bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Contiguity of Law Violations in the Context of Business Competition and Corruption in Bid Rigging Cases
Authors: Tobing Martuasah Hermindo , Sirait Ningrum Natasya , Siregar Mahmul
Published: November 2024

Contiguity can be found in law violations regarding business competition and corruption in bid rigging cases. The purpose of this study was to determine the intersection of unlawful acts in the context of tender conspiracy and corruption. It is assumed that all corruption cases stem from bid rigging, both horizontally and vertically. Bid rigging is considered a violation of Article 22 of Law Number of 1999 concerning the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition (Anti-Monopoly Law) but is later considered an act of corruption based on Law Number 20 of 2001 concerning Amendments to Law Number 31 of 1999 concerning the Eradication of Corruption (Anti-Corruption Law). The method used in handling these cases is determined by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (BCSC). The results showed that in making decisions regarding bid rigging, the BCSC used an interpretation method derived from doctrines. From a law enforcement perspective, there are overlapping laws and regulations. For this reason, a joint investigation is needed between the BCSC and other law enforcement institutions (the Corruption Eradication Commission, the Attorney General's Office, and the Police) to determine whether or not any laws are violated in the context of business competition and corruption in cases of bid rigging.
Meandrele timpului: date radiocarbon pentru situl Saharna–Țiglău (Republica Moldova)
Authors:   Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Băț Mihail , Zanoci Aurel ,   Universitatea de Stat din Moldova, Calancea Oana ,   Institutul Național de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizică și Inginerie Nucleară „Horia Hulubei”, Petre Alexandru ,   Institutul Național de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizică și Inginerie Nucleară „Horia Hulubei”, Mănăilescu Cristian ,   Institutul Național de Cercetare-Dezvoltare pentru Fizică și Inginerie Nucleară „Horia Hulubei”
Published: November 2024

The paper presents six samples originating from archaeologically investigated contexts in the Early Iron Age site of Saharna–Țiglău. Three samples were collected, after anthropological analysis, from funerary features excavated in 2022, and the remaining samples were taken from pits within the settlement. Calibration of the six AMS radiocarbon data places the chronological sequence with a 95.4% probability in the range calBC 1284-797. From the association of the data, it is almost obvious to conclude that one of the earliest known dates for an Early Iron Age context with stamped pottery in the Carpathian-Balkan area has been recorded at Saharna–Țiglău.
More Precious than Gas? An Unexpected discovery in the Northeastern Funerary Area of Noviodunum
Authors:   Institutul de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion" Tulcea, Stănescu Radu-Octavian , Plantos Cristinel ,   Arheosib Consulting Sibiu, Ailincăi Sorin-Cristian ,   Institutul de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion" Tulcea, Constantinescu Mihai ,   Institulul de Antropologie ,,Francis I. Rainer" București, Mihail Florian ,   Institul de cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion" Tulcea, Stănică Aurel-Daniel ,   Institutul de cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion" Tulcea
Published: November 2024

The paper analyses several archaeological features discovered during an excavation performed
on the outskirts of Isaccea, during the summer of 2018, in the easternmost part of the Noviodunum
archaeological site. Of the three documented features, two are funerary structures: one is a pit in which
cremation remains and grave goods were deposited, while the other is either a ‘deviant’ burial, or a
secondary burial of a part of the skeleton. The last feature offered inconclusive results. The grave goods
discovered are numerous and diverse: different types of pottery, as well as metal artefacts. Thus, the
following information completes the repertoire of funerary discoveries from Noviodunum and the
northern part of the Roman province of Moesia Inferior.
Opaițe romane din colecția Muzeului de Istorie și Arheologie din Tulcea descoperite la Dinogetia
Authors:   Institutul de Cercetări Eco-Muzeale ,,Gavrilă Simion" Tulcea, Grumăzescu Gabriel
Published: November 2024

This paper aims to present eight fragmentary Roman lamps discovered at Dinogetia and in its
surroundings, during research undertaken in the mid-20th century. These lamps are currently in the
custody of the Museum of History and Archaeology Tulcea. The lamps presented in this article are
framed chronologically between the 2nd and the 7th c. AD. The earliest one may have been of Italic origin,
and the remaining ones split equally between those produced in Asia Minor and those crafted in the
West-Pontic area. In conclusion, some iconographic representations are briefly analyzed.
Put the Lights on': Early Byzantine Stemmed Goblets and Lamps from the Acropolis Centre-South Sector in Histria (II)
Authors:   Departamentul de Istorie Antică, Arheologie, Istoria Artei în cadrul Facultății de Istorie, Universitatea din București, Țârlea Alexandra , Cliante Laurențiu ,   Muzeul de Istorie Naționlă și Arheologie Constanța
Published: November 2024

This paper is the second to be published in a series presenting the glass goblets and lamps
found in the Acropolis Centre-South Sector (ACS) from Histria/Istros (Romania). The items presented
here were found during the 2017-2018 archaeological campaigns and belong to the category of goblets on
folded stemmed foot (Isings form 111), being mainly dated, based on context and associations, to the 6th
century – beginning of the 7th century AD.
Timbres Amphoriques Hellenistiques Decouverte a Nufăru (Departamnet de Tulcea)
Authors:   Universitatea Paris-Nanterre, Castelli Thibaut
Published: November 2024

