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    Data ethics : building trust : how digital technologies can serve humanity

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    Data is the magic word of the 21st century. As oil in the 20th century and electricity in the 19th century: For citizens, data means support in daily life in almost all activities, from watch to laptop, from kitchen to car, from mobile phone to politics. For business and politics, data means power, dominance, winning the race. Data can be used for good and bad, for services and hacking, for medicine and arms race. How can we build trust in this complex and ambiguous data world? How can digital technologies serve humanity? The 45 articles in this book represent a broad range of ethical reflections and recommendations in eight sections: a) Values, Trust and Law, b) AI, Robots and Humans, c) Health and Neuroscience, d) Religions for Digital Justice, e) Farming, Business, Finance, f) Security, War, Peace, g) Data Governance, Geopolitics, h) Media, Education, Communication. The authors and institutions come from all continents. The book serves as reading material for teachers, students, policy makers, politicians, business, hospitals, NGOs and religious organisations alike. It is an invitation for dialogue, debate and building trust! The book is a continuation of the volume “Cyber Ethics 4.0” published in 2018 by the same editors

    Realising Global Water Futures: a Summary of Progress in Delivering Solutions to Water Threats in an Era of Global Change

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    Canada First Research Excellence FundNon-Peer ReviewedOver the past six years the Global Water Futures program has produced a wide range of scientific findings and engagements with multiple types of potential users of the research. This briefing book provides a snapshot of some of the science advancements and user engagement that have taken place to date. Annual reports to the funding agency are the most up to date source of information: this compilation has been created from reports submitted by projects in 2022, representing both completed and current project work. The briefing book aims to provide quick access to information about GWF projects in a single place for GWF’s User Advisory Panel: we hope that knowing more about the research being produced will spark conversations about how to make the best use of the new knowledge in both policy and practice

    Macalester Today Spring 2023

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    The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism

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    This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers

    Systematic Approaches for Telemedicine and Data Coordination for COVID-19 in Baja California, Mexico

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    Conference proceedings info: ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies Raleigh, HI, United States, March 24-26, 2023 Pages 529-542We provide a model for systematic implementation of telemedicine within a large evaluation center for COVID-19 in the area of Baja California, Mexico. Our model is based on human-centric design factors and cross disciplinary collaborations for scalable data-driven enablement of smartphone, cellular, and video Teleconsul-tation technologies to link hospitals, clinics, and emergency medical services for point-of-care assessments of COVID testing, and for subsequent treatment and quar-antine decisions. A multidisciplinary team was rapidly created, in cooperation with different institutions, including: the Autonomous University of Baja California, the Ministry of Health, the Command, Communication and Computer Control Center of the Ministry of the State of Baja California (C4), Colleges of Medicine, and the College of Psychologists. Our objective is to provide information to the public and to evaluate COVID-19 in real time and to track, regional, municipal, and state-wide data in real time that informs supply chains and resource allocation with the anticipation of a surge in COVID-19 cases. RESUMEN Proporcionamos un modelo para la implementación sistemática de la telemedicina dentro de un gran centro de evaluación de COVID-19 en el área de Baja California, México. Nuestro modelo se basa en factores de diseño centrados en el ser humano y colaboraciones interdisciplinarias para la habilitación escalable basada en datos de tecnologías de teleconsulta de teléfonos inteligentes, celulares y video para vincular hospitales, clínicas y servicios médicos de emergencia para evaluaciones de COVID en el punto de atención. pruebas, y para el tratamiento posterior y decisiones de cuarentena. Rápidamente se creó un equipo multidisciplinario, en cooperación con diferentes instituciones, entre ellas: la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, la Secretaría de Salud, el Centro de Comando, Comunicaciones y Control Informático. de la Secretaría del Estado de Baja California (C4), Facultades de Medicina y Colegio de Psicólogos. Nuestro objetivo es proporcionar información al público y evaluar COVID-19 en tiempo real y rastrear datos regionales, municipales y estatales en tiempo real que informan las cadenas de suministro y la asignación de recursos con la anticipación de un aumento de COVID-19. 19 casos.ICICT 2023: 2023 The 6th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3236-

    Play Among Books

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    How does coding change the way we think about architecture? Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books

    Creating Through Mind and Emotions

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    The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Creating Through Mind and Emotions were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. This platform also aims to foster the awareness and discussion on Creating Through Mind and Emotions, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Creating Through Mind and Emotions has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts

    Lazarus 2.0: Die Überwindung des Todes zwischen biblisch-christlicher Auferstehungshoffnung und kryonischen Auferweckungsutopien

