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Technical innovation in human science: Examples in cognitive technologies
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
In order to show how technological innovation and scientific innovation are linked in the course of research in human science, we present an account of a series of innovations made in our laboratory (Distal Glove – Tactos ...
What is innovation? New lessons from biology
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
During the 19th century, evolutionary models of innovation followed a famous thesis of continuity, according to which methods and explanatory patterns of biology should have an important say in the social sciences. In the ...
War and the Welfare State: The Case of Italy, from WWI to Fascism
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
On the eve of WWI Italy was among the less advanced European countries in terms of social policies. This was due both to the the frailty of the state building process, began in 1860, and to the relative weakness of the ...
Total war and social reform: Administrating work, population and life in the "Rava Committee" plan (1918)
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
The article focuses on the most important Commission for the reform of the Italian welfare state during the twentieth century: the “Rava Commission”. It conducts a first time prosopographical study of its members aiming ...
Social Policies in Italian Fascism. Authoritarian Strategies and Social Integration
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
The essay will retrace some of the fundamental steps concerning the development of the Italian welfare state during the years of Fascism, framing them within the most recent historiographical debate as well as in the context ...
Serial Horrors of Loneliness: The Impossibility of Communitization in “The Walking Dead”
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
For a long time, zombie movies have lead a shadow existence. Nowadays,, zombies have surprisingly become in vogue: today, they are a constant telemedial companion, reaching all relevant target groups. "The Walking Dead", ...
Communicative differences between emergent and traditional parties: An analysis of Facebook posts from Spain’s 2015 general election campaign
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
Social media has revolutionized political communication. It offers political parties a mass communication channel that lets them customize and create direct communication with citizens. This study analyses the posts of the ...
The crowbar model of method and its implications
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
There is a rough, long-term tradeoff between rate of innovation and degree of strong realism in scientific practice, a point reflected in historically changing conceptions of method as they retreat from epistemological ...
Guest editors’ introduction
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
Scientific knowledge in the age of computation: explicated, computable and manageable?
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2019)
With increasing publication and data production, scientific knowledge presents not simply an achievement but also a challenge. Scientific publications and data are increasingly treated as resources that need to be digitally ...