227 research outputs found
Author – Narrator – Defendant: A legal Approach to Werner Kofler\u27s Voice
No full textGernot Waldner nähert sich dem Phänomen Stimme am Beispiel des Autors Werner Koflers aus juristischer Perspektive. Der Beitrag analysiert detailliert die rhetorischen Strategien in den Akten jenes Prozesses, den der Journalist Michael Jeannée 1991 anlässlich einer Passage in Koflers Der Hirt auf dem Felsen wegen üblicher Nachrede anstrengte. Waldner zeigt nicht nur Widersprüche der Argumentationen auf, sondern leitet daraus Auswirkungen auf Koflers Poetik ab. Koflers Prosa Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe erscheint in dieser Lesart als Verarbeitung des Prozesses und als formale Reaktion auf konkrete juristische Vorgehensweisen, wie etwa die Identifikation einer Erzählstimme mit dem Autor.
Author – Narrator – Defendant: A legal Approach to Werner Kofler\u27s Voice: Gernot Waldner approaches the phenomenon of voice from a legal perspective using the example of Werner Kofler. The contribution provides a detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies in the files of the court case following journalist Michael Jeannée filing for defamation because of a passage in Kofler\u27s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. He not only shows contradictions in the arguments but deduces effects on Kofler\u27s poetics. From this perspective, Kofler\u27s prose piece Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe emerges as a working through of the court case and as a formal reaction to concrete legal procedures, for instance identifying narrative voice with the author.Gernot Waldner approaches the phenomenon of voice from a legal perspective using the example of Werner Kofler. The contribution provides a detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies in the files of the court case following journalist Michael Jeannée filing for defamation because of a passage in Kofler’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. He not only shows contradictions in the arguments but deduces effects on Kofler’s poetics. From this perspective, Kofler’s prose piece Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe emerges as a working through of the court case and as a formal reaction to concrete legal procedures, for instance identifying narrative voice with the author
Team work in distributed collaborative virtual environments
No full textThesis (DPhil (Computer Science))--University of Pretoria, 2005.Today’s technology and advances in networking and telecommunications stimulate a change in the way everyday business is carried out, making it a globally distributed process, in which communication and collaboration of geographically dispersed groups is of vital importance. Virtual Environments are adapting accordingly, by providing not only a better man-machine interface, but also by facilitating human-to-human interaction and collaboration over distance. Therefore, new challenges are introduced in terms of distribution and interaction in Virtual Environments. It is not only a question of solving the technical problems of gathering and transmitting multimedia data streams with sufficient quality and speed, but also a question of addressing the specific needs of human communication and collaboration. The vision of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) is to provide distributed, collaborative teams with a virtual space where they can meet as if face-to-face, co-exist and collaborate while sharing and manipulating in real-time the virtual data of interest. The objective of this thesis is to provide the Virtual Environments research community with a thorough investigation of distributed, collaborative interaction between geographically dispersed teams using projection based Collaborative Virtual Environments.Computer Scienceunrestricte
The Size of Author Teams in the Social Sciences
No full textThe last decades have seen an unprecedented rise in the size of author teams across all academic disciplines. In the social sciences, existing literature highlights that the number of authors varies greatly between research fields, geographical regions, job positions and experience. Yet we lack comprehensive understandings of the specific effects of these factors. By employing data from a large-scaled worldwide survey, we shed light on this conundrum. Our results show that psychologists as well as information technologists and operations researchers work on average in larger author teams while sociologists and political scientists work in smaller author teams. In addition, we find that Eastern European scholars work in smaller author teams and that postdocs tend to have more single-authored publications. Based on our results we call upon those in charge of search and tenure procedures to focus more on multi-authored publications while keeping the applicants’ different research field and geographical backgrounds in mind. Furthermore, we highlight the importance of academic conferences as they allow scholars to establish fruitful networks for future collaborations
Gernot Böhme’s Philosophy of Technics
No full textPrzedmiotem artykułu jest rekonstrukcja głównych wątków filozofii techniki Gernota Böhmego. W swych pracach z tego zakresu zawartych w tomie Invasive Technisierung. Technikphilosophie und Technikkritik (2008) Böhme odchodzi od założeń swej rozwijanej wcześniej koncepcji „finalizacji nauki” (kwestię tę autor omawia szczegółowo w pierwszej części tekstu) i sytuuje filozofię techniki na pograniczu antropologii filozoficznej oraz filozofii społecznej, pytając o skutki procesów technicyzacji zarówno dla tożsamości człowieka współczesnego, jak i przeobrażeń wzorów integracji społecznej (społeczna rola sieci informatycznych i technostruktur). Jego stanowisko ma charakter par excellence krytyczny. Böhme odwołuje się do filozoficznej tradycji Szkoły Frankfurckiej i w polemicznym nawiązaniu do filozofii społecznej Jürgena Habermasa pyta o kryteria „racjonalności” techniki. Omawia także kulturowe źródła oporu przed „inwazyjną technicyzacją” nie tylko w kulturze Zachodu, lecz także w kulturach Dalekiego Wschodu. Zastanawia się wreszcie nad tymi horyzontami antropologicznymi postępu technicznego, które uważa za neutralne etycznie i które odsłaniać mają przed człowiekiem nowe możliwości samowiedzy i ekspresji. Analizy autora kończy zestawienie kilku pytań, które wskazują jego zdaniem na kwestie otwarte w filozofii techniki Böhmego.The article reconstructs the main threads of Gernot Böhme’s philosophy of technology. In his writings on the subject in the volume Invasive Technification: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Technology (2008) Böhme abandons his earlier “finalisation of science” theory (which the author expounds in detail in the first part of the article) and situates philosophy of technology between philosophical anthropology and social philosophy. In this context, he reflects on the effects of technification for the identity of contemporary humans and changing social integration models (the social role of IT networks and technostructures). Böhme’s position is par excellence critical. Referring to the philosophical traditions of the Frankfurt School, he argues against the social philosophy of Jürgen Habermas and asks about the criteria which determine the “rationality” of technology. Böhme also reviews the cultural sources of resistance to “invasive technification”, not only in Western, but also in Far Eastern cultures. Finally, he discusses those anthropological horizons of technological progress which he considers to be ethically neutral and capable of opening new areas of self-knowledge and expression to humankind. The author closes his paper with a set of questions which in his opinion point to some still open issues in Böhme’s philosophy of technology