These five Hellenistic stamps provide chronological milestones for dating the occupation of this
site for more than two centuries, from the second third of the 4th century to the second half of the 2nd
century. They bear witness to the spread of goods from the Greek world in the settlements of non-Greek
populations along the Danube valley.
Honorary Board of Election Organizers (DKPP) as an Ethical Judicial Institution for Election Organizers
Authors: Wein Arifin  , Sukamto Satoto  , A. Zarkasi
Published: November 2024

The Honorary Board of Election Organizers (DKPP) is an election organizing body tasked with handling violations of the code of ethics of election organizers. DKPP is a state institution established by law. As a state institution that organizes elections, DKPP has the authority to examine, call, sanction and decide on violations of the code of ethics of election organizers. This authority is implemented through a judicial process such as in general courts, namely the process of examining reporting witnesses, reported witnesses, expert statements, validation of evidence, and reading of the verdict. The DKPP's decision is final and materially binding. The trial of violations of the code of ethics held by the DKPP and added to having the nature of a final and binding decision makes the DKPP in several judicial body decisions referred to as a quasi public court, while in the Constitutional Court decision the DKPP is interpreted as a single function of organizing the Election together with the KPU and Bawaslu, meaning that the DKPP is an election organizing institution.Based on this, this study formulates the problem formulation, namely how is the position and authority of the DKPP as a state institution that organizes elections that functions as a quasi public court? This research is a normative legal research whose nature is descriptive and from the perspective of its form is a prescriptive research. This research uses a legislative, conceptual, historical, conceptual, and comparative approach. The research results conclude that the DKPP is an election organizer in the form of an auxiliary state organ that is independent. The DKPP has the authority to enforce the code of ethics of election organizers which in character is almost the same as a general court. The DKPP's decision is final and materially binding. Based on this, the DKPP as a state institution that organizes elections can be called quasi ethical court of  public nature .
Language and Covid-19 Discourse: An Analysis of Pandemic-Related Language Discourse Used on Social Media
Authors: Chaudhary Aimen , Ahmad Ali , Azam Mariam
Published: November 2024

Covid-19 had a formidable impact on the entire world and changed the whole discourse of life. During the pandemic, social media sites, including Twitter, now played a vital role in shaping and moulding public dialogue and sentiments. This research examines the linguistic features, discursive methods, and strategies used in COVID-19-related tweets. After analyzing the tweets collected during the initial stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current study attempts to explain how language is used to generate meanings, transfer messages and influence public opinions and sentiments about COVID-19. The study also tries to identify various linguistic patterns, including lexical innovations, metaphors, emotive expressions, and hashtags. The current research paper also identifies diverse discursive strategies applied by multiple user groups, including health departments, journalists and individual users. The findings of the research emphasize the manifold as well as the diverse aspects of online communication during the COVID-19 pandemic. They will contribute to our understanding of how language shapes our perception and response to global events.
Learning Modalities and Styles of SPED Students and Interns: An Assessment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Sabando Maria Magdalena , Ubat Joel , Pelletero Von Bruun , Dini-ay Disafe , Cabildo John Anthony , Butalid Jefie
Published: November 2024

This study used descriptive research design to assess the relationship of the learning modalities and learning styles of SPED students and student interns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The instrument was adopted by O’Brien (1985). The data was interpreted using descriptive and relational analytical schemes to analyze the result. The following statistical tools were used to treat data: percentage, weighted mean, and relationship strength. The 281 respondents answered the questionnaire through Google Forms. The study showed a strong relationship between the following variables: (a) students’ visual learning modality and visual learning style (rs = 0.873); (b) students’ auditory learning modality and auditory learning style (rs = 0.526); and (c) students’ kinesthetic learning modality and learning style (rs = 0.737). This signifies that students with a more visual learning style utilize visual learning modalities. It also signifies that students were more exposed to auditory learning styles performed in class using the auditory learning modality. Furthermore, students with a kinesthetic learning style tend to utilize the kinesthetic learning modality more. CTE special and inclusive SPED students of NORSU-Guihulngan Campus are adopting learning modalities suitable for their needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Furthermore, there are special conditions that need to be emphasized so that they can achieve academic success in this new normal set-up. The university must establish a learning environment where they are provided with adequate resources, including audio-visual materials. Blended learning must be continuously adopted. However, it should be flexible enough to cater to the various needs of the SPED students while considering their learning styles.
ФУТБОЛ СПОРТ ТУРИ ЭЛЕМЕНТЛАРИДАН УСТУВОР ФОЙДАЛАНИШ АСОСИДА АҲОЛИ САЛОМАТЛИГИНИ МУСТАҲКАМЛАШ ЙЎЛЛАРИ
Authors: Yoldashov Murodjon
Published: November 2024

