323 research outputs found
Online manipulation: Charting the field
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of the key debates and concepts relevant to online manipulation. First, it introduces and critically discusses three preliminary methodological questions concerning the method used to study manipulation (online), the normative charge of the concept, and the level and type of intentionality required to manipulate. Second, it critically discusses the most prominent philosophical approaches to the study of manipulation, distinguishing process-, outcome- and norm-based views of manipulation. Third, it introduces the notion of an “aggravating factor”, which is a factor that can make online manipulation more effective, its effects worse or morally wrong, or makes it harder for individuals to avoid or contest manipulative practices and technologies. Under this header, we will discuss personalization, opacity, flow, lack of user control, and an organization’s moral compass.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Miller Building Cornice Detail, Lead SD, Lawrence County
No full text35 mm slide, close-up of stonework on building roof, carvings on the stone include a butterfly and fleur-de-lisDrawer info: Lawrence - McCook; Aerial Shots, Misc.Kodachrome Slide (Homestake Storage Bldg Hall Site crossed out) Miller Bldg Cornice Detail Lead 19 Apr 84C1
Child sexual abuse and the court system
No full textThis dissertation presents the findings of a Personal Research Project undertaken by the author in Hampshire, between 1997 and 1999. The study is a qualitative one, which seeks the personal accounts of young people testifying in Crown Courts concerning sexual abuse. Interviews were conducted with sixteen young witnesses, aged from 7 to 17 at the time of their court appearances, who had testified at the trial of their own alleged sexual abuse perpetrator. Despite a quantity of recent juridical reforms intended to improve children's court expenecnes during testimony against defendants, which led to increased numbers of prosecutions, conviction rates remain low, particularly for indictments against alleged perpetrators of sexual abuse. Previous quantitative evaluations have considered the effects of the changes, but small amounts of research only have taken place concerning the impact of the judicial process on the young people themselves. Anecdotal evidence, however, suggests that the court process has major negative consequences upon children. This investigation, regarded by the author to be a feminist study, was carried out using a grounded, reflexive approach. Young people were approached via the Court Witness Service. Those content to participate were personally interviewed in depth by the author about their experiences of giving evidence; their feelings and impacts upon them of testifying, and the changes in the process they would welcome. Data collected evidenced participants' major trauma as a result of their court treatment, often occasioned as a result of the mode of defence questioning. Poor practice emerged as a consequence of weak advocacy by the prosecution, inadequate court organisation, delays in listing, unforeseen adjournments and legal argument - as well as resulting from pre-court investigations. Young witnesses' personal anxieties and lack of knowledge concerning the evidence process all contributed to generally poorly rated experiences. Predominantly, the after effects of the process continued negatively for youngsters, and a substantial minority self-harmed significantly as a result of court traumas. Data analyses suggest a feminist (post) post structuralist approach may be helpful in identifying, modelling and explaining various power differentials which embroil young females and males in the power struggles inherent in criminal indictments against more powerful abusers. Study results suggest a need for major reform: a requirement for best quality court practice, as well as for significant attitudinal changes toward young people, leading to anti-discriminatory practice which addresses the term coined as 'youthism' as a major oppressive practice, targetting anyone who is 'not-man'. A range of issues concerning child-centredness, power and sexuality is discussed, and their impacts upon justice is argued. As a result of the study, the development of theoretical perspectives concerning young people's evidence giving has been attempted, which may loosely be described as feminist post-post-structuralist approaches. The accompanying theoretical discussion may go some way to account for the impact upon children, of the justice system and the criminal court process.</p
Introduction and overview of chapters
No full textThis chapter introduces the themes and questions addressed in this volume on the philosophy of online manipulation. It lays out the reasons for considering that online manipulation is an intellectually interesting and practically problematic phenomenon and raises the questions of whether online manipulation differs from other types of manipulation. It then introduces briefly the 19 chapters in the volume.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
Rapports sur les finances de Jean-Claude Duvalier et Cie
No full textxii, 115 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Collection of rare Haitian official public documents dated Jan. 15 or Jan. 16, 1987, signed by then Minister of Justice François St Fleur and and others.
