bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Factory of the self
Authors: Hilton Jed 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Starting with the origins of the Information Age and the Dot-Com bubble of the early 1990s, this article explores the rise of a culture dominated by the computer. This article argues that society is only understood through the language and techniques of the computer and has had a lasting effect on art and society. This idea is further explored through Nicolas Bourriaud’s theory on Relational Aesthetics and charts the link between a technological environment and way we produce and understand art. Interlinked with this argument is an analysis on how the computer has changed the face of labour, with the gallery and the monitor becoming new environments of production.
Memory and Place: Sketchbook reflection
Authors: Black Matt 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This article aims to compare and contrast two different types of drawing mediums and their ability to capture the nature of time and memory. The purpose of this enquiry is to gain a better understanding of the process of both drawing and thinking and how the qualities of different graphic tendencies correspond to these processes. Throughout the creation of the drawings and the reflective writing that ensued, the main point of reference has been Bachelard’s book The Poetics of Space (1994). The reading of this text and the metaphors within have both inspired and confirmed the qualities within the drawings. The recognition of this interplay is invaluable for future practice.
Playing video games together with others: Differences in gaming with family, friends and strangers
Authors: Eklund Lina 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This empirical study investigates social digital gaming habits through a national survey of Swedes aged 12–100. The enquiry concerns patterns of gaming and compares playing with different co-players in order to map out this growing practice among the general population. Logistic regression models are used to analyse the data. Results show support for the importance of separating different social gaming contexts according to the relational status of co-players: whom people play games with – family, friends or strangers – affects how players engage with games. Social gamers were younger, had higher achieved education, were more dedicated and spent more time on gaming. Furthermore, contrary to expectations, male gamers are more social than female gamers. Results show how digital gaming adapts to life rather than the other way around. Finally, digital gaming is shown to be situated in a complex weave of interactions and structures that go over and beyond the gaming itself.
Creating stories for a composite form: Video game design as Frame Orchestration
Authors: Linderoth Jonas 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Storytelling in games in the early years of game studies was seen as being in conflict with gameplay. Departing from that debate, I argue that it is productive to see video games as a composite form supporting different frames for involvement. Against this backdrop the article reports an interview study with game developers, asking what it means to author stories for a composite form. The main results show that the developers do not see storytelling as the defining trait of video games, but as a component in a whole product. The developers display a specific gaze for how players shift their attention between frames. An important skill for the developers is to try to control these shifts in order to enforce the emotions they want the player to have. This specific skill is labelled framework orchestration. Stories are here but one of the tools the developers have at their disposal.
Unearthing Techno-Ecology
Authors: Barker Tim , McKeown Conor 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Studies of media and ecology are often reduced to questions of representation: understanding the cultural mediation of nature means looking to screen based content. However, given recent work in materialist media studies from Doug Kahn, Lisa Parks and Eugene Thacker in particular, a new possibility comes into view. We now know that before nature is mediated through culture, it is often passed through layers of technology. With that in mind, this paper offers a radical rethinking of the technological mediation of the ecological. Through a study of the technical apparatus as an active system of knowledge, two different sections of the paper will illustrate the ‘tool-kit’ that makes possible a technical study of ecology. The first looks to historical developments of hardware such as the telegraph, radio, and satellites to pinpoint examples where media technology has been used to pick up signals from the natural world. Framed by the philosophy of Peter Sloterdijk, it explores the way nature has been given form through its transduction into communication systems. The second section of this paper, addressing ecology on a different register, looks past the surface of digital media to the manner in which ecologies are mediated via computer code. In this section, by conducting a reverse-engineering of the software based eco-media videogame Mountain (O’Reilly, 2014), we encounter the ecological structure of code systems which could be applied to other data visualisation systems. These two methods of analysis suggest the possibilities of a technologically focused study of eco-media: in coming to grips with both global and internal ecologies through what Sloterdijk terms ‘air conditioning’ systems - the material processes that provide the atmosphere of everyday life - we investigate the possibilities for innovative, post-human, approaches to a natural world entwined with media and technology.
Reciprocal Materiality And The Body Of Code
Authors: Heilmann Till A. 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Materiality has often been a neglected factor in discussions of digitally encoded information. While a lot of early works in media studies suffered from this shortcoming, questions regarding the materiality of digital technology and artefacts have slowly gained prominence in recent debates. Matthew Kirschenbaum’s concept of “forensic” and “formal” materiality has proven particularly useful to the study of digital artefacts, differentiating the (routinely overlooked) physical existence of digital data from their (commonly discussed) logical character. However, analyses concerning the materiality of digital artefacts are often one-sided, focussing on the physicality of the medium in which digital data are inscribed. To counter this bias, I present the concept of a ‘reciprocal materiality’ of digital data: It is not only that digital data are always inscribed in some material substrate (Kirschenbaum’s ‘forensic’ dimension of data); conversely, the materiality of the medium inscribes itself into the structure of digital data (its ‘formal’ level). The ‘body of code’ is shaped by the material framework it inhabits. I will illustrate this using as an example one of the most important encoding schemes in the history of digital technology: the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII). A ‘close reading’ of the technical specifications of ASCII - a standard designed in the early 1960s to work across multiple technological platforms - will reveal the extent to which this code incorporates the materiality of media such as punched tape and teletype terminals.
