{"title":"Algorithmic Anthropomorphizing, Platform Gossip, and Backlashes: Aspirational Content Creators’ Narratives About YouTube’s Algorithm on Reddit","authors":"John R. Gallagher, Antonia Pecoraro Hernandez","doi":"10.1177/20563051251331761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251331761","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how aspirational content creators (ACCs) on the r/NewTubers subreddit forum understand and discuss YouTube’s algorithm. This study employs thematic analysis of 144 r/NewTubers posts that explicitly mentioned algorithms. The analysis reveals four main themes: mythologizing and anthropomorphism, demystification of the algorithm, platform gossip, and community backlash. NewTubers often personify the algorithm, attributing human-like qualities and agency to it. This anthropomorphism, however, is frequently challenged by other NewTubers who emphasize the algorithm’s technical nature and the importance of content quality. These narratives highlight the formation of public, non-institutional algorithmic literacies among ACCs as they negotiate the opaque world of platform algorithms.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143822727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kant’s essentialism and mechanism and their relevance for present-day philosophy of psychiatry","authors":"Hein van den Berg","doi":"10.1007/s13194-025-00654-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-025-00654-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper aims to evaluate the relevance of Kant’s much discussed essentialism and mechanism for present-day philosophy of psychiatry. Kendler et al. (Psychological Medicine 41(6):1143–1150, 2011) have argued that essentialism is inadequate for conceptualizing psychiatric disorders. In this paper, I develop this argument in detail by highlighting a variety of essentialism that differs from the one rejected by Kendler et al. I show that Kant’s essentialism is not directly affected by the argument of Kendler et al. (Psychological Medicine 41(6):1143–1150, 2011), and that Kendler et al.’s (Psychological Medicine 41(6):1143–1150, 2011) argument also does not affect other essentialist positions in psychiatry. Hence, the rejection of essentialism in psychiatry needs more arguments than the one supplied by Kendler et al. Nevertheless, the study of current psychiatry also provides reasons to reject Kant’s essentialism and his transcendental project. I argue that Kant’s theory of mechanical explanation is more relevant for analyzing present-day philosophy of psychiatry, insofar as (a) modern psychiatric research into the causes of psychiatric disorders fits the mechanist paradigm, (b) Kant’s theory of mechanical explanation is importantly similar to modern theories of mechanical explanation applicable to psychiatry, such as those of Bechtel and associates, and (c) Kant’s stance that mechanism constitutes a regulative ideal points to useful arguments for the pursuit of mechanical explanations in psychiatry.</p>","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"66 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thirst Traps and Quick Cuts: The Effects of TikTok “Edits” on Evaluations of Politicians","authors":"Kevin Munger, Valerie Li","doi":"10.1177/20563051251329990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251329990","url":null,"abstract":"TikTok and the associated technologies for recording and editing short-form video constitute a large and growing portion of online communication. Previous modalities of social media, including static images and especially text, engendered significant attention to the facticity of the communication: was a statement true or false? Did an event actually take place? For a certain genre of stylized, highly edited short-form video, this is beside the point—which is to produce a compelling video that portrays a prominent figure in a particular light. We conduct an experiment to evaluate whether “edits” of prominent politicians can change voter perceptions. We find that “thirst trap” edits cause an increase in perceptions of politician attractiveness and that “badass” edits improve overall evaluations of Donald Trump (but not Joe Biden). Descriptively, we present a distribution of the evaluations of the attractiveness of Trump, Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr (“RFK”), demonstrating significant variation.","PeriodicalId":47920,"journal":{"name":"Social Media + Society","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Silk Roads’ exhibition, British Museum, London, 26 September 2024–23 February 2025","authors":"Elizabeth Baigent","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 67-68"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Probabilistic empiricism","authors":"Quentin Ruyant, Mauricio Suárez","doi":"10.1007/s13194-025-00653-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-025-00653-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Modal Empiricism in philosophy of science proposes to understand the possibility of modal knowledge from experience by replacing talk of possible worlds with talk of possible situations, which are coarse-grained, bounded and relative to background conditions. This allows for an induction towards objective necessity, assuming that actual situations are representative of possible ones. The main limitation of this epistemology is that it does not account for probabilistic knowledge. In this paper, we propose to extend Modal Empiricism to the probabilistic case, thus providing an inductivist epistemology for probabilistic knowledge. The key idea is that extreme probabilities, close to 1 and 0, serve as proxies for testing mild probabilities, using a principle of model combination.</p>","PeriodicalId":48832,"journal":{"name":"European Journal for Philosophy of Science","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143823105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ségolène Vandevelde, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Damien Deldicque, Abdou Niane, Cyrielle Mathias, Dany Savard, Yves Perrette, Bruno Desachy, Ludovic Slimak, Kevin Bouchard
