Types and Forms of Automation on Twitter - PD Dr Florian Muhle
Seminar
While previous approaches to the detection of social bots work with automated methods and only make binary differentiations between bots and humans, this paper presents a qualitative approach to the classification of automated accounts in social media. Based on a case study on the identification of…
Judy Wajcman - Silicon Valley’s Quest for Temporal Optimization
Lecture
There is a widespread assumption that digital technologies are radically altering our perception of time: that we live too fast, that time is scarce and that the pace of everyday life is accelerating beyond our control. The iconic image that abounds is that of the frenetic, technologically…
Imbricating the physical and virtual: An autoethnographic study of pedagogies of place (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
The purpose of this study is to explore changes in communication styles due to the expanding availability of haptic technologies. It theorises contemporary developments in place-based pedagogies and demonstrates the impact of mobile digital affordances on the creation and communication of knowledge…
Imagery within the southern continent on a selection of world maps: 1527 to 1620 (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
For nearly two millennia the possible existence of a southern landmass haunted the European imagination. The proposition is attributed to ancient Greek scholars who calculated the size and shape of the earth and advanced theories about the possibility of unknown lands existing to the far south of…
The Islamic Law of War: In Conversation with Dr Ahmed Al-Dawoody
Lecture
With armed conflicts taking place in so many parts of the Muslim world, the Islamic law of war is as indispensable as ever for the protection of civilians and others. Over the centuries, classical Muslim jurists have provided an impressive legal framework that seeks to ensure humanity in war, just…
International investment law and the European Union: Towards a new institutional and normative framework (Final PhD presentation)
Seminar
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) started a global debate on the need to reform international investment regulation, which currently focuses on finding appropriate multilateral options in the framework of the UN Commission on International Trade Law. The European Union (EU) has been…
The Unsentimental Nation? Early Commemoration of the Australian Commonwealth
Seminar
Scholars have disagreed about the degree of sentiment that propelled the creation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. Was Federation a cynical deal designed to further the economic interests of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the working classes, women, Indigneous people and…