Download or read book Stampede Theory written by Philip Feldman and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stampede Theory: Human Nature, Technology, and Runaway Social Realities explores the biological, evolutionary and technological systems that drive troubling patterns of behavior among groups while also proposing actions to combat harm. The book discusses different ways that living beings coordinate and how the emergence of communication technologies has changed behaviors. As the problem of echo chambers and misinformation grows, it is crucial to understand underlying causes and provide solutions—this book does just that by pulling from multiple fields to produce a coherent story about how social realities are created and how they can create resilient communities or reinforce damaging beliefs. This interdisciplinary approach rests on three primary pillars: 1) How information systems affect the distribution of ideas, information, influence and belief; 2. Technology-mediated communication between individuals and groups, from stories pressed into clay tablets to "likes on social media; 3) The sociology of behavioral bias in groups ranging from teams to nations. Because of its interdisciplinary foundations, the book includes chapters that address behavioral economics, cults, artificial intelligence, and the individual psychology of belief. This will be a valuable resource for a range of readers, from political and social scientists to decision-makers in government and business, scientists in the fields of machine learning and AI, and more. - Presents a usable framework to approach and understand current sociotechnical trends, as well as methods for repair in order to create resilient, sustainable online environments - Establishes an understanding of the deep biases in human nature and how they interact with technology - Details specific mechanisms to approach the repair of our sociotechnical systems, including diversity injection and belief cartography

Download or read book Stampede Theory written by Philip G. Feldman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our information environment can be viewed as a densely-connected socio-technical ecosystem. Whenever we run a search, algorithms monitor our behavior -- if enough of us pick the second or third link, then that link will rise. These feedback loops crowd out the different or unusual, making the accessible information environment become less diverse. At scale, this can make our socio-technical ecosystem brittle and less resilient to shocks or manipulation. This dissertation explores these issues in two parts. The first is the development of Stampede Theory, which shows how animal behavior patterns in physical environments are similar to human belief-based behavior in online environments. The second part of this research creates \textit{navigable maps} based on the text that online actors generate over time. These sequences create trajectories in belief space. Individuals using similar terms at the same time have a high social influence. Agents whose textual trajectory aligns poorly with other agents have a low social influence and are nomads. Flocking lies between these extremes. Each of these behaviors has an identifiable signature that can be detected by comparing the trajectories. These trajectories can be woven together to create maps of belief space. The bounds of this space are defined by nomads. They explore widely, and arrive at their beliefs from different directions. Flocking behavior occurs within these bounds, and shows as popular regions with diffuse edges. Stampedes cut through these areas in narrow ridges. As such maps can be used to find and understand the relationships between trustworthy (nomad), safe (flocking), while alerting users and information systems of dangerous (stampede) belief regions.

Download or read book The World s Work written by Walter Hines Page and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of our time.

Download or read book Dungeon Busters Volume 2 written by Toma Shinozaki and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One fateful day, Ezoe Kazuhiko stepped foot inside the dungeon that appeared inside his yard and ended up triggering the Dungeon Outbreak Phenomenon. Together with the companions he’s gathered under his new company, Dungeon Busters Inc., he successfully clears Sapporo Dungeon. Within its deepest parts, he discovers...reliefs confirming the existence of an entity behind the emergences?! As humankind celebrates its first ever victory, Ezoe decides where to take the company going forward and cooperates with the Japanese government in pushing the adventurer initiative ever further. At the same time, the successive appearance of even more dungeons forces other countries around the world to decide exactly what it is that they will be doing about the dungeons. How will the major powers of Gamerica and Sina move? Change is coming, and fast! The world continues plunging into even further chaos in the second volume of this dungeon-delving epic with overwhelming realism!

Download or read book Counterterrorism Bridging Operations and Theory written by Robert J. Bunker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counterterrorism/Homeland Security/Security Studies Contributors: Dr. John Arquilla • Jeffrey “Skunk” Baxter • Matt Begert • Dr. Stefan Brem • Michael Brooks • Dr. Robert J. Bunker • Rick Y. Byrum • Lisa J. Campbell • Irina A. Chindea • Dr. Martin van Creveld • James P. Denney • Matthew G. Devost • T. Kessara Eldridge • Adam Elkus • Dr. Fadi Essmaeel • Dr. Christopher Flaherty • Phillip W. Fouts • Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross • Dr. Russell W. Glenn • Scott Gerwehr • Dr. Lester W. Grau • Thomas Greco • Dr. Daniel S. Gressang IV • Dr. Rohan Gunaratna • Dr. Thomas X. Hammes • Jennifer (Demmert) Hardwick • Daniel P. Heenan • Dr. Brian K. Houghton • Ali A. Jalali • Brian Michael Jenkins • Dr. Peter Katona • Hal Kempfer • Dr. David Kilcullen • James T. Kirkhope • Dr. Scott P. Layne • Ernest (Ernie) J. Lorelli • Dr. Prem Mahadevan • Paul M. Maniscalco • Kevin R. McCarthy • Jason Pate • William C. Patrick III • Ralph Peters • Dr. Raymond Picquet • Caitlin Poling • Byron Ramirez • John Robb • Dr. David Ronfeldt • Mitchell D. Silber • Dr. Joshua Sinai • Dr. Erroll G. Southers • Dr. John P. Sullivan • Michael Tanji • Dr. Gregory F. Treverton • Donald E. Vandergriff • G.I. Wilson

Download or read book Hybrid Play written by Adriana de Souza e Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity—one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of interacting with and understanding the world. The chapters in this collection explore hybrid making, hybrid subjects, and hybrid spaces, generating interesting conversations about the past, current and future nature of hybrid play. Together, the authors offer important insights into how place and space are co-constructed through play; how, when, and for what reasons people occupy hybrid spaces; and how cultural practices shape elements of play and vice versa. A diverse group of scholars and practitioners provides a rich interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of great interest to those working in the areas of games studies, media studies, communication, gender studies, and media arts.