This article summarizes ideas about the effectiveness of using tools and methods aimed at helping overweight people lose weight using various methods.
MA’MUNIY XORAZMSHOHLAR DAVRI SAVDO MARKAZLARI VA SAVDO YO‘LLARI
Authors: Abdrimov Zarifboy
Published: November 2024

Although the processes of trade relations that passed through the Northern branch of the Great Silk Road in the late 10th - early 11th centuries have been relatively widely studied, but the cities that have a great influence in these trade processes, Information about caravan centers and trade routes was not summarized and a single conclusion was reached. In the history of Khorezm, the issue of trade centers and trade routes during the Ma'muni dynasty is considered one of the most urgent problems, and this article is devoted to this topic.
A INFLUÊNCIA DA TEORIA DA ANOMIA À ORGANIZAÇÃO CRIMINOSA NO ESTADO DE RONDÔNIA
Authors: Moraes Beatriz Lira , Lima Laisa Paulina Oliveira , Nascimento Raviny Lopes Do
Published: November 2024

This article analyzes the influence of anomie theory due to organized crime in the state of Rondônia, exploring the relation between social marginalization and criminal activities. By using an exploratory-descriptive methodology and a mixed approach, the study examines socioeconomic and crime data, focusing on the actions of the Integrated Force to Combat Organized Crime (FICCO-RO). Robert K. Merton's anomie theory is applied to understand how the discrepancy between cultural goals and legitimate means contributes to the emergence of criminal organizations. The article analyzes specific FICCO-RO operations, such as "Carga Pesada" and "Sentinela," demonstrating the complexity of organized crime in the region. The results indicate a correlation between negative socioeconomic indicators and the incidence of organized criminal activities. It concludes that, although FICCO-RO represents an advance against crimes, a holistic approach combining repression with social development is necessary to address the root causes of anomie. The study contributes to understanding the dynamics of organized crime in Rondônia and suggests directions for more effective public policies.
SABERES DOS PROFESSORES INDÍGENAS DO 6º AO 9º ANO DA ESCOLA ESTADUAL INDÍGENA TUXAUA LUIZ CADETE
Authors: Braga Ana Claudia da Silva , Lima Claudinero Reis de
Published: November 2024

Este trabalho buscou investigar os saberes construídos pelos professores no decurso de sua  prática docente para atender à especificidade dos educandos indígenas que atuam do 6º ao 9º ano da  (Escola Estadual Indígena Tuxaua Luiz Cadete), Comunidade Canauanim, município do Cantá-RR. Os  povos indígenas mantêm suas diferenças por meio de suas próprias vivências e culturas, sendo a ação  educativa uma delas permitindo que eles se mantenham e sustentem a transmissão de seus  conhecimentos e cultura. O intuito deste trabalho foi apresentar um olhar sobre a prática docente dos  professores indígenas, tendo em vista ser necessário conhecer os espaços que esses professores adquirem  saberes. Esses saberes compreendem uma junção de 2conhecimentos, os quais, através de sua prática,  experiências e reflexões cotidianas, os professores procuram atender as especificidades dos educandos.  Tais saberes dizem respeito à cultura e à tradição que fazem parte da rotina escolar, conforme exigem  os documentos essenciais da educação escolar indígena. Nesse estabelecimento de ensino, atuam os  sujeitos investigados, professores indígenas de diversas disciplinas, como: Português, Matemática,  Ciências, Geografia, História e Línguas Macuxi e Wapichana, que atuam no Fundamental II. As diversas  categorias, que estão em conformidade com os objetivos traçados neste trabalho, ajudaram a verificar  se as perspectivas desses professores em relação à sua prática estabeleciam, de fato, um diálogo com a  educação escolar indígena. O impacto desta pesquisa foi auxiliar na melhor identificação dos saberes  dos docentes indígenas acerca de sua prática na referida escola que se propõe uma educação intercultural  bilíngue, diferenciada.
A LEI ANTIDROGAS E O IMPACTO NA POPULAÇÃO CARCERÁRIA NO AMAZONAS
Authors: Santana Gabriel Junio Dias , Almeida Dario Amauri Lopes de
Published: November 2024

Federal anti-drug law 11.343 of 23 August 2006 was created with the aim of regulating drug addiction in Brazil, imposing a system of crimes and penalties, as well as the formation of a policy aimed at recovering addicts. However, the use of the letter of the law and the reality of national jurisprudence have had an impact on the increase in the prison population in Brazil and also in states such as Amazonas. So the question arises: What are the impacts and interpretation of the Anti-Drug Law to avoid its dysfunctionality in view of the repercussions of worsening prison conditions due to the increase in the prison population? The aim of this study is to analyse the dysfunctionalities in the application of the Anti-Drugs Law, in terms of its normative content and interpretation, and its repercussions on the worsening of prison conditions due to the increase in the prison population, through the methodology of bibliographical research, of a quantitative-qualitative nature and descriptive character. The result was confirmation of the hypothesis that the opposing positions in doctrine and jurisprudence reveal a clear divide, which is one of the causes of the increase and permanence of the rates of people sentenced for the crime of drug trafficking and related offences.  in the rates of those convicted for the crime of drug trafficking and related crimes.
ANÁLISE E IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DE MÉTODOS DE PREVISÃO DE DEMANDA PARA OTIMIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE ESTOQUE EM UM E-COMMERCE DE AUTOPEÇAS
Authors: Guzeloto Beatriz Felipe , Silva Caio Victor Sepúlveda Rojas da , Nóbrega Gabriela Maria Oliveira da , Frignani Marcella Toreta , Goisman Bernardo
Published: November 2024

