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0000-0002-0765-4467
Current Organisations
Flinders University
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University of South Australia
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University of Cambridge
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University of Melbourne
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Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-10-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-12-2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-11-2018
Abstract: The article develops the conjecture that automated mobilities are particularly characteristic of the digital era. Acknowledging that the development of the mobilities paradigm has been especially fruitful for the social sciences, the article contends that the advent of artificial intelligence, advanced robotics and accelerating automation makes new conceptual and methodological demands on mobilities research. In the first section of the article, I briefly review aspects of the ongoing development of the mobilities paradigm, with particular emphasis on the emergent contours of what I shall term ‘mobilities 3.0’. The second section focuses on several key aspects of complex automated systems, with specific reference to the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI), advanced robotics and accelerating automation, along with how some of the mobilities transitions attendant upon these are registering in mobilities research. In the final section, I turn to analyse one particular instance of automated mobilities: namely, AI military technology and weapons systems. I conclude by setting out some conjectures on the relations between AI, automated mobilities and the paradigm of mobilities.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 18-08-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-10-2015
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-10-2015
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-03-2012
DOI: 10.3390/SOC2010014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Date: 2009
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 25-03-2011
Abstract: This article critically examines the power of celebrity culture in relation to the rise of cosmetic surgery. The perspective developed is one that attempts to bridge certain developments in social theory and psychoanalytic studies. By drawing on Horton and Wohl’s notion of ‘para-social interaction’, as well as Thompson’s idea of ‘intimacy at a distance’, a critical cultural approach is developed for the analysis of how celebrity bodies become key sites of identification, imitation and desire. The article also draws from the psychoanalytic notion of identification in order to recast the relationship between fandom and celebrity. My argument is that popular and media cultures today are introducing a wholesale shift away from a focus on personalities to celebrity body-parts and their artificial enhancement. To view the body in the light of celebrity culture means, in effect, to see the self increasingly in terms of possible surgical alterations.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-03-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 19-05-2021
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-10-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Lexxion Verlag
Date: 2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-08-2019
Abstract: This article explores the sociology of artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on interactions between social actors and technological processes. The aim is to locate social actors in the key elements of Bell’s framework for understanding AI, featuring big data, algorithms, machine learning, sensors and rationale/logic. We dispute notions of human autonomy and machine autonomy, seeking alternatives to both anthropocentric and technological determinist accounts of AI. While human actors and technological devices are co-producers of the assemblages around AI, we challenge the argument that their respective contributions are symmetrical. The theoretical problem is to establish quite how human actors are positioned asymmetrically within AI processes. This challenge has strong resonances for issues of inequality, democracy, governance and public policy. The theoretical questions raised do not support the argument that sociology should respond to the rise of big data by becoming a primarily empirical discipline.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 17-12-2018
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are one of the most highly anticipated technological developments of our time, with potentially wide-ranging social implications. Where dominant popular discourses around autonomous vehicles have tended to espouse a crude form of technological determinism, social scientific engagements with autonomous vehicles have tended to focus on rather narrow utilitarian dimensions related to regulation, safety or efficiency. This article argues that what is therefore largely missing from current debates is a sensitivity to the broader social implications of autonomous vehicles. The article aims to remedy this absence. Through a speculative mode, it is shown how a mobilities approach provides an ideal conceptual lens through which the broader social impacts of autonomous vehicles might be identified and evaluated. The argument is organized across four dimensions: transformations to experiences, inequalities, labour and systems. The article develops an agenda for critical sociological work on automated vehicles and it calls on sociologists to contribute much-needed critical voices to the institutional and public debates on the development of autonomous vehicles.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 10-07-2014
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-07-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-03-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
DOI: 10.1016/J.GIE.2011.10.030
Abstract: No useful comparative data exist on the relative realism of commercially available devices for simulating colonoscopy. To develop an instrument for quantifying realism and provide the first wide-ranging empiric comparison. Repeated measures, observational study. Nineteen experienced colonoscopists completed cases on 4 colonoscopy simulators (AccuTouch, GI Mentor II, Koken, and Kyoto Kagaku) and evaluated each device. A medical simulation center in a large tertiary hospital. For each device, colonoscopists completed the newly developed Colonoscopy Simulator Realism Questionnaire (CSRQ), which contains 58 items grouped into 10 subscales measuring the realism of different aspects of the simulation. Subscale scores are weighted and combined into an aggregated score, and there is also a single overall realism item. Overall, current colonoscopy simulators were rated as only moderately realistic compared with real human colonoscopy (mean aggregated score, 56.28/100 range, 48.39-60.45, where 0 = "extremely unrealistic" and 100 = "extremely realistic"). On both overall realism measures, the GI Mentor II was rated significantly less realistic than the AccuTouch, Kyoto Kagaku, and Koken (P < .001). There were also significant differences between simulators on 9 subscales, and the pattern of results varied between subscales. The study was limited to commercially available simulators, excluding ex-vivo models. The CSRQ does not assess simulated therapeutic procedures. The CSRQ is a useful instrument for quantifying simulator realism. There is no clear "first choice" simulator among those assessed. Each has unique strengths and weaknesses, reflected in the differing results observed across 9 subscales. These findings may facilitate the targeted selection of simulators for various aspects of colonoscopy training.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 23-09-2013
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-03-2012
Abstract: The broad purpose of this article is to explore the theoretical conditions for understanding the new in idualist configurations of imagination and identity in contemporary culture and critical discourse. The article begins with a sketch of recent debates in social theory on identity, in idualization and new in idualism, focusing on the work of Giddens, Beck, and Bauman, as well as Lemert and Elliott. The second part of the article turns to consider, in some detail, the path breaking contributions of Cornelius Castoriadis on the demise of the social imaginary in conditions of advanced capitalism or what he termed the spread of ‘generalized conformism’. Whilst making the argument that the notion of ‘generalized conformism’ is of key importance in grasping the subjective and cultural dynamics promoted by the global electronic economy, the article also underscores the limitations of Castoriadis’s psychoanalytic and political position. The third section of the article offers a pathway beyond such constraint by examining the recent social-theoretical contributions of Julia Kristeva on ‘new maladies of the soul’. Like Castoriadis, Kristeva focuses on the atrophy of imagination in contemporary times, but does so from a more complex psychoanalytic prism. The article concludes that the work of both Castoriadis and Kristeva are essential to grasping contemporary shifts in the new in idualism.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-07-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-04-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-03-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-07-2019
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 05-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 25-10-2018
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-04-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
Location: Australia
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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