...HUMN 432 Summary of: I’d Hammer Out Freedom: Technology as Politics and Culture By Richard Sclove Angelia DeGarmo-Beale February 3, 2011 This article reflects on how technology affects us even when we don’t intend it to nor do we want it to. This happens in both positive and negative aspects. Sclove’s personal definition of technology uses the analogy of a Hammer as being able to fulfill more than one function. A hammer can pound nails but can also extract them. He says this analogy is the core of the contemporary view of technology. Sclove says that technology is so significant that it basically sets our social structure. Our technology is so ingrained in our daily lives that it has changed and continues to change our political climate, laws and economic institutions. There are many areas where this is evident. One area that first comes to mind is social media and cyber bullying. Laws are being changed as we speak because of websites such as Facebook, where teenagers send threatening and harassing messages to other teens. Bullying can now be done in ones own home, where just 20 years ago it was usually on school grounds or nearby. Sclove writes about Coercive and Subconscious Compliance and how technologies are governed by both physical and political laws. It says that basically most of us are careful with technology that could do us bodily harm. An example of that would be automobiles. MOST people...
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...[pic]University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration Department of Information & Decision Sciences [pic] IDS 578 Research Methodology II Instructor Stanley L. Sclove [pic] The Sears, Roebuck Case These notes Copyright © 2005 Stanley Louis Sclove [pic] HyperTable of Contents 0. Introduction; Key Terms 1. What is Structural Equation Modeling? 2. A Simple Example of SEM 3. The Role of Theory in Structural Equation Modeling 4. Developing A Modeling Strategy 5. Estimating a Path Model with Structural Equation Modeling References [pic] 0. Introduction; Key Terms Preview In this course we consider Structural Equation Models. This note anticipates much material which will be discussed in more detail in the course or in the text (Schumacker and Lomax 2004). The note is based on a Harvard case, together with an example from Hair et al. and some introductory material. Key Terms The diagrams used in SEM are called path diagrams. The response variables are endogenous; the explanatory variables, exogenous. The modeling proceeds in terms of concepts, represented by constructs, measured by variables called indicators of the constructs. The model relating the indicators to the constructs is called the measurement model. The model relating the constructs to one another is called the structural model. [pic] 1. What is Structural Equation Modeling? Structural equation...
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...Premier Examen Corinne Dutil Technologies, monde et sociétés 5787115 Mercredi 9 Octobre 2013 SOC3516B Première Partie Question No 1 Pour la première partie de la question, nous allons définir les six modes de connaissance de la réalité, qui sont les suivantes : la magie, l’animisme, la religion, la philosophie, la théologie et la science. Par contre, avant de commencer, nous trouvons important de définir la nature. « La nature est la totalité des choses, d’évènements, de faits et de phénomènes qui se transforment en écosystèmes et nous pouvons distinguer 2 types de nature : la nature naturante et la nature dénaturée » (Samedy : 2012 : p.405). La nature naturante représente les écosystèmes qui n’ont pas été sujet du processus du travail humain rationnel et la nature dénaturée sont les écosystèmes dont les formes originales d’existence ont été influencées, changées et/ou transformées par l’être humain rationnel. Les connaissances ont grandies dans la nature et au fil du temps, différents modes de connaissances ont été développés et les phénomènes observés dans chaque mode de connaissance ont évolués. Pour bien comprendre la connaissance, il faut l’observer comme un élément pouvant seulement fonctionner lorsqu’il...
