📢 New Open Access Publication!

Tim Hector’s (@timmoritz) dissertation Smart Speakers in Dialogue is out now (Univ. Siegen, De Gruyter Brill, 2025). The study looks at dialogues with Alexa, Google Home & similar devices — through the lens of linguistics, praxeology & conversation analysis.

👉 Open Access eBook: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111574332/html

#Linguistics #SmartSpeakers #ConversationAnalysis #Domestication #Praxeology #MediaStudies #OpenAccess

📄 We recommend the new paper on “Counter-practices: Understanding sensor datafication through subversive action” by Christoph Borbach and Max Kanderske, published in the new journal Dialogues on Digital Society.
The authors propose a situated, praxeological approach to study sensor datafication by following three strands of subversive sensor counter-practices.
Want to read it? 👉 https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640241305970
#Sensors #Practices #Digital #Praxeology #CounterPractices

Austrian economics (or the Austrian school of economics) is #libertarian #philosophy masquerading as a school of economic thought. This school is notable for its lack of formal mathematical modeling and empirical testing. Among its more unusual traits, the Austrian school draws its conclusions based on deduction and thought experiments, rather than data. In place of the conventional tools of science, the Austrian School favors a narrative approach called "praxeology". Despite its shortcomings, some less nutty features of the Austrian School have leaked into mainstream economics while the more nutty have found a home at libertarian think tanks (Cato Institute and Ludwig von Mises Institute).

#RationalWiki #economics #AustrianEconomics #praxeology #catoinstitute #ludwigvonmises #capitalism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Austrian_school

Materiality of Cooperation is out! This one took a while to be translated with care, pandemic hardships included. But now it's here!

[DM me if you want to get beyond the paywall.]

https://netzeundnetzwerke.de/materiality-of-cooperation/

#MediaTheory #SocialTheory #Cultural Techniques #STS #Praxeology #PracticeTheory

In hindsight, I have come to the conclusion that my paper at #STShubDe on the need to bring more #qualitative_analysis and #praxeology into the debate on #data and #capitalism and more #Marx and #Adorno into #DataStudies was not a total failure.

The future of directed education?
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Glad you asked.
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It's @emeralizeapp on lightning rails, soon to host the very first #praxeology course for normal people.
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Happy to team up with @knutsvanholm and @5antoshernandez LFG 🔥🚀
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Show your support:
https://geyser.fund/project/emeralize

RT Conza#RememberanceDay is a complete waste of time if you fail to understand what was learnt. It's not only those who are doing the fighting that are effected by #war. A fascinating article that illustrates the explanatory power of #praxeology (HT: @mises). https://mises.org/library/war-and-time-preference-american-army-australia
from: https://twitter.com/Conza/status/1458779160201994240

RT Brian RottinghausEconomic insight via @PerBylund Always worth a follow to increase your understandingPer Bylund: Proper economic theory is logically deduced, universally applicable, and true. It provides the structure, but not the specifics of a situation. The application of theory thus uncovers the actual nature and causes of observed phenomena. #economics #economictheory #praxeology
from: https://twitter.com/BrianTRott416/status/1415647826646761474