Wide Web Research Articles

Uncovering coordinated cross-platform information operations: Threatening the integrity of the 2024 U.S. presidential election

Information operations (IOs) pose a significant threat to the integrity of democratic processes, with the potential to influence election-related online discourse. In anticipation of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we present a study aimed at uncovering the digital traces of coordinated IOs on X (formerly Twitter). Using our machine learning framework for detecting online coordination, we analyze a dataset comprising election-related conversations on X from May to July 2024. This reveals a network of coordinated inauthentic actors, displaying notable similarities in their link-sharing behaviors. Our analysis shows concerted efforts by these accounts to disseminate misleading, redundant, and biased information across the Web through a coordinated cross-platform information operation: The links shared by this network frequently direct users to other social media platforms or mock news sites featuring low-quality political content and, in turn, promoting the same X and YouTube accounts. Members of this network also shared deceptive images generated by AI, accompanied by language attacking political figures and symbolic imagery intended to convey power and dominance. While X has suspended or restricted a subset of these accounts, 75 percent ofthe coordinated network remains active, garnering substantial traction over time: The suspicious Web sites promoted by this coordinated network are shared thousands of times per day by the X user base, further amplifying their reach and potential impact. Our findings underscore the critical role of developing computational models to scale up the detection of threats on large social media platforms, and emphasize the broader implications of these techniques to detect IOs across the wider Web.

Siren’s song: the news of Tabarka and its impact on Spanish Mediterranean policy in the mid-sixteenth century

The island of Tabarka, off the northwestern coast of modern Tunisia, was an active coral-fishing factory during the mid-sixteenth century. Its political status was unclear, straddling Tunisian sovereignty and Spanish military control, while being economically exploited by the Genoa-based Lomellini company. It also operated as a privileged hub of information for Maghrebi affairs, supplying fresh news to the Spanish authorities during the critical phase of Ottoman Mediterranean expansion throughout the 1550s. Particularly, this information’s flow fed into a wider web, and competed with alternative sources of news to influence decision-making processes in the Spanish monarchy. This article presents a micro-historical analysis of a place, a network, and specific political conditions to go beyond the mere reconstruction of information flows and reveal the real impact of the news coming from Tabarka on Spanish Mediterranean policy in the mid-sixteenth century.

SEMANTIC MEDIA: POLITICAL ECONOMY PERSPECTIVES ON PLATFORMIZED FACT PRODUCTION

Large media platforms are now in the habit of providing facts in their products and representing knowledge to various publics. For example, Google’s Knowledge Graph is a database of facts that Google uses to provide quick answers to publics who use their products, while Wikipedia has a product called Wikidata that similarly stores facts about the world in data formats through which various apps can retrieve the data. Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM use similar fact storing and retrieval techniques in their products. This panel introduces papers that take a political economy perspective on such platformaized versions of fact production and examines the underlying infrastructures, histories, and modeling techniques used in such knowledge representation systems. Knowledge representation, long a central topic in archiving work in library and information sciences, is a key feature of platforms and practiced by internet companies more broadly. Much of this work has historically centered on metadata models that seek to organize and describe information in standardized ways. In the context of expanding this data organizing and labeling work into the wider web, one of the main facilitators was the “Semantic Web” project proposed by Tim-Berners Lee and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Today, many of the same principles, technologies, and standards that were proposed by those early projects in metadata modeling from groups like W3C are found at companies like Google and Facebook, organizations like Wikipedia, government portals, and beyond. These platform metadata models are typically produced by industry professionals (e.g., taxonomists, ontologists, knowledge engineers, etc.) who help structure information for algorithmic processing on platforms and their recommender systems. Such structured information is supposed to add a layer of contextual expressivity to web data that would otherwise be more difficult to parse, though the issue of context control is not unproblematic in relation to statements of facts. In many of these automated systems, metadata models contribute to articulating ready-made facts that then travel through these systems and eventually reach the products that are engaged by everyday web users. This panel connects scholars working in information, media studies, and science and technology studies to discuss these semantic technologies. The first paper presents data gathered from interviews with semantic web practitioners who build or have built metadata models at large internet and platform companies. It presents results from a qualitative study of these platform data management professionals (collectively referred to as “metadata modelers”) and draws from unstructured interviews (n=10) and archival research. The paper describes the image of a metadata ecology along with selected work-related contestations expressed by interview subjects regarding some of the difficulties and intractable problems in metadata modeling work. The paper includes a discussion of the political economy of platform semantics through an examination of critical semantic web literature and ends with some policy concerns. The second paper translates the method of tracing “traveling facts” from science studies to the context of online knowledge about evolving, historic events. The goal is to understand the socio-political impact of the semantic web as it has been implemented by monopolistic digital platforms and how such practices intersect in the context of Wikipedia, where the majority of knowledge graph entities are sourced from. The paper describes how the adoption (and domination) by platform companies of linked data has catalyzed a re-shaping of web content to accord with the question and answer linked data formats, weakening the power of open content licenses to support local knowledge and consolidating the power of algorithmic knowledge systems that favor knowledge monopolies. The third paper discusses building a semantic foundation for machine learning and examines how information infrastructures that convey meaning are intimately tied to colonial labor relations. It traces the practice of building a digital infrastructure that enables machines to learn from human language. The paper describes examples from an ethnographic study of semantic computing and its infrastructuring practices to show how such techniques are materially and discursively performative in their co-emergence with techno-epistemic discourses and politico-economic structures. It examines sociomaterial process in which classifications, standards, metadata, and methods co-emerge with processes of signification that reconstitute and/or shift hegemonic ecologies of knowledge. The fourth paper evaluates and examines the ethics of “free” data (CC-0) in Wikidata by evaluating the sources and usage of data from and within Wikidata. From knowledge graphs to AI training, Wikidata is the semantic web platform that is being used across the Internet to power new platforms. Through a consideration of the ways in which Wikidata scrapes Wikipedia’s “share alike” knowledge through scraping metadata and the significant donations and partnerships from large technology firms (Google in particular), this paper addresses ethical concerns within the largest semantic web platform, how these transformations of knowledge alienate donated volunteer labor, and offers some ways in which these issues might be mitigated.