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Download or read book The Kept Man of the Princess Knight Vol 2 written by Toru Shirogane and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no escaping his dark past...In the wicked city of Gray Neighbor, Matthew continues the dirty work of hunting down street dealers selling Release. He goes to great lengths to wean Arwin off the drug and protect her reputation—even going so far as to permanently silence a friend who discovered the princess knight’s secret. And Matthew isn’t the only one trying to clean up the Dungeon City. Paladins have arrived to address the rampant corruption, and among them is a knight searching for his sister’s murderer. Despite Matthew’s carefully crafted image as a weak and harmless kept man, he begins to draw suspicion. Will his dark deeds and Arwin’s secret come to light...?

Download or read book Stampede written by Kimberly A. Williams and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-25T00:00:00Z with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimberly A. Williams wants the annual Calgary Stampede to change its ways. An intrepid feminist scholar with a wry sense of humour, Williams deftly weaves theory, history, pop culture and politics to challenge readers to make sense of how gender and race matter at Canada’s oldest and largest western heritage festival. Stampede examines the settler colonial roots of the Calgary Stampede and uses its centennial celebration in 2012 to explore how the event continues to influence life on the streets and in the bars and boardrooms of Canada’s fourth-largest city. Using a variety of cultural materials—photography, print advertisements, news coverage, poetry and social media—Williams asks who gets to be part of the “we” in the Stampede’s slogan “We’re Greatest Together,” and who doesn’t.

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Download or read book Building art written by Andrew King and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building/Art discusses changing ideas about the nature and function of the city as an essential cultural network, one that each of its inhabitants participates in, whether consciously or unconsciously. The city acts as a backdrop to everyday life and influences the ways in which individuals interact with a greater cultural community. With contributions from experts in diverse fields of inquiry, Building/Art offers a discussion of the dynamic relationship between form and culture in word and picture.

Download or read book Stampede s Trail written by Eduardo Dávila and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-08 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denali National Park, Alaska. During Thanksgiving weekend, Special Agent Harry Dellmonico hasn’t finished adapting to his forced transfer to the far north when he is sent by his supervisor to the remote community of Healy to investigate the strange death of one of its most notorious citizens. What begins as a routine murder case within federal jurisdiction, will lead Dellmonico and his fellow partner, Joe Finney, into the dark fabric that extends beneath the idyllic and peaceful local community with unexpected consequences. Harry Dellmonico, a previously reputed criminologist with the FBI, currently fallen into disgrace within the agency, must resort to his experience and his tarnished ingenuity to face one of the most controversial investigations of his long career, forcing both agents to face their own ghosts in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet. Eduardo Dávila immerses us in a vibrant thriller that will arrest you from the first to the last page thanks to his bold narrative style.

Download or read book The Quantum Revolution written by Kent A. Peacock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum mechanics is one of the great success stories of modern physics, making sense of the very small just as Einstein's theory of relativity made sense of the very large. But, for most students, the ideas that make quantum mechanics powerful can be confusing and counterintuitive. This volume in the Greenwood Guides to Great Ideas in Science series provides a history of quantum mechanics from the early breakthroughs of Planck and Einstein, at the beginning of the 20th century, to the present frontiers of quantum computing and quantum gravity. The approach is entirely non-technical, and is aimed at the general reader who may not have much mathematical background but who has a strong curiosity about some of the most important developments in modern science. Quantum Mechanics: A Historical Perspective traces the history of this powerful theory, including: ; The early discoveries by Max Planck and Albert Einstein regarding the quantization of radiation ; The early quantum theory, including Neils Bohr's theory of the atom ; The birth of modern quantum mechanics through the work of Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Born, Dirac and others ; Applications of quantum mechanics in chemistry, nuclear physics, electronics, and many other areas ; Recent work in quantum computation and quantum information theory The book emphasizes the fact that despite the great success of quantum mechanics, many exciting intellectual frontiers remain open for further researchers to explore. It includes a glossary, a timeline, and a bibliography of accessible resources for further research.

Download or read book The Behaviourist in the Classroom written by Kevin Wheldall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decade preceeding the original publication of this book the discipline of behaviour analysis was becoming increasingly influential in educational circles, but many of the practices we now take for granted were still being pioneered. This book considers the place of behaviour analysis in education and describes work on behavioural classroom management in British schools. Four further chapters consider the behavioural approach to teaching in both primary and secondary schools in terms of tutoring at home and for use with emotionally disturbed children. The book concludes with chapters on the role of theory in and an ethical appraisal of behavioural methods.

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Download or read book Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories written by Homer Eugene LeGrand and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical account of the triumph of the global theory of plate tectonics and its implications for the "modern revolution in geology" of the 1960s and 1970s after fifty years of controversy and competition.

Download or read book Hyperspace written by Michio Kaku and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissued in new covers, this is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of the most exciting work in modern physics, including research into the 10th dimension, time warps, and multiple universes, to outline what may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything.