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Conservatism

By: Kieron O’Hara

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The term "conservative," when employed today in reference to politicians and beliefs, can denote groups as diverse and incompatible as the religious right, libertarians, and opponents of large, centralized government. Yet the original conservative philosophy, first developed in the eighteenth century by Edmund Burke, was most concerned with managing change. This kind of genuine conservatism has a renewed relevance in a complex world where change is rapid, pervasive, and dislocating. In Conservatism, Kieron O’Hara presents a thought-provoking revision of the traditional conservative philosophy, here crafted for the modern age. As O’Hara argues, conservatism transcends traditional politics and has surprising applications—not least as the most appropriate and practical response to climate change. He shows what a properly conservative ideology looks like today, and draws on such great conservative thinkers as Burke and Adam Smith, philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein, and contemporary social commentators such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ulrich Beck, and Jared Diamond, in order to outline how conservative philosophy lays bare our failure to understand our own society. O’Hara proves as well that conservatism is distinct from neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism, and the extreme positions of many of today’s most outspoken commentators. In this comprehensive and detailed description of a philosophy of change and innovation, O’Hara shows how conservatism can be an ideology sensitive to cultural differences among the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere. As well, he highlights key issues of technology, trust, and privacy. Conservatism is a provocative read and a level-headed guide to cutting through the many voices of policy makers and pundits claiming to represent conservative points of view.

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Reaktion Books

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1861899831

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9781861899835

The Devil's Long Tail

Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

By: David Stevens (Lecturer in political theory),Keiron O'Hara,Kieron O'Hara

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The Devil's Long Tail

Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

By: David Stevens (Lecturer in political theory),Keiron O'Hara,Kieron O'Hara

Highlights how nihilistic groups are harnessing the power of the internet to reach a potential global audience of billions

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Oxford University Press

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0199396248

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9780199396245

Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security

By: Mark Elliot,Anna M. Mandalari,Miranda Mourby,Kieron O’Hara

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Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security

By: Mark Elliot,Anna M. Mandalari,Miranda Mourby,Kieron O’Hara

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. The Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security explains the complex technical terms, legal concepts, privacy management techniques, conceptual matters and vocabulary that inform public debate about privacy.

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653

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1035300923

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9781035300921

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

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The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O’Hara,David De Roure,Wendy Hall

Social machines are a type of network connected by interactive digital devices made possible by the ubiquitous adoption of technologies such as the Internet, the smartphone, social media and the read/write World Wide Web, connecting people at scale to document situations, cooperate on tasks, exchange information, or even simply to play. Existing social processes may be scaled up, and new social processes enabled, to solve problems, augment reality, create new sources of value, and disrupt existing practice. This book considers what talents one would need to understand or build a social machine, describes the state of the art, and speculates on the future, from the perspective of the EPSRC project SOCIAM – The Theory and Practice of Social Machines. The aim is to develop a set of tools and techniques for investigating, constructing and facilitating social machines, to enable us to narrow down pragmatically what is becoming a wide space, by asking ‘when will it be valuable to use these methods on a sociotechnical system?’ The systems for which the use of these methods adds value are social machines in which there is rich person-to-person communication, and where a large proportion of the machine’s behaviour is constituted by human interaction.

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268

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Springer

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3030108899

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9783030108892

The Enlightenment

A Beginner's Guide

By: Kieron O'Hara

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The Enlightenment

A Beginner's Guide

By: Kieron O'Hara

Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive. To this day historians disagree over when it was, where it was, and what it was (and sometimes, still is). Kieron O'Hara deftly traverses these conflicts, presenting the history, politics, science, religion, arts, and social life of the Enlightenment not as a simple set of easily enumerated ideas, but an evolving conglomerate that spawned a very diverse set of thinkers, from the radical Rousseau to the conservative Burke.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780741537

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The Devil's Long Tail

Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

By: David Stevens,Kieron O'Hara

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The Devil's Long Tail

Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

By: David Stevens,Kieron O'Hara

The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media -- and not all are as harmless as the Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua or Sexastrianism. With few entry barriers, ready anonymity and no centralised control, the internet offers wired extremists unprecedented access to a potential global audience of billions. Technology allows us to select the information we wish to receive -- so those of a fanatical bent can filter out moderating voices and ignore countervailing arguments, retreating into a virtual world of their own design that reaffirms their views. In The Devil's Long Tail, Stevens and O'Hara argue that we misunderstand online extremism if we think intervention is the best way to counter it. Policies designed to disrupt radical networks fail because they ignore the factors that push people to the margins. Extremists are driven less by ideas than by the benefits of participating in a tightly-knit, self-defined, group. Rather, extreme ideas should be left to sink or swim in the internet's marketplace of ideas. The internet and the web are valuable creations of a free society. Censoring them impoverishes us all while leaving the radical impulse intact.

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Oxford University Press

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0190613246

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9780190613242

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

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Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW'96, Nottingham, UK, May 14 - 17, 1996. Proceedings

By: Nigel Shadbolt,Kieron O'Hara,Guus Schreiber

This book presents the refereed proceedings of the 9th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, EKAW '96, held in Nottingham, UK, in May 1996. The 23 revised full papers included address the most relevant theoretical and applicational aspects of knowledge acquisition with a certain emphasis on the acquisition of knowledge for the modelling or automation of complex problem-solving behaviour. The volume is organized in sections on theoretical and general issues, eliciting knowledge from textual or other sources, data-mining, group elicitation, and planning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540612734

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Conservatism

Conservatism

The Devil's Long Tail

The Devil's Long Tail

Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security

Dictionary of Privacy, Data Protection and Information Security

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

The Devil's Long Tail

The Devil's Long Tail

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

Advances in Knowledge Acquisition

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