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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Technological society"”.
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Human interaction in a technological society : a photographic essay
Through the advent of technological advancement global communication has been greatly increased. Information can be emitted and received instantaneously through satellite transmission systems. Saturation of the airways continuously bathes the human in video and audio imagery. Dependence on human …
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Technological ambiguity and the uneasy conscience: bringing Reinhold Niebuhr’s theology into dialogue with the philosophy of Lewis Mumford and Herbert Marcuse towards a Christian conception of responsibility in the technical age
Contemporary discussions regarding ethics in the technological society are obscured by faulty presuppositions regarding the answer to one question: is technology neutral or non-neutral? The question itself presents a binary that betrays a dimension of human nature that allows for the possibility of …
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The Word: Jacques Ellul's Dialogic Response To La Technique
… of fact. In response to what Ellul calls the Technological Society, he presents the idea of “the word,” a dialogic metaphor which illuminates the intersubjective intentionality in human relation by recognizing the value of authentic “encounter” in a phenomenological space which Martin Buber …
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A study of change and continuity in the world-views of isiXhosa-speaking school leavers in their quest to succeed in the world of work without abandoning their African identity
… have chosen to participate in charge and technological advancement. They are engaged in development. Development, as here understood, requires that individuals contribute to the advance of a technological society while affirming their Africanness, albeit a changing Africanness. The study …
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Communication Ethics: Ellul's Complexity of Form
… realities, a claim central to Ellul’s theory of technological society. It attends to the question of why, over the course of more than 50 books and over 1,000 articles, Ellul has refused to expound upon this claim as an overarching theoretical construct. As a contribution to the field of …
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Modern Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Context and Future Consequences
… through reinforcement learning, its role in technological society as predicted by Heidegger’s theory of technology, and its future development into potential superintelligence. By connecting these to an unexamined theory of the human mind underpinning AI research, I seek to show the …
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A Rhetoric Of Technology: The Discourse In U.S. Army Manuals And Handbooks
… shows the systematic progression of a technological society and our increasing dependence on machine intelligence.
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Fort Berthold Indian Reservation: A Land Use Study to 1971
… the tribes could not survive in today's modern technological society. </p>
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What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… profound sense of disorientation in contemporary society and attempts to discover through a phenomenological account of orienting experience that which holds the possibility of authentic orientation in reality. Martin Heidegger’s understanding of “being-in-the-world,” the “there” of Dasein, and …
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What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… profound sense of disorientation in contemporary society and attempts to discover through a phenomenological account of orienting experience that which holds the possibility of authentic orientation in reality. Martin Heidegger’s understanding of “being-in-the-world,” the “there” of Dasein, and …
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Synthesis Of Graphene Nanomaterials And Their Application In Electrochemical Energy Storage
… and use energy on diverse scales in a modern technological society necessitates the design of large and small energy systems, among which electrical energy storage systems such as batteries and capacitors have attracted much interest in the past several decades. Supercapacitors, also known as …
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Traditional storytelling in a digital world: the transformative power of storytelling across media
… is that of storytelling in contemporary, technological society. What does it mean to be a storyteller? Why would someonebecome a storyteller? And what possible relevance could it have to today's society? These questions are answered largely by the tellers themselvesthrough a series of …
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Virginia Tech Business College Alumni Reflect on Literature in their Lives
… write well (Lenham 2001). Even in today's highly technological society, the skills and insights obtained through the humanities, especially those involving writing, are still considered quite relevant by the participants. The research suggests that core curriculum could benefit from being more …
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Perceptions of Preservice Educators, Inservice Educators, and Professional Development Personnel Regarding Effective Methods for Learning Technology Integration Skills
… the curriculum and students are prepared for a technological society.
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Infrastructure
… multi layered experience of modern people in a technological society. Imitating painting’s gestural, linear energy in an illusory manner, the paper and paint layers invert expected hierarchies of space. I am analyzing the condition of the painter, the ideas of painting as an activity and …
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Grade 11 Geography teachers' and learners perceptions of social media as a teaching and learning tool: A study of the Rundu circuit, Kavango-East, Namibia
… concept in this modern day of internet and a technological society. Many researchers have made efforts to prove the applicability of internet-based technologies in education as well their influence on the educational outcomes. As social media sites continue to grow in popularity, it remains …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… and social class and the individual in a growing technological society are analysed in two novels by each author: Bleak House and Hard Times by Dickens and Going Postal and Snuff by Pratchett. Analysing these novels according to Bakhtin's theory of polyphony and heteroglossia reveal that character …
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Literature of utopia and dystopia. Technological influences shaping the form and content of utopian visions.
… the relationship between scientific and technological progress and social change. Alterations in the most basic machinery of society inspired utopian authors to write of distant and future worlds which had achieved a state of harmony and plenty. The dilemmas which writers faced were …
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The role of arts in aesthetic education in South Africa
… radical changes, accompanied by value shifts. Technological societies can be potentially beneficial by increasing personality aspects such as self-actualisation, but can also be detrimental to mankind's development by creating social and pedagogical problems. In a modem society scientific …
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The Amplified Experience
… Experience was primarily located within a technological context where current and obsolete mediums merge, and involved combining analogue and digital mediums with custom-designed hardware such as the AV5-Error video distortion device3. Conceptually the work created within The Amplified …