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Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Human Agency and the Resources of Reason
No full textThe evidence shows that human primates become (relatively) rational actors . Using a distributed perspective, we identify aspects of human agency that raise important questions for sociocognitive science . In humans, we argue, agency does not centre on individual agents . Cognitive, social and linguistic outcomes depend on skills in moving in and out of aggregates that bind people, artifacts , language and institutions. While recognising the value of symbol processing models, these presuppose the embodied events of human symbol grounding . At a micro level, humans coordinate with others and the world to self-construct by cognising, talking and orienting to social affordances . We trace the necessary skills to sense-saturated coordination or interactivity . As a result of perceiving and acting on the environment , human individuals use the artificial to extend their natural powers. By using verbal patterns , artifacts and institutions , we become imperfect rational actors whose lives span the micro and the macro worlds
Building ecocivilizations:Putting ecolinguistic expertise to work
No full textBuilding ecocivilizations aims to use ecolinguistics to engender hope and inspire organized action. To this end, I stress how the historic specificity of living and languaging can be traced to, and illuminate, life sustaining relations. Life, like languaging, discourse and languages, uses coordinative activity in knowledge-making. Once acknowledged, as in Social Epistemology, we can make normative use of expertise that, as in Ecoliteracy, admits the emergence of novelty. Yet, in starting with languaging, one can also track how practices inform human knowing. As below, this arises as distributed agency brings the unavoidable incompleteness of living together with human experience of an enlanguaged world. The move enables a new ecolinguistics that, first, brings practical theories to education and media and, second, aspires to construct a theory of practices. Given multiple ways of knowing, one is bound to challenge how technoscience is driven by growthism. For those who seek to build historically located ecocivilizations, place becomes central to public good. One grants sociopolitical importance to developing public bodies (corpora popularia) that can benefit Earth systems, habitats, place-worlds and, thus, bioecological becoming
Thinking, Values and Meaning in Changing Cognitive Ecologies
No full textIn defence of the pluralism of Cognition Beyond the Brain, we propose a systemic view of cognition. We argue that this opens up the diversity of thinkingby allowing persons to act as living subjects who also make routine use of collectively organised cognitive ecosystems (Hutchins 2014). To allow for the duality of human agency, one needs a methodological principle that links subjective concerns with collectivecontrol. The principle of cognitive separability (PCS) posits that people can dissociate extended causal processes from subject-centred actions. The systemic view offers three main claims about human cognition. First, language, problem solving, human-computer interaction, and many elaborate cognitive skills are based in sense-saturatedcoordination or interactivity. Second, interactivity prompts embrained bodies to develop the cognitive powers used in human performance. Third, human agents entwine brains, bodies and world as they use the PCS to manage multi-scalar dynamics. In this second edition of Cognition beyond the brain, we defend the principles by presenting the state of the art. The papers address, among other things, use of the internet, the fluid nature of self, the history of the Paris Commune, and computer aided design. In line with cognitive separability, the studies vary in the granularity used to pursue how bodies and artifacts shape thinking. Whereas some contributors invoke (putative) mental content, others take the radical view that thinking depends on non-localisable pattern. Yet, in all cases, experience of materiality is meshed with activity that involves the world beyond the body.</p
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
Get PDFCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
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