Finanzieller Missbrauch älterer Menschen:Strategien der Befähigung

(translated abstract)In October 2018, a UK Member of Parliament, Giles Watling, used his maiden speech to highlight the issue of elder abuse in the UK. Although imperfectly and inconsistently defined, elder abuse is commonly referred to as “a single or repeated act, or lack of appropriate action, occurring within any relationship where there is an expectation of trust” which results in “harm or distress” to an older person. It is, Watling noted, a widespread yet “poorly understood” crime which deserves to dominate political discourse but which is too often overlooked, the result being Parliament’s “marginalising [of] a forgotten generation.” Elder abuse is also a human rights violation, with the Equality and Human Rights Commission and All Parliamentary Group on Aging and Older People respectively identifying “serious” and “systemic” threats to the human rights of older people as a result. The UK House of Commons Health Committee reported on elder abuse in 2004, expressing concern at the “refusal of professional bodies and society overall to acknowledge the extent of the problem”. Importantly, in Europe and worldwide, states have been slow to respond to elder financial abuse, which is perceived as an increasingly pressing issue

Hum/Ine: Interspecies Empathy, Composition, and Horses

This project explores the relationships between horses and humans, primarily focussing on the empathetic aspects of sound and communication. The research investigates how working with sound can deepen our understanding of and connection with horses and, how a creative compositional practice could provide an opportunity to enhance interspecies bonds and interactions.The portfolio uses a combination of methodologies to explore these ideas of interspecies empathy. Key elements include: sound and listening technologies (including binaural microphones) that allow for detailed sonic capture; the idea of creative interspecies collaboration; the creative implications of zoomusicology; and the importance of listening with- as well as to- animals. The research outputs take the form of electroacoustic compositions, text-based scores, and an installation. In encouraging horses to participate in the process, the work aims to investigate or facilitate interspecies communication, co-creation/collaboration, and extra-linguistic communication.The pieces in the portfolio do not seek to replicate the listening experience of the horse but are proposals for how we might creatively approximate such experiences to explore ideas of interspecies empathy. The research is inherently multidisciplinary and provides novel methods of exploring equine experiences and empathetic connections through creative and playful means. The work offers new frameworks for collaborative and co-creative art practices involving non-human participants. In the portfolio I present innovative approaches which attempt to blend artistic practice with scientific curiosity

Revolutionising Marketing Education – A Sociocultural Approach to Praxis Pedagogy

This paper examines how the changing marketing landscape necessitates transformative learning approaches capable of preparing students for responsible and collaborative practice of marketing. It considers the potential of a Freirean praxis approach to marketing education informed by sociocultural theory to propose a framework for transformative learning.This is a conceptual piece integrating insights from Freire’s pedagogy and Vygotsky’s theory to propose a praxis pedagogies-based sociocultural framework for marketing education and ultimately employability.The paper identifies a set of key technological, environmental and societal factors impacting marketing and marketing education. In response to these, an integrative framework is provided to prepare students for the current and future challenges arising. Given the nature of the factors identified, this framework proposes a pedagogical approach that is not only critical but also socio-culturally informed.It adds to the burgeoning literature on responsible marketing education offering a theoretical and practical framework.This framework provides marketing educators with practical tools. Grounded in praxis and sociocultural theory, it equips students with critical thinking and collaboration skills, preparing them as marketers in response to societal and technological challenges.This approach is built on theory and exemplars directed at positive social change.The novelty of this pedagogical approach derives from the unique integration of theoretical perspectives from praxis and sociocultural theories towards transforming marketing education and thus practice in directions that are sustainable, socio-culturally grounded, and participatory

Der Weg von Opfern von Online-Kriminalität durch die britischen Strafverfolgungsbehörden. Translated title: Understanding the journeys of online crime victims through law enforcement in Britain.

People rely on digital devices to conduct their lives and businesses online, however, the Internet has also enabled traditional crimes committed offline to migrate online, allowing these crimes to be committed transnationally. This creates difficulties for Britain’s law enforcement who have historically worked in forces within geographical boundaries, investigating crimes with offenders and victims at physical locations. Nowadays, victims can be scammed online from across the world and in different jurisdictions. Virtual currency does not require transportation, since it has no physical weight, so perpetrators can attack without moving from their digital devices or leaving physical clues. Victims seek support from law enforcement, support organisations, and social support from friends and family. The journeys of victims of online crime were explored during the main author’s PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. The study found broken systems, under-reporting and victims taking different journeys depending on whether they are victims of cyber-dependent or cyber-enabled crimes

Hyperbolic Adversarial Learning for Personalized Item Recommendation

Personalized recommendation systems are indispensable intelligent components for social media and e-commerce. Traditional personalized item recommendation models are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, resulting in poor robustness. Although adversarial learning-based recommendation models are able to improve the robustness, they inherently model the interaction relationships between users and items in Euclidean space, where it is difficult for them to capture the hierarchical relationships among entities. To address the above issues, we propose a hyperbolic adversarial learning based personalized item recommendation model, called HALRec. Specifically, HALRec models the interactions in hyperbolic space and utilizes hyperbolic distances to measure the similarities among entities. Moreover, instead of in Euclidean space, HALRec exploits the adversarial learning technique in hyperbolic space, i.e., HAL-Rec maximizes the hyperbolic adversarial perturbations loss while minimizing the hyperbolic based Bayesian personalized ranking loss. Hence, HALRec inherits the advantages of hyperbolic representation learning in capturing hierarchical relationships and adversarial learning in enhancing the robustness of the recommendation model. In addition, we utilize tangent space optimization to simplify the learning of model parameters. Experimental results on real-world datasets show that our proposed hyperbolic adversarial learning-based personalized item recommendation method outperforms the state-of-the-art personalized recommendation algorithms

Strategic narrative and public diplomacy:What Artificial Intelligence Means for the Endless Problem of Plural Meanings of Plural Things

This chapter advances a narrative approach to the study of public diplomacy. Webring together two phenomena: information disorder in communication, and order in world politics, to examine the challenges of narrating public diplomacy. We examine how actors can use tools of information disorder to further their strategic aims to shape international order. We do this in several ways. First, we set out these two (dis)order phenomena and their relationship. Second, we set out the dilemma of establishing and verifying truth claims in this information disorder. Third, we demonstrate why analysis of actors’ strategic narratives used in this context can explain how they are using information disorder to further their claims. Fourth and finally, we explore how generative artificial intelligence (AI) offers new tools for communication in foreign policy. It is important to examine both how actors use these tools, and how they try to control and direct the development of these tools. We argue that these tools add another dimension to a contested multipolarinternational order, one that extends a basic problem that generates politics: different people in different places prioritise different things and give things different meanings. Generative AI will not change this or solve this. This means an increasing complexity of communication since we wrote of strategic narrative in 2010. However, the distinct practices of actors using narratives to shape behaviour, and narratives being fundamental to how citizens view the world, remains unchanged