VOLUME 18 • 2019
Can Social Media Influencers Shape Corporate Brand Reputation? Online Followers’ Trust, Value Creation, and Purchase Intentions
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine whether social media influencers can shape corporate brand reputation. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Activate, BI Intelligence, Captiv8, eMarketer, The Economist, Fullscreen, Linqia, Shareablee, MarketingCharts, ..
Constructing Human Body as Digital Subjectivity: The Production and Consumption of Selfies on Photo-Sharing Social Media Platforms
ABSTRACT. I draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on the production and consumption of selfies on photo-sharing social media platforms, and to explore this, I inspected, used, and replicated survey data from BLS, FHEHealth, and GfK, performing analyses and making estimates..
Democratic Metaphysics and Political Anxieties in Houellebecq’s Novels
ABSTRACT. I follow recent research (e.g. Ågerup and Larsson, 2019; Ahearne, 2017; Demker, 2019; Williams and Sweeney, 2019; Williams, 2019; Willging, 2019) showing that Houellebecq’s fiction represents a prism via which characteristics of present-day cultural policy are displayed, conveys a practica..
Regulating Human Germline Genome Editing: Medical Counseling, Ethical Permissibility, and Potentially Grave Threats
ABSTRACT. Empirical research provides mixed results regarding human germline genome editing. Using and replicating data from Pew Research Center, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding U.S. adults who say changing a baby’s genetic characteristics for certain reasons is an (in)appropriate ..
Big Data Governance of Automated Algorithmic Decision-Making Processes
ABSTRACT. Despite the relevance of big data for automated algorithmic decision-making processes, only limited research has been conducted on this topic. Using and replicating data from Deloitte, Pew Research Center, and Statista, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding % of social media u..
Governing Self-Driving Cars: Do Autonomous Vehicles Pose a Significant Regulatory Problem?
ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study was to empirically examine whether autonomous vehicles pose a significant regulatory problem. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from AUVSI, Capgemini Research Institute, Ipsos, J.D. Power, Perkins Coie, and Pew Research Center, I performed analyses..
Towards a Cultural Phenomenology of Actions and Forms of Life
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I claim that both being and meaning constitute human actions. We can only apprehend their meaning through our phenomenological experiences of them as being. The methodology to explore and support such a proposal is both a phenomenological approach indebted to Sartre and a ve..
Critical Philosophy of the Postdigital
ABSTRACT. This paper draws on authors’ recent works on cybernetics, complexity theory, quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, and algorithmic capitalism, and these ideas are brought together to develop a critical philosophy of the postdigital. Quantum computing is based on quantu..
Mental Footnotes: Knowledge Constructivism from Logical Thinking to Daily Functioning
ABSTRACT. The mental activity we carry out daily is tiresome. Our cognitive system must save energy in order to be able to solve problems. If we had to reason every single problem that was presented to us, our mental load and fatigue would increase immeasurably. Our minds can avoid the unnecessary w..
Peirce and Deleuze in the ‘Protoplasm of Philosophy’: Triadic Relations and Habit as Pragmatic Concepts
ABSTRACT. This article reviews G. Deleuze’s (1925–1995) relationship to C.S. Peirce (1839–1914) played out in the former’s lectures held and books published between 1981 and 1985, both dedicated to the signs of cinema. It focuses on the interchange of their respective concepts of (triadic) relations..