O comércio eletrônico no Brasil continua a crescer e transformar os padrões de consumo, inclusive no setor de varejo de autopeças. Com isso, a previsão da demanda é importante para melhorar a gestão e controle de estoque. A assertividade leva a uma melhoria na experiência do cliente. Este artigo, a partir de dados de vendas de um e-commerce de autopeças do ABC paulista, visa desenvolver e comparar diferentes modelos de previsão de demanda para diversas categorias de produtos. O trabalho incluirá levantamento teórico, coleta de dados históricos, categorização por meio da curva ABC e utilização do software Crystal Ball®. As cinco estratégias de modelagem propostas permitem avaliar o desempenho da abordagem baseadas em séries temporais, contribuindo para melhoria da precisão nas previsões e, consequentemente, na eficiência operacional da empresa.
EFEITOS DA DANÇA NA CAPACIDADE FUNCIONAL DA PESSOA IDOSA
Authors: Silva Camila Dayanne Ferreira da , Lima Everton Saraiva de , Farias Luana Jambo Lins de , Figueiredo Danilo Mendes de
Published: November 2024

A Organização Mundial da Saúde define população idosa, como sendo pessoas acima dos 60 anos, a literatura demonstra que nessa faixa etária ocorre um declínio das capacidades funcionais que levam os indivíduos a se tornarem dependentes para a realização de atividades comuns da vida diária. O exercício vem demonstrando ser uma alternativa de combate a esse declínio, sendo assim, o estudo investigou quais os efeitos da prática de dança na capacidade funcional de pessoas idosas, buscando consolidar a dança como um exercício recomendado para essa faixa etária da população. Objetivou-se descrever como a dança pode influenciar positivamente a capacidade funcional por meio de uma revisão bibliográfica sistemática. Para o desenvolvimento, foi adotada a metodologia descritiva, exploratória e qualitativa, sendo selecionados dez artigos datados dos últimos dez anos para esta análise. Os resultados revelaram respostas positivas para melhoria dos aspectos funcionais dos idosos praticantes de dança, concluindo assim, que a dança é uma alternativa eficaz para a promoção da saúde e qualidade de vida da pessoa idosa apesar de serem necessários estudos com amostragens maiores e diversidade de ritmos para validar seu papel nos diferentes aspectos da funcionalidade.
The Inhumanist Manifesto
Authors: Hall Gary
Published: November 2024

Gary Hall's manifesto for Media Theory
The Ends of Media Theory
Authors: Fazi M. Beatrice
Published: November 2024

M. Beatrice Fazi's manifesto for Media Theory
Imagination and Literary Media Theory
Authors: Young Liam Cole
Published: November 2024

Liam Cole Young's manifesto for Media Theory
The Overgrounds and Undergrounds of Pure and Applied Science: Cosmic Collisions and Industrial Collusion
Authors: Allen Jamie
Published: November 2024

Archeology and geology are presumed to be â€œpureâ€ knowledge practices, curiosity-driven investigations of the material histories of humankind and the Earth. Underwritten by Enlightenment techniques and tropes, such as clarity, organisation, cleanliness and illumination, there is in all the sciences a similar drive and imaginary toward a valuation of purity, against application, in all the sciences. These practices of observation, sampling, inscribing, analyzing and publishing are, of course, much messier than we sometimes imagine. What other sciences might be possible, were we more sensitive to the complicity of specific material practices as collusive affairs, amalgams of the pure and the applied, the clean and the messy, the ecological and the infrastructural, of light and shadow, of overground and underground?
Modes of Address and Ontologies of Disconnection: Towards a Media Archaeology of Mobile Networks
Authors: Sprenger Florian
Published: November 2024

In contemporary mobile networks, addresses are allotted by a host of different technologies. As a technical principle, motion itself makes possible the location of devices as elements of the network. With a short overview of media archaeological approaches to cellular networks, the paper explores the introduction of an ontology in which the position of every object is constantly registered. In such spaces of address, the politics of remembrance and forgetting have to be rethought, because only that which is not part of the network can be forgotten. The arbitrariness of addresses and the difference between bodies and devices offer a chance to stand still while not being forgotten.
'Look Up': The Cell Phone Manifesto
Authors: Beren Sophie
Published: November 2024

