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Götlind, Anna. "Technology and religion in medieval Sweden." Falun : Göteborg : A. Götlind ; Distribution, Dept. of History, University of Göteborg, 1993. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/33237.
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Walker, Richard R. 1967. "Rethinking the 'Religion of technology' thesis." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102850.
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The following study is an attempt to ascertain the most adequate way to understand the relationship in modernity between religion and technology. This relationship is first analyzed by looking at a common way in which technology has been categorized and discussed as representing the religion of modernity. The first chapter critically evaluates several popular and scholarly works which contain arguments for understanding that the modern world participates in some kind of 'religion of technology.' The inadequacies of these arguments are shown to arise from the problematic ways in which they invoke the meanings of both religion and technology. The suggestive possibility of viewing religion as a kind of technology leads to a consideration of how technology is being understood in the field of the philosophy of technology.The second chapter discusses the influence and responses to the conflation of technology and religion as manifestations of the same phenomenon in Euro-American philosophy. Influenced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger, this stream of thought takes as axiomatic his contention that "technique is the metaphysics of our time." The currency of the 'religion/technology' philosophy in European thought leads to a critical body of work amongst some North American philosophers concerned with a practical approach to technology.
In chapters three and four the work of two of these North American philosophers, Don Ihde and Albert Borgmann, is analyzed to evaluate their responses and reactions to the metaphysical and onto-theological interpretation of technology. Their interpretations contain an inherently religious understanding of modern technology which leads to the conclusion that there is neither religion nor technology in modernity, but only religious technology and technological religion.
The possibilities raised by this state of affairs are explored in the conclusion. The work of these philosophers of technology reveals how the study of religion in modernity would benefit from understanding the quotidian and material way in which religion is manifested technologically and technology religiously. Avenues of future research can address issues regarding globalization, cross-cultural technology implementation and how to understand the place of religion in global techno-culture from the development of a new praxis -oriented philosophy of technology-religion.
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Walters, Christopher P. "Theology and technology humanity in process /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p077-0121.
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Witte, Alison C. "Preaching and Technology: A Study of Attitudes and Practices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1363350630.
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Cathcart, Timothy John. "Touching the Face of God: Religion, Technology, and the United States Air Force." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30120.
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The goal of my project is a detailed analysis of the technological culture of the United States Air Force from a Science and Technology Studies (STS) perspective. In particular, using the metaphor of the Air Force as religion helps in understanding a culture built on matters of life-and-death. This religious narrative—with the organizational roles of actors such as priests, prophets, and laity, and the institutional connotations of theological terms such as sacredness—is a unique approach to the Air Force. An analysis of how the Air Force interacts with technology—the very thing that gives it meaning—from the social construction of technology approach will provide a broader understanding of this relationship.
Mitcham's dichotomy of the engineering philosophy of technology (EPT) and the humanities philosophy of technology (HPT) perspectives provides a methodology for analyzing Air Force decisions and priorities. I examine the overarching discourse and metaphor—consisting of techniques, technologies, experiences, language, and religion—in a range of historical case studies describing the sociological and philosophical issues of the Air Force.
As the Air Force is the offspring of the U.S. Army, these examples begin with the Civil War era and the invention of the Gatling gun before moving to the interwar period's Air Corps Tactical School and its seminal organizational thinking about the aircraft. Moving to the more modern times after the birth of the Air Force, I describe and compare the Advanced Airlift Tactics Training Center and the Air Mobility Warfare Center, two organizations interacting with technology from different organizational archetypes. The final example is the Department of Defense Readiness Reporting System, an information technology application at the focal point of cultural change affecting not just the Air Force but the entire Department of Defense. Finally, I will conclude with a chapter on policy considerations and recommendations for the Air Force based on the Air Force religion, a balance of both people and technology, and with an eye toward the future of U.S. military operations.
The primary goal is to answer three questions: is the U.S. Air Force truly a religion? If so, how should that affect its approach to technology and technological change? With an eye toward consciously building the future, how has the Air Force religion shaped the organization in the past?
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Wyche, Susan Porter. "Investigating religion and computing: a case for using standpoint theory in technology evaluation studies." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/37317.
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This research focuses on the development and study of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that support religious practices and the use of standpoint theory in ICT evaluation studies. Three phases makeup this work: formative studies to understand how megachurches, their members and leaders use ICT in ways tied to their Protestant Christian faith and the design of a technology probe, a photo sharing website named ChurchShare. The final and most significant phase is the evaluation of this probe in two churches.
I deployed ChurchShare in a Christian church comprised of U.S. born individuals and argue this initial deployment took place with â ideal users,â or those I intended to use the application and who represent the traditional targets of HCC (Human-Centered Computing) research. More than 200 photos were uploaded to ChurchShare and findings suggest that the technology probe was successfully integrated into the churchâ s worship services. Standpoint theory guided the second deployment study that was conducted with individuals who are marginalized in HCC researchâ "Kenyan immigrants. Participants rejected ChurchShare and zero pictures were uploaded to the website. I compare findings from both deployments and conclude that conducting ICT evaluation studies with marginalized users leads to more objective findings than conducting such studies with ideal users. I end with a discussion describing how standpoint theory can be incorporated into HCC, focusing on how this approach offers a practical way for researchers to uncover value differences between themselves and the people who interact with their work.
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Patterson, Aimee. "The ends of medicine at the end of life: understanding the ordinary-extraordinary means distinction in an age of pervasive technology." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=86744.
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An enduring issue in Christian bioethics is locating respect for human life between two extremes: an absolute valuation and a valuation entirely conditional on life's quality. This issue finds expression in the use of the ordinary-extraordinary means distinction (OEMD), a burden-benefit calculus employed by Catholic and Protestant ethicists to judge the appropriateness of available life preserving means in particular cases. With the increasing accessibility of new technologies and procedures for extending life, unique threats to the usefulness of the OEMD are posed. In particular, humans have the novel capacity to stabilize and sustain life indefinitely in grave and unprecedented conditions. Disagreements result within and between Christian communities over how far the possibilities for preserving life should be taken. The advent of the persistent vegetative state (PVS) has caused such a disagreement.In examining the practical problem and its particular manifestation in the PVS, it is argued that reasonable measures for preserving human life are properly determined first of all in light of what is beneficial for the human being. Establishing what constitutes human benefit in the medical arena requires a philosophy of medicine reliant upon a substantive concept of the human being. A theological anthropology foundational for the OEMD and the ends of medicine is uncovered, underscoring the tension between given human ontological value and the possible realization of human ends without digressing into dualism.
This anthropology also attends to the undue influence of technology in the present day. Protecting the efficacy of the OEMD and remaining consistent with its underlying anthropology require that new technological means of preserving life not be assumed to provide benefit prior to a moral examination of such means undertaken in the practical context. Moral obligation must not be allowed to expand in direct proportion to growing technological capacities to preserve life. Rather, medicine is best understood as a species of care. As a specialized type of care, it remains subject to the ends of nonspecialized care. A proper application of the OEMD today reveals that medical means are not the only (or even always the most appropriate) way to care for the perishing human body.
Situer le respect de la vie humaine entre deux pôles extrêmes - une valeur absolue et une valeur entièrement subordonnée à la qualité de vie - est une problématique persistante en bioéthique chrétienne. Elle est exprimée, notamment, par l'utilisation dans le milieu des éthiciens catholiques et protestants d'une grille pour distinguer les moyens ordinaires des moyens extraordinaires de maintenir une personne en vie dans des situations particulières, basée sur un calcul fardeau-avantages. Suivant l'accessibilité croissante de nouvelles technologies et procédures, cette grille de distinction entre moyens ordinaires et extraordinaires (DMOE) et son utilité font face à des menaces uniques. Notamment, les humains ont dorénavant la capacité de stabiliser et de maintenir la vie dans des conditions graves et jamais vues auparavant. Ce phénomène donne naissance à des divergences au sein des communautés chrétiennes : jusqu'où doit-on étendre la possibilité de maintenir un humain en vie? Et l'avènement de l'état végétatif chronique (ÉVC) a provoqué divergences.
Dans l'examen de ce problème pratique et de sa manifestation particulière, l'état végétatif chronique, l'auteure fait valoir que les mesures raisonnables de maintien de la vie humaine doivent d'abord être déterminées à la lumière de ce qui est bénéfique pour l'être humain. Pour établir ce qui constitue un bienfait pour l'être humain dans la sphère médicale, il faut une philosophie de la médecine reposant sur un concept fondamental de ce qu'est l'être humain. Un fondement anthropothéologique sur lequel appuyer la grille DMOE et la finalité de la médecine est élaboré, mettant en relief la tension entre une valeur humaine ontologique donnée et la réalisation possible de la finalité humaine, et ce, sans digresser vers le dualisme.
