Abstract It is widely thought that deepfake videos are a significant and unprecedented threat to our epistemic practices. In some writing about deepfakes, manipulated appear as the harbingers of an apocalypse . this paper I want take critical look at more catastrophic predictions videos. will argue for three claims: (1) once we recognise role social norms in epistemology recordings, deepfakes m...

THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE APOCALYPSE DESCRIBES A HEAVENLY WOMAN clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars. Together with the Bride of Christ and the Whore of Babylon, she is one of three symbolic women who appear in the visions of John of Patmos. A fourth woman, apparently an influential teacher in the church in Thyatira, is regarded by John as a false prophet, a “Jezebel” (Rev 2:20)....

Abstract Islamic State propaganda manipulated and combined a culturally embedded sense of history with heady, potent mixture classical radical apocalyptic, real supposed authority, both sacred profane. Tapping into widespread belief in the approach Last Hour, group attempted to change an established “crusader master narrative” by giving “crusaders” their “crusade” integral roles impending apoca...

Digital library systems with monolithic architectures are rapidly facing extinction as the discipline adopts new practices in software engineering, such as component-based architectures and Web Services. Past projects have attempted to demonstrate and justify the use of components through the construction of systems such as NCSTRL and ScholNet. This paper describes current work to push the boun...