The world around us is slowly insulating itself through rapid technological advancements. At the forefront of this change is the onset of a dangerous smartphone addiction. As of 2017, 46% of Americans say they could not live without their smartphones, and this glaring statistic is the impetus behind this call to action to take steps towards cell phone regulation. With substantial scientific research, society is slowly beginning to understand the omnipresence of cell phone addiction; however, society has not yet fully understood the gravity of this issue. Excessive smartphone usage has shown linkages to other behavioral addictions and ultimately creates an imbalance in the brain. An intentional regulation of smartphone technology, especially for younger children and young adults, will prevent future generations from developing the same cell phone addiction and alleviate the numerous perils and side-effects that accompany the overuse of cellular phones.
The Propaganda Model and Black Boxes?
Authors: Klaehn Jeffery , Godler Yigal , Mullen Andrew , Broudy Daniel , Pedro-Caranana Joan , Mills Tom , Zollmann Florian
Published: November 2024

This essay brings together leading scholars to debate important questions pertaining to methodological, philosophical, and pragmatic arguments and counterarguments about the necessity to observe the Propaganda Model filters in operation.
Edward Herman and Manufacturing Consent in China
Authors: Zhao Yuezhi
Published: November 2024

Boosted by a Chinese translation of Manufacturing Consent in 2011, â€œmanufacturing consentâ€ and â€œpropaganda modelâ€ have become fairly well-known terms in the Chinese communication studies field. Actual understandings and invocations of these ideas, however, are complex and multifaceted. Graduate students tend to have a superficial understanding of these ideas without a grasp of Herman and Chomskyâ€™s broader critique of the political economy of global communication. State propaganda officials and communication strategists tend to accept these concepts for their demystification of the US media system on the one hand, and use Manufacturing Consent as a â€œhow toâ€ guide to enhance the effectiveness of Chinese official communication on the other. While there are also examples of more substantive expositions of Herman and Chomskyâ€™s ideas on their own terms, a strong liberal perspective continues to take the US media as a normative model for China and ignore works such as Manufacturing Consent. As China expands its global reach, how Chinese scholars come to terms with Western critical communication scholarship and develop their own indigenous critique of the political economy of global communication has emerged as an issue of both theoretical and practical importance.
Manufacturing Consent for the 2018 Elections in Venezuela and Colombia
Authors: MacLeod Alan
Published: November 2024

Herman and Chomsky laid out their propaganda model of how foreign countries are presented in the news directly relates to their closeness with Washington. Criticisms of the model declare it overly deterministic and lacking in evidence for the everyday functions of journalism. This article assesses Western media coverage of the Colombian and Venezuelan elections of 2018, finding that the propaganda model continues to hold. Furthermore, by conducting a series of 27 interviews with journalists covering the two countries, it finds evidence to support Herman and Chomskyâ€™s theories about the pre-selection of journalists and how ownership and management, sources and flak influence the output of media.
The Affordances of Place: Digital Agency and the Lived Spaces of Information
Authors: Nunes Mark
Published: November 2024

Affordances provide a useful frame for understanding how users interact with devices, but applications of the term to digital devices must take into account that human agents operate within a material environment that is distinct from the digital environment in which these devices operate. A more restrictive approach to affordances would focus on the agency of digital devices distinct from the agency of human users. Location-aware mobile devices provide a particularly compelling example of the complex interplay of agents and agencies, and how â€œaugmented affordancesâ€ give rise to a lived space of information for human users.
K.O. Gotz's Kinetic Electronic Painting and the Imagined Affordances of Television
Authors: Guillermet Aline
Published: November 2024

Between 1959 and 1963, the German Informel painter K.O. Gotz produced a series of works inspired by what he perceived to be television's potential to initiate a new form of "kinetic electronic painting" (Gotz, 1961: 14). His corresponding production of the Rasterbilder (Raster Pictures) and the film Density 10:2:2:1 were mapped on the technical and formal possibilities of analogue electronics in general, and of television in particular; however, these works were made without any direct use of the new medium, to which Gotz had failed to gain access. This article argues that the concept of "imagined affordance" (Nagy and Neff, 2015) enables a critical reassessment of Gotz's elusive relation to television. Rather than focusing on the lack (of cognition or access) that this concept implies, I argue that "television" functioned as a flexible paradigm through which the artist was able to combine Modernism with the emergent field of information aesthetics. Inspired by the discretized aesthetic of the electronically-produced image, the Raster Pictures and Density 10:2:2:1 predate - albeit in an analogue manner - the first works of computer-generated art by several years.
Once Again, the Doorknob: Affordance, Forgiveness, and Ambiguity in Human-Computer Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Lialina Olia
Published: November 2024

Based on the authorâ€™s keynote lecture at the 2018 â€˜Rethinking Affordanceâ€™ symposium (Stuttgart, Germany), this essay offers a comprehensive survey of the tensions between J.J. Gibsonâ€™s and Don Normanâ€™s perspectives on the concept of affordance, and formulates an incisive critique of how Norman reconfigured Gibsonâ€™s initial theory. The essayâ€™s key arguments are triangulated in a critical dialogue between design practices, affordance theory, and a critical reading of design pedagogy. Drawing on her own practice as a pioneering net artist and digital folklore researcher, the author moves from early internet design practices through human-computer interaction and user experience design towards a speculative consideration of the affordances of human-robotic interaction.
A Triptych of Indeterminate Objects in the Urban Metabolism: Glass/ Dust/Bomb (After Paul Virilio)
Authors: Bishop Ryan
Published: November 2024

