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Over the last few weeks, my thoughts have been turning toward the idea of “going analogue” and what digital, mobile, and smart technology has done to our concept, and value, of time. Most recently, I found my frustration hit its peak when, on opening a journal paper, I was confronted with “this is a long…
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From the beginning of my PhD, I noticed the word “engagement” getting thrown around a lot in the university (and in a number of other academic events I would attend). My initial reaction to this was abject fear as I pictured me trying to do research with children (while I have learned that I do…
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This is a brief thought (maybe, I say that a lot an then write an essay) that quite regularly passes in and out of my mind. When we talk about Artificial Intelligence, how intelligent are we actually talking? Now, as a disclaimer, I am not referring to the highly advanced, technical wizardry type AI’s that…
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Over the last 7(ish) years, I have both researched and observed our growing relationship with AI. Now, while I have not extended the particular observations I am about to discuss in any official or robust research capacity (hence it is in my unpublished ponderings), I have become increasingly aware that that a big problem with…
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It has been a long time since the last post. A long. Long. Time. As I entered this final year of my PhD, I did intend to “slow things down” on here as the effort had to shift to completing the thesis at a comfortable rate. I had ambitiously envisioned a fortnightly, or even monthly…
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After spending the last few months working on a theoretical paper that will eventually (eventually being now, as I plan to return to the task after this post) my PhD theory chapter. I have been thinking a lot about how ‘academic’ writing is defined and, if creativity has a place in academic writing. Ornament and…
Accounting for Humanity 