The Evolutionary Chain of Eight Forms of Language: Speech, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Computing, the Internet/World Wide Web, Search Engines and AI Applications

The Evolutionary Chain of Eight Forms of Language: Speech, Writing, Mathematics, Science, Computing, the Internet/World Wide Web, Search Engines and AI Applications

The Sociosemiotic Approach to Translation

Sociosemiotics takes all the signs in human society into consideration including linguistic signs and social-cultural signs. There is still some limitation in the semiotic theory of Morris. The limitation of semiotics urges a new perspective to think over the relationship between language and social culture. Under this circumstance, sociosemiotics was developed on the basis of semiotic theory. This paper tries to apply sociosemiotics approach to translation. It is found in the study that the sociosemiotic approach takes into consideration all the signs in human society including linguistic and social-cultural signs. Translating thus is regarded as the message transition between two semiotic systems. Translation study based on sociosemiotics has become a new research sphere along with linguistics, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology and sociology. The development and perfection of sociosemiotics inspire researchers to interpret the meaning of the text in a wider web of relationships among language, culture, psychology, and society. The equivalence translation from a sociosemiotic perspective can be applied in different discourses such as legal translation, foreign news translation, English business advertisements, to name just a few.

Log File Data Extraction or Mining

Log records contain data generally Client Title, IP Address, Time Stamp, Get to Ask, number of Bytes Exchanged, Result Status, URL that Intimated, and Client Chairman. The log records are kept up by the internet servers. By analysing these log records gives a flawless thought to the client. The wide Web may be a solid store of web pages that gives the Net clients piles of information. With the change in the number and complexity of Websites, the degree of the net has gotten to be massively wide. Web Utilization Mining may be a division of web mining that consolidates the application of mining strategies to web server logs in coordination to expel the behaviour of clients. Log records contain basic data around the execution of a framework. This data is frequently utilized for investigating, operational profiling, finding quirks, recognizing security dangers, measuring execution,