This article uses various conceits from Paul Virlio’s thought to explore the ramifications of “indeterminate objects” to explore their effects on urban formations, media/mediated thought and human positionings within them, in terms of subjects in relation to objects. The three objects are glass, dust and the atomic bomb.
(Dark) Pure War: Virilio, the Cinematic, and the Racial
Authors: Towns Armond R.
Published: November 2024

Paul Virilio’s work has largely been utilized in theories of media and war, specifically his discussion of ‘pure war’, or the continuance of war beyond its physicality. Cinema, for Virilio, was a pedagogical tool toward preparing populations for such a war. Cinema produced images of objects, perceptually distancing audiences from said objects; it, thus, prepared ‘everyone’ to become objects open to being watched, holding relevance for cinema, surveillance, and information studies. Yet, this concern with watching and surveillance is not race neutral. I argue that Virilio’s work on pure war can be reinterpreted as ‘dark pure war’, concerned with a militaristic, unending war against nonwhite populations. Such war presumes both physical and digital forms of colonialist militarism, policing, and surveillance, particularly as information is often assumed to be race-neutral, while also being weaponized toward dark pure war’s continuance. Thus, race is an underexamined, overlooked element of Virilio’s theory.
Virilio, the ‘Infra’ Urban and the Logic of Big Data
Authors: McQuire Scott
Published: November 2024

Drawing on the connection between Paul Virilio and Georges Perec, this essay argues that there is an historical transition in Virilio’s thought, in which his desire to recuperate the urban everyday using a combination of observational methods including photography and writing is overtaken by the growing role of the ‘vision machine’ in submitting urban space to new forms of surveillance and control. These conditions, which have further intensified as cities and urban social life have been remade by the growth of digital infrastructure, pose new questions concerning the role of everyday life as a possible site of ‘resistance’, and highlight the urgent need for a critical stance to the growing operational role of data in social life.
Anti-Bourgeois for What?
Authors: Gilbert Jeremy
Published: November 2024

This short commentary responds to Gary Hall’s programatic critical provocation ‘Anti-Bourgeois Theory’. It points to some of the issues involved in understanding the politics of French ‘theory’ when detached from its historical context, and invites reflection on the resonances between Hall’s positions and those of some key thinkers in the Marxist tradition.
Data Quirks and Impressions
Authors: Smith Harrison , Beer David
Published: November 2024

David Beer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of York. He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that encompass the culture and politics of new media, data, and technology. His most recent works have focused specifically on the implications of data analytics industries and the social power of metrics to govern everyday life. David sits on the editorial boards of several key journals in these fields, including Theory, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Cultural Sociology, and Big Data & Society. His work has made significant contributions to advancing contemporary understandings of new media cultures, as well as the histories and philosophies of social theory, such as his most recent works on Georg Simmel. This interview examines some of the underlying rationales and approaches to David’s work. We focus on key themes of ‘quirks’ and ‘impressions’. The interview looks at how data analytics industries imagine and actualize specific kinds of relationships between populations and data, and how these relations are subsequently ordered for value production. We discuss how platforms and data analytics industries negotiate the rules of social interaction in a context of cultural eclecticism. Finally, we discuss how art and popular culture can guide the creative process for academic research and writing.
Spatiotemporal Zones of Neosomnambulism
Authors: Sampson Tony D.
Published: November 2024

Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s (1994) methodology developed in their swansong, What is Philosophy?, this article deploys its own conceptual persona: the Neosomnambulist or new sleepwalker. Not to be mistaken for an actual living person, the Neosomnambulist is utilized so as to bring concepts to life. In this case, what the sleepwalker gives life to are spatiotemporal zones of indistinction that pervade the digital now.
The Present as Platform
Authors: Ingraham Chris
Published: November 2024

Recent interest in platform studies has called attention to the ways technologies both afford and constrain creative ways of participating in social and cultural life. Digital platforms have become adept at collecting historical data and using it not just to predict future outcomes, but to produce the present through cultivated expectations of what it will have been. By exploring the case of amateur sound-recording media such as the mixtape, the writable CD, and online playlists, this paper explores how the material constraints of these media change the possibilities for what curated music can communicate. If one result is to mediate different temporal experiences by using timely music to elevate moments into events, then algorithmic music recommendations foreclose the affectability of experience by circumscribing it in advance as deliverable.
Refresh: On the Temporalities of Digital Media ‘Re’s
Authors: Coleman Rebecca
Published: November 2024

This paper explores the often unremarkable and unremarked upon activity of the refreshing of digital media streams and feeds, paying particular attention to its temporalities. It draws on original empirical research with UK based digital media professionals, mindfulness practitioners and school students to highlight the ways in which the temporalities of refreshing are embodied and experienced. To do this, it considers what theorisations of the prefix ‘re’ might offer, arguing that the ‘re’ indicates a non-linear temporality that is, at once, creating anew, going back, being behind or after, as well as repeating, again and again. Building on these explanations of ‘the re’, the paper argues that the refresh be understood in terms of a present temporality, which is both now and ongoing, and that can be constantly moving, stuck or stilled, and skipped or reset. The paper seeks to understand these specific embodied experiences of the refresh in terms of what Raymond Williams calls a structure of feeling: a ‘temporal present’ that ‘gives the sense of a generation or period’. Taking up Williams’ explication of a structure of feeling in the 1970s through the relatively new experience of the medium of broadcast television, the paper posits that the present temporality of refreshing might be key to the composition of a contemporary structure of feeling.
Mediating Presents
Authors: Coleman Rebecca , Paasonen Susanna
Published: November 2024

