The fluctuating décor of youth identity in Post-Colonial South Africa

This paper aims to discuss South African youths living in democratic South Africa, it will look critically on the youth definition and, highlight a brief outlook on the youth and society in the African context. It will look African youths as centre of social interfaces and revolution, due to their role in in different structures, culture, sacraments, and social movement. Moreover, it will examine the Born Free generation is an attempt to trigger a dialogue necessary to challenge youth identity crises, youth disparities in education, housing, health care and employment opportunities. Lastly, this paper will look closer on conditions facing young Blacks in today’s South Africa in relation to identity crisis, challenges and opportunities of today’s youths.

Theoretical and Conceptual Considerations for Analyzing Social Interfaces in Agroecosystems

The current framework of agroecosystem (AES) knowledge focuses on a systemic approach or static structures rather than on dynamic processes that are defined historically. The hypothesis is that agroecosystems are the product of the interdependence of a diversity of actors (present and absent) and, therefore, constitute complex social interfaces, which, in order to address them, require a new understanding of the centrality of the actors and their capacity for agency. Then, regarding this complexity, some aspects are not clearly defined in the systemic approach which need to be more explicit such as: (a) the implicit psychosocial aspects and (b) the relationships with their social environment, how these affect them and are affected by them. The purpose of this document is to suggest a theoretical and conceptual approach to correct these unclear areas. First, the centrality of actors (including their agency capacity) in the AES is recognized. Besides, their interdependence with the diversity of actors (present and absent) and therefore the need to analyze the AES complex social interfaces.

Aesthetic Experience, Social Interfaces, and the Phenomenology of Music

The distinction that John Blacking draws between music that serves a social purpose and music that he regards as enhancing human consciousness calls for a further consideration of how the experiences that music affords are the source of its meaning and significance. Drawing on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s phenomenological analysis of play, the author sets out a hermeneutical approach that accounts for music’s expressive vehemence. Paul Ricoeur’s theory of mimesis provides a hermeneutical foundation for understanding how music’s expression of moods and feelings gives rise to different ways of inhering in the world. Music’s exemplification of the moods and feelings to which it gives voice, the author accordingly argues, is the spring of its worlding power. Conversely, Thomas Turino’s adaptation of Peirce’s semiology both draws on and supports ethnographic descriptions of emotive, musical behaviors. In turn, these descriptions presuppose the meaningfulness of the experiences that music occasions. Blacking’s insight into the primary significance of what he identifies as “music for being” thus reserves a place within ethnomusicological discourse for a phenomenological hermeneutics for which music’s worlding power is the ground of the interfaces between music’s expressive force and its place in social life.

Of Daemons, Dogs, and Trees

This chapter examines how AI was embedded in a range of software applications from the late 1970s to the 1990s—a period marked by the emergence of personal computing. Focusing on diverse software artifacts such as computer daemons, digital games, and social interfaces, the chapter interrogates the ways developers introduced deceptive mechanisms within a wider framework promising universal access and ease of use for computing technologies, and how their doing so informed work that was aimed at improving the usability of computing systems. Their explorations of this territory involved a crucial shift away from considering deception something that could be dispelled by making computers more “transparent” and toward the full integration of forms of deception in the experiences of users interacting with AI.

Image Recommendation Model for Social Media

In recent years, social networks based on images are the most popular social interfaces. With colossal pictures transferred regular, understanding client’s inclinations on client produced pictures and causing suggestions to have become a critical need. In fact, many composite models have been proposed to intertwine different sorts of side data like image visual representation, social networks and client-image historical behavior for developing the performance of image recommendation. However, due to the special attributes of the client produced images in social interfaces, prior studies failed to identify the complex angles that impacts the client’s preferences. In addition, the greater part of these half and half models depended on predefined loads in consolidating various types of data, which for the most part brought about problematic suggestion execution in this paper we construct a recommended model based on the hierarchy of social images. In addition to latent client intrigue demonstrating in the well-known matrix factorization-based proposal, we distinguish three key angles (i.e., Trending history, user’s appraisal and owner admiration) that influence every client's latent preferences, where every aspect summarizes a logical factor from the complex connections among clients and images. From that point forward, we structure a hierarchical attention network that normally reflects the hierarchical relationship of client’s latent interest with the distinguished key viewpoints. Finally, we identified three social contextual aspects that influence a client’s preference to an image from heterogeneous data: Trending history, user’s appraisal and relevance recommendation, we designed a hierarchical attention network to recommend images according to client preference.

CIDADANIA CORPORATIVA E RESPONSABILIDADE SOCIAL: INTERFACES DO ENVOLVIMENTO EMPRESARIAL COM A SOCIEDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA

O presente trabalho objetiva abordar os institutos da cidadania corporativa e da responsabilidade social no âmbito das empresas, bem como suas interfaces no envolvimento da empresa com questões relevantes da sociedade contemporânea. Analisa o instituto da cidadania, partindo-se de um retrospecto histórico e identificando sua evolução, assim como a dos direitos originários que o compõem. Perquire algumas causas que tem levado ao fortalecimento da cidadania corporativa, esmiuçando os motivos que têm contribuído para que a empresa esteja inserida ao rol de atores participantes na solução de questões relevantes da sociedade contemporânea. Aborda a responsabilidade social empresarial, apontando suas principais características e nuances, correlacionando-a com a cidadania. Conclui identificando o grau de relevância da cidadania empresarial e da responsabilidade social empresarial na elevação da corporação a membro ativo da sociedade, contribuindo para a edificação de respostas às complexas demandas coletivas da sociedade contemporânea.