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2019Globalizing the digital: A cross-cultural framework for the ethics of operationalizing Big Data
Concerns over the ever-increasing production, availability and use of multilayered individual data in social research, business and the everyday life calls for the development of ethical and legal guidelines. In parallel to civic and governmental initiativ ...
2018Ingenious Architecture: Usage and knowledge in Furetière’s Lexicography
For 17th century lexicographer and writer Antoine Furetière, the terms pertaining to all arts and sciences are the mortar that holds together the edifice of language. In that sense, Furetière’s language is founded in large part upon the words used to descr ...
2014Counterpoint: The Musical Analogy, Periodicity, and Rural Urban Dynamics
Every thesis calls for its antithesis, and every revolution prompts a counterrevolution—this takes place within the same generation as well as across intergenerational oscillations (Gassett 1958, Sennett 1974). Enlightenment thinkers were critical of the H ...
Taylor & Francis / CRC Press2014