‘ANNE GOES ROGUE FOR ABORTION RIGHTS!’ EXPLORING DISCURSIVE MATERIALIZATION ACROSS AND BEYOND ONLINE PLATFORMS

Exploring super-resolution implementations across multiple platforms

The performance of many applications, such as video streaming, webcam conferencing, and aerial surveillance, all greatly depend on video quality. A major issue with higher quality video is that either more data bandwidth or storage resources must be dedicated for transferring or storing the video. However, if the low-resolution video is transferred or stored in order to conserve data bandwidth ...

Bodies, rights and abortion.

The issue of abortion is discussed with reference to the claim that people have a right of control over their own bodies. Do people "own" their own bodies? If so, what would be entailed? These questions are discussed in commonsense terms and also in relation to the jurisprudence of Hohfeld, Honore, Munzer and Waldron. It is argued that whether or not women are morally and/or should be legally e...

Beyond being online: Exploring place-based presence

Use of Presence and Instant Messaging (PIM) applications, which support ad-hoc communication, has grown very rapidly recently, not only at home, but also at work. Early studies on use of PIM applications in the workplace, however, indicate that PIM applications need to be adapted towards the workplace context. We are interested in adaptations that provide more detailed presence information. In ...

Abortion rights in America.

Measuring discursive influence across scholarship

Assessing scholarly influence is critical for understanding the collective system of scholarship and the history of academic inquiry. Influence is multifaceted, and citations reveal only part of it. Citation counts exhibit preferential attachment and follow a rigid "news cycle" that can miss sustained and indirect forms of influence. Building on dynamic topic models that track distributional sh...