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Tacit social experimentation with digital technologies during the Covid-19 crisis
In the management of the Covid 19 crisis, digital technologies were used in a major way. This article defends the hypothesis that these technologies...
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How do coffee farmers engage with digital technologies? A capabilities perspective
A reality-design gap in the conceptualization and practice of digital agriculture has been systematically reported in the literature. This condition...
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Adoption of smart farm networks: a translational process to inform digital agricultural technologies
Due to natural phenomena like global warming and climate change, agricultural production is increasingly faced with threats that transcend farm...
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Tackling land’s ‘stubborn materiality’: the interplay of imaginaries, data and digital technologies within farmland assetization
The nature of farming is – still – an essentially biological, and thus volatile, system, which poses substantial challenges to its integration into...
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Alienation in a World of Data. Toward a Materialist Interpretation of Digital Information Technologies
The essay proposes to use alienation as a heuristic and conceptual tool for the analysis of the impact of digital information and communication...
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Defining Digital Authoritarianism
It is becoming increasingly common for authoritarian regimes to leverage digital technologies to surveil, repress and manipulate their citizens....
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Ethics-Aware Application of Digital Technologies in the Construction Industry
The construction industry plays a prominent role in global economic and social development, with 15% share of the world’s GDP. Yet, it suffers from...
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The Overuse of Digital Technologies: Human Weaknesses, Design Strategies and Ethical Concerns
This is an interdisciplinary article providing an account of a phenomenon that is quite widespread but has been thus far mostly neglected by...
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Digital Technologies for Schizophrenia Management: A Descriptive Review
AbstractWhile the implementation of digital technology in psychiatry appears promising, there is an urgent need to address the implications of the...
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Personal Autonomy and (Digital) Technology: An Enactive Sensorimotor Framework
Many digital technologies, designed and controlled by intensive data-driven corporate platforms, have become ubiquitous for many of our daily...
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Ethical Issues in Democratizing Digital Phenotypes and Machine Learning in the Next Generation of Digital Health Technologies
Digital phenoty** is the term given to the capturing and use of user log data from health and wellbeing technologies used in apps and cloud-based...
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Towards a Digital Workerism: Workers’ Inquiry, Methods, and Technologies
Digital technology is playing an increasingly visible role in the organisation of many people’s work—as well as large parts of their lives more...
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Digital Despotism and Aristotle on the Despotic Master–Slave Relation
This paper analyzes a contemporary conception of digital despotism through themes drawn from classical Greek philosophy. By taking as a measure some...
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Exploring Digital Civics: a Framework of Key Concepts to Guide Digital Civics Initiatives
Presenting the challenges that face digital age citizens as philosophical, as opposed to technological, this paper explores the underpinning...
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Digital Intimacy in China and Japan
This paper aims to show a possible path to address the introduction of intimate digital technologies through a phenomenological and...
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Quantum Technologies: a Hermeneutic Technology Assessment Approach
This paper develops a hermeneutic technology assessment of quantum technologies. It offers a “vision assessment” of quantum technologies that can...
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The Spread of Digital Intimate Partner Violence: Ethical Challenges for Business, Workplaces, Employers and Management
In recent decades, huge technological changes have opened up possibilities and potentials for new socio-technological forms of violence, violation...
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Uncovering Digital Platforms’ Ethics and Politics: The Case of Airbnb
The paper deploys the disclosive computer ethics (DCE) approach to reconstruct the ethics and politics of one of the sharing economy’s...
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Fixing food with a limited menu: on (digital) solutionism in the agri-food tech sector
Silicon Valley and its innovation center counterparts have come upon food and agriculture as the next frontier for their unique style of innovation...