Interpreting An Improper Materialism
Authors: Scarlett Ashley 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This paper explores catachrestic synesthesia as a key interpretive strategy that contemporary media artists are drawing upon in an effort to conceptualize and grapple with ‘digital materiality.’ I argue that these synesthetic gestures are not merely poetic flourishes. Instead they test the limits of representation, identifying gaps in language while employing the body in order to triangulate modes of computational materiality that are proving conceptually and phenomenologically evasive. Grounded within a series of materialdriven interviews that I conducted with thirty-five digital media artists, this analysis will be advanced through the following means: (1) a review of media phenomena and scholarly work that inform current debates regarding digital materiality with particular attention paid to the potential contribution of contemporary media art within this field of study; (2) an analysis of occasions where artists conjured the senses synesthetically as a disoriented means of grasping at the material attributes of their digital works; and (3) a theorization of “catachrestic synesthesia” as an interpretive strategy with broader implications for how digital materiality ‘as such’ might be better understood.
Towards A Relational Materialism
Authors: Hui Yuk 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This article takes off from what Lyotard calls ‘the immaterial’, demonstrated in the exhibition Les Immatériaux that he curated at the Centre Pompidou in 1985. It aims at outlining a concept of ‘relational materiality’. According to Lyotard, ‘the immaterial’ is not contrary to material: instead, it is a new industrial material brought about by telecommunication technologies, exemplified by Minitel computers, and serves as basis to describe the postmodern condition. Today this materiality is often referred to as ‘the digital’. In order to enter into a dialogue with Lytoard, and to render his notion of ‘immaterial materials’ contemporary, this article contrasts the concept of relational materiality with some current discourses on digital physics (Edward Fredkin, Gregory Chaitin) and digital textuality (Matthew Kirschenbaum). Against the conventional conception that relations are immaterial (neither being a res nor even having a real esse), and also contrary to a substantialist analysis of materiality, this article suggests that a relational materiality is made visible and explicit under digital conditions. It suggests a reconsideration of the ‘relational turn’ in the early 20th century and the concept of concretisation proposed by Gilbert Simondon. The article concludes by returning to Lyotard’s notion of materialism and his vision of a new metaphysics coming out of this ‘immaterial material’, and offers ‘relational materialism’ as a contemporary response.
Signs O’ The Times
Authors: Hiller Moritz 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This paper addresses the question of software preservation by approaching this field from a philologic perspective. Philology here is not understood as hermeneutic operation of interpretation, but rather as practice of preserving material objects: critically providing them as basis for future investigation. Software’s status as a material object could not be more uncertain, since it merges - as a source code - a textual dimension and - as a programme - a processual dimension. It is only within the logic of this operativity that software as an object of digital materiality becomes fully conceivable. Since a philology of software would have to consider the phenomenon’s dual mode of existence as static text and/or time-critical process to enable research within both dimensions, old questions about what to preserve and how to preserve it rise anew. The paper will therefore take up a few basic notions of traditional scholarly editing, the software of philology. It explores to what extent they can be applied to objects of digital materiality in order to outline an initial idea of a philology of software.
From Her (2013) To Viv The Global Brain
Authors: Wan Evelyn 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
This paper reflects upon the methodological questions entailed by what digital media materiality could be, and how one could analytically approach it via theories of experience such as radical empiricism and process philosophy. I argue that for digital media, becoming material means to ‘enter into experience’. However, this notion of ‘experience’ is not defined in relation to the phenomenological, distinctly-human subject. I offer instead an expanded notion of experience that resides in non-human objects, networks and other physical entities like mobile phones and computers. Operating system (OS) and intelligent assistants such as Samantha in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013) and the next-generation Siri in development, Viv the Global Brain, can be seen as representations of what such a non-human experience could be like, as digital objects communicate with one another. William James, father of radical empiricism, argues that the definition of matter as something that lies behind physical phenomena is merely a postulate of thought. In his philosophy, the world is made up of only one primal material - that of experience. While James could not have anticipated our era of digital technologies at the time of writing in 1890, radical empiricism offers an interesting angle in approaching what digital materiality could be. Mark Hansen’s latest monograph, Feed Forward: On the Future of Twenty-First-Century Media (2015), turns to Alfred North Whitehead in an attempt to understand how 21st-century media operations feature in a world of objects where humans are implicated in, but not central to digital networks. Referring to Whitehead, he analyses how media operations (like those superalgorithms computing in OS systems) reconfigure the notion of perception in experience. In a similar theoretical move, I turn to William James’s radical empiricism to analyse how the digital may be material/ised in a world of beyond-human experience.
