Vincent Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7193-5378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Systematic Literature Review on Cyber Security Education for Children
Contribution: This article presents a systematic literature review of research concerning cyber security education for children (under 18s) on a global scale. Background: While the Internet brings great convenience to children, it can potentially cause harms due to lack of knowledge about online risks. Research Questions: 1. What cyber security skills are taught to children worldwide? 2. What are key strategies/methods for cyber security educatio…
Digital ruins
In recent years, Geography has seen a rebirth of interest and appreciation of ruins, abandoned and neglected spaces of industrial modernity. This work has often emphasised the sensuousness of the material contextualisation of industrial ruins largely in terms of the phenomenological experience of decay, disorder and blight, or the affective elements of these spaces through concepts such as 'ghostliness' and 'haunting'. This article is an investig…
I Did My Bit: Terrorism, Tarde and the Vehicle Ramming Attack as an Imitative Event
This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015-2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions we have about terrorism and its causes. Typically, criminologists and terrorist scholars tend to focus on either the 'psychology' of individual terro…
Prestige, Performance and Social Pressure in Viral Challenge Memes: Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear as Imitative Encounters
This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as 'viral challenge memes' that manifest a set of consistent features, making them a distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde's concept of the imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis in social belonging and participation; the role of pre…
Persistent Confusions about Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences
This paper analyzes common confusions involving basic concepts in statistical hypothesis testing. One-third of the social science statistics textbooks examined in the study contained false statements about significance level and/or p-value. We infer that a large proportion of social scientists are being miseducated about these concepts. We analyze the causes of these persistent misunderstandings, and conclude that the conventional terminology is …
Resonance as a Social Phenomenon
This paper is a theoretical investigation into the question of affinity and belonging in everyday life contexts. I argue that Sociology had tended to focus attention on the conceptual binaries of 'individual/community' or 'individual/social structure' when discussing experiences of inclusion, solidarity or belonging in social life. This has meant that such experiences are generally conceived in terms of 'a part of' or 'apart from'. Such a focus h…
A Crisis of Presence: On-line Culture and Being in the World
This paper is a discussion about presence and its relationship to ethical and moral behaviour. In particular, it problematises the notion of presence within a contemporary culture in which social life is increasingly lived and experienced through networked digital communication technologies alongside the physical presence of co-present bodies. Using the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Bauman and Turkle (among others), it is suggested that the increas…
New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture
This article will demonstrate how the notion of 'phatic communion' has become an increasingly significant part of digital media culture alongside the rise of online networking practices. Through a consideration of the new media objects of blogs, social networking profiles and microblogs, along with their associated practices, I will argue, that the social contexts of 'individualization' and 'network sociality', alongside the technological develop…
The Unmappable: Vagueness and Spatial Experience
This article contributes to current discussions of the spatial inspired by complexity theories that emphasize the multiple and relational qualities of space. It introduces the concept of vagueness and “vague objects” and relates these to spatial theory through the intersubjective theory of Alfred Schutz. The author argues that a consideration of vagueness, especially as constructed in Schutz’s version of intersubjectivity, can provide insights (o…
Intertextuality, the referential illusion and the production of a gay ghetto
This paper challenges Lefebvre’s distinction between Representations of Space and Spaces of Representation. Most current work in this area has assumed modernist conceptions of power, thereby interpreting representations of space (conceived space) as the property of the powerful who alone possess the ability to abstract space for their particular ends. Contrary to Lefebvre, I suggest that representation and abstraction are not the agents of state …
Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
Contemporary theology, argues Miller, is silent on what is unquestionably one of the most important cultural issues it faces: consumerism or “consumer culture.” While there is no shortage of expressions of concern about the corrosive effects of consumerism from the standpoint of economic justice or environmental ethics, there is a surprising paucity of theoretically sophisticated works on the topic, for consumerism, argues Miller, is not just abo…
Smoking-attributable medical care costs in the USA
Mauberley and his Critics
Segregation by Racial and Demographic Group: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area
