Conflicting interests make forests an inevitably political issue. We examine the roles that Finnish forest owners take as decision-makers and citizens. Inspired by post-political theories of democracy, we owners’ aim open, constructive treatment controversies between views, ideologies actors. Our data consisted a survey (n = 452) informed interview 24). applied mixed-method critical discourse a...

In this work we are interested in identifying clusters of "positional equivalent" actors, i.e. actors who play a similar role in a system. In particular, we analyze weighted bipartite networks that describes the relationships between actors on one side and features or traits on the other, together with the intensity level to which actors show their features. We develop a methodological approach...

Abstract This chapter traces how dominant U.S. platform companies attempt to influence policy debates, focusing on (a) the issues they engage, (b) preferences communicate, and (c) what these communications reveal about their regulatory governance philosophies. Amid calls for private–public oversight frameworks, provide insight into such co-governance regimes might look like in practice. Specifi...

This study lies in the context of cognitive ergonomy and virtual engineering. We propose to model and implement the behaviour of autonomous virtual agents, using ideas from psychology (fuzzy cognitive maps, affordances) and neurophysiology (active perception). We describe the basis for a behavioral model imitating human beings’ perceptive operation. The psychological notion of “affordance” will...