Sprzeciw sumienia a prawo naturalne.
Authors: Szostek Andrzej 
Published: September 2015

Po wstępnych ustaleniach, że przez sumienie rozumie się sąd praktyczny odnoszący się do własnych czynów, to sprzeciw podmiotu oraz że sprzeciw, o który chodzi, to sprzeciw wobec prawa stanowionego, a nie prawa naturalnego, które stanowi podstawę tego sprzeciwu, autor w pierwszej części artykułu przypomina św. Tomasza z Akwinu koncepcję prawa naturalnego. Podkreśla zwłaszcza to, iż jest to prawo Boże, ale wpisane w naturę ludzką tak, że rozumny ludzki podmiot - poznając to prawo oraz jego obowiązywalność i szukając właściwego jego zastosowania w praktyce - staje się niejako jego współautorem. W zorganizowanym społeczeństwie (państwie) przekład prawa naturalnego na praktykę życia codziennego dokonuje się poprzez sformułowanie i uchwalenie odpowiednich zapisów prawa stanowionego. Gdy ten przekład nie odpowiada przekonaniom obywatela, może on zdecydować się na sprzeciw sumienia, którego najbardziej znamiennym wyrazem jest obywatelskie nieposłuszeństwo, polegające na podjęciu działań sprzecznych z obowiązującym prawom stanowionym, z gotowością poniesienia prawno-karnych tego kroku konsekwencji. W części drugiej artykułu autor przywołuje niektóre przykłady możliwych konfliktów sumienia prowokujących do podjęcia sprzeciwu sumienia (luki w tzw. prawie antyaborcyjnym, ewentualna legalizacja zapłodnienia in vitro oraz związków homoseksualnych). Podkreśla złożoność tych problemów wynikającą z pluralistycznego charakteru społeczeństwa, zwraca uwagę na potrzebę społecznego dialogu oraz inicjatyw zmierzających do udoskonalenia obowiązującego prawa stanowionego i przestrzega przed pochopnym osądzaniem tych, którzy respektują to prawo pomimo jego ułomności.
Polska rodzina katolicka a rozwój społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. Uwagi na marginesie raportu Rodzina bogactwem (dobrem) dla społeczeństwa.
Authors: Pryba Andrzej 
Published: September 2015

Punktem wyjścia do analiz tego artykułu są badania socjologiczne przeprowadzone przez Diecezjalne Duszpasterstwa Rodzin w Polsce pt.: Obraz rodziny polskiej jako instytucji społecznej w świetle badań empirycznych (2011-2012). Celem tych badań było odpowiedzenie na pytanie: na ile współczesna rodzina jest (dobrem) bogactwem dla społeczeństwa.Najpierw podjęto próbę zdefiniowania pojęcia rodzina oraz społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. Następnie, na podstawie materiału zebranego podczas przeprowadzonych badań, ukazano obraz współczesnej rodziny polskiej.Okazało się, że rodzina polska ma świadomość tego, iż jest bogactwem (dobrem) dla społeczeństwa. Próbuje się ona włączyć w rozwój społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. Przeszkodą na tej drodze jest jednak aktualna polityka władz, które są postrzegane przez badane rodziny jako mało skuteczne w działaniach na rzecz rozwoju kraju. Rodziny te nie wierzą w efektywność działań samoorganizującego się społeczeństwa obywatelskiego na podstawie zasady pomocniczości.
Why Accounting Matters: A Central Bank Perspective
Authors: Schwarz Claudia , Karakitsos Polychronis , Merriman Niall , Studener Werner 
Published: September 2015

AbstractThis paper analyses how accounting frameworks can affect three important areas of responsibility of many central banks, namely monetary policy, financial stability and banking supervision. The identified effects of accounting rules and accounting information on the activities of a central bank are manifold. First, the effectiveness of monetary policy crucially hinges on the financial independence of a central bank, which can be evidenced, inter alia, by its financial strength. Using a new simulation of the financial results of the European Central Bank (ECB), this paper shows that the reported annual profit and financial buffers of a central bank can be significantly affected by accounting, profit distribution and loss coverage rules. Second, in respect of financial stability, the accounting frameworks applied by commercial banks can not only affect their behaviour, but also that of financial markets. Indeed, there is evidence that accounting frameworks amplified pro-cyclicality during the recent crisis, and thus posed risks to the stability of the financial system. This being so, the accounting frameworks of credit institutions have obvious implications for central banks’ analyses with regard to promoting financial stability. Finally, as regards banking supervision, regulatory reporting and key supervisory ratios are based on accounting data. Under the new regulatory framework for banks in the European Union (EU), bank supervisors are highly reliant on accounting data. This means that central banks, in their role as bank supervisors, need to understand the underlying accounting rules and should directly support the development and application of harmonised accounting frameworks.
