📢 New Open Access Publication!

Tim Hector’s (@timmoritz) dissertation Smart Speakers in Dialogue is out now (Univ. Siegen, De Gruyter Brill, 2025). The study looks at dialogues with Alexa, Google Home & similar devices — through the lens of linguistics, praxeology & conversation analysis.

👉 Open Access eBook: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111574332/html

#Linguistics #SmartSpeakers #ConversationAnalysis #Domestication #Praxeology #MediaStudies #OpenAccess

Austrian economics (or the Austrian school of economics) is #libertarian #philosophy masquerading as a school of economic thought. This school is notable for its lack of formal mathematical modeling and empirical testing. Among its more unusual traits, the Austrian school draws its conclusions based on deduction and thought experiments, rather than data. In place of the conventional tools of science, the Austrian School favors a narrative approach called "praxeology". Despite its shortcomings, some less nutty features of the Austrian School have leaked into mainstream economics while the more nutty have found a home at libertarian think tanks (Cato Institute and Ludwig von Mises Institute).

#RationalWiki #economics #AustrianEconomics #praxeology #catoinstitute #ludwigvonmises #capitalism
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Austrian_school

Materiality of Cooperation is out! This one took a while to be translated with care, pandemic hardships included. But now it's here!

[DM me if you want to get beyond the paywall.]

https://netzeundnetzwerke.de/materiality-of-cooperation/

#MediaTheory #SocialTheory #Cultural Techniques #STS #Praxeology #PracticeTheory