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Fashion Storytelling and Heritage on Social Media: A Visual Content Analysis of Fan-led Instagram Fashion Brand Archives
No full textSome Personal Reflections on the “Mentorship Paradox”
No full textI draw on my experiences of mentorship to reflect on a paradox that whilst bureaucratic organizations (such as universities) need effective mentorship to nurture new generations of scholars, the most valued kinds of mentorship necessarily run orthogonal to formalized management structures. I reflect on how mentorship is necessarily an affective and caring relationship which thereby poses risks and challenges, but also offers the possibility of enhancing academic professional standards in general
Coping with Knowledge Conditions: A Reply to Reviewers
No full textThis reply to the three reviews serves three purposes: it briefly recapitulates the core points of the book, addresses the specific comments raised by the reviewers, and provides general, forward-looking reflections on research in this field. For each comment raised, the responses offer elaborations and extensions, connecting the discussion to broader questions such as knowledge, truth, and the interplay between subjective and objective uncertainty
Can Democracy Survive AI?
No full textThis essay examines the fundamental tension between artificial intelligence technologies and democratic governance, arguing that AI’s inherent tendencies toward centralization and control pose significant challenges to democratic societies. Drawing on science and technology studies and critical analyses of technological politics, I argue that current AI implementations embody four key anti-democratic characteristics: they represent powerful technologies of centralization and control; they fuel ideologies of unchecked economic growth; they prioritize efficiency over accountability; and they enable absolute control coupled with unaccountable power. The analysis synthesizes historical parallels between computing and control, contemporary developments in AI infrastructure, and emerging policy frameworks to demonstrate how AI’s technical architecture and commercial implementation systematically undermine democratic values of transparency, accountability, and public participation. Through examination of recent political developments and corporate practices, the essay reveals how AI’s centralization of power and erosion of public oversight threaten democratic institutions. I conclude that democracy’s survival in an AI-driven future depends on reimagining and rebuilding digital technologies with democratic accountability at their core, requiring new frameworks for public oversight and corporate governance
Antonella Benucci, Ginevra Bonari, Viola Monaci e Orlando Paris (a cura di), Lingue, linguaggi e spazi: per una diversa visione del carcere e della mediazione, Venezia, Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2024
No full textAntonella Benucci, Ginevra Bonari, Viola Monaci e Orlando Paris (a cura di), Lingue, linguaggi e spazi: per una diversa visione del carcere e della mediazione, Venezia, Edizioni CA’ Foscari, 2024 (review).Recensione a Antonella Benucci, Ginevra Bonari, Viola Monaci e Orlando Paris (a cura di), Lingue, linguaggi e spazi: per una diversa visione del carcere e della mediazione, Venezia, Edizioni CA’ Foscari, 2024
Tradition italienne et terroir suisse. L’italianité gastronomique dans la communication publicitaire de certaines activités commerciales implantées en Suisse romande : entre remémoration et stéréotypie
No full textLocated in the heart of Europe, Switzerland has always attracted many foreigners. Among these immigrants, Italian people form the largest group of permanent foreign population in the Swiss Confederation. This Italian community is today well integrated into Swiss society and into Swiss labour market, so much so that Italianness is considered a heritage to protect, and that a certain Italianization of Swiss cuisine is underway.
Our analysis will consider the advertising communication strategies implemented by certain companies specialized in the creation and sale of traditional Italian dairy products and established in French-speaking Switzerland. These are commercial activities which have in common the Italian origins of their founders and the desire to carry our gastronomic tradition beyond national borders. We will examine a corpus made up of different types of advertising messages (uni- or multimodal) which show the desire to combine Italian tradition with the values of the Swiss community.
This analysis will show that advertising language sometimes draws from a reservoir of knowledge already acquired and shared, with the purpose of convincing, persuading and encouraging consumers.
Située en plein cœur de l’Europe, la Suisse attire depuis longtemps de nombreux étrangers. Parmi ces immigrés, les ressortissants italiens forment le groupe de population permanente étrangère le plus important de la Confédération suisse. Cette communauté italienne est aujourd’hui bien intégrée dans le tissu social et professionnel de la Suisse, à un tel point que l’italianité est considérée un patrimoine à sauvegarder et qu’une certaine italianisation de la cuisine suisse est en cours.
Notre analyse prendra en considération les stratégies de communication publicitaire mises en œuvre par certaines entreprises spécialisées dans la création et la vente de produits laitiers de tradition italienne et établies en Suisse romande. Il s’agit d’activités commerciales qui ont en commun les origines italiennes de leurs fondateurs et la volonté de porter notre tradition gastronomique au-delà des frontières nationales. Nous examinerons un corpus constitué de différents types de messages publicitaires (uni- ou multimodaux) qui montrent la volonté de combiner la tradition italienne avec les valeurs de la communauté suisse.
Cette analyse montrera que le langage publicitaire puise parfois dans un réservoir de connaissances déjà acquises et partagées, dans le seul but de convaincre, de persuader, d’inciter à l’achat les consommateurs.Située en plein cœur de l’Europe, la Suisse attire depuis longtemps de nombreux étrangers. Parmi ces immigrés, les ressortissants italiens forment le groupe de population permanente étrangère le plus important de la Confédération suisse. Cette communauté italienne est aujourd’hui bien intégrée dans le tissu social et professionnel de la Suisse, à un tel point que l’italianité est considérée un patrimoine à sauvegarder et qu’une certaine italianisation de la cuisine suisse est en cours.
Notre analyse prendra en considération les stratégies de communication publicitaire mises en œuvre par certaines entreprises spécialisées dans la création et la vente de produits laitiers de tradition italienne et établies en Suisse romande. Il s’agit d’activités commerciales qui ont en commun les origines italiennes de leurs fondateurs et la volonté de porter notre tradition gastronomique au-delà des frontières nationales. Nous examinerons un corpus constitué de différents types de messages publicitaires (uni- ou multimodaux) qui montrent la volonté de combiner la tradition italienne avec les valeurs de la communauté suisse.
Cette analyse montrera que le langage publicitaire puise parfois dans un réservoir de connaissances déjà acquises et partagées, dans le seul but de convaincre, de persuader, d’inciter à l’achat les consommateurs
On markedness in locative and existential predication: “Existential takeover”, frequency and complexity in Siberian languages
No full textThe present paper investigates existential and locative clauses in fourteen Siberian languages. It is shown that all of them exhibit patterns of so-called “existential takeover”, i.e. originally existential items occurring in locative predication. Starting from the observation that locative predication is frequently viewed as ontologically primary and unmarked against existential predication, these existential takeover patterns are unexpected. Considering the text frequency and pragmatics of locative and existential predication, the paper argues that a markedness-based approach to these domains is unfeasible and leads to false predictions and generalisations. Following from this, it argues that a general typology of locative and existential predication must not contain any a priori restrictions regarding the observed linguistic realisations. Moreover, it proposes a two-layered design of such a typology which considers both the domains themselves as well as possible co-expression patterns