Ce fondement anthropologique rend également compte de l'influence indue de la technologique de nos jours. Pour protéger l'efficacité de la grille DMOE et rester fidèle à son anthropologie sous-jacente, on ne doit pas supposer que les nouveaux moyens technologiques de maintien en vie engendrent nécessairement des avantages. Il faut d'abord procéder à l'examen moral de ces moyens mis en oeuvre dans une situation pratique. L'obligation morale ne doit pas s'étendre de façon directement proportionnelle à l'accroissement des capacités de maintenir un humain en vie. Plutôt, la médecine est mieux comprise comme une espèce de soins. En tant que catégorie spécialisée de soins, elle demeure assujettie à des buts non spécialisés de soins. Une application adéquate de la grille DMOE aujourd'hui révèle que les moyens médicaux ne sont pas la seule façon (ni toujours la façon la plus appropriée) de prendre soin d'un corps humain dépérissant.
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Gould, Melissa Leonie. "Religion sells a discourse analysis of the use of religious references in television commercial campaigns that sell non-religious products : a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours), 2008 /." Dissertation Abstract, 2008. http://puka2.aut.ac.nz/ait/Dissertations/GouldM.pdf.
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Dissertation (BCS (Hons)--Communication Studies) -- AUT University, 2008.Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (v, 67 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 659.104582 GOU)
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Abbaszadeh, Sepideh. "The Sunshine Necklace : A design inquiry study about digital jewellery and wearable technology for empowerment in sexual harassment situations." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Medieteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-36260.
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This paper addresses a design exploration focusing on interactive jewellery and wearable computing that could affect sexual harassment in social contexts in everyday life. Drawing on a design inquiry study that lead to the creation of an interactive and digital necklace named Sunshine, which is a personal alarm connected to an emergency center, this paper focuses on how a piece of digital jewellery can contribute to women’s empowerment in relation to sexual harassment. The functionality of Sunshine is based on a device that will be activated when the user presses a button on the necklace and an alert with the location of the user will be sent to an alarm center. The users press the button when in danger or exposed to violence and/or abuse. This study so forth addresses a design exploration of a piece of jewellery that can be seen as a symbol for women’s safety, unity and equality. The combination of digital technology and fashion design demonstrate that people can be brought together and especially be empowering in social contexts where sexual harassment might be a part of women’s everyday life.Självständigt Examensarbete (Forskningsartikel)
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Feller, Gavin Stuart. "Media as compromise: a cultural history of Mormonism and new communication technology in twentieth-century America." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5753.
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This dissertation is a qualitative and interpretive project aimed at understanding the historical relationship between new media and religion. My primary research question asks how religious institutions handle the excitement and threat of new technology. To answer this question I conduct a series of case studies of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ (LDS/Mormon) relationship with three of the most important twentieth-century media: emerging radio, television, and Internet technologies. More specifically, I analyze how these electronic media were understood through their organizational histories, how they were talked about in their novelty and transitional states, and their religious institutionalization over time.
This dissertation argues that Mormon media are best understood through the concept of Zion: a sacred city and a holy people. As a social, cultural, theological, and material endeavor, Zion is impossible without modern technology. The history of Mormon media is a history of a people’s perpetual attempts to be in the world but not of the world--to stand apart in uniqueness and unity while yet remaining close enough to promote positive change. This is the paradox of Zion, and the paradox of twentieth-century media: both rely on the very things they seek to transcend.
It is through media that Mormonism was founded, struggles, and thrives. Through case studies of radio, television, and the Internet it is clear that media function as the material and metaphysical infrastructure of the religion and the interface through which Mormonism positions itself in relation to the world. This dissertation argues that understanding media, and ultimately ourselves by extension, is a process of discovery and creation guided by experimentation, trial and error, entrepreneurial pragmatism, and improvisation. Mormonism teaches that understanding media requires discipline, work, and faith. Media are fundamentally agents of compromise.
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Burdett, Michael Stephen. "The God of possibility and promise : Christian eschatology as a response to technological futurism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:55064790-e250-42f6-98c9-ec4b709c8a53.
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The explosive growth of technology today is causing extensive speculation about the future. These ‘technological futurisms’—especially transhumanism—are often imbued with religious value by their adherents. How should Christians respond to the content of technological futurisms and also the way the future is constructed? In this thesis I argue that Christian eschatology has a more robust understanding of the future than technological futurism, as championed by transhumanism, and can allow for radical hope while also maintaining important humanistic virtues which are ultimately lost in transhumanism. Christian eschatology does not only depend on what is actual to create its future. Rather, it is open to the God of possibility and promise who can bring the radically new in the Kingdom of God. This dissertation is broken into three major sections with an introductory and concluding chapter. The first section provides a history of our technological imagination today by looking at visionary approaches to technology and the future in both technological utopias and science fiction. This history provides the conditions for understanding the proposed future of transhumanism. The second section orients the final response by assessing technology and the future in the eschatologies of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Jacques Ellul. Both Teilhard and Ellul agree that the technological future without appeal to the Christian God is dangerous. The final section looks at the theological and philosophical issues surrounding technology and the future. Heidegger’s works are used to sharpen themes related to technology and the future; in particular, how technology is related to ontology and how the future is related to possibility. The final chapters construct a Christian response to transhumanism around the themes of possibility and promise by utilising the works of Richard Kearney, Eberhard Jüngel and Jürgen Moltmann. A Christian notion of possibility allows for the radically new in a way transhumanism does not and the Christian idea of promise safeguards human virtues by emphasising the interpersonal as ultimate rather than self-transcendence as with transhumanism.
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Gonaver, Wendy. "The Peculiar Institution: Gender, Race and Religion in the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1842--1932." W&M ScholarWorks, 2012. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623354.
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Modern psychiatry in the United States emerged at the same time as debate about slavery intensified and dominated public discourse, contributing to dramatic denominational schisms and to the greater visibility of women in the public sphere. as the only institution to accept slaves and free blacks as patients, and to employ slaves as attendants, The Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Williamsburg, Virginia, offers unique insights into the ways in which gender, race and religion transformed psychiatry from an obscure enterprise in the early nineteenth century to a medical specialty with wide-reaching cultural authority by the twentieth century.;Utilizing a variety of sources, including a collection of un-catalogued and largely unexamined papers, this dissertation employs interdisciplinary methods to explore the meaning of interracial medical encounters, and the role of the asylum in promoting rational religion and normalizing domestic violence.;The dissertation begins by examining the life and writings of asylum Superintendent John M. Galt, whose experience at the head of an interracial institution led him to reject proposals for separate institutions for whites and blacks and to promote the cottage system of outpatient care. The following chapter addresses the labor of enslaved attendants, without whom the asylum could not have functioned and for whom moral rectitude and spiritual equality appear to have been the ethical foundation of care-giving. Discussion of ethics and spirituality, in turn, prompts consideration of the role of religion in asylum care. The association of enthusiastic religion with slaves and with abolitionism contributed to the regulation of religious expression as a common feature of asylum medicine. Religious evangelism was viewed by hospital administrators as a symptom of insanity, while religious rationalism was enshrined as normative and, paradoxically, as secular.;Asylum medicine also normalized domestic violence by treating the social problem of violence, from wife beating to the rape of slave women, as the medical pathology of individuals. In so doing, the asylum undermined the religious authority from which many women derived comfort, meaning and purpose; and overemphasized the role of female sexual and reproductive organs as an alleged cause of insanity. Ultimately, the struggle over efforts to contain interracial alliances, women's autonomy and enthusiastic religious expression coalesced in the state's promotion of eugenics in the early twentieth century.
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Waite, Gerald E. "The red man's burden : establishing cultural boundaries in the age of technology." Virtual Press, 1994. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/902499.
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The technology of the dominant society, the omnipresence of a cash economy, and a history of the brutal treatment of culturally distinct peoples are among the assimilative pressures faced by native peoples within the United States. Some indigenous cultures have managed to resist the forces of assimilation in ways that are both adaptive and culturally sustaining. The Pueblos of the Southwestern United States have managed to preserve their culture through the creation of cultural boundaries that are both adaptive and culturally sustaining. The processes which serve to strengthen and renew the symbols which represent these boundaries are those of "revitalization" and "resynchronization," both of which arise from Pueblo religious practices and from the Pueblos' strong sense of family.Department of Anthropology
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Atwaters, Sybrina Yvonne. "Redefining the sacred in 3D virtual worlds: exploratory analysis of knowledge production and innovation through religious expression." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53048.
