Introduction This paper aims to identify an understanding of digital games in virtual environments 1 by using Don Ihde’s (1990) postphenomenological approach to how technology mediates the world to human beings in conjunction with Hans-Georg Gadamer’s (1993) notion of play 2 . Through this tentatively proposed amalgamation of theories I point towards an alternative understanding of the relation...

A constant reproduction of environmental injustices and health iniquities has demanded the employment of participatory/dialectic approaches to research and to intervene in the reality making possible the involvement of social actors in healthy public policies. On this framework, the aim of this paper is to analyse scientific production with dialectic approaches associated with public policies i...

The relationship between trust and control is quite relevant both for the very notion of trust and for modelling and implementing trust-control relations with autonomous systems; but it is not trivial at all. On the one side, it is true that where/when there is control there is no trust, and vice versa. However, this refers to a restricted notion of trust: i.e., "trust in y", which is just a pa...