Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3540476
Margaret A. Manion
Presents reviews for the following list of books, (Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up—Katie Davis (Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2023, 336 pp.)).
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Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3541243
Teana Davies
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Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3541444
Ketra Schmitt;Pamela Tudge
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Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3544949
{"title":"IEEE Connects You to a Universe of Information!","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3544949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3544949","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 1","pages":"86-86"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10910256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3538933
Shannon Lodoen
{"title":"Analyzing Smartphones as Persuasive Technologies: A Rhetorical Perspective","authors":"Shannon Lodoen","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3538933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3538933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 1","pages":"33-42"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10910038","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3537157
Min Hooi Yong;Yunli Lee
{"title":"Smartphone Self-Paced Learning With a Chatbot in Malaysian Older Adults","authors":"Min Hooi Yong;Yunli Lee","doi":"10.1109/MTS.2025.3537157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MTS.2025.3537157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55016,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Technology and Society Magazine","volume":"44 1","pages":"24-32"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10910255","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143553355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2024.3493917
Eric P. Wenaas
Presents reviews for the following list of books, (The Switch: An Off and On History of Digital Humans—Jason Puskar (Minneapolis, MN, USA: Univ. Minnesota Press, 2023, 340 pp.)).
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3540491
Jeremy Pitt;Asimina Mertzani;Matt Scott;Ciske Smit
We analyze how the processes of democratic backsliding and post-scarcity autarchy have become entangled with digital technologies, especially artificial intelligence (AI), to become drivers for the disempowerment of individuals and communities. This is especially in relation to the selection, modification, and application of their own preferences for social arrangements or for managing matters of local public interest. Alternatively, we articulate a new architecture of re-empowerment, which integrates ideas of polycentric governance, ethical platformization, and the embodiment of deep social knowledge in human-AI coworking and coproduction. We argue that this will enable communities to mitigate AI-driven forms of domination and enhance new modes and mechanics of political self-organization for democratized neighborhoods.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3539203
Mallory James
In this essay, I present the learning goals and teaching strategies for “Social Studies of Energy,” a class I developed and implemented during a phase of personal transition between different educational contexts. By “multiverse,” I refer to my perception of multiple universes of expert knowledge, terminology, interests, and priorities, all coexisting but not necessarily interacting or exchanging with each other in relation to the ambiguous signifier “energy.” These universes of expertise have their own scholarly journals, key definitions, and central intellectual heroes; some include forms of activism in which personal experience, knowledge, and commitment are at least as central as insights gained through formal education. The coexistence of mutually incompatible forms of energy expertise presents teaching challenges. I describe how I decided my scope of inclusivity while designing “Social Studies of Energy” and how I managed associated risks of conceptual, political, and ontological incoherence. Results are relevant for teachers aiming to maintain and expand academic habitats for advanced qualitative reasoning pertaining to engineering and energy studies.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2025.3530778
Jameson M. Wetmore;Nalini Chhetri;Mark Henderson
This article offers two case studies to illustrate the challenges in applying mainstream engineering educational training in a different culture and context while also offering some suggestions for more integrated and context-based educational approaches. The overall goal is not to dissuade energetic and well-meaning engineers looking to make a difference in the lives of communities around the world (although it is clear that in many cases, engineering solutions implemented at community levels have had mixed results) but rather to suggest that developing skills and contextual awareness to supplement those that they receive in traditional engineering programs is necessary to succeed in being part of a process of positive change in communities. This article will hopefully inspire engineering students and engineers to reflect on and ask important questions before they design solutions for communities different from the ones they grew up in.
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