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This dissertation contributes to conversations regarding the impact of open user centered innovation on cultural production by focusing on the construction and production of religious products within one large-scale open user-centered technological environment, 3D virtual worlds. Particularly, this study examines how virtual world users construct (non-gaming) religious communities and practices and how the technology impacts the forms of religious expression these users create. Due to its existing religious sector and affordances for user-created content, Second Life (SL) was chosen as the context of study for this dissertation project. Building upon Von-Hippel's (2005) user-centered innovation theory, construction and production within three different user-centered religious communities in SL were explored. Using a comparative ethnographic approach over a 14-month period, involving participant observations, interviews and hyper-media techniques, the social construction of customized religious products amidst technical, social, and economic virtual/non-virtual structures were analyzed.
Exploratory findings demonstrate that the democratizing of cultural innovation, that is the construction of heterogeneous cultural religious products by the everyday user, is a matter of patterned relational pathways. The greater possible patterned pathways the higher potential for democratized cultural innovation, an increasing number of users developing new ways of doing religion. The fewer patterned pathways the less the potential for democratize cultural innovation and the greater potential for reproducing within the virtual realm the same cultural frames that define the current social order in the non-virtual realm.
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Silva, Marcos Pedro da. "Interações midiáticas : um olhar contemporâneo à Comunidade Staroveri." Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, 2014. http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/427.
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O presente trabalho trata de uma constatação das interações midiáticas na Comunidade Russa ou Comunidade Staroveri em Primavera do Leste-MT. A partir do momento em que os meios de comunicações e as tecnologias móveis digitais se inseriram no seu cotidiano, houve uma reconfiguração de suas práticas. O objetivo aqui é descrever como esse processo ocorreu e como se manifestou na comunidade. Acredita-se que tais mudanças estão diretamente ligadas à intervenção da mídia e das tecnologias digitais móveis. Buscou-se, então, a compreensão sobre como esses meios tecnológicos de informação e comunicação se inseriram no seu dia-adia. Nesse contexto a música teve sua relevância na comunidade, principalmente entre os jovens que vivenciam tais mudanças. Isso se deu por meio do acesso à internet, às redes sociais que integraram aos novos procedimentos do ciberespaço. O caminho percorrido na pesquisa traz uma abordagem metodológica de um estudo exploratório por meio da observação, entrevistas na comunidade têm por finalidade copilar informações e resultados significativos para essa dissertação. Para analisar essas questões, foram utilizados os conceitos de: mediações culturais de Martín-Barbero (2008); midiatização e modernidades, de John Thompson (2012), Douglas Kellner (2001) e Dênis de Moraes (2006); e culturas híbridas, de Nestor Garcia Canclini (2000). Também há uma intertextualidade com o conceito de fluxos culturais, de Arjun Appadurai (2004), bem como de identidade cultural e local, utilizando conceitos de Stuart Hall (2002).
The present work comes to a realization of media interactions in the Russian Community or Staroveri Community in Primavera do Leste-MT. From the moment that media and digital mobile technologies were inserted in their daily lives, there was a new reconfiguration of their practices. The goal here is to describe how this process occurred and how it manifested itself in the community. It is believed that those changes are directly linked to the intervention of media and mobile digital technologies. Sought, so understanding about how these technological means of information and communication entered in your daily life. In this context the music had its relevance in the community, especially among young people who experience such changes. This was by means of internet access, of social networks that have integrated the new procedures of cyberspace. The path taken in the research brings a methodological approach of an exploratory study through observation, interviews in the community have as their purpose compiles information and meaning for results for this dissertation. To examine those issues, the concepts used were: Cultural mediations of Martín Barbero (2008); Mediatization and modernities, of John Thompson (2012), Douglas Kellner (2001) and Dennis de Moraes (2206)/ and hybrid cultures, of Nestor Garcia Canclini (2000). There is also intertextuality with the concept of cultural flows, of Arjun Appadurai (2204), as well as cultural and local identity, using concepts of Stuart Hall (2002).
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Adams, Kevin E. "Patterns in Chaplain Documentation of Assessments and Interventions, a Descriptive Study." VCU Scholars Compass, 2015. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3900.
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PATTERNS IN CHAPLAIN DOCUMENTATION OF ASSESSMENTS AND INTERVENTIONS, A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY
by Kevin Eugene Adams, MDiv
A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2015
Diane Dodd-McCue, D.B.A, Department of Patient Counseling
There is increasing emphasis on the importance of evidence-based care provided by all disciplines in healthcare. The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is becoming the standard for communicating assessments, plans of care, interventions, and outcomes of patient care. The spiritual care literature demonstrates the importance of assessing religious/spiritual needs and resources and developing plans of care to address the results of such assessment (Anandarajah & Hight, 2001; Borneman, Ferrell, & Puchalski, 2010; Fitchett, 1999; Fitchett & Risk, 2009; H. G. Koenig, 2007). This literature also suggests that addressing religious/spiritual needs of patients and families in the healthcare context can affect healthcare and adherence outcomes. The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of chaplain assessment and patterns of chaplain provision of services.
This descriptive study was an exploratory retrospective analysis of categorical data recorded by clinical staff chaplains in the EHR at a single all pediatric healthcare institution, using contingency tables and frequency tables. The study examined chaplain use of assessment and service descriptors and the patterns of these descriptors when documenting chaplain visits.
The results indicate chaplain preference for communicating in the EHR using general themes and concepts. This reveals an opportunity for chaplains to develop and implement a model of professional identity and articulation of care that is broad enough to accommodate the diversity of religion/spirituality chaplains encounter, yet able to articulate the specifics of patient and family religion/spirituality.
The results found no consistent patterns among assessments or services provided. Further, the results found no indication of patterns between assessments made and the services provided. This presents an opportunity for chaplains to develop and implement a theory-driven, construct-based model of care that will connect the different facets of spiritual care. The assessments made will lead to plans of care that involve specific interventions resulting in appropriate outcomes related to overall patient and family care.
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Marticki, Johan. "The Robotic Moment Explored : Intimations of an Anthropo-Technological Predicament." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-352784.
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This paper examines the ‘robotic moment’, as defined by Sherry Turkle (2011), in the light of general theories of human-technology relations, notably the theoretical framework founded by Jacques Ellul (1954). Potential psychological, cultural, and technical consequences of human-technology interaction, especially human interaction with so-called ‘social-robots’, are explored. It is demonstrated that the ‘robotic moment’ may reasonably be understood as a result of the formation of pseudo-social anthropo-technological circuits, and as a result of cultural disintegration and an increasingly prevalent societal impulse to incorporate everything that is commonly not understood to be technological (i.e. even the biological, the social, and the spiritual) into the technological order. It is demonstrated that the category ‘social robot’ may reasonably be understood, depending on how the robot is used, as a technique humaine, as a magical practice, or as a complex hybrid practice. Assumptions concerning the nature of technologies, the extent to which technologies are useful, and the impact of technologies on society are questioned. The extent to which a society’s worldview may determine or influence how its inhabitants relate to technologies is explored. It is suggested that, as societies demystify the universe and develop mature techno-secular worldviews, means-to-ends (i.e. technologies) are being mystified; the ensuing quasi-religious techno-secular worldviews, which fail to recognise the limitations of technologies, may in turn be responsible for much of the irrational use of technologies in technological societies. The essay suggests that the ‘robotic moment’ can be explained not only in terms of vulnerabilities inherent in human nature and in terms of properties inherent in technological society, but also in terms of the notions of the sacred that prevail in technically advanced societies and a society’s practice of science, engineering, magic, and faith.
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Gardelli, Viktor. "To Describe, Transmit or Inquire : Ethics and technology in school." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Pedagogik språk och Ämnesdidaktik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-25919.
