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• Reflecions on the society of control – Footnotes to the Delezoguattarian machine

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  Szabolcs Nyiri

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  60

  The present study revolves around the concept of the Deleuzean machine. It undertakes to
  introduce the machine from Deleuze’s concept of the societies of control. Thus this paper is not
  a presentation of the critique of the Freudian and Lacanian notions of desire that the machine
  is introduced as a late capitalist abstract agent, but a genalogy of the machinic mechanism – as
  a logic of operation – is outlined from a new perspective. The emphasis of the study is not on
  psychoanalises and capitalism, and on schizoanalysis as a critique of them, but ont he operational
  logic of the societies of control: the articulation of controlling freedom. Fort he latter, concepcts
  such as territory, de- and reterritorialization, as well as the operating principles of cybernetic systems are shed light on. By examining this concept, therefore, the ways of understanding the
  social, economic and political processes of ourt time can be shed new light.

• Parents’ school volunteering in the interpretation of teachers in a disadvantaged region of Hungary

  28-48

  Hajnalka Fényes

  Valéria Markos

  Zsófia Kocsis

  Elek Fazekas

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  3

  In the international literature, there are many studies dealing with the voluntary work of parents at school, but there is little research on this in Hungary. In our study, we examine the volunteering of parents through the interpretation of teachers in three disadvantaged counties of Hungary, using a qualitative interview method. The research population was the teachers of primary and secondary schools, and the interviewed teachers were selected by multi-stage, stratified sampling. We included 38 interviews in the analysis, in which the voluntary work of the parents appeared. The interviews were analysed by manual and machine hybrid coding. According to our results, teachers also considered participation on request or under pressure as volunteering. “Real” volunteering is hardly present, and parents are less likely to initiate assistance on their own. Parents are typically occasional volunteers, and mostly the members of the parents’ work community participate in regular volunteer work. According to the teachers, the voluntary work of parents is indispensable in the life of the school, so in our opinion it would be important to promote it and to motivate parents to participate more in school life.

• The challenges of supervised machine learning in sociological applications

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  Nemeth Renata

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  24

  The sociological applications of supervised machine learning, already well proven in industrial/
  business applications, raise specific questions. The reason for this specificity is that in these applications, the algorithm is tasked with learning complex concepts (e.g. whether a tweet contains hate speech). Supervised learning consists of learning to classify previously annotated (hate
  speech/non-hate speech) texts by the algorithm, looking for characteristic text patterns. The
  questions that arise are: how to prepare annotation? How can a hermeneutic challenge such as
  hate speech recognition be performed by annotators? Are routinely applied, detailed annotation
  guidelines helpful? The article also discusses how large companies perform coding on crowdsourcing platforms, and describes AI bias, which in this case means that annotators themselves
  introduce bias into the data. I illustrate these issues with our own research experiences.