Roll-to-roll micromolding of UV curable coatings

In this study, fast and continuous fabrication of microscale structures by roll-to-roll UV imprinting or micromolding is demonstrated on a 121 mm wide web. This process is enabled by a UV curable thiol-ene-acrylate resin system, following the work of Stadlober and coworkers. A series of formulations were prepared with fast curing speeds at ambient conditions, low viscosities, and tunable mechanical properties. The rate and extent of curing as a function of the formulation composition were investigated with Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Consistent with the past work, we show that the thiol-ene-acrylate formulations reached high double bond conversions (> 80%) with the maximum conversion increasing with the relative thiol content and decreasing with the viscous urethane acrylate oligomer content. The double bond conversion of the patterned coatings (in contact with the mold) is shown to be ~ 80% for a range of UV lamp powers and web speeds up to 2.7 cm/s. Areas of the coating not covered by the mold required higher UV lamp power and/or lower web speeds to cure to a tack-free state. Microscale channels and arrays of recessed wells with various dimensions and pattern densities were continuously fabricated. Our findings show the successful use of a tetrafunctional thiol in the thiol-ene-acrylate resin system. We also discuss guidelines for the selection of processing conditions for the manufacturing of structured plastic substrates using roll-to-roll imprinting processes, opening up potential new applications.

ICT's Wide Web: a System-Level Analysis of ICT's Industrial Diffusion with Algorithmic Links

This paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of diffusion patterns and relatedness within ICT as a technology system in the EU28 region. Considering ICT as a technology system, first, I break down ICT into a set of distinct technologies employing OECD and WIPO classifications. Then, using text analysis and the Algorithmic Links with Probabilities method, I construct industry-technology links to connect industries with ICT and track ICT's diffusion over the period 1977-2020. The analysis highlights the heterogeneity of the technologies that constitute the ICT cluster. As not all ICTs are pervasive and not all ICTs are key technologies, this leads to differences in industry reliance on them. The results indicate that the ICT cluster shows signs of a transition, passing the phase of building bulk elements of the infrastructure and around the 2000s entering the phase of working on the functionality for business applications deployment and users' convenience. This transition is marked by the surging relevance of ICT technologies such as mobile communication, information analysis, security, and human interface. Studying the ICT as a cluster allows putting each ICT technology in context to compare them in relative terms; this is especially important for the discussion of novel and fast-growing technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI). Concerning the structure of industry reliance on the ICT cluster, ICT's penetration is characterized by increasing scope but unevenly distributed scale; depending on the industry and the distinct ICT technology the intensity of their connections varies significantly. Remarkably, looking closer at AI technologies, in line with the current literature, a wide array of shallow connections with industries is revealed. Finally, I calculate relatedness metrics to estimate proximity among ICT technologies. The analysis reveals differences in the underlying knowledge base among the overwhelming majority of the ICT technologies but a similar structure of their application base.

Application of Mind-Maps to Visualize the Learning Process of Reference-Search Systems

The article considers one of the general competencies of GEF, which is responsible for the formation of information literacy of the students of secondary vocational education (SVE), future specialists. The problem of information search is always relevant because the ability to find the necessary information in a short time that will help in solving a specific task facing a specialist is the most important competence that allows you to shorten the time, which is the only non-refillable resource. The second aspect is the fact that such information should be as complete and relevant as possible to the currently solved task. The purpose of the study is to identify the features and prospective directions of using Mindmaps in teaching students to work with reference retrieval system in secondary vocational schools.In the course of the study, an online survey of 160 students of the State Budgetary Professional Educational Institution the Moscow College of Social Workers Training was conducted to identify their level of proficiency in information search. The results of the survey showed that students do not have knowledge in deep search among scientific materials, professional databases and documents that are widely represented on the world’s Wide Web, as well as students do not use e-library. It is shown that for the professional development and employment of future graduates of the system of secondary vocational education, there is a need to increase the effectiveness of training in working with reference retrieval by using Mind-maps. These maps provide an increase in the efficiency of the process of memorizing difficult to perceive material within the discipline by structuring and systematizing information in a special visual form. The analysis of its software (a fragment of the Mind-maps) was carried out, and it was revealed that the X-Mind program has a number of advantages. Recommendations for the Mind-maps drafting are given, and the stages of the training session where they can be applied are displayed. The Mind-map of Reference legal systems was developed and was used in the study of the topic Information technologies for the use of the computer-assisted legal research.

