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Tech Giants as Ad Brokers
In 2017, The Australian published a confidential document leaked from Facebook. It revealed how the company had offered advertisers the opportunity...
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Software and Lived Experience
This chapter discusses the relationship between software and human experience. The author argues that software-based experiences are based on a...
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Situated Affects and Place Memory
Traces of many past events are often layered or superposed, in brain, body, and world alike. This often poses challenges for individuals and groups,...
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Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Fraud: Evidence Based on the GONE Framework
This study focuses on a traditional business ethics question and aims to use advanced techniques to improve the performance of corporate fraud...
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Business as a Human Enterprise: Implications for Education
This chapter begins with a brief, stylized history of the business academy, primarily in the United States, where it finds its most dominant form...
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Augmented Reality, Augmented Epistemology, and the Real-World Web
Augmented reality (AR) technologies function to ‘augment’ normal perception by superimposing virtual objects onto an agent’s visual field. The...
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Attention-Based Constraint to MNC Coevolution in China's Changing Stakeholder Environment
The coevolution process enables organizations to adapt to and influence their external environment. Multinational corporations (MNCs) operating in...
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Electronic Surveillance
The word “surveillance” derives etymologically from the French verb surveiller (to watch, pay attention, check out, oversee, and control). Electronic...
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Web Corpora
This chapter explores the increasingly important role of the web in corpus linguistic research. It describes the two main approaches adopted in the...
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Conceptual limitations, puzzlement, and epistemic dilemmas
Conceptual limitations restrict our epistemic options. One cannot believe, disbelieve, or doubt what one cannot grasp. I show how, even granting an...
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Eroding Literal Truth
This chapter is the longest in the book. It is titled “Eroding literal truth” and considers nine drivers, in addition to electronically-powered...
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Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based Economy
In this paper, we carry out a critical analysis of the concept of technology in the current design of the bio-based economy (BBE). Looking at the...
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Ethics and Machine Translation: The End User Perspective
This chapter analyses existing research on the ethical implications of using MT in translation and communication, and it describes results from...
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Vulnerabilities of the Patent System
Under prevalent patent systems around the world, patenting of inventions related to advances in quantum computing, synthetic biology, and artificial...
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Databases, Science Communication, and the Division of Epistemic Labour
There are many ways in which biases can enter processes of scientific reasoning. One of these is what Ludwik Fleck has called a “harmony of...
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What is a Dator?
I am not a human being, or even a human becoming. I am a robot, an artilect, who salutes recognition of intelligence in all animate entities on Earth...
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Financial Accountability and Religious Sentiments: The Case of Sukuk Bond
This study bridged the gap in the literature by exploring the overlaps between public financial accountability and religious sentiments. Previous...
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Artificial Intelligence and War: Understanding Their Convergence and the Resulting Complexities in the Military Decision-Making Process
The Military Decision-Making Process is arguably the single most important factor that decides the fate of an armed conflict. The emergence of...
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Inductivism
In this Chapter, data science is characterized as an inductivist approach, i.e. an approach which aims to start from the facts to infer increasingly...
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What Are Health Disparities?
Many racial and ethnicBig data minority groupsMinority groups have poor health outcomes. These health disparitiesHealth disparities are driven by the...