This paper considers residential segregation by race and by type of household in 1970 and 1980. The paper presents entropy indices of segregation for the San Francisco Bay Area and its five metropolitan areas. The methodology permits an investigation of the effects of group definition upon segregation measures, and an analysis of the degree of independence in the segregation of households by race and demographic group. The results indicate that t…
Rural and Small Town America
Ezra Pound by Charles Norman
Book Review| October 01 1961 Ezra Pound by Charles Norman Ezra Pound. By Norman, Charles. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. Pp. xvi, 493. $6.50. Vincent Miller Vincent Miller Wofford College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1961) 60 (4): 501–502. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-60-4-501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vincen…
Intertextuality, the referential illusion and the production of a gay ghetto
This paper challenges Lefebvre’s distinction between Representations of Space and Spaces of Representation. Most current work in this area has assumed modernist conceptions of power, thereby interpreting representations of space (conceived space) as the property of the powerful who alone possess the ability to abstract space for their particular ends. Contrary to Lefebvre, I suggest that representation and abstraction are not the agents of state …
Segregation by Racial and Demographic Group: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area
This paper considers residential segregation by race and by type of household in 1970 and 1980. The paper presents entropy indices of segregation for the San Francisco Bay Area and its five metropolitan areas. The methodology permits an investigation of the effects of group definition upon segregation measures, and an analysis of the degree of independence in the segregation of households by race and demographic group. The results indicate that t…
Prestige, Performance and Social Pressure in Viral Challenge Memes: Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear as Imitative Encounters
This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as 'viral challenge memes' that manifest a set of consistent features, making them a distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde's concept of the imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis in social belonging and participation; the role of pre…
A Crisis of Presence: On-line Culture and Being in the World
This paper is a discussion about presence and its relationship to ethical and moral behaviour. In particular, it problematises the notion of presence within a contemporary culture in which social life is increasingly lived and experienced through networked digital communication technologies alongside the physical presence of co-present bodies. Using the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Bauman and Turkle (among others), it is suggested that the increas…
I Did My Bit: Terrorism, Tarde and the Vehicle Ramming Attack as an Imitative Event
This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015-2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions we have about terrorism and its causes. Typically, criminologists and terrorist scholars tend to focus on either the 'psychology' of individual terro…
Resonance as a Social Phenomenon
This paper is a theoretical investigation into the question of affinity and belonging in everyday life contexts. I argue that Sociology had tended to focus attention on the conceptual binaries of 'individual/community' or 'individual/social structure' when discussing experiences of inclusion, solidarity or belonging in social life. This has meant that such experiences are generally conceived in terms of 'a part of' or 'apart from'. Such a focus h…
The Unmappable: Vagueness and Spatial Experience
This article contributes to current discussions of the spatial inspired by complexity theories that emphasize the multiple and relational qualities of space. It introduces the concept of vagueness and “vague objects” and relates these to spatial theory through the intersubjective theory of Alfred Schutz. The author argues that a consideration of vagueness, especially as constructed in Schutz’s version of intersubjectivity, can provide insights (o…
Smoking-attributable medical care costs in the USA
Digital ruins
In recent years, Geography has seen a rebirth of interest and appreciation of ruins, abandoned and neglected spaces of industrial modernity. This work has often emphasised the sensuousness of the material contextualisation of industrial ruins largely in terms of the phenomenological experience of decay, disorder and blight, or the affective elements of these spaces through concepts such as 'ghostliness' and 'haunting'. This article is an investig…
Ezra Pound by Charles Norman
Book Review| October 01 1961 Ezra Pound by Charles Norman Ezra Pound. By Norman, Charles. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1960. Pp. xvi, 493. $6.50. Vincent Miller Vincent Miller Wofford College Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1961) 60 (4): 501–502. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-60-4-501 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Vincen…
Mauberley and his Critics
Segregation by Racial and Demographic Group: Evidence from the San Francisco Bay Area
This paper considers residential segregation by race and by type of household in 1970 and 1980. The paper presents entropy indices of segregation for the San Francisco Bay Area and its five metropolitan areas. The methodology permits an investigation of the effects of group definition upon segregation measures, and an analysis of the degree of independence in the segregation of households by race and demographic group. The results indicate that t…
Rural and Small Town America
