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Category Archives: Articles and Essays

Technoethics

Special Issue on Technoethics and New Military Technologies

March 25, 2013by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOETHICS (IJT) Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form) Submission deadline: August 1, 2013 Guest Editor: Marcus Schulzke, State University […]

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Academia, Academic Journalism, Articles and Essays, Ethics and morals, Philosophy of technology, Scholarly Interviews
INFOAMERICA

100 Years of McLuhan – Iberoamerican Communication Review

June 28, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

The University of Málaga’s Iberoamerican Communication Review (www.infoamerica.org) has just released a double issue of its scholarly journal, dedicated to Marshall McLuhan. The publication featuring articles by Eric McLuhan, Elena […]

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Academia, Articles and Essays, CMNS, Media Ecology
divide

Wasting Time Is New Divide in Digital Era

June 1, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

By MATT RICHTEL In the 1990s, the term “digital divide” emerged to describe technology’s haves and have-nots. It inspired many efforts to get the latest computing tools into the hands of […]

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Articles and Essays, CMNS
Stoddart

Social media websites ignoring privacy laws

June 1, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

By Meagan Fitzpatrick, CBC News Canada’s privacy commissioner is concerned about some social media companies ignoring privacy laws, and said today that Parliament should impose stronger sanctions when they are broken. […]

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Articles and Essays, CMNS

Human Beings Shining

May 23, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

“I shall not cease to practice philosophy, to [care for] the best possible state of your soul [psyches therapeia].”— Socrates Philosophers Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly have written a scholarly and […]

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Academia, Articles and Essays, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Psychology and Psichiatry
Thinking man

Cognizance Online Journal of Philosophy

May 20, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

Summer 2012 (Everyday Ethics) – Call for Papers Deadline: July 1st, 2012 Cognizance is an online journal created to showcase outstanding work in philosophy and promote undergraduate interest in philosophical topics. […]

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Academia, Articles and Essays, Philosophy

Trauma, Death, Resurrection: A Russian-American Conversation

May 3, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

Collective trauma needs to be held in a dialogue of emotional understanding. Published on May 2, 2012 by Robert D. Stolorow, Ph.D. in Feeling, Relating, Existing A conversation between Robert Stolorow [RDS] and […]

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Academia, Articles and Essays, Philosophy, Psychology and Psichiatry

Peace Prize for Homeless Hotspots

April 6, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

by Evan Selinger When the media discovered the Homeless Hotspots “charitable experiment,” it responded with a torrent of moral condemnation. Critics wasted no time denouncing the initiative as a publicity stunt that […]

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Articles and Essays, CMNS, Philosophy

What Is Character and How Does It Change?

March 25, 2012by Laureano Ralon Leave a comment

“Traditionally, in psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, the term “character” has been used to refer to constellations or configurations of behavioral traits: “Anal characters” are said to be compulsive and perfectionistic; “hysterical characters” […]

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Academia, Articles and Essays, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Psychology and Psichiatry

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