{"title":"Late Mid-Pleistocene hominin fire control inferred from sooty speleothem analysis","authors":"Ségolène Vandevelde, Edwige Pons-Branchu, Damien Deldicque, Abdou Niane, Cyrielle Mathias, Dany Savard, Yves Perrette, Bruno Desachy, Ludovic Slimak, Kevin Bouchard","doi":"10.1007/s10816-025-09709-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09709-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The origin of fire control is considered a major turning point in human evolution and remains a highly debated albeit central subject in archaeology. Studying paleo-fires is challenging because of taphonomic phenomena that alter combustion structures and hinder the identification of the oldest hearths. Moreover, hearths do not record all fire events and do not provide a chronological record of fire. In contrast, speleothems, carbonated cave deposits, can preserve evidence of ancient fires, including soot traces, and these features can be dated directly using radiometric methods. Orgnac 3, an important archaeological sequence in Western Europe, provides a case study on the origins of habitual fire use in this region during the transition between the Lower and Middle Paleolithic. This paper presents the first documented record of over 20 fire events at this ancient site. The habitual use of fire by Mid-Pleistocene hominins at the site is well documented within sooty speleothems, as opposed to relying on scattered and rare traces. The soot deposit sequence at Orgnac 3 is the strongest and best-documented evidence of repeated fire use at the site to date. The robust fire-use chronology is established using stratigraphic U-Th dating of the speleothem. The soot record at Orgnac 3, testifying to fire events during both dry and wet periods, supports the hypothesis that Mid-Pleistocene hominins could control fire around 270,000 years ago in the Rhone Valley, with the possible ability to light it, or at least maintain it over a long term.</p>","PeriodicalId":47725,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cartographic invention of Hong Kong: Alexander Dalrymple and the British colonisation of the Pearl River Estuary, 1646–1841","authors":"Maxime Decaudin","doi":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhg.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article critically examines the intersection of cartography and British imperialism in the context of Hong Kong. It investigates the production and transmission of geographical knowledge from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, emphasizing the instrumental role of cartography in shaping colonial ambitions in the Pearl River Estuary. By focusing on the hydrographic surveys and maps produced by British cartographers, particularly Alexander Dalrymple, the study demonstrates how these works facilitated the transformation of Hong Kong into an abstract imperial space. Through a rigorous analysis of British cartographic practices, this article reveals the processes of abstraction, erasure of indigenous knowledge, and ideological reorientation that underpinned the production of British imperial space in the Pearl River estuary. It concludes by assessing the long-term impact of Dalrymple's cartographic legacy on British diplomatic, military, and commercial strategies, culminating in the occupation of Hong Kong Harbour during the First Opium War. This study contributes to the historiography of cartography and colonialism by elucidating the complex interplay between scientific mapping techniques and imperial expansion in the context of British colonialism in East Asia.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47094,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Geography","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages 46-66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143817451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding “the” in L2 writing: Article use in formulaic sequences among beginning and intermediate Chinese learners of English","authors":"Detong Xia , Hye K. Pae","doi":"10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101512","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jeap.2025.101512","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the use of articles in formulaic sequences in L2 English writing by Chinese learners, focusing on both target sequences and ungrammatical instances. Writing samples from two learner corpora were analyzed, one at the beginning level (N = 802,974 words) and the other at the intermediate level (N = 803,008 words), derived from the EF Cambridge Open Language Database. The learner corpora were analyzed for article-embedded formulaic sequences, which had previously been identified as fundamental expressions in academic speaking and writing. The core expression approach was used to identify errors related to articles, which were categorized as omission, addition, and misformation errors. Error types in both learner corpora were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings indicated that intermediate learners produced more article-embedded formulaic sequences than beginners, but with comparable accuracy. Specifically, intermediate learners produced greater numbers of omission errors, but fewer misformation errors than their counterparts. This study offers insights into the cross-proficiency variations in the use of article-embedded formulaic sequences in L2 writing, with implications for teaching these sequences to enhance L2 academic writing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47717,"journal":{"name":"Journal of English for Academic Purposes","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101512"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143815667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dichotomy of Opposition Between the Image of Technology and the Pre-Technological Era in Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy of Art","authors":"Qing Yao","doi":"10.1007/s10699-025-09978-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-025-09978-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Globalization and the digital revolution have forced a rethink of many philosophical works of the 20th century. Among them, Martin Heidegger’s ideas attract special attention. The main purpose of the article is to study the dichotomy of opposition between the image of technology and the pre-technological era in Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of art. Research methods include the possibility of recombination of heterogeneous data to obtain previously unknown knowledge and semantic analysis of Martin Heidegger’s works. The study proposes a model of the dichotomy of civilization development within the framework of <i>Ge-stell</i>. The essence of this model is the concept of <i>Ge-stell</i>, which now covers modern civilization with industrial and digital technologies. At the same time, humanity and nature are a “permanent reserve” in relation to <i>Ge-stell</i>, that is, according to Heidegger’s ideas, <i>Bestand</i>. Humanity has two paths of development, which involve creation and destruction. Technological development over the past two centuries has caused a global environment. In his philosophy, Heidegger proposed art as the only way to overcome the crisis of modernity. The findings expand the understanding of the global problems associated with the modern development of human civilization through a new rethinking of Heidegger’s ideas. The study offers an alternative to the path of destruction through the mechanism of creative perception of technology through art.</p>","PeriodicalId":55146,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Science","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143819216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}