The burden, admission, and outcomes of COVID-19 among asthmatic patients in Africa: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

BackgroundCoronavirus disease 2019 outbreak is the first reported case in Wuhan, China in December 2019 and suddenly became a major global health concern. According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, on August 4, 2020 the reported cases of coronavirus disease 2019 were 18,456,952 cases worldwide, 11,691,229 recovered with 697,719 deaths. Evidence on Burden, admission and outcome of Coronavirus Disease in 2019 among Asthmatic patients has not been published in Africa. This research protocol will, therefore, be driven to conduct systematic review and meta-analysis of the Coronavirus Disease in 2019 burden, admission and outcome among Asthmatic patients in Africa.MethodsAll observational studies among Asthmatic patients in Africa and written without language limitation will be included. A search technique was applied using Databases (PubMed / MEDLINE, EMBASE, HINARI, Cochrane Library, World Health Organization COVID-19 database, Africa Wide Knowledge and Web of Science). Two independent authors carried out data extraction and assess the risk of bias using a predetermined and structured method of data collection. We will use random-effects to estimate the overall pooled burden, admission and outcome of COVID-19 Asthmatic patients in Africa. To assess possible publication bias, funnel plot test and Egger’s test methods will be used. This systematic and meta-analysis review protocol will be reported based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analysis protocol guidelines.DiscussionThe description will be used to show the COVID-19 distribution data by interest variables such as residence, setting, and person-level characteristics. The findings of this review will notify health care professionals about the burden, admission and outcome of COVID − 19 in asthmatic patient, while providing evidence to bring about the requisite improvements in clinical practice for asthmatic patients.Systematic review registrationThis review is registered in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of Systematic reviews with the registration number of CRD42020202049.

An examination of educational inputs with the data envelopment analysis: The example of ICILS 2013

The aim of this study was to determine how efficiently different countries, comparatively, use educational inputs, which are considered to affect information and communication technology literacy. The study was designed using the survey model. The study was conducted with data belonging to 21 countries participating in the International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICIL) 2013. The data of this study were grouped as educational inputs and educational outputs. The educational inputs were the ratio of school size and teachers, the ratio of school size and number of computers, the ratio of school size and number of computers available for students, the ratio of school size and number of computers with access to internet/World Wide Web, and the ratio of school size and number of smartboards. The educational outputs were determined by the average student grades obtained in ICILS 2013. The data were analysed with data envelopment analysis. The research results revealed that relatively, Australia, Canada (Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario), Denmark, Korea, and Norway were the countries with total efficiencies. It was determined that with the exception of the Czech Republic, all the countries without total efficiencies had the characteristic of increasing returns to scale. According to the projections that were put forward for countries to become totally efficient, the most reduction recommendations were received for the inputs for ratio of school size and teachers by Argentina (Buenos Aires); for ratio of school size and number of computers, ratio of school size and number of computers available for students, and ratio of school size and number of computers with access to internet/World Wide Web by Turkey; and for ratio of school size and smartboards by Thailand. That is to say, these countries were the ones least able to use these inputs efficiently.

(Invited) Critical Parameters for GW Scale Perovskite PV Manufacturing

A recent NREL white paper proposing a new US Perovskite Energy Consortium states “Fulfilling the world’s demand for PV requires continued exponential growth of production capacity without exponential growth in capital expenditure and remains a major challenge due to the inadequate capital efficiency of PV using existing technologies. There is an opportunity and a need for disruptive and fundamentally profitable technologies to supplement the ongoing growth of the PV manufacturing industry”. Perovskite technology promises high conversion efficiency, low manufacturing cost, and low capital expense (CapEx) to build manufacturing capacity. Fulfilling that promise requires a manufacturing process with a very high throughput. The ability to fabricate perovskite films using low-temperature, solution based methods has been touted as a path to low cost and low CapEx manufacturing, however fast deposition of the perovskite layer alone is not sufficient to create the throughput that transforms the PV manufacturing landscape; an in-line process that integrates the deposition of all the functional layers of the device, as well as cell interconnects and module lamination, is required. Any slow vacuum deposition step (e.g., sputtering ITO for the transparent conductor) or long thermal annealing step (e.g., forming a charge transport barrier by forming a compact TiO2 layer) commonly used in lab-scale perovskite device fabrication must be avoided. Our cost modeling shows that the throughput of a single line needed to get to disruptive CapEx and manufacturing cost will be on the order of 45 m2/min. That results in over 3GW/year production capacity at conservative uptime and yield values. An integrated in-line roll-to-roll (RtR) process with a 1.5m wide web would require all deposition steps to run at 30 m/min; much faster than processes cited in the academic literature for lab scale devices. That line speed is not taxing to most commercially available RtR systems, but practical limitations on oven size means a tight window for drying and annealing steps of all solution coated layers. The challenges of creating high performance transparent conductors, inorganic charge transport and barrier layers, perovskite layers and cell interconnects at those speeds will be discussed. The implied TAKT time is less than 3 seconds for 2m2 modules coming off of a single production line. The final assembly and test operations take much longer for each module, so methods of dealing with the mismatch must be implemented. We will also describe the practical considerations, including material sourcing and process requirements for production at GW scale.