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Ethics is of vital importance to the Swedish educational system, as in many other educational systems around the world. Yet, it is unclear how ethics should be dealt with in school, and prior research and evaluations have found serious problems regarding ethics in education. The field of moral education lacks clear and widely accepted definitions of key concepts, and these ambiguities negatively impact both research and educational practice. This thesis draws a distinction between three approaches to ethics in school – the descriptive ethics approach, the value transmission approach, and the inquiry ethics approach – and studies in what way (if at all) they are prescribed by the national curriculum for the Swedish compulsory school, how they relate to students’ moral reasoning about technology choices and online behaviour, and what pedagogical merits and disadvantages they have. Hopefully, this both contributes to reducing the ambiguities of the field, and to answering the question of how ethics should be dealt with in education.The descriptive ethics approach asserts that school should teach students empirical facts about ethics, such as what views and opinions people have. The value transmission approach holds that school should mediate some set of predefined values to the students and make sure the students come to accept these values. The inquiry ethics approach is the view that school should teach students to reason and think critically about ethics and to engage in ethical inquiry.The role of ethics in the curriculum has not been studied in light of the above distinction, in prior research, and such an investigation is undertaken here. The results suggest that ethics has a prominent, but complicated, role in the Swedish national curriculum. Although no explicit distinction is drawn or acknowledged in the curriculum, all three approaches are prescribed throughout the curriculum, albeit to different degrees. In the general section of the curriculum, the value transmission and inquiry ethics approaches are more extensively prescribed than the descriptive ethics approach. It was found that most of the syllabi contained explicit references to ethics, while some only contained implicit references to ethics, and two syllabi lacked references to ethics altogether. In the syllabi, the inquiry ethics approach is the most dominant, both in the sense of being present in the most syllabi, and in the sense of being more strongly prescribed in many of the syllabi where several approaches occur. The value transmission approach has the weakest role in the syllabi. In total, the inquiry ethics approach is the approach most strongly prescribed by the curriculum. But prior research has shown that inquiry ethics is very rarely implemented in the classroom. In this thesis, it is found that the inquiry ethics and the value transmission approaches are incompatible, given certain reasonable interpretations, which makes the finding that inquiry ethics is rarely implemented less surprising, since value transmission is practiced in schools.The students, in their moral reasoning about technology choices, reasoned in accordance with several classical normative theories – including consequentialism, deontological ethics and virtue ethics – and in doing so, they expressed reasoning that in the discussion is found to be in conflict with the values of the value foundation in the curriculum. These findings complement earlier findings, for example that students in their actions contradict the value foundation, by adding that such conflicts also exist in their reasoning. The existence of these conflicts is found to be problematic for a value transmission approach.Many of the students defended very restrictive views on disclosing personal information online, and prior research as well as the present data has shown that adults typically hold views that are very similar to these, concerning how they think that young people ought to act online. On the other hand, youths’ actual online behaviour, as reported in earlier studies, differs considerably from this. In line with this, the students also seemed to endorse a form of private morals view, according to which moral choices are simply up to one’s own taste, which would yield an escape exit from the restrictive views mentioned above, and permit any behaviour. In the discussion, it is argued that this is the result of an attempt at value transmission from the grown-up community, probably including teachers, which might seem to work, since the students claim to hold certain views, but which likely instead constitutes a false security, since these values are not actually accepted, but only paid lip service to, and the adults are therefore wrong in their belief that the students are protected by a certain set of values (that they think the students are upholding), since the students in fact do not uphold, and therefore do not act based upon, these values. This situation risks making the students more vulnerable than had no value transmission attempt been taken in the first place. Hence, the attempted value transmission runs the risk of counteracting its purpose of helping the students acquire a safe online behaviour.Throughout the moral reasoning mentioned above, extensive variations in the students’ reasoning were found, both interpersonally and intrapersonally, both in the decision method and in the rightness criterion dimensions, as well as in between the dimensions. The existence of such variations is a novel finding, and while possible applications in future research are discussed, it is also noted that this existence constitutes a reason to question the successfulness of both the value transmission and the inquiry ethics endeavours of the educational system.The results and discussions described above highlight the importance of investigating the merits of the different approaches. Several arguments that arise from the material of this thesis are presented, evaluated and discussed. The ability of each approach to fulfil some alleged key aims of ethics education is scrutinised; their abilities to educate for good citizenship, to educate for quality of life of the individual, and to facilitate better educational results in other subjects are all investigated, as well as the ability of each approach to help counteract the influence from online extremist propaganda aimed at young people and to promote safe online behaviour in general.It is concluded that the inquiry ethics approach has the strongest support from the material of this thesis. Some consequences for school practice are discussed, and it is concluded that changing the role of ethics in the curriculum would be beneficial, downplaying the role of value transmission and further increasing, and making more explicit and clear, the role of inquiry ethics. It is also shown that there are strong reasons for the inclusion of a new subject in the Swedish compulsory education with special focus on ethics. Some possible causes, and some consequences, of this is discussed.Godkänd; 2016; 20160518 (vikvik); Nedanstående person kommer att disputera för avläggande av filosofie doktorsexamen, Namn: Viktor Gardelli Ämne: Pedagogik / Education Avhandling: TO DESCRIBE, TRANSMIT, OR INQUIRE Ethics and technology in school Opponent: Gudmundur Frimannsson, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Island, Ordförande: Professor Eva Alerby Institutionen för konst, kommunikation och lärande Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag den 2 september 2016, kl. 10.00 Plats: D770, Luleå tekniska universitet
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Hussein, Ramona. "Teaching About Religion: A Mixed Methods Study of Teachers' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Preparation, With a Focus on Islam and Muslims." UNF Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/206.
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The subject of religion in public schools has always been controversial. America is a religiously diverse society, and one of the fundamental documents of this country, the Constitution of the United States, prohibits the establishment of a single religion which may seek to influence or control the ―free exercise‖ of all religions.
Indeed the discussion of religion in school is very extensive. The subject includes, but is not limited to the discussion of students‘ religious expression, prayer in school, students‘ religious accommodations, the right of the student to distribute religious literature, as well as the rights of students to form religious clubs.
The objective of this research study was to refine the very broad discussion of religion and religious liberties in public schools to the narrow subject of how teaching about religion is viewed in the public schools. Furthermore, given the current world‘s conflict with members of the Islamic faith and the increasing Muslim population in the United States, the study about Islam is a fundamental subject of inquiry for today‘s students who require a more global outlook.
Primary to the study of whether teaching about religion is constitutional, which it is, an examination of how teachers, administrators, and school board members approach the subject, implement the policy, and prepare teachers for the task, was the focus of this research. Using a mixed methods methodology, I collected and analyzed quantitative and qualitative data from a sample total of 1,054 Florida social studies teachers. Overall, the results of the findings were that the surveyed teachers were open to teaching about all religions. However, their training and level of understanding of the content material required to accomplish the tasks were deficient. Recommendations included the designing of appropriate pre-service and in-service training programs for teachers who have responsibilities for teaching about various religions.
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Eriksson, Nils. "Ny teknik och gamla drömmar : En konsekvensprövning av relationen mellan människan och en artificiell intelligens." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446245.
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The purpose of this thesis is to examine how a theology regarding artificial intelligence best could be formulated in concern of consequences for a christian view of human nature. This purpose is examined by means of a comparative study of consequences derived from four different perspectives on the emergence of AI and the theoretical implications of its relation with mankind. As premise for what is considered a desired, respectively an undesired consequence, the minimum amount of human suffering is used conditioning the possibility of living a good life. In conducting the analysis, Leslie Stevensons theory of humanity in relation to God is used to interpret the christian view of human nature and a general wide theory of AI based on Cornel Du Toits definition is applied. My assessment of the researched consequences ends in a proposal for a constructive christian theology which argues for the necessity of placing a high value on a human capacity for vulnerability. This is because it enables invaluable human qualities such as empathy and compassion. Qualities that also should lead the way and be modeled into a concern for all of creation, whether it is considered natural or artificial.
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Almond, Lindsey, and Jacquelyn Mallette. "Religiosity and Online Dating Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Perceptions and Concerns." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/secfr-conf/2020/schedule/56.
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This study determines the religious differences associated with the perceptions, intentions, and usage of online dating amongst emerging adults. Symbolic interaction theory informs how the symbols associated with online dating impact perceptions, intentions, and usage among a sample of 447 emerging adults, between 18-30 years of age. More religious individuals were found to typically use online dating less, have more negative perceptions, and hold more concerns about online dating, showing that religious beliefs and norms may still associate online dating as a sexual culture rather than a method for finding dating or long-term partners. The association of religiosity and resultant relationships was found to be mediated by frequency and concerns about online dating, but not perceptions. As technology continues to grow and online dating expands to become more acceptable, more online dating sites related to specific intentions will likely arise. Implications for practitioners and future research are provided.
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Nairn, Angelique Margarita. "Power in religion a critical discourse analysis of the Greek Orthodox liturgy : a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the degree of Bachelor of Communication Studies (Honours), 2008." Abstract. Full dissertation, 2008.
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Dissertation (BCS (Hons)--Communication Studies) -- AUT University, 2008.Includes bibliographical references. Also held in print (vi, 69 leaves ; 30 cm.) in City Campus Theses Collection (T 210.14 NAI)
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Dauer, Quinn. "Natural Disasters and Comparative State-Formation and Nation-Building: Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile (1822-1939)." FIU Digital Commons, 2012. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/764.
