Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in The Conversation entitled ‘Electric cars won’t save us if the numbers don’t add up.’ The full text can be found here.
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Tracing and merging: The danger of enriching social network databases – Emmanuel Lazega
Professor Emmanuel Lazega recently published an article in La Vie des Idées entitled ‘Traçages et fusions: Du danger d’enrichir les bases de données de réseaux sociaux‘ (Tracing and merging: The danger of enriching social network databases). The full text can be found here.
Pandemic Aware Economies, Public Health Business Models and (Im)possible futures – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan has reproduced his Retail Review article ‘‘Pandemic Aware Economies, Public Health Business Models and (Im)possible futures: What happens to a Cortisol community?’ as a series of blog posts on the Real-World Economics Review Blog. This work is also summarized on the website of Leeds Beckett University. The full text of the article can be found on Professor Morgan’s ResearchGate profile here.
How will new technology shape the world? – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published the following article on the website of Leeds Beckett University: ‘How will new technology shape the world?‘
The Ninth CSO Workshop: AI’s significance for human society
The ninth annual Centre for Social Ontology workshop took place on January 10th, 2020, at the Grenoble Ecole de Management. Participating members included Prof. Pierpaolo Donati, Prof. Andrea Maccarini, Prof. Margaret S. Archer, Dr. Mark Carrigan, Prof. Philip Gorski, Prof. Gazi Islam, Prof. Jamie Morgan, Prof. Emmanuel Lazega, Prof. Doug Porpora.
SCHEDULE
9h – 12h: Open research round table with CSO members on the theme of “AI’s significance for human society”
14h – 17h: Presentations by GEM early career and doctoral researchers to CSO members
The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in The Conversation entitled ‘The fourth industrial revolution could lead to a dark future.’ The full text can be found here.
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Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan and co-author Professor Barry Gills have recently published an article on the Common Alternatives website: ‘Global Climate Emergency: Preventing fatal “future facts” from becoming reality.’ This article is based on their paper in the journal Globalizations, entitled “Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity“.
Who Will Win the AI Battle? – Ismael Al-Amoudi
Director of the Centre for Social Ontology, Professor Ismael Al-Amoudi, recently appeared on Xerfi Canal to discuss the ethical challenges presented by artificial intelligence. The video can be viewed here (in French):
Boris Johnson: Brave or Reckless? – Jamie Morgan
Professor Jamie Morgan recently published an article in Politics Means Politics magazine: ‘Boris Johnson — Brave or reckless?‘ The article was also reproduced on the website of Leeds Beckett University.
22nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR), July 31 – August 2, 2019
The International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) are now accepting abstract submissions for their annual conference, which this year focuses on the topic of ‘post-truth’. The organisers explain that the conference will “explore, from a Critical Realist perspective, the challenges ‘post-truth’ politics pose for society, the need for value-based research, and the role, representation and dissemination of academic knowledge in the public sphere.”
Proposals for paper sessions on the following themes are especially invited:
- The role and representation of scientific knowledge, evidence and expertise in the public domain
- The value base and emancipatory potential of academic knowledge and its scope to inform policy and practice
- The application of Critical Realism to real-world problems and issues
- Climate change/ denial of climate change and environmental protection
- The complementarities and tensions between postmodernism and neoliberal political discourse and politics
- International politics in a ‘post-truth’ environment
- The relationship between Critical Discourse Analysis/Studies and Critical Realism
- Education, including higher education, in the context of post-truth politics
- Health and well-being in the context of neoliberal politics
The conference will take place at the University of Southampton, between the 31st of July and the 2nd of August, 2019. It will include a roundtable on the work of Andrew Collier. Further information about the conference can be accessed at https://iacrsoton.wordpress.com, and enquiries can be sent to Erin Forward: E.M.Forward@soton.ac.uk
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