Editor's Introduction Research Articles

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on the 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on the 2023 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Transformer Models in Vision

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on Transformer Models in Vision

Overcoming System Complexity using Models and Knowledge Structures. Editorial Introduction to Issue 36 of CSIMQ

Overcoming System Complexity using Models and Knowledge Structures. Editorial Introduction to Issue 36 of CSIMQ

ʿAjamī Literacies of Africa: The Hausa, Fula, Mandinka, and Wolof Traditions

Abstract African ʿAjamī literatures hold a wealth of knowledge on the history and intellectual traditions of the region but are largely unknown to the larger public. Our special issue seeks to enhance a broader understanding of this important part of the Islamic world, exploring the ʿAjamī literatures and literacies of four main language groups of Muslim West Africa: Hausa, Mandinka, Fula, and Wolof. Through increasing access to primary sources in ʿAjamī and utilizing an innovative multimedia approach, our research contributes to an interpretive and comparative analysis of African ʿAjamī literacy, with its multiple purposes, forms, and custodians. Our Editorial Introduction to the special issue discusses the building blocks and historical development of ʿAjamī cultures in West Africa, outlines the longitudinal collaborative research initiatives that our special issue draws upon, and explores the challenges and opportunities for participatory knowledge-making that accompany the rise of digital technologies in the study of African literatures and literacies.

Landscapes of Injustice, Landscapes of Repair (Editor's Introduction)

Landscapes of Injustice, Landscapes of Repair (Editor's Introduction)

Editor's Introduction: Humanities in the Loop

Abstract This editor's introduction welcomes readers to a new interdisciplinary undertaking. The community of practice Critical AI addresses hopes to bring critical thinking of the kind that interpretive disciplines foster into dialogue with work by technologists and others who share the understanding of interdisciplinary research as a powerful tool for building accountable technology in the public interest. Critical AI studies aims to shape and activate conversations in academia, industry, policymaking, media, and the public at large. The long and ongoing history of “AI,” including the data-driven technologies that now claim that name, remains riddled by three core dilemmas: (1) reductive and controversial meanings of “intelligence”; (2) problematic benchmarks and tests for supposedly scientific terms such as “AGI”; and (3) bias, errors, stereotypes, and concentration of power. AI hype today is steeped in blends of utopian and dystopian discourse that distract from the real-world harms of existing technologies. In reality, what is hyped and anthropomorphized as “AI” and even “AGI” is the product not only of technology companies and investors but also—and more fundamentally—of the many millions of people and communities subject to copyright infringement, nonconsensual use of data, bias, environmental harms, and the low-wage and high-stress modes of “human in the loop” through which systems for probabilistic mimicry improve their performance in an imitation game.

Editor's introduction: Media, polarization, and geopolitics

Editor's introduction: Media, polarization, and geopolitics

Managing Editor's Introduction: Personnel and Processes Updates

Managing Editor's Introduction: Personnel and Processes Updates

Guest Editor Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Becky Morton

Guest Editor Introduction to a Special Issue in Honor of Becky Morton

Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Labor Law in China

Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Labor Law in China

Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise

Editorial introduction: East Asian pop culture in the era of China’s rise

The Perception of Social Inequality Around the Globe. Editorial Introduction to the 2019 ISSP Social Inequality Module and Selected Country-Level Findings

The International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) recently released the 5th survey on the perception of social inequalities. The data was collected in more than 30 countries around the globe. This introduction offers an overview of the substantive contributions that are included in the two special issues on these data. It also presents results from an analysis of the recent ISSP data that shows how people perceive social inequalities, assess current levels of taxation and the performance of the government, experience inequality, and to what extent they trust other people. Despite evident variations across countries, the analysis highlights that respondents’ views continue to align with the conventional classification of countries into liberal welfare states, Scandinavian welfare states, continental welfare states, and post-communist countries.

Editor's Introduction: The Value of Consensus Guidelines.

Editor's Introduction: The Value of Consensus Guidelines.

Waiting for Patience: Guest Editor's Introduction

Abstract: Patience and impatience are not best treated as simple opposites of oneanother. Analyzed separately, they reveal different dimensions of disposition, worldlycircumstance, and ethical orientation. It is no surprise that they have produced differentlymeaningful worlds and different ideas about whether patience is a virtue or a crutch in aworld of unfair waiting. In those societies where some sort of idea of God remains theanchor for human life, patience remains a godlike virtue and impatience a symptom ofgreed, haste, or excessive ambition. Once capitalism becomes the dominant framework ofany society, patience is reserved for the masses, and speed and disruption become thehallmarks of the entrepreneurial masters of the universe. Institutions like universities andpolitical systems such as democracy, which thrive on deliberation, deferral, and debate, donot flourish in a world where impatience seems to have replaced patience as the best recipefor a humane life.

Editor's Introduction: Stews, Soaps, Spells, and Salves

Abstract: Introduction to the essay forum "The Jewish Recipe."

Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling.

Guest Editor's Introduction: Pain's Plurals and Narrative Disruption: Communicating Pain and Honoring Its Telling.

Editorial

This articles serves as editorial introduction to the Journal of Digital Media and Policy’s Special Issue on ‘US-Based SVoD Providers in Europe: Impacts and Challenges’. It starts by a reminder of the importance taken by US-based SVOD in Europe, and their ambiguous impact. On the one hand, they play a key role in terms of audio-visual creativity and innovation. On the other hand, they have been at the centre of many policy debates regarding notably their impact on the production and consumption of European content. The objective of the Special Issue is to analyse such impact using various empirical approaches and comparative analyses. This is done via five articles, two short commentaries and three book reviews, which are briefly presented in the end of this editorial introduction.

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on AI-Driven Cybersecurity for Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Section on AI-Driven Cybersecurity for Healthcare Cyber Physical Systems

Editorial Introduction to JSTQE Special Issue on Terahertz Photonics (2023)

Editorial Introduction to JSTQE Special Issue on Terahertz Photonics (2023)

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Video Transformers

Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Video Transformers