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    Die vorliegende Dissertation setzt sich mit der kulturellen Ausprägung des Wunsches auseinander, den Tod zu überwinden. Thema der Arbeit ist konkret der Übergang von einer christlich geprägten Auferstehungshoffnung hin zu naturwissenschaftlich geprägten Auferweckungsutopien, die durch menschliche Fertigkeiten herbeigeführt werden sollen. Die Kryonik, ein Verfahren, bei dem Leichname tiefgekühlt werden, um die Verstorbenen in der Zukunft wiederzuerwecken, steht als Beispiel für eine solche Utopie. In der Untersuchung wird die These verfolgt, dass sich Kerngedanken der christlich geprägten Auferstehungshoffnung in der technoutopistischen Aufweckungsfantasie der Kryonik wiederfinden. Dabei werden chronologisch die wichtigsten Etappen des westlichen Todesverständnisses vom Frühchristentum bis zum Aufkommen der Kryonik in den USA der 1960er Jahre beleuchtet. Eine detaillierte Analyse des Angebots und der Vision zweier amerikanischer Kryonik-Anbieter rundet die Arbeit ab und erlaubt es, die kryonische Hoffnung im Licht der christlichen Prägung der westlichen Kultur zu betrachten.Die vorliegende Dissertation setzt sich mit der kulturellen Ausprägung des Wunsches auseinander, den Tod zu überwinden. Thema der Arbeit ist konkret der Übergang von einer christlich geprägten Auferstehungshoffnung hin zu naturwissenschaftlich geprägten Auferweckungsutopien, die durch menschliche Fertigkeiten herbeigeführt werden sollen. Die Kryonik, ein Verfahren, bei dem Leichname tiefgekühlt werden, um die Verstorbenen in der Zukunft wiederzuerwecken, steht als Beispiel für eine solche Utopie. In der Untersuchung wird die These verfolgt, dass sich Kerngedanken der christlich geprägten Auferstehungshoffnung in der technoutopistischen Aufweckungsfantasie der Kryonik wiederfinden. Dabei werden chronologisch die wichtigsten Etappen des westlichen Todesverständnisses vom Frühchristentum bis zum Aufkommen der Kryonik in den USA der 1960er Jahre beleuchtet. Eine detaillierte Analyse des Angebots und der Vision zweier amerikanischer Kryonik-Anbieter rundet die Arbeit ab und erlaubt es, die kryonische Hoffnung im Licht der christlichen Prägung der westlichen Kultur zu betrachten

    Affective Movement in Robotic Art: Alternatives to the ‘Interiority Paradigm’ in Social Robotics

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    This paper critically evaluates how emotional and intentional movement is conceptualised and deployed in social robotics and provides an alternative by analysing contemporary robotic artworks that deal with affective human-robot interaction(HRI). Within HRI, movement as a way of communicating emotions and intent has become a topic of increased interest, which has made social robotics turn to theatre and dance due to the expertise of these fields in expressive movement. This paper will argue that social robotics’ way of using performative methods with regards to emotional movement is, nonetheless, limited and carries certain challenges. These challenges are grounded on the claim that social robotics participates in what the author calls an ‘interiority paradigm’. That is, movement is understood to be the expression of inner, pre-determined states. The 'interiority paradigm' poses several challenges to the development of emotional movement, with regards to unaddressed human and robotic imaginaries, an emphasis in legibility and familiarity, and a restrictive interior/exterior binary that limits the role of movement in an affective connection. As an example of how robots could be imagined beyond this interiority paradigm, the author proposes to turn to contemporary robotic art. Robotic art’s view on affective movement as a matter of evocation and of performative co-creation might inspire the development of robots that move beyond the requirement of being mere copies of a human interiority. While the intersection between robotics and the performing arts is a fruitful field of research, the author argues in this paper that the way in which movement is currently being developed through performative methods has certain shortcomings, and that the perspective of robotic art on affective movement might open up a more interesting area of exploration for social robotics, as well as expose those aspects of theatre and dance that have been unaddressed in robotics

    Dickens After Dickens

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    "[W]e have a long way to travel before we get back to what Dickens meant… G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to ‘find’ Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptations, Dickens’s legacy encompasses an array of conventional and innovative forms. Dickens After Dickens includes chapters from rising and leading scholars in the field, offering creative and varied discussion of the continued and evolving influence of Dickens and the nature of his legacy across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Its chapters show the surprising resonances that Dickens has had and continues to have, arguing that the author’s impact can be seen in mainstream cultural phenomena such as HBO’s TV series The Wire and Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch, as well as in diverse areas such as Norwegian literature, video games and neo-Victorian fiction. It discusses Dickens as a biographical figure, an intertextual moment, and a medium through which to explore contemporary concerns around gender and representation. The new research represented in this book brings together a range of methodologies, approaches and sources, offering an accessible and engaging re-evaluation that will be of interest to scholars of Dickens, Victorian fiction, adaptation, and cultural history, and to teachers, students, and general readers interested in the ways in which we continue to read and be influenced by the author’s work. This collection is edited by Dr Emily Bell (Loughborough University) with a Foreword by Professor Juliet John (Royal Holloway, University of London), author of Dickens and Mass Culture (OUP). Dr Bell is a board member for the Oxford Dickens series and an editor for the Dickens Letters Project. She also acted as the first Communications Committee Chair of the international Dickens Society, and has published on Dickens, life writing and commemoration.
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