WiseEye: next generation expandable and programmable camera trap platform for wildlife research

Funding: The work was supported by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1. The work of S. Newey and RJI was part funded by the Scottish Government's Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS). Details published as an Open Source Toolkit, PLOS Journals at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169758Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Introducing and Discussing IS, Management, Organization and Control

The influence of Information Systems (ISs) on organizational structures, processes, and people as well as how these organizational forms impact technology design, func-tionality and management has a rich history within the managerial literature. In particular, the relationship between IS, management and organizational control has been a regular subject of analysis in literature over the past thirty years. Organizational control is a fundamental issue in a variety of contexts, from a so-cio-political and corporate governance perspectives, as well as from a managerial point of view within organizations. In the managerial debate, the concept of control is normally used in broad, non-discriminating way to identify diverse policies, ideolo-gies and practices that have been developed to organize productive activity . Theo-ries on organizational control typically describe how managers measure and monitor the work of organizational actors by comparing their performance against established standards and providing rewards or sanctions based on these evaluations

Death contested: morphogenesis and conflicts of interpretation

This chapter lays the groundwork for a realist analysis of the disappearance or ‘death’ of social forms. How social forms disappear is particularly relevant in societies experiencing intensified social transformation. Yet, whilst the notion of morphogenesis can account both for the acceleration of change and for the multiplication of coexisting social forms (Al-Amoudi 2014), it does not allow us, on its own, to theorise their disappearance. of social entities . Addressing this gap in the theory of morphogenesis opens interesting avenues for the philosophical study of society. Our contribution is organised around three related questions. Firstly, how should we conceptualise the disappearance of social forms and how can this conceptualisation draw from the biological conception of death? Secondly, how do concept-dependence and reflexivity differentiate social death from biological death? Thirdly, how can we observe and interpret the agonies that accompany the death of social forms? We conclude by providing an illustration of how the theory might be applied to a case with significant current socio-economic ramifications: the disappearance of life-long employment in developed capitalist economies