
Galin Tihanov
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Realismo grottesco e ambiguità cultural-culinarie in Constance Fenimore Woolson [PDF]
Fosco Maraini once wrote that, during his childhood, if he complained about the food, his aunt Violet, an English Protestant lady, always rebuked him by saying that food is supposed to feed and not to give pleasure, thus it has no need to be tasty.
Grego, Edoarda
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Abstract Background Schwartz Rounds are a group reflective forum for healthcare staff to openly and safely discuss the emotional aspects of their work. With the plethora of challenges facing veterinary professionals, any organisational intervention that could help support team wellbeing should be evaluated to provide evidence for any beneficial claims.
Robert Campbell, Emma Ormandy
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