This introduction to a special issue of Media Theory on Mediating Presents contextualises the thematic focus and outlines the central arguments of the contributions. It suggests it is both productive and necessary to think together ‘the present’ and mediation to understand how various interlocking aspects of socio-cultural life are currently produced, organised and arranged, embodied and affectively experienced. The contributions to the special issue see time not as a neutral backdrop to, but as actively constituted by and constitutive of, (digital) media, and develop broad understandings of both media and the temporality of the present/present temporalities. The special issue develops theoretically informed and engaged understandings of digital media presents, drawing from and expanding a range of theoretical traditions, including feminist, queer and anti-racist theory, science and technology studies, media theory, philosophy and cultural theory. They similarly take seriously an array of objects, practices and processes, extending from public and academic debates and figurations, mundane and routinised activities, the affordances of specific platforms and computational and data-driven software.
The Eavesdropper and Onlooker as Proximate Agents of Social Change
Authors: Rentschler Carrie
Published: November 2024

The eavesdropper and the onlooker have become models of activist potential. Their proximity to enactments of racist and gendered social violence, and their abilities to witness, record and disseminate records of this violence via smartphones and social media networks, define some of the conditions for social change around the situations in which bystanders are located online. Drawing from John Peters’ analysis of eavesdropping as the transformation of private talk into public communication, this article examines the contemporary activist reclamation of eavesdropping and onlooking as small-scale, networked conditions of social transformation. Imagined as small acts of intervention tied to participation in contemporary social media environments, their models of social change leverage the positionality of the eavesdropper and the onlooker, transforming the “listening in” that people do on social media and elsewhere into acts of agentic response. In the process, they recode the conditions in which harm is enacted from being surveilled online into conditions that also enable activist intervention.
Whispers of a Secret: From Non-reception to New Life in Existential Media Studies – Speaking Into the Air in Sweden
Authors: Lagerkvist Amanda
Published: November 2024

Upon arrival in Sweden, Speaking into the Air was not spoken about. Instead, it was whispered about—often with admiration, sometimes in perplexment. This article contextualizes the non-reception in light of three circumstances: the Swedish consensus culture in which dialogue is sacred, the role of media in the nation for disseminating the dialogical praxis and its results, and the Swedish model of media studies. The article shows how the book’s many open secrets (the stress on the simplicity of being there, human fragility, death and communication, embodiment and interruption) eventually provided the richest source of inspiration, as Speaking enjoyed new life in existential media studies.
Breakdown as Method: Screenshots for Dying Worlds
Authors: Kneese Tamara
Published: November 2024

Drawing on John Durham Peters’ theory of (mis)communication and other studies of precarious infrastructure (Hicks, 2020; Star, 1999; Pow, 2021; Tsing, 2015), in this article, I consider mortality or finitude as a site of communication breakdown, focusing on the problem of using digital platforms to achieve posterity. Providing an overview of my long-term ethnographic, historical, and web-based research on digital death care practices, I highlight some of the techniques that constitute breakdown as a method of scholarly inquiry. I present screenshots as mourning objects and breakdown research tools. The screenshot represents and captures a distinct point of view and provides material evidence for slippery, ephemeral communications even as the screenshot, as a media object, is subject to decay. Drawing on temporally-oriented or ethnographic approaches to studying dynamic social media cultures (Bonilla, 2015; Christin, 2020; Karpf, 2012; Seaver, 2017) in addition to the work of John Durham Peters, I position breakdown as a method befitting fragile digital social worlds. I argue that death, through the practice of screenshotting, provides a framework for grasping the transcendent capacities and material limits of technologies.
On Practices of Images and Measures of Practice
Authors: Birkin Jane , Parikka Jussi
Published: November 2024

This conversation between Jane Birkin and Jussi Parikka picks up on two recently published books, Birkin’s Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration (Amsterdam University Press 2021) and Parikka’s co-edited Photography off the Scale (Edinburgh University Press, 2021, with Tomáš Dvo?ák). The conversation focuses on some of the media theoretical undercurrents of their two books that feature the photographic image as a central part of both their interests, while also shifting to different aspects of institutional practices of images, including questions of logistics of order and enumeration.
Plato’s Prescription
Authors: Sutherland Thomas
Published: November 2024

