Hate and False Metaphors: Implications to Emerging E-Participation Environment

Youth Participation in Hate-Motivated Crimes: Research and Policy Implications

Metaphors in e-governance and their implications for participation: the case of the development gateway

In this study, I explore the role of metaphor in shaping web-based e-governance portals. Specifically I analyze how a seemingly diverse set of portals is underpinned by a limited number of root metaphors, and how these metaphors are enacted through combinations of discursive resources and strategies. I then analyze the implications of specific metaphors on participation. I do this through a cas...

Love-hate for man-machine metaphors in Soviet physiology: from Pavlov to "physiological cybernetics".

This article reinterprets the debate between orthodox followers of the Pavlovian reflex theory and Soviet "cybernetic physiologists" in the 1950s and 60s as a clash of opposing man-machine metaphors. While both sides accused each other of "mechanistic," reductionist methodology, they did not see anything "mechanistic" about their own central metaphors: the telephone switchboard metaphor for ner...

Networking Metaphors for E-Commerce

E-commerce technologies have reached a level of maturity where many businesses are no longer hampered by technological limitations. However, the adoption of ecommerce technologies is slower than anticipated. We argue one of the limitations is a psychological barrier, which is created by the perception that e-commerce technologies are a whole new set of technologies which are completely differen...

Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment

Understanding the interplay between environmental conditions and phenotypes is a fundamental goal of biology. Unfortunately, data that include observations on phenotype and environment are highly heterogeneous and thus difficult to find and integrate. One approach that is likely to improve the status quo involves the use of ontologies to standardize and link data about phenotypes and environmen...