Conceptualizing power to study social-ecological interactions

Conceptualizing Social Power for Agents

One of the most pervasive concepts in human interactions is social power since many social situations entail disputes of social power. These disputes are power games and range from simple personal reasoning to the exercise of specific power strategies, which enhance or assert one’s power. Recognizing the importance of such interactions and how they can enhance autonomous agents’ socially intell...

Conceptualizing Human Microbiota: From Multicelled Organ to Ecological Community

The microbiota of a typical, healthy human contains 10 times as many cells as the human body and incorporates bacteria, viruses, archea, protozoans, and fungi. This diverse microbiome (the collective genomes of the microbial symbionts that inhabit a human host) is essential for human functioning. We discuss the unstated assumptions and implications of current conceptualizations of human microbi...

Social Power in Interactions Thesis proposal

In my thesis I propose to investigate whether social power relations are manifested in the language and structure of social interactions, and if so, in what ways, and whether we can use the insights gained from this study to build computational systems that can automatically identify these power relations by analyzing social interactions. To further understand these manifestations, I will deepe...

Contested Landscapes: social-ecological interactions between forestry and reindeer husbandry

Community Collectivism: A social dynamic approach to conceptualizing culture

Culture shapes individuals, but the measurement of cultural differences has proven a challenge. Traditional measures of cultural values focus on individual perceptions. We suggest that values are established and maintained within social communities of proximate others, such as the family and its social environment. Within such communities, values serve to maintain collective harmony whilst pres...