SLR Technique Used For Description Of The Earth Elasticity
Authors: Rutkowska Miłosława , Jagoda Marcin 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
We present estimated values for the global elastic parameters (h
2, l
2) derived from the analysis of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) data. We analyse SLR data for LAGEOS 1 and LAGEOS 2 and for two low satellites, STARLETTE and STELLA, collected over a period of 2.5 years, from January 1 2005 to July 1 2007, from 18 globally distributed ground stations. The adjusted final values (h
2, l
2) for all satellites are compared. A major discrepancy between the two solutions was only found for the Shida number l
2. Computations were performed using GEODYN II NASA/GSFC software.
The following analysis is the continuation of our research published in Jagoda and Rutkowska (2013); that analysis was conducted separately for the two low satellites, STELLA and STARLETTE (separately for STELLA and separately for STARLETTE) whereas in this study we present the results of determining h
2 and l
2 parameters obtained from the joint observation of the STELLA and STARLETTE satellites (STARLETTE + STELLA) and joint observation of high satellites: LAGEOS 1 and LAGEOS 2 (LAGEOS 1 + LAGEOS 2). The combination of the observation aims at an increased stability of the estimates and reduced errors of the means of the parameters being determined.
Safety Improvement Solutions In Coal Mines Using GIS
Authors: Costa Cristian , Lupu Lucian , Edelhauser Eduard 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Exploitation of coal from the Jiu Valley presents its own specific, in terms of coal mining deposit conditions, fact that required a continuous preoccupation for the monitoring of the work conditions, in order to ensure work-places safety. This paper intends to indicate a method of increasing the work environment safety using GIS technology, the analysis being completed at Lupeni Coal Mine, the largest Coal Mine in Jiu Valley, characterised by a low level of accidents that has taken place in there so far. It consists of an extension of accomplished studies in order to implement an intelligent dispatching system.
Noise As A Risk Factor In The Preparation Of Useful Mineral Substances
Authors: Irimia Alin , Sorin Simion , Pupăzan Daniel , Călămar Angela 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Noise from industrial activities is a major problem because of its noxious and its presence in all technological activities. The coal preparation activity from industry, in the presence of risks of exposure to noise, is affecting the health and safety of workers. Occupational hearing loss and deafness caused by exposure to noise at work are the most encountered illnesses occurring in the European Union. This paper examines the main sources of noise in coal preparation technological process and their effects on the human factor.
Experimental Measurements And Evaluation Of Indoor Microclimate Conditions
Authors: Kraliková Ružena , Sokolová Hana 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
The paper deals with monitoring of workplace where technological equipment produces heat during hot summer days. The thermo-hygric microclimate measurement took place during daily work shift, and was carried out at 5 choosen measuring points. Since there was radiation heat presented in workplace and workers worked at different places, the thermal environment was classified as a heterogeneous and unstationary area. The measurement, result processing and interpretation was carried out according to the valid legislation of Slovak Republic.
Selection Of Cutting Inserts For Aluminum Alloys Machining By Using MCDM Method
Authors: Madić Miloš , Radovanović Miroslav , Petković Dušan , Nedić Bogdan 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
Machining of aluminum and its alloys requires the use of cutting tools with special geometry and material. Since there exists a number of cutting tools for aluminum machining, each with unique characteristics, selection of the most appropriate cutting tool for a given application is very complex task which can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. This paper is focused on multi-criteria analysis of VCGT cutting inserts for aluminum alloys turning by applying recently developed MCDM method, i.e. weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS) method. The MCDM model was defined using the available catalogue data from cutting tool manufacturers.
Higher Technical Education - Research vs. Education. Technique Of Teaching, Between Classical And Modern
Authors: Pâmîntaş Eugen 
Published: September 2015

Abstract
The results, not at all encouraging the graduates and the growing gap between the requirements of the employers and the graduate knowledge base bring us some questions and the look for the most appropriate answers. Of them, the work stops at two, namely: higher technical education prepares engineers, research scientists, or both, respectively, the teaching methods in engineering education today are appropriate? In search of answers and solving problems arising from questions shall be made an analysis of the educational process and master’s degree. The analysis is based both on documents and facts generally known, but also the authors’ own teaching experience. Conclusions are warning signals for improving the training of engineers and master of technical education but also to reform education in proper selection and training support staff for research.