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...Marxism, Fascism and Technology Carol Dietrich | | Marxism, Fascism, and Technology | | In his work, Karl Marx stressed that technology had a dual potential: to exploit, dominate, and/or to emancipate, liberate humanity. In the first volume of Capital, Marx demonstrated the way in which competition and the “werewolf hunger” of the capitalist to increase relative surplus value drove producers to introduce new, more efficient technology whenever possible. This constant social compulsion to innovate technologically led to driving down the value of wage labor, while also increasing the material wealth of society as a whole. By the same token, technology, such as automation, he assumed, had the potential to reduce wage labor and thus increase the scope of individual freedom (Abromeit, 2010, p. 90). In his 1941 essay “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology,” Herbert Marcuse analyzed technology in terms of its power to transform society, and he developed a theory of “technological rationality,” the belief that “rationality is embodied in the coordinated apparatus of production itself” (Abromeit, 2010, p. 89). According to Marcuse (1998), “He is rational who most efficiently accepts and executes what is allocated to him, who entrusts his fate to the large scale enterprises and organizations which administer the apparatus” (p. 60). Marcuse linked his concept of technological rationality to the rise of large corporations, increased state intervention in the...
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..._Last Name_ 1 First Name Last Name Instructor’s Name Name of Class 31 October 2014 (Change the date; keep it in this format) Rape Culture on College Campuses and Why it Prevails Rape has become a taboo topic. Sexual assault is sugar coated into something less disturbing and brutal than it actually is. But rape is rape: the act of male or female taking sexual control or dominance over a nonwilling participant. It does not matter whether or not people feels comfortable discussing the topic of rape. Uncomfortability does not make a problem disappear. It is possible that rape culture is ignored because no one knows a permanent solution for it. But not talking about it will not fix it. An environment where rape culture prevails is on college campuses. 1 in every 4 college students admit to being raped or sexually assaulted on campus, this number fails to include the thousands of rape victims whose stories are never heard. Rape culture prevails on college campus because only an estimated 35% of these victims’ abusers are dealt with. Of those, only an estimated 20 30% percent are dealt with severely. Colleges ignore the severity rape culture on campus because it is a problem that is extremely difficult to remedy, but ignoring a problem will not solve it. “Culture is vital to the human species, but some cultural patterns are destructive” (Herman 45). Rape culture occurs when a set of values or beliefs create an environment that is conducive to rape. Rape culture does not refer to an actual place or setting...
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...held in University of Tampere, Finland. These notes are heavily based on the following books. Agresti, A. & Finlay, B., Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences, 3th Edition. Prentice Hall, 1997. Anderson, T. W. & Sclove, S. L., Introductory Statistical Analysis. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Clarke, G.M. & Cooke, D., A Basic course in Statistics. Arnold, 1998. Electronic Statistics Textbook, http://www.statsoftinc.com/textbook/stathome.html. Freund, J.E.,Modern elementary statistics. Prentice-Hall, 2001. Johnson, R.A. & Bhattacharyya, G.K., Statistics: Principles and Methods, 2nd Edition. Wiley, 1992. Leppälä, R., Ohjeita tilastollisen tutkimuksen toteuttamiseksi SPSS for Windows -ohjelmiston avulla, Tampereen yliopisto, Matematiikan, tilastotieteen ja filosofian laitos, B53, 2000. Moore, D., The Basic Practice of Statistics. Freeman, 1997. Moore, D. & McCabe G., Introduction to the Practice of Statistics, 3th Edition. Freeman, 1998. Newbold, P., Statistics for Business and Econometrics. Prentice Hall, 1995. Weiss, N.A., Introductory Statistics. Addison Wesley, 1999. Please, do yourself a favor and go find originals! 2 1 The Nature of Statistics [Agresti & Finlay (1997), Johnson & Bhattacharyya (1992), Weiss (1999), Anderson & Sclove (1974) and Freund (2001)] 1.1 What is statistics? Statistics is a very broad subject, with applications in a vast number...
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...The Effect Of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) On Customer Satisfaction In Banking Sector by Abdelmenam Ahmed Deghady Supervisor : Dr. Ashraf Labib Table of Content CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION................................................................................................3 1.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................................................4 1.2 Research Problem.............................................................................................................................................5 1.3 Study Hypothesis................................................................................................................................................5 1.4 The study variables.............................................................................................................................................6 1.4.1 Independent variables.............................................................................................................................6 1.4.2 Dependent variables................................................................................................................................6 1.5 Research Objectives...........................................................................................................................................6 CHAPTER 2 : Research Methodology...