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Natural disasters in Argentina and Chile played a significant role in the state-formation and nation-building process (1822-1939). This dissertation explores state and society responses to earthquakes by studying public and private relief efforts reconstruction plans, crime and disorder, religious interpretations of catastrophes, national and transnational cultures of disaster, science and technology, and popular politics. Although Argentina and Chile share a political border and geological boundary, the two countries provide contrasting examples of state formation. Most disaster relief and reconstruction efforts emanated from the centralized Chilean state in Santiago. In Argentina, provincial officials made the majority of decisions in a catastrophe’s aftermath. Patriotic citizens raised money and collected clothing for survivors that helped to weave divergent regions together into a nation. The shared experience of earthquakes in all regions of Chile created a national disaster culture. Similarly, common disaster experiences, reciprocal relief efforts, and aid commissions linked Chileans with Western Argentine societies and generated a transnational disaster culture. Political leaders viewed reconstruction as opportunities to implement their visions for the nation on the urban landscape. These rebuilding projects threatened existing social hierarchies and often failed to come to fruition. Rebuilding brought new technologies from Europe to the Southern Cone. New building materials and systems, however, had to be adapted to the South American economic and natural environment. In a catastrophe’s aftermath, newspapers projected images of disorder and the authorities feared lawlessness and social unrest. Judicial and criminal records, however, show that crime often decreased after a disaster. Finally, nineteenth-century earthquakes heightened antagonism and conflict between the Catholic Church and the state. Conservative clergy asserted that disasters were divine punishments for the state’s anti-clerical measures and later railed against scientific explanations of earthquakes.
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Ekeberg, Dennis. "Corpus Technologica : En religionshistorisk analys av Robert Anton Wilsons version av The Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness i ljuset av den västerländska esoterismen." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för historia och samtidsstudier, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-18590.
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This is a thesis about The Eight Circuit Model, a modern mind map developed for the purpose of illumination and enlighenment by Dr. Timothy Leary in the 1970s. Later, authors such as Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli elaborated upon the idea to make it more wholesome and compatible with other ideas expressing the same basic principle. In short, it is an intellectual abstraction of the evolution of consciousness through a series of eight stages, which Leary called Circuits. By looking at the brain as an evolving bio-computer, with thoughts working as software, upgrading itself through neurological imprints, Learys created a Hero's Journey for the modern age.The thesis tries to analyze this idea, as it is presented in Robert Anton Wilsons Prometheus Rising, through the lens of the discourse category ”Western Esoterism.” A hard-to-define subject but described as ”the dialectic of the hidden and the revealed in the field of religion.”
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Bozeman, John Marvin. "Searching for SETI: The Social Construction of Aliens and the Quest for a Technological Mythos." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51745.
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This dissertation uses Actor Network Theory (ANT) and Stark and Bainbridge's rational choice theory of religion to analyze an established but controversial branch of science and technology, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Of particular interest are the cultural, and sometimes religious, assumptions that its creators have built into it. The purpose of this analysis is not to discredit SETI, but instead to show how SETI, along with other avant-garde scientific projects, is founded, motivated, and propelled by many of the same types of values and visions for the future that motivate the founders of religious groups. I further argue that the utopian zeal found in SETI and similar movements is not aberrant, but instead common, and perhaps necessary, in many early-stage projects, whether technical or spiritual, which lack a clear near-term commercial or social benefit.Ph. D.
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Hamblin, Scott R. "The Young Women Resource Room: An Implementation of a DVD-Based Training Station Instructional Program." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2007.pdf.
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Josephson, Seth Joshu josephson. "Beastly Traces: The Co-Emergence of Humans and Cattle." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1515025660373023.
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McCormick, Sean Eli. "Transcendence: An Ethical Analysis of Enhancement Technologies." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1464233924.
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Järvensivu, Mika. "IT/Internet, ett hjälpmedel för handikappade." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för religionsvetenskap, 1998. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4460.
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Det här examensarbetet handlar om på vilket sätt Internet/IT kan göra livet lättare för handikappade. Arbetet grundar sig på mitt intresse för teknik och vad den kan göra för nytta för både pedagoger, lärare och främst elever i särskolan.
Jag har bl a undersökt hur Internet/IT används av elever på olika särskolor i Sverige genom att skicka ut e-mail enkäter via e-mail. Med hänsyn till lärarna på särskolorna så har jag inte publicerat vare sig namn eller skolor i arbetet. Detta beror på att jag i min frågeställning inte brytt mig om att få med detta. Det var svaren och inte de svarande som var de väsentliga för arbetet.
Jag har också tagit del av aktuell information som jag har funnit på Internet samt information från rapporter. Den största delen av informationen kommer just från Internet eftersom den informationen är den mest aktuella.
Själva arbetet har gått ut på att undersöka på vilket sätt de funktionshindrade kan få hjälp av Internet och informationsteknologin i sin vardag. Man skulle kunna säga att alla människor kan använda informationsteknologin och oavsett vilket handikapp man har, det gäller bara att kunna anpassa den efter människan.
Examensarbete på Barn- och ungdomspedagogiska programmet vt 1998.
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Cazes, Denis Raymond Robert. "Le corps agrandi : enjeux anthropologiques de la philosophie biologique française de la technique." Thesis, Lille 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LIL30012.
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La philosophie biologique de la technique s'est progressivement constituée depuis un débat d'idées à la fois tributaire des questions du XIXe siècle et d'un fonds philosophique antique. Il en émerge une thèse sur l'action qui fait l'homme civilisé ainsi que sur les sources et attributs de sa mainmise sur le monde à travers les progrès de la technique et l'effet d'agrandissement qui peut en résulter pour le corps individuel et collectif. C'était un programme revendicatif, car il défendait le principe d'une nouvelle pratique de la philosophie et s'installait en position de juge et de substitut de la religion. Contre de tels enjeux, où se croisent originairement des influences allemandes, anglaises et françaises, la philosophie de la technique est entrée en résistance, au risque de perdre de vue plusieurs choses : le sens de sa légitimité philosophique naturelle ; celui de sa vocation à l'interdisciplinarité ; l'accès à un objet latent en elle, le champ définitionnel de l'homme et la question de l'image. reconnaître ce qu'elle est à partir de ce qu'elle fut, demande à la philosophie de la technique : un effort de remise à plat de l'étude des sources dont elle s'est officiellement dotée ; l'élargissement du cercle des autorités ; de se détourner du concordisme ; de résister par l'analyse au préjugé défavorable dont l'accable la critique du naturalisme. C'est à ce prix qu'elle pourra restaurer en elle le sens d'une transition qui devait l'éloigner sans rupture d'un évolutionnisme trop prégnant, tout en préservant son intérêt pour la question de l'homme. En France, une telle mutation se dessine à travers le triangle d'auteurs Bergson, Simondon, Leroi-GourhanBiological philosophy of technics progressively developped rom a debate of ideas depending both on the 19th century's issues and on antique philosophical information holdings. What emerges is a thesis about actions that make a civilized man and about the origins and attributes of his control over the world through technical progress and the magnifying effect that arises as a result for individual or collective systems. it was a ground-breaking program as it was in favour of the principle of a new practice of philosophy and it portayed itself as a judge and a substitute for religion. The philosophy of technics started resisting such challenges which, originally were under German, English and French influence. By doing so it risked losing sight of several aspects : the meaning of its natural philosophical legitimity, that of its vocation for interdisciplinarity, the access to a latent potential inside it, Man's definitional field and the subject of image. Recognizing what the philosophy of technics is from what it used to be requires some conditions : an effort to clarify the study of its official sources, an enlargement of the circle of competent authorities, turning away from concordism, resisting, through analysis, the negative bias poured out over it by the criticism of naturalism. This is the cost at which the philosophy of technics will be able to retsore, in its bosom, a sense of a transition that should move it away, but not cut it from, a too prevalent evolutionism, as well as it should keep its interest for the subject of Man. In France, such a mutation can be observed in a trio of authors : Bergson, Simondon and Leroi-Gourhan
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Nyke, Siri. "Notes Towards a Mental Breakdown : det teknologiska traumat i J.G. Ballards The Atrocity Exhibition." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-3143.
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This study examinates technology's traumatic impact on the male subject in The Atrocity Exhibition by J.G. Ballard. In my analysis I show how the protagonist uses a fetischistic strategy in order to make sense of the trauma that technology embeds. Paradoxically it proves to be the agent of his trauma, but also functions as his shield. The machine is thus in a position of the hinge, the point in a structural system that both enables and deconstruct the system. In the same position we find the woman. She is the very epicentre of the novel and the violence directed towards her is part of a complex problem that I adress. The woman is divided into pieces and fetischized by the male gaze to serve as a solution for his trauma.
Hal Foster's notion ”the double logic of prosthesis” constitutes a theoretical base. The model shows how a fetischistic strategy is applied by avant-garde artists to solve the technological trauma that they experience. Both content and composition of The Atrocity Exhibition are inspired by avant-garde practices, I have therefore compared the text with Foster's theory on how the avant-garde problematized the interaction between man and machine. Marshall McLuhan's belief that the human body and technology are inseparable in the era of electronics further helps me to study technology's effect on perception.
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Wiklund, Roine. "Riksgränsbanans elektrifiering : Stat och företag i samverkan: 1910-1917." Doctoral thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-17409.