Smoking-attributable medical care costs in the USA
Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture
Contemporary theology, argues Miller, is silent on what is unquestionably one of the most important cultural issues it faces: consumerism or “consumer culture.” While there is no shortage of expressions of concern about the corrosive effects of consumerism from the standpoint of economic justice or environmental ethics, there is a surprising paucity of theoretically sophisticated works on the topic, for consumerism, argues Miller, is not just abo…
Intertextuality, the referential illusion and the production of a gay ghetto
This paper challenges Lefebvre’s distinction between Representations of Space and Spaces of Representation. Most current work in this area has assumed modernist conceptions of power, thereby interpreting representations of space (conceived space) as the property of the powerful who alone possess the ability to abstract space for their particular ends. Contrary to Lefebvre, I suggest that representation and abstraction are not the agents of state …
The Unmappable: Vagueness and Spatial Experience
This article contributes to current discussions of the spatial inspired by complexity theories that emphasize the multiple and relational qualities of space. It introduces the concept of vagueness and “vague objects” and relates these to spatial theory through the intersubjective theory of Alfred Schutz. The author argues that a consideration of vagueness, especially as constructed in Schutz’s version of intersubjectivity, can provide insights (o…
New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture
This article will demonstrate how the notion of 'phatic communion' has become an increasingly significant part of digital media culture alongside the rise of online networking practices. Through a consideration of the new media objects of blogs, social networking profiles and microblogs, along with their associated practices, I will argue, that the social contexts of 'individualization' and 'network sociality', alongside the technological develop…
A Crisis of Presence: On-line Culture and Being in the World
This paper is a discussion about presence and its relationship to ethical and moral behaviour. In particular, it problematises the notion of presence within a contemporary culture in which social life is increasingly lived and experienced through networked digital communication technologies alongside the physical presence of co-present bodies. Using the work of Heidegger, Levinas, Bauman and Turkle (among others), it is suggested that the increas…
Persistent Confusions about Hypothesis Testing in the Social Sciences
This paper analyzes common confusions involving basic concepts in statistical hypothesis testing. One-third of the social science statistics textbooks examined in the study contained false statements about significance level and/or p-value. We infer that a large proportion of social scientists are being miseducated about these concepts. We analyze the causes of these persistent misunderstandings, and conclude that the conventional terminology is …
Resonance as a Social Phenomenon
This paper is a theoretical investigation into the question of affinity and belonging in everyday life contexts. I argue that Sociology had tended to focus attention on the conceptual binaries of 'individual/community' or 'individual/social structure' when discussing experiences of inclusion, solidarity or belonging in social life. This has meant that such experiences are generally conceived in terms of 'a part of' or 'apart from'. Such a focus h…
I Did My Bit: Terrorism, Tarde and the Vehicle Ramming Attack as an Imitative Event
This paper considers the recent phenomenon of the vehicle-ramming attack (VRA): i.e. the act of purposely driving a vehicle into pedestrians and populated vehicles. It documents the recent (2015-2017) rise in the prevalence of ramming attacks and how these incidents challenge some of the assumptions we have about terrorism and its causes. Typically, criminologists and terrorist scholars tend to focus on either the 'psychology' of individual terro…
Prestige, Performance and Social Pressure in Viral Challenge Memes: Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear as Imitative Encounters
This article examines social media challenges that emerged in 2013, focusing on Neknomination, the Ice-Bucket Challenge and SmearForSmear. We understand them as 'viral challenge memes' that manifest a set of consistent features, making them a distinctive phenomenon within digital culture. Drawing upon Tarde's concept of the imitative-encounter, we highlight three central features: their basis in social belonging and participation; the role of pre…
Digital ruins
In recent years, Geography has seen a rebirth of interest and appreciation of ruins, abandoned and neglected spaces of industrial modernity. This work has often emphasised the sensuousness of the material contextualisation of industrial ruins largely in terms of the phenomenological experience of decay, disorder and blight, or the affective elements of these spaces through concepts such as 'ghostliness' and 'haunting'. This article is an investig…
A Systematic Literature Review on Cyber Security Education for Children
Contribution: This article presents a systematic literature review of research concerning cyber security education for children (under 18s) on a global scale. Background: While the Internet brings great convenience to children, it can potentially cause harms due to lack of knowledge about online risks. Research Questions: 1. What cyber security skills are taught to children worldwide? 2. What are key strategies/methods for cyber security educatio…
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