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Explosive violence: A near-repeat study of hand grenade detonations and shootings in urban Sweden.
European Journal of Criminology. doi.org/10.1177/1477370818820656 Abstract Hand grenade attacks have increasingly been reported in Sweden. However, to date no research on the topic exists. The present st
The intelligence explosion revisited
Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042 Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and
Tourism and the Globalization of Emotions. The Intimate Economy of Tango.
[Reissue] New York: Routledge. Throughout the chapters, the author assesses how, in an explosive economic and political context, people's emotional lives intermingle with a tourism industry that has fo

Kari Andén-Papadopoulos
I am a Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Media Studies, Stockholm university. My research broadly concerns the role of news and documentary images and image practices i

4C – The Swedish Consortium for the study of Contemporary Criminal Collaboration
4C seeks to expand the focus beyond narrow phenomena like gun violence by generating knowledge on the formation and group dynamics of criminal collaborations; how they arise, evolve, dissolve, and draw in people.
Exploiting Temporal Network Structures of Human Interaction to Effectively Immunize Populations
2012. PLoS ONE 7, e36439. AbstractDecreasing the number of people who must be vaccinated to immunize a community against an infectious disease could both save resources and decrease outbreak sizes. A k
Understanding Rural Change – Demography as a Key to the Future
The aim of this paper is to exploit demographic change in rural areas as a means to forecast their possible economic and social futures. The peripheral rural areas of Europe will experience problems o
Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies
2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm
Rae Langton: How our attitudes accommodate injustice
Rae Langton, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University ABSTRACTWhat we do with words can help or hinder justice in ways that exploit rules of accommodation: a process of adjustment that tends to
Learning by Imitation in Games: Theory, Field and Lab
Erik Mohlin, Oxford University We exploit a unique opportunity to study how a large population of players in the field learn to play a novel game which has a complicated and non-intuitive mixed strateg