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Syftet med föreliggande doktorsavhandling i teknikhistoria är att öka kunskapen om varför, men framförallt hur och under vilka villkor den första elektrifieringen av en statsägd järnväg genomfördes i Sverige. Arbetet med Riksgränsbanans elektrifiering pågick 1908-1917 och var på många sätt ett unikt pionjärprojekt. Två stora tekniska system skulle där komma att sammankopplas med varandra; artonhundratalets mogna järnvägssystem med nittonhundratalets nya elkraftsystem. Riksgränsbanan, den omkring 130 km långa nordligaste delen av Malmbanan mellan Kiruna och Riksgränsen, var världens dittills nordligaste järnväg att elektrifieras och det subarktiska klimatet ställde stora krav på utförandet av tekniska komponenter. Den geografiska lokaliseringen innebar dessutom att de långa avstånden till beslutsfattare inom statsförvaltning och företag måste hanteras. Därutöver genomfördes projektet i en tidsperiod präglad av protektionism, nationalism och internationella konflikter, yttre faktorer som alla också påverkade projektets utformning och genomförande. Att det var Riksgränsbanan som blev den första statliga järnvägslinje att elektrifieras i Sverige berodde på att staten 1907 gått in som hälftenägare i gruvbolaget LKAB och att nya avtal fastställde en ökad brytning och transport av järnmalm, från 1,5 miljoner ton årligen 1908 till 3,85 miljoner ton 1918. Denna mängd kunde inte transporteras inom befintligt system med ångdrift utan omfattande investeringar, vilket innebar att en systemomvandling till elektrisk drift ansågs vara ett bättre alternativ. I maj 1910 beslutade riksdagen anslå 21,5 miljoner kr till projektet som skulle drivas av Järnvägsstyrelsens byrå för elektrisk drift i samverkan med företagen Siemens och ASEA. Kontraktsskrivningen ställde hårda krav på företagen gällande prestanda och utförande och Järnvägsstyrelsen kunde när som helst, senast två år efter övertagandet av driften av banan, besluta att upphäva kontraktet och kräva att företagen återställde anläggningen till ursprungligt skick.Det var en mängd tekniska subsystem och komponenter som skulle färdigställas och sättas samman för att det tekniska primärsystemet ”den elektrifierade Riksgränsbanan” skulle fungera. Speciellt färdigställandet av loken och isolatorerna till ledningssystemet omgärdades av problem som kom att försena projektets färdigställande. Problemen var både organisatoriska och tekniska till sin natur men kunde efterhand åtgärdas genom att det utarbetades bättre rutiner vid korrespondens och annan kontakt mellan aktörerna samt genom att det togs större hänsyn till lokala klimatologiska förhållanden i samband med teknikutveckling. I sin roll som byrådirektör för byrån för elektrisk drift skulle Ivan Öfverholm visa sig vara en stark representant för beställaren och han spelade en central roll för projektets genomförande. Öfverholm kan i detta sammanhang kategoriseras som en offentlig systembyggare som med fast hand styrde projektet. Ibland innebar detta att Öfverholm hamnade i direkt konflikt med företagens representanter men ofta fungerade han också som medlare i de konflikter som ideligen uppstod mellan Byråns och företagens lokala representanter vid anläggningen. Den tvååriga garantitiden inleddes den 1 oktober 1915 och i slutet av 1917 hade nästan samtliga kvarstående arbeten vid anläggningen fullföljts och SJ kunde ta över anläggningen. Slutomdömet om Riksgränsbanans elektrifiering var överlag positivt och 1919 beslutade riksdagen att elektrifiera resterande del av Malmbanan, vilket var genomfört från Narvik till Luleå sommaren 1923. Det banbrytande arbetet i den norrländska ödemarken med att elektrifiera Sveriges nordligaste järnväg var därmed avslutat.Godkänd; 2012; 20120221 (roiwik); DISPUTATION Ämnesområde: Teknikhistoria/History of Technology Opponent: Dr Mats Fridlund, Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori, Göteborgs universitet Ordförande: Biträdande professor Kristina Söderholm, Institutionen för ekonomi, teknik och samhälle, Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag den 20 april 2012, kl 10.15 Plats: A1547, Luleå tekniska universitet
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Kermisch, Céline. "Risques et perceptions des risques: analyse historique et critique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210568.
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Etude historique des conditions d’émergence du champ de recherches de la perception des risques ;analyse critique du paradigme psychométrique et de la théorie culturaliste, ainsi que des conceptions du risque qui les sous-tend. /Historical study of the emergence conditions of risk perception as a research field; critical analysis of the psychometric paradigm and cultural theory, as well as of the underlying risk conceptions.
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Keel, Jason Ladon. "Do Sufis dream of electronic sheikhs? the role of technology within American religious communities /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0017802.
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Tormoehlen, Martin L. "A qualitative assessment of media technology in Catholic K-8th grade religious education programs throughout Indiana." Virtual Press, 2007. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1371479.
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Eight Directors of Religious Education (DREs) were randomly chosen in Indiana and asked to participate in this study to assess the media technology used in their religious education programs. DREs directly control the general curriculum for each class and grade level while mentoring teachers' development and execution of lessons. Catholic parochial schools were not included in this study; the sole focus of this study was Catholic religious education programs.The methods for accessing the media technology consisted of a triangulation between observations, interviews, and document analysis. After the DREs agreed to participate, the researcher spent a day shadowing them and conducted an interview. Also, the researcher collected documents in the form of the church's bulletin and web site when applicable. Only the DRE's perspective was assessed, and not the teacher's, student's or parent's.Department of Telecommunications
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Mason, Mark Daniel. "A Phenomenological Study of Professional Identity Change in Released-time Seminary Teachers." DigitalCommons@USU, 2012. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1289.
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Many practitioners commonly deal with implementing a change that is imposed by an organization. Some imposed changes require practitioners to alter more than what they do in practice but also to change their identity. Many researchers have studied identity change through the lens of sociocultural theory, specifically utilizing communities of practice theory (CoP). However, the majority of these studies used CoP theory as a vehicle to implement the imposed change. Yet some studies have found that after the trial period ends many practitioners revert back to the way they performed in practice prior to the study. One reason for this problem could be that the nature of the change experience that practitioners must undergo is not understood. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to reveal the nature of the change experience of six released-time seminary teachers in response to the adoption of the teaching and learning emphasis (TLE) within the Seminaries and Institutes of Religion (S&I) for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Specifically, the research question was "What is the nature and meaning of the change experience of a sample of released-time seminary teachers who are considered to be effective at learning to understand and implement TLE"? Researching S&I teachers' change experience is important because it may relate not only to the needs of the S&I organization, but also in a broader sense to the nature of the experience of practitioners who undergo an imposed change by the organization for which they work that alters their professional identity. Three central themes were found that represented the nature of the change experience for the sample group. The themes were represented as transformational, sociocultural, and self-reflective change. Each participant's experience varied in the particular details of his individual change experience. Nevertheless, all participants experienced some degree or kind of transformational change within their particular configuration of knowledge, character, and professional practice. Furthermore, all study participants engaged in sociocultural learning practices to facilitate their change. Finally, study participants experienced self-reflective changes.
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Glover, Victoria E. C. ""To Conceive With Child is the Earnest Desire if Not of All, Yet of Most Women": The Advancement of Prenatal Care and Childbirth in Early Modern England: 1500-1770." VCU Scholars Compass, 2018. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5694.
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This thesis analyzes medical manuals published in England between 1500 and 1770 to trace developing medical understandings and prescriptive approaches to conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. While there have been plenty of books written regarding social and religious changes in the reproductive process during the early modern era, there is a dearth of scholarly work focusing on the medical changes which took place in obstetrics over this period. Early modern England was a time of great change in the field of obstetrics as physicians incorporated newly-discovered knowledge about the male and female body, new fields and tools, and new or revived methods into published obstetrical manuals. As men became more prominent in the birthing chamber, instructions in the manuals began to address these men as well. Overall these changes were brought about by changes in the medical field along with changes in culture and religion and the emergence of print culture and rising literacy rates.
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Rivero, Manuel. "Technologie et religionNotes bibliogr. Index : l'impact du confucianisme sur l'usage des technologies industrielles, l'impact du christianisme sur l'usage des technologies de la communication." Aix-Marseille 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995AIX30082.
