“On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog”

2016 ◽  
pp. 349-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil D. Shortland
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Online Risk ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
And Function

Online behaviour can provide a unique window from which we can glean intent. From an intelligence standpoint it provides an important source of open-source information. However, making inference of intent from online activity is inherently difficult. Yet elsewhere progress is being made in incorporating information online into decisions regarding risk and offender prioritisation. This chapter synthesises lessons learnt from studies of risk assessment of violent extremists, risk assessment online, and the form and function of extremist materials online in order to begin to approach the issue of online risk assessment of violent extremism. In doing so it highlights issues associated with the diversity of online extremist behaviour, the diversity of offline extremist behaviour and the general lack of understanding related to the interaction of online and offline experiences, and how this contributes to the wider psychological process of ‘radicalisation'. Implications for practitioners are discussed.

“On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog”

2016 ◽  
pp. 591-615
Author(s):  
Neil D. Shortland
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Psychological Process ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Online Activity ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Online Risk ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Online Behaviour ◽  
And Function

Online behaviour can provide a unique window from which we can glean intent. From an intelligence standpoint it provides an important source of open-source information. However, making inference of intent from online activity is inherently difficult. Yet elsewhere progress is being made in incorporating information online into decisions regarding risk and offender prioritisation. This chapter synthesises lessons learnt from studies of risk assessment of violent extremists, risk assessment online, and the form and function of extremist materials online in order to begin to approach the issue of online risk assessment of violent extremism. In doing so it highlights issues associated with the diversity of online extremist behaviour, the diversity of offline extremist behaviour and the general lack of understanding related to the interaction of online and offline experiences, and how this contributes to the wider psychological process of ‘radicalisation'. Implications for practitioners are discussed.

scholarly journals Exploring the form and function of dissident Irish Republican online discourses

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Bowman-Grieve ◽  
Maura Conway
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Support Function ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Irish Republicanism ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
And Function ◽  
Significant Support

This article seeks to contribute to broadening the focus of research in the area of violent online political extremism by examining the use of the internet by dissident Irish Republicans and their supporters. The argument here is not that the internet substitutes face-to-face contacts amongst Irish Republicans, including violent dissidents, nor that it currently plays a central role in processes of radicalisation into violent dissident groups, but that it has an important support function in terms of providing an ‘always-on’ space for discussion, consumption, and production of Irish Republicanism and thus a potentially educative role in terms of introducing ‘newbies’ to violent dissident Republicanism while also acting as a ‘maintenance’ space for the already committed. This exploratory study considers the importance of these functions in the context of repeated suggestions that the dissidents have no significant support base or constituency as internet activity certainly gives the appearance of some such support.

Orality, Culture, And Language

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clive Holes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culture And Language

This article explores the relationship between linguistic form and function in the varying cultural landscapes of the contemporary Arabic-speaking world, including spontaneous speech, the contemporary electronic media (television, radio, the Internet), cinema, theater, and traditional performed oral literature, which have been revived and “reinvented.” It is shown that the relationship between orality and language in Arabic is complex. The layman’s mental landscape is of a “high,” literary, codified variety of the language strongly identified with a unifying religion (Islam) and a “golden age” of past imperial and literary glories, carrying great cultural prestige; and a “low,” chaotic (often regarded as grammarless) but homely variety associated with domesticity, intimacy, and the daily round. The emotional resonances of the two varieties are and always have been different. Consequently, they have, through the ages, occupied separate functional niches in all linguistically mediated communication, be it speech, writing, song, poetry, cinema, or theater.

scholarly journals Prasa a internet: konkurencja czy komplementarność?

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Agata Kotowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Technology And Culture ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

The author’s considerations concern the relationship in the period of fundamental changes in technology and culture between the press and the Internet — two media which are different in both form and function. The influence of the press is changing which is shown in the diminishing sales worldwide, and the significance of the Internet is increasing. The systematic contraction of the market for the press is caused by several factors. The competitiveness of the Internet increases with the increasing participation of the young generation in social life. At the same time there is a deep cultural transformation underway which involves the increasing domination of the pictorial environment, the marginalization of the word, the shallowness which replaces previous values. There are many possible futures for the press. The most probable is that it will adapt in form and will continue to exist in the media market. The influence  of the press on future societies remains unclear.

scholarly journals Minding the Gap: Reconciling Human and Technical Perspectives on the IoT for Healthy Ageing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Soro ◽  
Aloha Hufana Ambe ◽  
Margot Brereton
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Good Health ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Social Connection ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Internet Of Things

There are two distinct bodies of literature on the Internet of Things, one that derives from a technical perspective, while the other comes from a human perspective. From a technical perspective, sensors can automatically detect physical activity, thus enabling elderly people to live independently, while sensors in essence check that they are active, remind them to take their pills, and so on. From a human perspective, people seek control over their lives, good health, social connection, and a sense of well-being that comes from having purpose and feeling competent in daily routines. So are technologies meant to enable users to stay in control of their lives and manage their relations and preferred routines, or do they undermine it, making elderly people feel subjects of surveillance and incompetent, disrupting their daily arrangements? And is there a middle path that we might take in design that creates innovative technologies that are aesthetic in form and function and empowering to use? In this paper, we offer a framework and examples of designs that bridge these perspectives.

The Internet as the Anti-Television

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Sandvig
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Video Distribution ◽  
Competing Ideas ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
And Function ◽  
Radical Approach

This chapter examines the architecture used to distribute video over the Internet. The unprecedented volume of online video that now circulates suggests that this distribution had “enabled a radical approach” by generating forms of labor and content that traditional media industries have never seen before. Embedded in this transformation were competing ideas about what content and which audiences are valuable, and indeed how culture itself ought to work. The chapter then explores how computer pioneers thought about television in the 1960s and charts a path to more recent practices of caching, streaming, and multicasting. Ultimately, the case of Internet video distribution reveals how crucial the study of infrastructure is to understanding the shape, form, and function of media technologies.

Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Patricia G. Arscott ◽  
Gil Lee ◽  
Victor A. Bloomfield ◽  
D. Fennell Evans
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Structures ◽  
Inorganic Materials ◽  
Resolving Power ◽  
Scanning Tunneling ◽  
Tunneling Microscopy ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Dna And Rna ◽  
Calf Thymus ◽  
And Function ◽  
The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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