Can Design Be Non-paternalistic? Conceptualizing Paternalism in the Design Profession
Paternalism is an instance of someone making a decision on behalf of someone else. A professional designer can exhibit paternalism through conceptuali…
From the Fringe to the Fore: An Algorithmic Ethnography of the Far-Right Conspiracy Theory Group QAnon - Peter L. Forberg, 2021
In this article, I examine the convergence of the socio-technological processes that enabled members of far-right conspiracy theory QAnon to expand beyond the “...
Decolonizing money Central banks in the Philippines and Indonesia from Beyond Empire and Nation: The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1970s on JSTOR
Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy & Technology - This paper explores the important role of critical science, and in particular of post-colonial and decolonial theories, in understanding and shaping the ongoing...
How Futures Studies and Foresight Could Address Ethical Dilemmas of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - Alejandro Díaz-Domínguez, 2020
Drawing from ethical concerns raised by communities of machine learning developers and considering predictive analytics’ very short-term predictions, several fu...
Le travail corporel dans le contexte des élections de Miss
I. Introduction Les avantages sociaux associés à la beauté et les sanctions qui se manifestent quand elle fait défaut (Amadieu, 2002) encouragent les individus à effectuer un travail important sur...
Le hip-hop japonais et la globalisation de la culture populaire – ethnographiques.org
Dans cet essai, Ian Condry trace un portrait de la globalisation de la culture populaire américaine. De prime abord, la musique hip-hop japonaise semble une illustration parfaite de la manière dont…
Here are a few thoughts coming out of the five weeks of readings in decolonial theory that I’m doing with my Advanced Environmental Humanities class (which has been online and open to the intereste…
IP//AI UNESCO: BACKGROUND The Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Incubator - spawned out of the international cohort and work ...
Young People's Voices on Climate Anxiety, Government Betrayal and Moral Injury: A Global Phenomenon
Background: Climate change has significant implications for the health and futures of children and young people, yet they have little power to limit its harm, m
Research on human infants, adult nonhuman primates, and children and adults in diverse cultures provides converging evidence for four systems at the foundations of human knowledge. These systems are domain specific and serve to represent both entities in the perceptible world (inanimate manipulable …
A tool for collaborative circular proposition design
Circular oriented innovation aims to address sustainability problems such as resource scarcity, pollution and climate change by (re)designing industri…
L’explosion de la téléphonie mobile en Afrique est un phénomène essentiellement urbain dont la matérialité est si prégnante qu’elle est devenue un des principaux marqueurs du paysage, dans l’espace public et avec la création de marchés spécialisés. Cette réussite s’explique par les capacités d’adaptation des opérateurs internationaux à la demande d’une population pauvre et à la réponse des petits opérateurs privés. Les « innovations par l’usage » dans des économies populaires urbaines ont généré une nouvelle économie informelle de la communication avec la prolifération d’activités de sous-traitance, de réparation, de recyclage qui encombrent les lieux publics et s’ajoutent à une publicité omniprésente.
Quantifying national responsibility for climate breakdown: an equality-based attribution approach for carbon dioxide emissions in excess of the planetary boundary
These figures indicate that high-income countries have a greater degree of responsibility
for climate damages than previous methods have implied. These results offer a just
framework for attributing national responsibility for excess emissions, and a guide
for determining national liability for damages related to climate change, consistent
with the principles of planetary boundaries and equal access to atmospheric commons.
The humanitarian sector has emerged as a powerful mechanism of legitimation for blockchain technology. Platform developers in the aid sector have been…