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The Web of Betrayals
The web was ushered in with great expectations, formally in May 1994, in a conference called World Wide Web I, This event, in hindsight, is sometimes referred to as the Woodstock of the web. The web and Mosaic, the graphical browser, which was announced soon after has revolutionized the internet. For most people, the internet is the web, while one of the monopolist tech-corporations wants the world to view their platforms to be not only the web but the Internet! The web has given rise to a number of rich powerful corporations which did not exist before its advent. The easy to use graphical interface and the cell phone with its tiny screen have become the de-facto interface to all kinds of applications and have provided new methods of communication and connections. The control of all this by a small number of monopolistic corporations, who have amassed last quantities of data on people, has created a situation which has become a web of betrayal of the promise of sharing and providing information, freely. We also consider the remote possibility of a new freer web without monopolies
White fantasy, white betrayals:On neoliberal âfeminismâ in the US presidential election process
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The Restructuring of Industrial Relations in the United States
This paper discusses the extent to which a new industrial relations system including greater participation in decision making by workers and unions has diffused in the American economy. The paper uses the automobile as an illustrative case. The paper includes examination of the factors that have limited the diffusion of new industrial relations in the auto industry and elsewhere
âParasites, Plagiarists, and âFictualâ Stories in Charles Palliserâs âA Nice Touchâ and âThe Catchââ
The present article focuses on Charles Palliser's Betrayals (1994) and analyses two of its chapters, "A Nice Touch" and "The Catch", in order to illustrate how the seemingly random collection of sections that make up the novel constitute variations on the same themes and strategies. By discussing the connections between these two chapters, I intend to throw light on the coherence that emerges from the novel's undeniable fragmentariness. Central among its recurrent motifs is the theme of betrayal, which the article approaches through an analysis of plagiarism from the perspective of J. Hillis Miller's logic of the parasite. Drawing on this deconstructionist critic, I show how the undecidability of roles (betrayer-betrayed, plagiariser-plagiarised, host-parasite) in the chapters under consideration is echoed by the narrativeâs play with ontological levels and the blurring of boundaries between reality and fiction. The analysis leads to a final reflection on fragmentary texts that often exploit intertextuality and metafictional techniques as best fitting the contemporary worldview, and it closes with the proposal to consider Betrayals as one of the harbingers of what has become a prolific trend in twenty-first century literature
Trust on the Web: Some Web Science Research Challenges
Web Science is the interdisciplinary study of the World Wide Web as a first-order object in order to understand its relationship with the wider societies in which it is embedded, and in order to facilitate its future engineering as a beneficial object. In this paper, research issues and challenges relating to the vital topic of trust are reviewed, showing how the Web Science agenda requires trust to be addressed, and how addressing the challenges requires a range of disciplinary skills applied in an integrated manner
Alice Munroâs Runaway: Stories of Women in Dilemma
Alice Ann Munro, a Canadian short story writer and Nobel laureate (2013), is the author of seven books of short stories, including the forthcoming Open Secrets, and one novel, Lives of Girls and Women. It is her miraculous gift to make her stories as real and unforgettable as our own. In Munroâs hands, the people she writes about, women of all ages and circumstances, and their friends, lovers, parents, and children, become as alive and vivid as our own kith and kin. In Alice Munroâs superb story collection, Runaway, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. Runaway is a book of extraordinary engaging stories about love and emotions and its intriguing loyalty and disloyalty, from the title story about a young woman who is incapable of leaving her husband, to three stories about a woman named Juliet and the emotions that complicate the lustre of her intimate relationships. There are eight short stories in the book. There are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love, between men and women, between friends, between parents and children that are the stuff of all our lives. My attempt in the present paper will be to investigate Munroâs inimitable style of storytelling in the present perspective in her delineation of different facets of her female protagonists in her Man Booker International Prize winner story book, Runaway
Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web
Everyone agrees on the importance of enabling trust on the SemanticWebto ensure more efficient agent interaction. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing computational models, semantic representations, inference techniques, etc. However, little attention has been given to the plausible trust strategies or tactics that an agent can follow when interacting with other agents on the Semantic Web. In this paper we identify five most common strategies of trust and discuss their envisaged costs and benefits. The aim is to provide some guidelines to help system developers appreciate the risks and gains involved with each trust strategy
Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women
For decades, the authorship of women trouvĂšres has been questioned. Although the debate is more or less over in todayâs scholarship, research continues to search for evidence of not only their existence but for their contribution to the corpus. Womenâs voices in the songs call out not only because the speaker is female, but also because I argue that the author was female too. This is evidenced by the speakerâs perception of betrayal. This paper highlights three key forms of betrayal that medieval women faced: betrayal by the family, betrayal by the lover, and betrayal by the lauzengiers and the mesdixants. Family betrayal included being sent to a nunnery against her will as either punishment for having a lover or as a means of marrying the woman to God when an appropriate suitor could not be attained, and forced marriage to an man who is undesirable to the woman. Relationship betrayal is not only when the lover betrays his lady but also but the evil gelos betrays his wife by imprisoning her in a tower. The third form of betrayal, societal betrayal most often occurs when gossiping neighbors and townspeople seek to destroy the joy of the lovers by revealing their relationship to others. Because we have so few documents from the thirteenth and fourteenth century it is difficult to have a solid understanding of the medieval quotidian. I argue, however, that these poems, like todayâs cinema, television, and literature, give modern readers a glimpse into the daily worries and difficulties of medieval women
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