Essays about: "Cybernetics"

Found 4 essays containing the word Cybernetics.

1. 1. Urban Planning & Governance in the Age of AI : A Study of the Potential Benefits and Risks

   University essay from KTH/Skolan för arkitektur och samhällsbyggnad (ABE)

   Author : Jonas Gummesson; [2023]
   Keywords : Accountability; AI; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Cybernetics; Engagement; Equality; Governance; Neural Networks; Participation; Power; Smart City; Systems planning.; Transparency; Trust; Urban Design; Urban Planning;

   Abstract : Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly developing technology which in this project refers to software that given objectives generate content, predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing their environment. Using literature reviews and semi-structured interviews, the current and future uses, sentiments, regulations, and risks of AI in urban planning and governance are gathered. READ MORE

3. 2. The new Cinderella's Identity Confusion : in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder by Marissa Meyer

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad

   Author : Linnea Andersson; [2022]
   Keywords : Identity confusion; gender roles; gender norms; queer; cyberqueer; performativity; precarity;

   Abstract : The fairy tale of Cinderella is known for its romance, but she seeks independence while being confused by her identity in a new version by Marissa Meyer called Cinder. This essay will present how Meyer’s Cinderella, Cinder, confuses the gender roles by taking on both feminine and masculine ones. READ MORE

4. 3. World Management : The case of the Lord of Hosts Church

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Jonathan Madeland; [2021]
   Keywords : prophecy; Festinger; millenialism; netnography; case study; cognition; rituals; cybernetics; consonance management; world construction; world management; the Lord of Hosts Church; Hank Kunneman; Donald Trump;

   Abstract : Bringing together current research strands stemming from the Festinger tradition of failed prophecy, and by observing a recent case of a prophetic group dealing with disconfirming events under a period of 210 days, I theorize on what roles cognitive dissonance, rituals and continuous prophetic adaptation play in the management of prophetic groups’ alternative world views. The traditional conception of dissonance management is reinterpreted as a process of maximizing mental desirability, which is contingent on the level of cognitive dissonance as well as cognitive activity. READ MORE

5. 4. EDUCATION AND THE CYBERNETIC HYPOTHESIS A synoptic View

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik och specialpedagogik

   Author : Lars Edvin Björk; [2018-08-25]
   Keywords : Cybernetics; education; critical theory; Tiqqun; knowledge;

   Abstract : Aim: Since the end of world war II, western nation states increasingly have moved toward post-national knowledge economy where supranational organizations shape national policy and knowledge has been rendered a commodity. According to writers collective Tiqqun, the underlying master-fiction in this move is one of cybernetic character: the privileging of concepts such as information, control, communication and feedback. READ MORE