«Consultancy firm PwC conducted a review of how the project was managed and found there was a lack of oversight, due to no executive steering board keeping DMI on track…”

«It is impossible to understand your own life without understanding the society and history in which you live.»

«Ultimately, the sociological imagination encourages a shift from a purely biographical lens to a more comprehensive understanding of historical and societal influences, paving the way for informed action and change.»

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«One of the things we’ve seen is that placing constraints on companies just encourages them to innovate in a different way»

«Every individual lives, from one generation to the next, in some society; that he lives out a biography, and that he lives it out within some historical sequence»

«The first fruit of this imagination … is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period.»

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«We can’t just place the burden on the individual.»

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«We rushed to the internet expecting empowerment, the democratization of knowledge, and help with real problems, but surveillance capitalism really was just too lucrative to resist.»

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«I define surveillance capitalism as the unilateral claiming of private human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data.»

«Surveillance capitalism describes a market driven process where the commodity for sale is your personal data, and the capture and production of this data relies on mass surveillance of the internet.»

«These companies collect and scrutinise our online behaviours (likes, dislikes, searches, social networks, purchases) to produce data that can be further used for commercial purposes.»

«What makes surveillance capitalism uniquely capitalist is the way private entities… systematically dispossess us of our personal data and claim ownership over it.»

«The more our actual behavior conforms to these data-driven predictions, the more valuable those data become… our autonomy begins to diminish.»

«Глядя на морелловские изображения, мы ощущаем себя живущими внутри собственной головы, в иммерсивном бульоне самопроизвольно возникающих внутренних образов.»

«Автор перемещается из внешнего во внутреннее пространство, а, по сути, еще и назад во времени, потому что концептуальная логика всего его творчества программно совпадает с логикой фотографии.»

Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P. H. (2009). Generating, deepening, and documenting learning: The power of critical reflection for applied learning. 

«The three steps of the DEAL model are Describe, Examine, and Articulate Learning.»

Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P. H. (2009). Generating, deepening, and documenting learning: The power of critical reflection for applied learning. 

«Ash & Clayton (2009) define critical reflection as ‘evidence based examination of the sources of and gaps in knowledge and practice with the intent to improve on both »

«Understanding more about our readers has allowed the FT to pivot our business to digital subscriptions, and create the sustainable revenue that allows us to sustain our journalistic mission.»

«One of the challenges of the Big Data era is cutting through the overwhelming volume of available information to discover what really matters.»

«When it’s working well, the comment section becomes an extension of FT journalism, a place where people reflect, question, and exchange ideas.»

“We know that posting a comment has the single biggest impact on habit strength. But it is also one of the rarest behaviours on the site.”

«It’s clear that the bank needed to improve its aged banking systems, but the decision to rebuild from scratch was too ambitious and proved to be unachievable.»

«It did not establish clear requirements for the system or obtain a thorough independent assessment of its technical design as a whole to see whether it was technically sound.»

«The cultural change aspects of the digital transformation were neglected as the BBC’s management of the DMI focused more on the technological aspects of the programme rather than enabling BBC-wide change.»

«Doing them through a visual means allows people to absorb them and really look at them and take them in and compare in a way which probably wouldn’t be so easy to do in any other way.»

«The data is effectively your kind of, your individual dots on a painting and it’s assembling them in the correct order that the picture reveals itself.»

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«Sure, the questions will have been pre-agreed, and sure, some lines seem intentionally constructed to go viral on TikTok, but you won’t find a lot of duds in these episodes – each of them are quick, well-edited and a flat-out laugh.»

«When I was at Cornell, I was rather fascinated by the student body, which seems to me was a dilute mixture of some sensible people in a big mass of dumb people studying home economics…. I used to sit in the cafeteria with the students and eat and try to overhear their conversations and see if there was one intelligent word coming out.»

«In Serres’s view ‘criticism is a generalized physics,’ and whether knowledge is written in philosophical, literary, or scientific language it nevertheless articulates a common set of problems that transcends academic disciplines and artificial boundaries.»

«Everywhere everything is just as it is here, identical in every way to what one can see ordinarily on the terraqueous globe. Except that the degrees of grandeur and beauty change»

«For Serres it is transferral that matters, not staid objects - and the messenger gives him a new way of describing these transferals, a new way to elucidate what A.N Whitehead once called ‘prehensions.’»

«All are real. All are active. And, in their own way, these and myriad other nonhuman entities are actors, enrolled in the production of our world.»

«The apparent «solidity» of facts is dependent on the ongoing support of the social apparatuses both in the lab and among other professional bodies outside it.»