In certain corners of media theory, the fanciful origin myth of writing furnished in Plato’s Phaedrus, one of his most enigmatic and intricate dialogues, has in turn come to serve as the origin myth for media critique itself. And yet, having been committed to writing, this is an origin myth that underwrites both its own non-originarity and non-truth, its very status as a written text ensuring it will never meet the criteria it sets for a reasoned account of things. This antinomy is not a shortcoming of the dialogue though, but a performative device, encouraging the reader to involve themselves in the dialogue and reflect upon their own relationship to it as audience. Plato does not proscribe writing, but he does prescribe a means for guiding one’s soul onto the path of knowledge – a prescription enacted within his writing itself, even as it points beyond the limits of the written word. The Phaedrus is not just diagnostic, but therapeutic.
Pharmacology of the Plantationocene
Authors: Fish Adam
Published: November 2024

Drones or unpersonned aerial vehicles are deployed towards the task of forestry, agriculture, and forest monitoring. Proponents claim that drone-assisted forest management increases forest yield. Detractors say that drone forestry is an instrument for biopolitical control and the transformation of mature forests into plantations. This article brings together the concept of the Plantationocene, an era marked by the iniquitous movement of people and seeds, with scholarship on the pharmakon, or the poisonous as well as therapeutic potentials of technologies, to interpret ethnographic field research with drone activists and drone engineers in Indonesia. The result is an argument for an ambivalent approach to emergent technologies–while drones are tools for control, they also enable operations for multispecies futures.
Canary in a Coal Mine
Authors: Pisters Patricia
Published: November 2024

Coal has played a crucial role in energy supply for our modern times, including the development of film and media industries. Choosing the site of mines and mining as a central way of articulating energy regimes, this article addresses three levels of carbon energy as encountered in historical and contemporary coalmining films. By following the black gold from modernity to the contemporary age increasingly marked by the Anthropocene, I will propose a three-folded entangled pharmacology of carbon energy. Inspired by an ecological approach to cinema and Guattari’s ethic-aesthetic ecosophy, a material ecological approach will look at the carbon rock in the earth crust as well as the atmospheric carbon cycle; at another level the socio-economic ecosystems surrounding coal mining are addressed in terms of labor politics and exploitation; and thirdly I will investigate the mental ecologies of coal mining and carbon cycles in relation to our consciousness of emancipatory struggles of rights and recognition but ultimately of a consciousness of the earth, life and death.
A Media-Theoretical Armamentarium
Authors: Wark Scott , Soncul Yigit
Published: November 2024

This essay provides an introductory account of the concept of pharmakon and its uses in different traditions relevant to media theory. First, we chart existing media-theoretical uses of the pharmakon and the main points of reference in this body of work, such as Plato, Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Second, we present the alternative genealogies of the pharmakon in reference to material, chemical and medical contexts. Taking the approach Galen developed to the pharmakon in the context of medical practice in Classical antiquity as its guide, this section presents an alternate history of the concept in order to illustrate how else it might be conceived and used. Finally, we introduce the contributions to this special issue which, as a whole, explicate a range of “pharmacologies” and “pharmacologics” available to media theory.
Contradictory Subjects
Authors: Braithwaite Phoebe
Published: November 2024

Seeking a through-way between critique and the affective theories that look to counteract it, I attempt to sketch in brief what a critical affect or affective critique might look like, observing that the most valuable theories in both domains, critique and affect, prize their medial position, and make a virtue of contradiction. I look at the writings of a core Cultural Studies tradition represented by Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy, especially in areas of their work which relate to the “structure of feeling” (Williams & Orrom, 1954). This work offers productive avenues and metaphors for thinking affective critique anew. Evaluating and disagreeing with Hall’s critique of the refusal of systematization holed away in Williams’ well-worn concept, I argue that attendance to the unsystematised is its chief virtue. Finally, I draw this abstracted discussion into the terms of ‘mutual vulnerability’ and debates over ‘safe spaces’ to argue that our time of multiplying crises and routine commodification asks us to remember our interdependency and foster mutually vulnerable modes of relation.
Everyone’s a Critic (So What Comes Next?)
Authors: Holm Nicholas
Published: November 2024

What is the fate of critique – especially media critique – in a social context that widely and enthusiastically embraces criticism and critical approaches? Starting from the position that critique has become a widespread intellectual orientation across both intellectual work and popular cultural engagement, this article discusses how media critique might produce meaningful and productive knowledge when a critical attitude towards the media is widely considered common sense. Arguing against perspectives that would make postcritique the enemy of critique, it suggests that critique would be better able to illuminate the current conjuncture if the aggression of critical suspicion were replaced with a more democratic and reflexive form of critical doubt.
Who? How and How Much? When and Where? On Why We Need to Be Pragmatic about Critique
Authors: Porter Robert , MacKenzie Iain
Published: November 2024

As critique appears to have run out of steam, become a culprit in the culture wars, and a source of capitalization in the marketplace of social media prestige, the following discussion embraces these dynamics not as epiphenomena to be overcome but as critical styles that can be restyled within a consequentialist and pragmatist frame. Dramatizing critique in this way shifts the methodological focus away from the redemptive gesture that guides the critique of critique toward the creative exploration of what can be done to make critique work within the gamified battlefield of contemporary social media environments. Doing so invites a provocative change of critical tone, reflections upon who counts as a critic, and an encounter with everyday moral calculations. It culminates in a deflationary image of critique as everyday practice.