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Automation, Trust, Responsibility
While the previous four logics provided data, taxonomies, simulation, and matching components to the process of decision-making, the execution of the...
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Transitioning from Wired City to Super City: a review of selected ‘Smart City’ case studies
The contemporary technological advancements of the twenty-first century are introducing paradigm shifts in every aspect of life. The “Smart City”...
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An Interventional Design Anthropology of Emerging Technologies: Working Through an Interdisciplinary Field
Emerging technologies—such as autonomous driving (AD) cars, blockchain, robotics, and drones—are increasingly part of popular narratives and industry...
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No-One Left Behind: A Holistic Approach
Research and innovation is key to the human population. Discovery of new methods and creation of new technologies is crucial for human development....
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Indian rural development: a review of technology and society
India has a large population of people who live in rural areas. Regional differences prevent every part of the country from being well developed....
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Using adaptive smart solutions to create user-centric living environments responsive to the psychological needs and preferences of home users
The home environment is where humans spend a significant amount of their time engaging in meaningful activities. It goes beyond being a mere physical...
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Welcome Culture and Bureaucratic Ambiguity: Germany’s Complex Asylum Regime
During the 2014–2017 asylum crisis, millions of Germans welcomed and assisted incoming refugees, and local governments accommodated them. However,...
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Surrogate Bodies and Digital Critique
This chapter lays out the guiding principles of a methodological experiment and asks the reader to consider the possibility that research topics and...
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Reflexivity, Engagement, Decoloniality: Shifting Emergences of Ethnography and Collaboration
A few years ago, I started devoting my research time and focus to the role of affect and emotion in ethnographic knowledge construction, a continuous...
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Trouble in Paratopia
Paratopia is a constitutive principle of literature and other discourses, but its modalities vary according to time and society. Our traditional...
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Power, Personhood, and Data-Driven Technologies in the Lives of Disabled People: The Rise of Profiling Technologies in Mental Health Settings
This chapter examines the rise of biometric monitoring using AI and other automated decision systems in the disability and mental health context. It...
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ART and Implications on Future Generations from the Christian/Catholic Perspective
The contribution discusses Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the light of Christian religious and ethical principles. According to the...
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Covid-19, Social Change, and Society 5.0
The Covid-19 pandemic has influenced almost all facets of social, economic, and political lives. It will likely drive remarkable socioeconomic and...
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How far has multi-agency policing travelled in 30 years? Reflecting on progress in the context of ‘policing’ domestic abuse in England and Wales
This article considers how far multi-agency policing has travelled in England and Wales. As we move into the fourth decade of investment in the...
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Power, Personhood, and Data-Driven Technologies in the Lives of Disabled People: The Rise of Profiling Technologies in Mental Health Settings
This chapter examines the rise of biometric monitoring using AI and other automated decision systems in the disability and mental health context. It...
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The Biotechnology Revolution
Biotechnology is not new and can be tracked back to the rudimentary tools needed to control nature. Nonetheless, developments in the second half of...
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Out of Place: Postcolonial Legacy and Indigenous Heritage in South Africa
Indigenous peoples the world over are speaking out for their rights in former colonial societies. The term Indigenous, derived from Latin, means...
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New Paradigms in the Business of Healthcare
The healthcare business is growing fast in most countries, particularly the new economic achievers where private medical groups expand in numbers and...
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Informality in Zimbabwe’s Urban Areas and the Resilience of Indigenous Solutions to Risk During the Pandemic
This study examined the role of networks and reciprocated assistance in curtailing the risk arising from an absence of centralised social protection...
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Speculative Reproduction
This chapter focuses on the ‘speculative turn’ in reproduction and reproductive technologies. Speculative thinking has long been a resource for...