Spanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]

On the project pirate.care

On the project pirate.care

‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practic…[Read more]

Climate change is an urgent and unprecedented problem; effectively addressing its challenges requires an ambitious reconfiguration of almost every aspect of contemporary life. Yet, as the past decades of climate advocacy attest, these changes will not be achieved unopposed, nor without significant disruptions to current social relations and…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Estableciendo una analogía irónica con el programa de televisión “Operación Triunfo”, el artículo examina y critica los criterios utilizados para distribuir los recursos destinados a la investigación en la academia hispana, y más en concreto la carencia de partidas presupuestarias específicas destinadas a la investi…[Read more]

Twenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]

Twenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]

Wang, Lawrence K. and Wang, Mu-Hao Sung (2021). Ecologically Sustainable Industrial Development, Better Solid and Hazardous Wastes Management, and Sustainable DAF Landfill Leachate Pretreatment: UNIDO Efforts. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. and Tsao, Hung-ping…[Read more]

Critics have characterized E.M. Forster as an advocate of what Jürgen Habermas calls the “secular public sphere.” Yet Forster was critical of liberalism’s insistence that religious experiences should be translated into the language of secular rationality. The discussion of the Clapham Sect in “Henry Thornton” (1939) suggests that eighteenth…[Read more]

The Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]

The environment is suffering so much, and yet humanity is still adamant about saving it. This study determines the awareness of environmental consumption, waste recycling, and its relationship to the academic performance of selected college students during the pandemic period of COVID-19. Using a descriptive research design, the researcher used an…[Read more]

Nature has its due course and disaster is always an aftermath of a catastrophic event. The purpose of this study is to assess the sources of information, training needs, preparation, and response of the community to disaster. To achieve this purpose, the study used a descriptive design with the survey as the instrument for data gathering. For the…[Read more]

For this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.

FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]

The academy trains students in complex intellectual work and tends to reward the performance of one’s own intelligence, both in coursework and in conferences. But in collaborative digital projects, this sort of focus on the individual is detrimental to the group dynamic, which necessarily needs to take shape around more than just the individual.…[Read more]

This is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.

Desde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]

Spanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]