Application of modified pentagonal dorsal finger flap in the congenital syndactyly release

Objective To explore the clinical efficacy of modified pentagonal dorsal finger flap in the congenital syndactyly release. Methods From January 2010 to January 2014, 20 cases of simple cutaneous syndactyly were treated by modified pentagonal dorsal finger flap combined with finger Zigzag flap. The flap coverage scope, the occurrence of infection and necrosis of the skin flap and other early complications were recorded. The web depth and finger extension angle were measured and compared with the healthy side. Finger web creep and finger web scar were scored, and whether reoperation was performed due to the above complications was recorded. Questionnaire was used to evaluate parents' satisfaction. Results Twenty patients were follow-up for 30 to 75 months, with an average of 38 months. No complications such as infection and necrosis of skin flaps occurred after operation. The shape of the web was wide. The web depth of the affected side was (2.37±0.56) cm, and the finger extension angle was (24.50±4.74)°. There was no significant difference between the affected and healthy side. The reoperation rate due to web creep, web contracture and scar flexion contracture was 0. Family members were satisfied with the treatment outcome. Conclusion The modified pentagonal dorsal finger flap combined with finger Zigzag flap can reconstruct web space to the level of proximal interphalangeal joint, reduce the complications such as web creep and scar contracture after operation. Wide web is good for fingers to grasp large objects with high operative safety. Key words: Hand deformities,congenital; Syndactyly; Modified pentagonal dorsal finger flap; Web reconstruction; Web contracture

Technology-Driven Information: Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria

The study adopted a correlational research design to find out the relationship between the roles of Technology-Driven and Information Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria. The study covered six higher institutions with twelve Departments. 252 Lecturers and 3,720 students formed the population of 3,972. A self-design instrument was used; a random sampling technique adopted as well as Krejcie and Morgan method was used to determine the sample size of 354. Mean statistics was used to analyse the research question and Pearson Product Moment Correlation (r) was adopted to test the only hypothesis. It was noted that TechnologyDriven information Plays High Level of Roles in Information Creation, Access, Storage and Dissemination in Academic Libraries in Nigeria. Among other things, the study recommended the recruitment and retention of technical support staff in academic libraries. The availability of technical staff helps to maximize systems accessibility and efficiency.Staff and students also need to be trained on how to use these facilities towards achieving academic excellence. This may be through continuous orientation and the inclusion of such courses like: Use of computer for Information retrieval, Use of Internet/world wide web and IT applications.

Trans youth and social media: moving between counterpublics and the wider web

Today’s trans youth grew up with the internet and online LGBTQ resources and spaces are important to these communities. This article focuses on conceptualising the digital cultural strategies that trans and gender questioning youth adopt both as social media users and producers in order to cope and thrive. Drawing on ethnographic data detailing a group of trans youth’s engagements with LGBTQ social media counterpublics and the wider web, and their movement between these spheres, in combination with close readings of online material identified as salient by the participants, this article argues that in the face of rampant transphobia and cis coded online paradigms, trans youth respond both critically and creatively. More specifically, I highlight how they resist prescribed user protocols of mainstream social networking sites as well as employ pragmatic strategies for navigating a binary gendered online world, staking out their own methods and aesthetics for self expression and community formation. Having examined the content and style of social media examples highlighted by the participants, the article contends that trans youth’s consumption and production of types of online and social media is significantly more diverse than research to date has recognised.

Research and Application of a SCADA System for a Microgrid

An effective Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system can improve the reliability, safety and economic benefits of a microgrid operation. In this research, the lower central controller and upper WEB (World Wide Web) monitoring system are connected by the SCADA system, which is the hub of a microgrid intelligent monitoring platform. This system contains a set of specific functions programmed by Java as a middleware and can provide communication and control functions between the central controller and the upper monitoring system. For the sake of security and stability of the microgrid, the SCADA system realizes business processing on real-time data acquisition and storage, load balancing and resource recovery, concurrent security processing, and control instruction parsing and transmission. All those functions were tested and verified in actual operation.