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...* Definitions: community, health, partnerships, capacity * The power of collaborative partnerships * Who should be involved? * How to build healthier communities: A model for community and system change * Factors affecting the work of community partnerships * Ten recommendations for promoting community health and development Most of us want the same things from our communities. We want them to be safe from violence and illness; we want neighborhoods that are alive and that work well. And we would all like to have people who care for us and whom we trust. But how do we develop a community like that? Our belief is that communities are built when people work together on things that matter to them. In this section, we'll talk about what we mean by that, and explore our idea of how we can get there from here -- what might be called our "model of change" or "theory of practice." We'll start this section with some definitions that will help ground the ideas we are trying to get across. Then, we'll look at the advantages of collaborative efforts: why we believe it makes sense for people to work together to solve problems they share. Next, we'll look at key partners in community efforts, and then, we will describe the model of change that is the focus of this section. We'll supplement that model with principles and values that we believe should influence how community efforts unfold. Finally, we'll close with some broad recommendations for working together to help...
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...Running head: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY - ROBOTICS Emerging Technology - Robotics Team A LAS-432 Professor Stuart Vanorny 28 February, 2013 DeVry University Introduction & Brief description of robotics technology: (Elizabeth Burrier) Robotics has been coming further and further in technology over the years. Robots are not just something you see in the movies, they are now used by the military, NASA and the medical field. This paper will take you through the world of Robotics, and show you the best, newest and what is to come. There was a big popularity Automatons in ancient and Medieval times were very popular. Simple automatons for the use as tools, toys and as part of religious ceremonies were made possible by the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Automatons were population as part of clocks and religious worship, in Europe and the Middle East. The Arab polymath Al-Jazari left texts illustrating his various mechanical devices. Working to develop the foundations of computer science in the early to mid-nineteenth century, Charles Babbage continued to provide entertainment during the 19th century. In 1920, Karel Capek published his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which introduced the word "robot". Robotics became a burgeoning science and more money was invested. Robots spread to Japan, South Korea and many parts of Europe over the last half century, to the extent that projections for the 2011 population of industrial robots are around 1.2 million. Robotics is something...
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...A Statistical Perspective on Data Mining Ranjan Maitra∗ Abstract Technological advances have led to new and automated data collection methods. Datasets once at a premium are often plentiful nowadays and sometimes indeed massive. A new breed of challenges are thus presented – primary among them is the need for methodology to analyze such masses of data with a view to understanding complex phenomena and relationships. Such capability is provided by data mining which combines core statistical techniques with those from machine intelligence. This article reviews the current state of the discipline from a statistician’s perspective, illustrates issues with real-life examples, discusses the connections with statistics, the differences, the failings and the challenges ahead. 1 Introduction The information age has been matched by an explosion of data. This surfeit has been a result of modern, improved and, in many cases, automated methods for both data collection and storage. For instance, many stores tag their items with a product-specific bar code, which is scanned in when the corresponding item is bought. This automatically creates a gigantic repository of information on products and product combinations sold. Similar databases are also created by automated book-keeping, digital communication tools or by remote sensing satellites, and aided by the availability of affordable and effective storage mechanisms – magnetic tapes, data warehouses and so on. This has created a situation...
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...Philosophy and Design Pieter E. Vermaas • Peter Kroes Andrew Light • Steven A. Moore Philosophy and Design From Engineering to Architecture Pieter E. Vermaas Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Andrew Light University of Washington Seattle USA Peter Kroes Delft University of Technology Delft the Netherlands Steven A. Moore University of Texas Austin USA ISBN 978-1-4020-6590-3 e-ISBN 978-1-4020-6591-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937486 © 2008 Springer Science + Business Media B.V. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com Contents List of Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Design in Engineering and Architecture: Towards an Integrated Philosophical Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, Steven A. Moore, and Pieter E. Vermaas Part I Engineering Design ix 1 Design, Use, and the Physical and Intentional Aspects of Technical Artifacts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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