The article deconstructs the ideological grounds of datafication. Datafication is rooted in problematic ontological and epistemological claims. As part of a larger social media logic, it shows characteristics of a widespread secular belief.
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An inherent limitation of word representations is their indifference to word order and their inability to represent idiomatic phrases. Article presents a simple method for finding phrases in text, and show that learning good vector representations for millions of phrases is possible.
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The study on the effect of distance on medium preferences in interpersonal communication. Words are preferred over richer, picture-based forms when communicating with distal others, whereas proximity cues people to use visual, imagery-based, embodied representations.
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