Co-presence and co-working in distributed collaborative virtual environments
No full textCollaborative virtual environments (CVEs) allow a number of users to share a common virtual space, where they may interact with one another and the environment. Immersive Telepresence involves the use of Video and Audio communication in projection-based CVEs, to support collaboration over distance as if face-to-face. Such approaches include the Office of the Future [29], the TELEPORT system [15] and other tele-presence [9] and spatially oriented video conferencing [5,6,7]. However, very little research has been carried out on what affects face-to-face communication when mediated via projection-based systems.In this paper, we explore how the use of video/audio, input device representations and other disturbance factors typical of projection-based virtual environments affect co-presence, co-working and co-knowledge in distributed CVEs. We present results from co-presence and co-working evaluation sessions of about 60 users of various profiles. An extensive statistical, group and variation group analysis of the results is carried out. The findings and the resulting design guidelines are presented in this paper in respect to the above factors
Tactylus, a Pen-Input Device exploring Audiotactile Sensory Binding
No full textRecent studies have shown that through a careful combination of multiple sensory channels, so called multisensory binding effects can be achieved that can be beneficial for collision detection and texture recognition feedback. During the design of a new peninput device called Tactylus, specific focus was put on exploring multisensory effects of audiotactile cues to create a new, but effective way to interact in virtual environments with the purpose to overcome several of the problems noticed in current devices. Categories and Subject Descriptor
A contribuição de teorias das Ciências Sociais para a Ciência da Informação na perspectiva de Gernot Wersig
No full textThe scope of this research seeks to understand how it has developed the Information Science and the prospect of this development to analyze what are the attempts to adopt approaches to theories of social sciences in the field of Information Science. We tried to see these attempts at analyzing the work of one author, so was selected among the twelve authors Gernot Wersig theoretical perspective and identified in his work sought to identify the possibility of adoption and incorporation of theories of Social Sciences for Information Science. The research initially part of a discussion about science and its development and then discuss the emergence and development of social sciences and therefore of Information Science. Made this discussion search is then a focus of analysis guided by a theoretical framework of social sciences, enabling find these theories present in theoretical discussions of information science from the perspective of the author selected.No escopo dessa pesquisa busca-se entender como tem se desenvolvido a Ciência da Informação e na perspectiva desse desenvolvimento analisar quais são tentativas de se adotar abordagens de teorias das Ciências Sociais no campo da Ciência da Informação. Buscou-se ver essas tentativas a partir da análise da obra de um autor, dessa forma, selecionou-se dentre doze autores o teórico Gernot Wersig, e pela perspectiva identificada em sua obra buscou-se identificar a possibilidade de adoção e incorporação de teorias das Ciências Sociais pela Ciência da Informação. A pesquisa parte, inicialmente, de uma discussão sobre a ciência e seu desenvolvimento para, então, discutir o surgimento e o desenvolvimento das Ciências Sociais e, por conseguinte, da Ciência da Informação. Feita essa discussão, busca-se, então, um enfoque de análise, pautado por um quadro teórico das Ciências Sociais, que permita encontrar teorias dessas presentes nas discussões teóricas da Ciência da Informação pela perspectiva do autor selecionado
A contribuição de teorias das Ciências Sociais para a Ciência da Informação na perspectiva de Gernot Wersig
No full textThe scope of this research seeks to understand how it has developed the Information Science and the prospect of this development to analyze what are the attempts to adopt approaches to theories of social sciences in the field of Information Science. We tried to see these attempts at analyzing the work of one author, so was selected among the twelve authors Gernot Wersig theoretical perspective and identified in his work sought to identify the possibility of adoption and incorporation of theories of Social Sciences for Information Science. The research initially part of a discussion about science and its development and then discuss the emergence and development of social sciences and therefore of Information Science. Made this discussion search is then a focus of analysis guided by a theoretical framework of social sciences, enabling find these theories present in theoretical discussions of information science from the perspective of the author selected.No escopo dessa pesquisa busca-se entender como tem se desenvolvido a Ciência da Informação e na perspectiva desse desenvolvimento analisar quais são tentativas de se adotar abordagens de teorias das Ciências Sociais no campo da Ciência da Informação. Buscou-se ver essas tentativas a partir da análise da obra de um autor, dessa forma, selecionou-se dentre doze autores o teórico Gernot Wersig, e pela perspectiva identificada em sua obra buscou-se identificar a possibilidade de adoção e incorporação de teorias das Ciências Sociais pela Ciência da Informação. A pesquisa parte, inicialmente, de uma discussão sobre a ciência e seu desenvolvimento para, então, discutir o surgimento e o desenvolvimento das Ciências Sociais e, por conseguinte, da Ciência da Informação. Feita essa discussão, busca-se, então, um enfoque de análise, pautado por um quadro teórico das Ciências Sociais, que permita encontrar teorias dessas presentes nas discussões teóricas da Ciência da Informação pela perspectiva do autor selecionado
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