In this paper I have the pleasure of responding to three insightful commentaries to my paper, Bridging the gap between politics and techniques: On the next practices of participatory design (Kyng 2010). The commentaries are by Ellen Balka (2010), Helena Karasti (2010) and Dan Shapiro (2010). They deserve more in depth consideration than time and space allow. Hopefully the authors and I, as well...

recent studies demonstrate an overlapping relationship between faith practices of individuals, family functioning, and the corporate faith of congregations. this study reports on the psychometric properties of the Christian faith Practices Scale (CfPS), which was created to empirically measure dykstra’s faith behaviors or “practices.” analysis of a large purposive sample (n=7,403) indicates ini...

________________________________________________________________________ Jane L. Kenney is an Associate Professor, in the Department of Professional and Secondary Education, and Ellen Newcombe, Director, College of Education Technology Center at West Chester University. Jane L. Kenney can be reached at [email protected]. Flipping Instruction in an Undergraduate Education Course: Findings from a...

PURPOSE To describe African American women's experience of being at high risk for breast cancer. DESIGN A hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to guide in-depth interviews and analysis. Methods to ensure trustworthiness and rigor were included. METHODS Open interviews were conducted with 20 African American women who were at high risk for breast cancer (family history, personal hi...

Since anonymous agents can spread misinformation with impunity, many people advocate for greater accountability for internet speech. This paper provides a veritistic argument that accountability mechanisms can cause significant epistemic problems for internet encyclopedias and social media communities. I show that accountability mechanisms can undermine both the dissemination of true beliefs an...

Software is everywhere. However, software is not always trustworthy. Confronting the demand of software trustworthiness evaluation, this paper proposes a novel software trustworthiness evaluation approach based on combination weights (CW) and improved TOPSIS methods. The determination of CW relies on exper gments and mathematical computation together. FAHP method is used to determine the import...

in the popularity of the Internet, e-commerce more and more into people's daily lives. E-commerce is different from the traditional forms of face to face trading patterns, which requires the users to have a good faith transaction. To detect the user's trustworthiness, models of reputation system have been proposed to the user's credibility to determine whether a transaction is feasible. Based o...

study of the works of rumi and kierkegaard shows that both thinkers in some principles like faith and morality, faith and leap, and also in relation between devil and faith, and destiny and faith, come to a common point. both of them believe that human’s duty is to surrender to god’s will, and the devil is an obstacle against faith. they also put emphasize on the matter of leap in faith. moreov...