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Y a-t-il une relation entre la technologie et la religion ? la religion influence-t-elle l'usage des technologies et l'innovation technologique ? s'agit-il d'un impact positif ou negatif ? le developpement extraordinaire de certains pays de l'asie du sud-est a-t-il quelque chose a voir avec leur religion ? nombreux sont les scientifiques et les sociologues qui se posent aujourd'hui ces questions. Cette recherche concerne le role joue par le confucianisme dans l'usage des technologies industrielles ainsi que l'impact du christianisme sur l'usage des technologies de la communication dans les cinq petits dragons: singapour, hong-kong, taiwan, japon et coree du sud. Il s'agit d'une etude realisee sur le terrain et completee par l'apport theorique des chercheurs
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Iyagunã, Dalzira Maria Aparecida. "Templo religioso, natureza e os avanços tecnológicos: os saberes do candomblé na contemporaneidade." Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, 2013. http://repositorio.utfpr.edu.br/jspui/handle/1/711.
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CapesA presente pesquisa teve como objetivo desenvolver um estudo qualitativo para verificar a relação entre a tecnologia e os saberes ancestrais tradicionais no Candomblé, em três nações de diferentes terreiros. As nações são as seguintes: Ketu, Jêje e Bantu. O terreiro Ketu localiza-se na cidade de Salvador; o terreiro Jêje localiza-se no recôncavo baiano, na cidade de Cachoeira; e o terceiro terreiro, Bantu, localiza-se na cidade de São José dos Pinhais, região metropolitana de Curitiba-PR, este sendo um terreiro rural. A proposta deste estudo nestes três terreiros é constatar a relação entre o Candomblé e a internet considerando analisar como se articula essa religião que se refere à natureza e aos valores e saberes ancestrais frente aos avanços tecnológicos. A metodologia se constituiu em analisar entrevistas realizadas com sacerdotisas e sacerdotes, bem como representantes religiosos das três nações pesquisadas. Outro foco desse trabalho foi analisar os impactos da urbanização e da perda de territorialidade, e a importância da preservação da linguagem e a oralidade nos terreiros de Candomblé e ao mesmo tempo da ancestralidade e a hierarquia nas tradições das religiões de matriz africana na África e na diáspora. A análise foi constantemente articulada com uma discussão sobre as mudanças ocorridas na legislação brasileira no que se refere aos direitos das religiões de matriz africana, considerando que essas religiões foram historicamente discriminadas, associadas ao primitivismo e à barbárie. A importância deste trabalho consiste em trazer à tona uma discussão permanente e necessária sobre intolerância religiosa e “estado laico”.
This research intend to develop a qualitative study to investigate the relationship between technology and traditional knowledge in traditional Candomblé in three terraces of different nations. The following nations are: Ketu, Jêje and Bantu. The yard Ketu is located in the city of Salvador, the yard Jêje recôncavo located in Bahia, in Cachoeira and the third yard, Bantu, located in the city of St. Joseph of the Pines, metropolitan region of Curitiba-PR, this being one rural yard. The purpose of this study these three terraces is observed the relationship between the internet and Candomblé considering analyze how religion articulates this relation to nature and to the values and ancestral knowledge forward to technological advances. The methodology consisted in analyzing interviews with priestesses and priests and religious representatives of the three nations surveyed. Another focus of this work was to analyze the impacts of urbanization and loss of territoriality, and the importance of preserving the language and orality in the yards of Candomblé while the ancestry and hierarchy in the traditions of African religions in Africa and in the diaspora. The analysis has been constantly linked with a discussion of the changes in Brazilian law regarding the rights of religions of African, considering that these religions were historically discriminated associated with primitivism and barbarism. The importance of this work is to bring to the fore a permanent and necessary discussion about religious intolerance and "secular state".
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Spyker, Stephen K. "Spirituality and technology on the Appalachian Trail : a study in frontiers." Virtual Press, 2004. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1290777.
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Farinacci, Elisa <1987>. "Beyond a Technology of Security and Segregation: An Ethnographic Study on the Impact of the Israeli-Palestinians Wall on the Christian Communities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7319/.
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This work focuses on analyzing the impact of the security barrier or Wall built between Israel and the West Bank on the Palestinian Christian population of the municipalities of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. Consequently to the disorders and violence arisen during the Second Intifada, the Israeli Government began the planning and construction of a 712 kilometers-long barrier. Although scholars, activists, and the mainstream public opinion interested in the Israeli-Palestinian issue often address the Wall in terms of a technology of occupation or as an antiterrorist technology, in this research I wish to unveil a more complex dimension to the Wall’s presence. Thus, in this work I adopt and adapt a theoretical framework of Latour’s concept of assemblages in as much as it allows to challenge the notion that agency belongs solely to human actors while it embraces the idea that things also exert power. Furthermore, through the concept of assemblages, we are able to develop a cooperation between the phenomenological and the materialist approaches. Through this framework, the Wall is not just a tool in the hands of the Israeli government and army, but it exercises an agency of its own, which intertwines with the agency of the materials and the people who live in its proximities and interact with it. Against this backdrop, we unpack the label “Wall” into its one-word definitions given by the interviewees and separately analyze the different actants that are involved in said definitions and thus exercise agency within the assemblage called Wall. In particular we address its agency in appropriating of land, in exercising control and surveillance, in causing separation, in stirring acts of sumud or steadfastness from the Christian population, in stimulating the development of a new Christian shrine between its cement slabs.
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Curcio, Janice Ann. "Genesis 22 and the socio-religious reforms of Ezra and Nehemiah." Thesis, Brunel University, 2010. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/4528.
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The objective of this research project is to build a sound defense of the hypothesis that Genesis 22, the story of the testing of Abraham, functioned in Persian Period Judah to benefit the systematic socio-religious reforms implemented by Ezra the priestly scribe. It is argued in this dissertation that the “Book of the Law” Ezra read to the Temple community is a version of the Pentateuch, which under Ezra’s care had become the holy writ of Judaism. Based on Ezra’s scribal abilities, priestly status, royal commission to teach God’s Law to the people of the Trans-Euphrates Satrapy, and his impetus to reform the apostate Temple community, it is argued that Ezra is the final redactor of the Book of the Law of Moses. Being deeply immersed in the Pentateuch, it is most likely that Ezra would have used the narrative material in the corpus that would best effect socio-religious reform. It is shown in this dissertation that there could be no better text than Genesis 22 to instill that ideology in the apostate Temple community. It is further postulated that Genesis 22 would have been used at that time to instill in the apostate members of that community a sense of reverence for God, obedience to the tenets of the Book of the Law, which overwhelmingly advocates a lifestyle of socio-religious separateness. It is also argued that embracing that ideology was paramount to the survival of the Temple community as a distinct religious entity in the Persian Empire, as well as to regaining their autonomy over the Land. A redaction critical analysis, an examination of key words and phrases, a consideration of separateness as the ideology of the postexilic period, and a study on cultic reform in Ancient Israel are used to support the argument that Genesis 22 was used to impact the wayward fifth-century Jews. Furthermore, it is shown that divine testing, the fear of God, covenant, and socio-religious separateness expressed in the Abraham cycle (all of which culminate in Genesis 22) are the main concerns of Ezra, making the narrative an indispensable didactic in the reform and indoctrination of the apostate elders, priests and Levites of the Jerusalem Temple community. It is shown that Abraham’s demonstration of utter reverence and radical obedience to God’s directives would have best set the standard of the God fearing Jew at that time. Having apparently lost their identity as the people of Yahweh, whose original vocation it was to bless the nations with the revelation of the one true God of creation and his Law, it has been argued in this dissertation that Genesis 22 would have been used in the effort to restore that identity to the Temple community in the fifth-century reform movement.
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Moraes, Welliton Rogério Barros. "Realidades expandidas: Influências da tecnologia no transe religioso - estudo de caso sobre ayahuasca." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1935.
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This dissertation aims to establish correlations between virtuality technology, promoted by computer systems, and the symbolic universe, created by religious affiliation in which the phenomenon of trance exerts primary function. The prerogative postulated for this work is that the expansion and multiplication of realities arising from the intensification of the current use of technology gives the individual communication skills beyond their biological capacity, which in parallel pathways dialogues with religious experiences that involve contacts with extraordinary universes. This argument is unsubstantiated by theorists who have studied the subject and supported by individuals who make religious use of ayahuasca for at least five years, who were subject of case study in this research
Essa dissertação objetiva estabelecer correlações entre a virtualidade tecnológica, promovida pelos sistemas computacionais, e o universo simbólico, criado pelas pertenças religiosas nas quais o fenômeno do transe exerce função primordial. A prerrogativa postulada por esse trabalho é de que a expansão e a multiplicação das realidades decorrentes da atual intensificação do uso da tecnologia conferem ao indivíduo habilidades de comunicação além da sua capacidade biológica, o que por vias paralelas dialoga com experiências religiosas que pressupõem contatos com universos extraordinários. Essa argumentação é substanciada por teóricos que se debruçaram sobre o tema e corroborada por indivíduos que fazem uso religioso da ayahuasca há pelo menos cinco anos, que foram objeto de estudo de caso nessa pesquisa
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Lawson, Michael David. "Children of a One-Eyed God: Impairment in the Myth and Memory of Medieval Scandinavia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3538.
