"I Felt a Little Crazy Following a 'Doll'"

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Abhinav Choudhry ◽  
Jinda Han ◽  
Xiaoyu Xu ◽  
Yun Huang
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Health Marketing ◽  
The World ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Marketing Firms ◽  
Physical Features

Virtual Influencers (VIs) are computer-generated characters, many of which are often visually indistinguishable from humans and interact with the world in the first-person perspective as social media influencers. They are gaining popularity by creating content in various areas, including fashion, music, art, sports, games, environmental sustainability, and mental health. Marketing firms and brands increasingly use them to capitalise on their millions of followers. Yet, little is known about what prompts people to engage with these digital beings. In this paper, we present our interview study with online users who followed different VIs on Instagram beyond the fashion application domain. Our findings show that the followers are attracted to VIs due to a unique mixture of visual appeal, sense of mystery, and creative storytelling that sets VI content apart from that of real human influencers. Specifically, VI content enables digital artists and content creators by removing the constraints of bodies and physical features. The followers not only perceived VIs' rising popularity in commercial industries, but also are supportive of VI involvement in non-commercial causes and campaigns. However, followers are reluctant to attribute trustworthiness to VIs in general though they display trust in limited domains, e.g., technology, music, games, and art. This research highlights VI's potential as innovative digital content, carrying influence and employing more varied creators, an appeal that could be harnessed by diverse industries and also by public interest organisations.

Knowledge from the Outside

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-79
Author(s):  
Hilary Kornblith
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Perceptual Systems ◽  
Obvious Source

Knowledge may be examined from the third-person perspective, as psychologists and sociologists do, or it may be examined from the first-person perspective, as each of us does when we reflect on what we ought to believe. This chapter takes the third-person perspective. One obvious source of knowledge is perception, and some general features of how our perceptual systems are able to pick up information about the world around us are highlighted. The role of the study of visual illusions in this research is an important focus of the chapter. Our ability to draw out the consequences of things we know by way of inference is another important source of knowledge, and some general features of how inference achieves its successes are discussed. Structural similarities between the ways in which perception works and the ways in which inference works are highlighted.

scholarly journals The projective theory of consciousness: from neuroscience to philosophical psychology

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (spe) ◽  
pp. 199-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Pereira Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Conscious Experience ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Bipolar Structure ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Phenomenal Field

Abstract: The development of the interdisciplinary areas of cognitive, affective and action neurosciences contributes to the identification of neurobiological bases of conscious experience. The structure of consciousness was philosophically conceived a century ago (HUSSERL, 1913) as consisting of a subjective pole, the bearer of experiences, and an objective pole composed of experienced contents. In more recent formulations, Nagel (1974) refers to a “point of view”, in which qualitative experiences are anchored, while Velmans (1990, 1993, 2009, 2017) understands that phenomenal content is composed of mental representations “projected” to the space external to the brains that construct them. In Freudian psychology, the conscious mind contains a tension between the Id and the Ego (FREUD, 1913). How to relate this bipolar structure with the results of neuroscience? I propose the notion of projection [also used by Williford et al. (2012)] as a bridge principle connecting the neurobiological systems of knowing, feeling and acting with the bipolar structure. The projective process is considered responsible for the generation of the sense of self and the sense of the world, composing an informational phenomenal field generated by the nervous system and experienced in the first-person perspective. After presenting the projective hypothesis, I discuss its philosophical status, relating it to the phenomenal (BLOCK, 1995, 2008, 2011) and high-order thought (ROSENTHAL, 2006; BROWN, 2014) approaches, and a mathematical model of projection (RUDRAUF et al., 2017). Eight ways of testing the status of the projective hypothesis are briefly mentioned.

scholarly journals The first-person perspective description error in naturalism

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-415
Author(s):  
Diana E. Gasparyan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
First Person ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Work Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Radical Naturalism ◽  
Third Person Perspective

In this article, it is shown that in some theories defending the non-reductive nature of the firstperson perspective it is possible to find a very inconsistent attitude. Such theories are associated by the author to a so-called moderate naturalism. The article demonstrates the difference between moderate and radical naturalism. Radical naturalism completely abandons the idea of subjectivity as unobservable from a third-person perspective. On the contrary, moderate naturalism defends the irreducibility of subjectivity, but believes subjectivity to be a part of the nature. As a case of moderate naturalism, the article considers the approaches of Lynne Baker and Thomas Metzinger. Exemplifying these approaches to the first-person perspective, it is shown that in the case of certain work strategies focused on the first-person perspective, it is possible that a so-called description error may appear, by which a description error of subjectivity — when it is placed in the world as a part of nature, existing according to its laws — is understood. The logic of this error points to one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s statements about the incorrect placement of the eye in the perspective of the eye view itself. If the first-person perspective is introduced as a point of view (or a point of observation), then its subsequent shift to the observation result area leads to description error. If there is no observation, as well as no viewpoint, we lose the very idea of first-person perspective and actually take the position of radical naturalism.

