The evolution of the concept of environmental discourses: is environmental ideologies a useful concept? Aliaksandr Novikau* Department of Politics and International Affairs, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA. Abstract The concept of environmental discourses currently has two distinct meanings in environmental politics. The first approach emphasizes its traditional meaning, as textual ...

Despite the attempts of well-designed anonymous communication tools to protect users from tracking or identification, flaws in surrounding software (such as web browsers) and mistakes in configuration may leak the user’s identity. We introduce Nymix, an anonymitycentric operating system architecture designed “top-tobottom” to strengthen identityand tracking-protection. Nymix’s core contribution...

It is generally agreed upon the fact that the quality of Identityand Access Management (IAM) data such as user accounts, access privileges or consistent user representation among different security domains is low. Growing user populations in mediumand large-sized organizations lead to a so called “identity chaos” in which over-privileged employees increase the risk of insider misuse. Recent gov...

Ubiquitous Computing, an idea introduced by Mark Weiser, and often bracketed with slight modifications under the concepts of Pervasive Computing or Ambient Intelligence, imagines in the extreme case the entire mesosphere saturated by information and communication technologies (ICT). All of the essays of this issue probe the practices, ideologies, and power relations of UbiComp development. They...

Culture influences action not by providing the ultimate values toward which action is oriented, but by shaping a repertoire or "tool kit" of habits, skills, and styles from which people construct "strategies of action." Two models of cultural influence are developed, for settled and unsettled cultural periods. In settled periods, culture independently influences action, but only by providing re...

In this review, we highlight the importance of understanding diversity ideologies, or people’s beliefs and practices regarding diversity, for social psychological research on intergroup relations. This review focuses on two diversity ideologies, colorblindness and multiculturalism, and their impact on core issues related to intergroup conflict, such as stereotypes, prejudice, attitudes toward i...