“Soldiers of Christ” from the Byzantine Perspective: Monks, Emperors, and Conflict in the Early Byzantine Empire

This article is an exploration of concept of monks as “soldiers of Christ” in Byzantine Anatolia during the late sixth and early seventh centuries CE. Through a case study of Theodore of Sykeon, this article will explore monks as agents of continuity in the Byzantine Anatolia of the late sixth and early seventh centuries through Theodore's conflicts with the emperors, imperial authorities, and the regional episcopal hierarchy. The conflicts Theodore had with various authority figures of his time were about helping them see the right path of supporting Catholic orthodoxy as the normative belief system of Byzantine society and integrating his rural community of Sykeon into the wider web of imperial and episcopal urban patronage. Thus, conflict in this context was a catalyst for social order and stability rather than a symptom of social collapse. This article also fits into the historiography of the holy man as local patron in Late Antiquity, suggesting an alternate interpretation of this phenomenon as first put forward in Peter Brown's seminal works on this subject.

Multilength Scale Patterning of Functional Layers by Roll-to-Roll Ultraviolet-Light-Assisted Nanoimprint Lithography.

Top-down fabrication of nanostructures with high throughput is still a challenge. We demonstrate the fast (>10 m/min) and continuous fabrication of multilength scale structures by roll-to-roll UV-nanoimprint lithography on a 250 mm wide web. The large-area nanopatterning is enabled by a multicomponent UV-curable resist system (JRcure) with viscous, mechanical, and surface properties that are tunable over a wide range to either allow for usage as polymer stamp material or as imprint resist. The adjustable elasticity and surface chemistry of the resist system enable multistep self-replication of structured resist layers. Decisive for defect-free UV-nanoimprinting in roll-to-roll is the minimization of the surface energies of stamp and resist, and the stepwise reduction of the stiffness from one layer to the next is essential for optimizing the reproduction fidelity especially for nanoscale features. Accordingly, we demonstrate the continuous replication of 3D nanostructures and the high-throughput fabrication of multilength scale resist structures resulting in flexible polyethylenetherephtalate film rolls with superhydrophobic properties. Moreover, a water-soluble UV-imprint resist (JRlift) is introduced that enables residue-free nanoimprinting in roll-to-roll. Thereby we could demonstrate high-throughput fabrication of metallic patterns with only 200 nm line width.

Automated Reel-to-Reel Fluidic Self-Assembly for the Production of Solid State Lighting Modules

ABSTRACTWe report the implementation of an automated reel-to-reel fluidic self-assembly system based on surface-tension driven self-assembly for macroelectronics application. The reported system incorporates precisely controlled and automated agitation, web moving, component recycling, and dispensing system. The system enables continuous parallel assembly of semiconductor chips at a high rate (15,000 chips per hour using 2.5 cm wide web) and assembly yield (>99%) under optimal condition. In principle, scaling to any throughput should be possible considering the parallel nature of self-assembly. The process overcomes the limitations on area and throughput of prior methods. It provides a new platform for macroelectronics to enable the integration of microscopic high performance inorganic semiconductors on flexible substrates with any desired location, pitch, and integration density. As an example we demonstrate the fabrication of a solid state area lighting module.

Sustainability: ecopsychological insights and person-centered contributions

This paper outlines key ecopsychological insights to argue that person-centered approaches have an important contribution to make in addressing sustainability. Ecopsychology challenges therapies to address the psychological roots of ecological crises, notably by facilitating people to realize their embeddedness within ecosystems. The person can be understood as embedded in systems of relation, with the actualizing tendency part of a broader formative tendency. It is argued that, in person-centered terms, ecopsychology is addressing sustainability by facilitating ecological congruence, the wider/deeper aspects of congruence. While ecopsychology practiced through ecotherapy typically focuses outside the therapy room, this paper focuses within the counselling dyad, and acknowledges the ecosystemic aspects of therapy. The six therapeutic conditions can accommodate the multiplicity and interconnectedness of the person with their ecological “fields.” In particular, practitioners can develop their own congruence with the wider web of relationship and extend their empathy and UPR, to develop their receptivity.