Time and Metaphysics: Kant and McTaggart on the Reality of Time

Kant Yearbook ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-194
Author(s):  
Matthew Rukgaber
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Infinite Regress ◽  
First Person ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Mctaggart’S Argument

Abstract The paper examines Kant’s theory of time in light of McTaggart’s argument that time is unreal. First, it presents McTaggart’s theory of time and his argument that a contradiction inevitably emerges in time’s analysis, leading either to an infinite regress of times or the denial that time is real. The paper then shows that Kant rejects the absolute notion of time, the idea that there are eternal coordinates that are experienced by us as being in time. It argues against subjectivist or psychological interpretations of Kant’s theory of time. The main argument is that Kant’s notion of a priori intuition, rather than being the flow of mental states in consciousness, is the subject’s self-intuition as being temporally present, and, moreover, that the present acts as a temporal metric, specifying a first-person perspective in the world and designating a temporal simple.

scholarly journals Characteristics of the Digital Content about Energy-Saving in Different Countries around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel Valerio-Ureña ◽  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Rhetoric ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
One Year ◽  
Types Of Information

Environmental sustainability is fundamental for human well-being, and energy-saving behaviors are fundamental for promoting environmental sustainability. This paper explores the types of information consumed on the Internet concerning the topic of energy-saving. The qualitative study used digital methods to analyze, from 17 different countries, one-year of Google searches, 170 webpages, and 6800 images. The results demonstrated that (a) most topics related to energy-saving involved commercial products; (b) in countries from North America, Europe, and Oceania, Google’s highest-ranked webpages were of a commercial nature, and in countries from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, webpages were of an educational nature; and (c) most images found in Google with the “energy-saving” query were related to lighting products. By and large, commercial interests were found to dominate the digital rhetoric around energy-saving, regardless of the countries’ region.

Hand-Based Disocclusion for the World-in-Miniature Metaphor

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Andujar
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Environments ◽  
User Study ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Indoor Environments ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
Spatial Tasks ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Set ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Multiple Levels

The world-in-miniature metaphor (WIM) allows users to select, manipulate, and navigate efficiently in virtual environments. In addition to the first-person perspective offered by typical virtual reality (VR) applications, the WIM offers a second dynamic viewpoint through a hand-held miniature copy of the environment. In this paper we explore different strategies to allow the user to interact with the miniature replica at multiple levels of scale. Unlike competing approaches, we support complex indoor environments by explicitly handling occlusion. We discuss algorithms for selecting the part of the scene to be included in the replica, and for providing a clear view of the region of interest. Key elements of our approach include an algorithm to recompute the active region from a subdivision of the scene into cells, and a view-dependent algorithm to cull occluding geometry. Our cutaway algorithm is based on a small set of slicing planes roughly oriented along the main occluding surfaces, along with depthbased revealing for nonplanar geometry. We present the results of a user study showing that our technique clearly outperforms competing approaches on spatial tasks performed in densely occluded scenes.

Meta-Encyclopaedic Reflections on the Beginning of Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Umur Başdaş
Keyword(s):  
First Person ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Person Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Person ◽  
First Person Perspective ◽  
Third Person Perspective ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Since in Hegel's view the end of philosophy coincides with its beginning, it is reasonable to expect that the end of the Encyclopaedia sheds some light on the Science of Logic. The Encyclopaedia concludes with three syllogisms in which logic, nature and spirit are related to each other in three different ways. This article analyses these three final syllogisms with an eye to how they can contribute to our understanding of the logical movement that starts from pure being. Trendelenburg and Schelling, like many others after them, think that Hegel's project in the Science of Logic is doomed from the start, because there can be no such thing as a non-temporal, purely logical movement. I argue that the three final syllogisms contain Hegel's response to this challenge. I call them ‘meta-encyclopaedic reflections’ in the sense that they take the whole encyclopaedic presentation of the Hegelian system as an object of critical inquiry and identify its limitations. The core of my approach is to examine how each one of these syllogisms situate us, namely the philosophizing subjects, vis-à-vis the world as disclosed by them. They demand that we shift from a third-person to a first-person perspective towards the world. The logical categories initially appear to move of their own accord only due to the limitations of the third-person perspective of the encyclopaedic presentation, which is to be sublated in a higher, first-person perspective. Hence, Hegel would happily admit that a purely logical movement is a mere appearance, but he would also claim that his philosophy can immanently explain the necessity of this appearance in the beginning of philosophy, and explain it better than his critics.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEMASARAN FOOD AND BEVERAGE UNTUK MENINGKATKAN PENJUALAN PADA MASA PANDEMI COVID-19 DI CAVINTON HOTEL YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-72
Author(s):  
Lutfi Hendriyati ◽  
Ihsan Budi Santoso
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The World ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Delivery Services

The Covid19 pandemic corona virus in Indonesia was first detected on March 2, 2020. The Covid19 outbreak had a very devastating impact on the world Various industries are experiencing a slump, especially in the tourism sector. The weakening of the tourism industry in Indonesia such as Bali, Yogyakarta, Lombok has experienced a very drastic decline. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. Through this method, the writer tries to reveal the Food and Beverage marketing strategy during the covid 19 period at the Cavinton hotel in Yogyakarta. The analysis tool used is SWOT analysis to formulate a strategy for identifying various factors based on the researcher's knowledge and understanding. SWOT analysis is used to formulate a strategy through maximizing strength and opportunities and simultaneously minimizing weaknesses and threats. The results of research due to Covid19 make public awareness of cleanliness, health, safety and environmental sustainability very large, The decline in the tourism sector due to social distance caused the hotel business to decline so that Food and Beverage used various innovations and strategies to survive the Covid19 Pandemic, Public interest in food and delivery services is increasingly in demand, with the increasing transmission of covid19 making people limit themselves from leaving the house.

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