Methodology, Fake Learning, and Emotional Performativity

Detecting Fake Websites Using Swarm Intelligence Mechanism in Human Learning

The internet and its various services have made users to easily communicate with each other. Internet benefits including online business and e-commerce. E-commerce has boosted online sales and online auction types. Despite their many uses and benefits, the internet and their services have various challenges, such as information theft, which challenges the use of these services. Information thef...

Blended spaces and performativity

Mental Spaces theory, with its sophisticated mechanisms for representing the contents of speech, thought, and perception, opens routes for the exploration of relations between these domains and the ``real'' world. One of the most intriguing of these relations is performativity, de®ned by Searle (1989) as the ability of some descriptions to bring about the described situations in reality. My bro...

Spotting Fake Reviews using Positive-Unlabeled Learning

Fake review detection has been studied by researchers for several years. However, so far all reported studies are based on English reviews. This paper reports a study of detecting fake reviews in Chinese. Our review dataset is from the Chinese review hosting site Dianping, which has built a fake review detection system. They are confident that their algorithm has a very high precision, but they...

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Enunciations of Nonhuman Performativity

This paper outlines how wearables recon!gure notions of performativity because of their admixtures of human/nonhuman agencies. It argues that contemporary wearables, in a continuum with technological/body performative entanglement dating from early 20th century art (Avant-Garde), materially alter practices of performativity because they propose new and intimately co-dependent agencies of the hu...