Introd. in English, text in French
New Zealand Women Traveller Writers : from exile to diaspora
No full textThe focus of this article is a group of New Zealand women traveller writers of the first half of the twentieth century who left their country of origin, and in the encounter with new worlds overseas, reconstructed themselves as deterritorialised, diasporic subjects with new understandings of home and belonging. Their work can be read as both transitional and transnational, reflecting the ambivalence of multiple cultural affiliations and reinflecting literary conventions. Such encounters and new points of reference from transiting through foreign lands inevitably catalyse new and unusual forms of diasporic writing, notable for a heightened consciousness of difference (Kalra et al 2008: 30). This article aims to identify patterns of similarity and contrast in their work, and to determine how they incorporate their varied experiences of loss and liberation into artistic reconciliations with the homeland
Identity traits in the work of Fleur Jaeggy
No full textLa obra de la escritora Fleur Jaeggy es un ejemplo de literatura fuera de los confines. Sus textos escritos en lengua italiana trasladan al lector a su Suiza natal, donde transcurrió su infancia y de la que se llevó sus paisajes, su cultura y la lengua alemana, que posteriormente materializará a través de sus palabras y gracias a una pluma que ha sido comparada al buril de un escultor. Jaeggy vive en Italia, sus escritos son centroeuropeos, toman el frío del invierno zuriqués, los colores de los paisajes de las montañas suizas, la identidad de personajes que distan mucho del entorno milanés en el que vive, para acercarse a una cultura más sobria y protestante. Jaeggy se siente más cerca de los escritores austriacos como Ingeborg Bachmann y Thomas Bernhard, del suizo Robert Walser, que de los literatos italianos. Su identidad se convierte casi en la obsesión que representan sus personajes, en su mayoría de género femenino.The work of Fleur Jaeggy is an example of a literature beyond borders. Jaeggy’s texts, written in Italian language, move the reader to her native Switzerland, where Jaeggy was born and grew up. Jaeggy took with her the landscapes, the culture and the German language which materialize in her writings; her pen has been compared to a sculpture’s chisel. Jaeggy’s work may be qualified as central-european, with the cold winters in Zurich, the colors of the Swiss mountains, the identity of the people around Milan where she lives, approaching a sober and protestant culture. Jaeggy feels closer to the Austrian authors like Ingeborg Bachmann y Thomas Bernhard or the Swiss Author Robert Walser, rather than any Italian author. Her identity almost turns into an obsession represented in her mostly female characters
Señas de identidad en la obra de Fleur Jaeggy
No full textThe work of Fleur Jaeggy is an example of a literature beyond borders. Jaeggy’s texts, written in Italian language, move the reader to her native Switzerland, where Jaeggy was born and grew up. Jaeggy took with her the landscapes, the culture and the German language which materialize in her writings; her pen has been compared to a sculpture’s chisel. Jaeggy’s work may be qualified as central-european, with the cold winters in Zurich, the colors of the Swiss mountains, the identity of the people around Milan where she lives, approaching a sober and protestant culture. Jaeggy feels closer to the Austrian authors like Ingeborg Bachmann y Thomas Bernhard or the Swiss Author Robert Walser, rather than any Italian author. Her identity almost turns into an obsession represented in her mostly female characters.La obra de la escritora Fleur Jaeggy es un ejemplo de literatura fuera de los confines. Sus textos escritos en lengua italiana trasladan al lector a su Suiza natal, donde transcurrió su infancia y de la que se llevó sus paisajes, su cultura y la lengua alemana, que posteriormente materializará a través de sus palabras y gracias a una pluma que ha sido comparada al buril de un escultor. Jaeggy vive en Italia, sus escritos son centroeuropeos, toman el frío del invierno zuriqués, los colores de los paisajes de las montañas suizas, la identidad de personajes que distan mucho del entorno milanés en el que vive, para acercarse a una cultura más sobria y protestante. Jaeggy se siente más cerca de los escritores austriacos como Ingeborg Bachmann y Thomas Bernhard, del suizo Robert Walser, que de los literatos italianos. Su identidad se convierte casi en la obsesión que representan sus personajes, en su mayoría de género femenino
Subsurface visualization in the planning products of disaster scapes in the USA and Japan
No full textGlobal challenges of ongoing urbanization especially in areas with increased coastal, fluvial and pluvial flooding cannot be solved by mere engineering solutions. Reversed Engineering with Nature is a concept that puts the natural system central, but it does seek symbioses with engineering systems into a new hybrid condition. This spatial hybridity is not only about integrating natural and engineered systems but also in considering surface and subsurface as one united space. Anticipating global challenges by synchronizing natural and engineered system and the spatial planning of surface and subsurface means innovating governance processes and products. This paper focusses on the question on how to integrate information the natural and engineered systems in surface and subsurface in urban development plans. The study of a series of plans for the case studies, New York (USA) and Natori (Japan), both struck by natural disasters, should expose the role of technical information. Especially the impact of an disaster to which usually engineering solutions are installed is an important test factor in this study. The conclusions show that the role of the spatial plan defines the visualization, to work consciously with the effects of climate change, it is important to include the subsurface information.Environmental Technology and DesignUrban Desig
Sur des pensers antiques faisons des vers nouveaux. A proposito di The Functions and Use of Roman Coinage. An Overview of 21st Century Scholarship di Fleur Kemmers
No full textThis paper analyses the recent Fleur Kemmers’ overview of 21st century scholarship about roman coinage. In this publication, the author has attempted to analyse how, over the last two decades, a part of numismatic historiography (mostly in English) has attempted to provide new answers to canonical questions about Roman coinage
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