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Using the lives of impaired individuals catalogued in the Íslendingasögur as a narrative framework, this study examines medieval Scandinavian social views regarding impairment from the ninth to the thirteenth century. Beginning with the myths and legends of the eddic poetry and prose of Iceland, it investigates impairment in Norse pre-Christian belief; demonstrating how myth and memory informed medieval conceptualizations of the body. This thesis counters scholarly assumptions that the impaired were universally marginalized across medieval Europe. It argues that bodily difference, in the Norse world, was only viewed as a limitation when it prevented an individual from fulfilling roles that contributed to their community. As Christianity’s influence spread and northern European powers became more focused on state-building aims, Scandinavian societies also slowly began to transform. Less importance was placed on the community in favor of the individual and policies regarding bodily difference likewise changed; becoming less inclusive toward the impaired.
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Mullins, Daniel Austin. "The evolution of literacy : a cross-cultural account of literacy's emergence, spread, and relationship with human cooperation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:98d1f155-c96d-4ba0-ac36-c610d3d7454c.
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Social theorists have long argued that literacy is one of the principal causes and hallmark features of complex society. However, the relationship between literacy and social complexity remains poorly understood because the relevant data have not been assembled in a way that would allow competing hypotheses to be adjudicated. The project set out in this thesis provides a novel account of the multiple origins of literate behaviour around the globe, the principal mechanisms of its cultural transmission, and its relationship with the cultural evolution of large-group human cooperation and complex forms of socio-political organisation. A multi-method large-scale cross-cultural approach provided the data necessary to achieve these objectives. Evidence from the societies within which literate behaviour first emerged, and from a representative sample of ethnographically-attested societies worldwide (n=74), indicates that literate behaviour emerged through the routinization of rituals and pre-literate sign systems, eventually spreading more widely through classical religions. Cross-cultural evidence also suggests that literacy assumed a wide variety of forms and socio-political functions, particularly in large, complex groups, extending evolved psychological mechanisms for cooperation, which include reciprocity, reputation formation and maintenance systems, social norms and norm enforcement systems, and group identification. Finally, the results of a cross-cultural historical survey of first-generation states (n=10) reveal that simple models assuming single cause-and-effect relationships between literacy and complex forms of socio-political organisation must be rejected. Instead, literacy and first-generation state-level polities appear to have interacted in a complex positive feedback loop. This thesis contributes to the wider goal of transforming social and cultural anthropology into a cumulative and rapid-discovery science.
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Schölly, Reto [Verfasser]. "Homo ex machina – die dritte Schöpfung : Über die kybernetische Reflexivität zwischen Schöpfer und Geschöpf in Kunst und Technologie der Gegenwart / Reto Schölly." Aachen : Shaker, 2013. http://d-nb.info/1051574277/34.
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Halverson, Taylor David. "Improving blended learning environments for biblical studies applications of the "innovations in distance education" theory /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3238499.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Instructional Systems and Technology and Religious Studies, 2006."Title from dissertation home page (viewed July 12, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-10, Section: A, page: 3695. Adviser: Charles M. Reigeluth.
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Khan, Nowshad. "Improving the potential for adoption of agricultural technology through enhanced use of the mass media and the religious community in disadvantaged environments in Pakistan." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245006.
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Brinkman-Kealey, Renee. "A qualitative phenomenological analysis exploring digital immigrants' use of church-based computer-supported collaborative learning." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3569341.
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Individuals and societies have traditionally sought answers to important questions in life through religion. In the 21st century, physical churches with clergy are no longer the sole source of spiritual answers or knowledge. Since the late 1960s, church attendance has been declining. Church leaders have begun to implement new methods such as using the Internet as a resource to support the needs of church members. While digital natives—persons who are conversant with the Internet—view electronic communication as a means to express ideas and feelings, digital immigrants—for whom the Internet is new—lag behind in utilizing the Internet. The purpose of the qualitative phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of digital immigrants who used a Computer Supported Collaborative Learning church website to understand how the Internet affects their perceptions of religious identity. The findings revealed that the participants were unfamiliar with sharing knowledge through computer supported collaborative learning. The findings also showed that the benefits of CSCL were recognized by digital immigrants, but Church leaders may need to learn how to provide training and support for digital immigrants by blending face-to-face sermons and reflective CSCL engagement.
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Santos, Jussara Ventura dos. "O uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TIC) na disseminação da informação religiosa." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2014. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/3975.
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Analyzes the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as an enabling tool in information dissemination of religious matrix in cyberspace process. Aims to a) propose a concept for religious information matrix b) describe the informational devices, ICTs used by IEADPB and c) seize the motivation of using these devices in the technical processing of information dissemination that Institution Religious. Warp presents a methodology based on the principles of ethnography to design during the study. Defines how the research universe adpb portal whose institution maintains the Evangelical Assembly of God Church in Paraíba - IEADPB. Identifying the portal through analysis of characteristics, as a virtual community derivative. In his theoretical framework presents themes such as the centrality of ICTs in the information society, which is a historical / conceptual survey of the term giving lists typology focuses on some of the most popular technologies today. Proposes the construction of the concept of religious information matrix relying on theoretical dealing philosophy and the theory of concept example of Deleuze and Guattari (philosophy) and Dahlberg (theory) . This chapter presents the relevant aspects regarding the information in a pluralistic society and how to understand the religious phenomenon as a source of information from this line of thought to initiate its proposed conceptual construction exposing its plane of immanence. Explains the emergence of ciber-religião as subtopics of this chapter contains reflections about cyberculture and the transition period between traditional and virtual, as well as ascertains the presence of religious matrix of information in virtual environments. The process of data collection makes use of an arrangement consisting of two classical instruments, the mixed questionnaire and semi-structured interviews in conjunction with direct observation. At the stage of data analysis uses the triangulation of them to understand the development of the portal in three perspectives: the idealization of the project, their creative process and management. Weaves the final product considerations of the knowledge acquired during the survey, answering the initial research questions, particularly highlighting the relevance of this study to society, information science and knowledge as a whole. Emphasizes the (in)visibility given to religious information in public spaces. Exposes the development of the information systems IEADPB
Interpreta a harmonia entre tecnologia e informação como sendo o agente que impulsiona a transformação do homem e sua estrutura social. Analisa o uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação (TICs) como ferramenta facilitadora no processo de disseminação da informação religiosa no ciberespaço. Tem por objetivos: propor um conceito para a informação religiosa; descrever os dispositivos informacionais utilizadas pela Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus na Paraíba - IEADPB; e apreender a motivação da utilização desses dispositivos no processamento técnico da disseminação da informação. Apresenta uma metodologia pautada nos princípios da netnografia, delimita como universo de pesquisa o portal da IEADPB. Identifica o portal por meio da análise de características, como sendo uma comunidade virtual derivada. Em seu arcabouço teórico, apresenta temas como a centralidade das TICs na sociedade da informação, onde faz um levantamento histórico/conceitual do termo dando ênfase a tipologia e elencando algumas das tecnologias mais populares nos dias atuais. Propõe a construção do conceito de informação religiosa apoiando-se nos teóricos que tratam a filosofia e teoria do conceito a exemplo de Deleuze e Guattari (filosofia) e Dahlberg (teoria). Neste mesmo capítulo, apresenta aspectos relevantes a respeito da informação em uma sociedade pluralista e como se entender o fenômeno religioso como fonte de informação para, a partir dessa linha de pensamento, dar início a sua proposta de construção conceitual expondo por fim seu plano de imanência. Explana sobre o surgimento da ciber-religião, como subtópicos desse capítulo, traz reflexões a cerca da cibercultura e o período de transição entre o tradicional e o virtual, assim como averigua a presença da informação religiosa em ambientes virtuais. O processo de coleta de dados faz uso de um arranjo composto por dois instrumentos clássicos, o questionário misto e a entrevista semiestruturada em conjunto com a observação direta. Na fase da análise dos dados, utiliza a triangulação dos mesmos em comunhão com todo aporto permitido pela cosmovisão netnográfica para compreender o desenvolvimento do portal em três perspectivas: a idealização do projeto, seu processo criativo e de gerenciamento. Tece nas considerações finais uma rede conceitual formada pelo produto do conhecimento adquirido durante a pesquisa, respondendo dessa forma, as questões iniciais da investigação, sobretudo destacando a relevância desse estudo para a sociedade, a Ciência da Informação e o conhecimento como um todo. Ressalta a (in)visibilidade dada à informação religiosa nos espaços públicos e expõe o desenvolvimento dos regimes de informação da IEADPB