Digital technologies increasingly shape how memory is preserved, accessed, and transmitted across generations. Although algorithmic systems, artificial intelligence, and digital archives are often presented as tools of preservation, they also influence which narratives remain visible, searchable, and socially meaningful. This conceptual chapter examines how digitally mediated systems contribute to technological amnesia, a form of forgetting characterized by invisibility, fragmentation, and decontextualization rather than the destruction of information. Drawing on scholarship in memory studies, genealogy, narrative inquiry, and critical digital studies, the chapter conceptualizes digital silence as a contemporary mechanism of systemic erasure embedded within algorithmic infrastructures. It further argues that genealogical storytelling functions as a form of narrative resistance that reconnects fragmented memories, restores historical continuity, and sustains intergenerational meaning-making. By positioning qualitative inquiry as a reconstructive praxis, the chapter offers conceptual and pedagogical insights for researchers, educators, counselors, and community practitioners concerned with memory, justice, resilience, and historical continuity in the digital age.
We study the mode transition algebras and Zhu algebras in the setting of & Zopf;-graded vertex algebras, with particular focus on the Weyl vertex algebra V at central charge 2 (also known as bosonic ghosts or the beta gamma-system). We show that the mode transition algebras of V admit unity elements that form a family of strong unities in the sense of Damiolini-Gibney-Krashen. The existence of unities for the mode transition algebra of V allows us to explicitly construct all higher level Zhu algebras of V. We further analyze weak V-modules induced from Zhu algebras, proving that every such module is already induced from the level-zero Zhu algebra. We then prove that all indecomposable reducible weight modules induced from a Zhu algebra are not weakly interlocked, and hence not strongly interlocked in the sense of Barron-Batistelli-Orosz Hunziker-Yamskulna. More generally, we show that the property of being weakly interlocked is preserved under the action of an invertible Li's Delta operator. As an application, we prove that all indecomposable reducible weight V-modules obtained via spectral flow of Zhu-induced modules are likewise not weakly interlocked. These results clarify the role of being weakly interlocked in the modularity properties of bosonic ghost modules previously studied by Ridout-Wood and Allen-Wood. (c) 2026 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved, including those for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies.
This chapter examines institutional silence as a structural, ethical, and epistemic phenomenon shaping transnational leadership in higher education. Drawing on twelve anonymized leadership narratives, it uses narrative inquiry and an integrative conceptual framework to examine how voice, authority, inclusion, organizational resistance, memory, and meaning unfold across leadership experience. Cross-vignette analysis identifies five patterns: conditional inclusion, voice without consequence, successful change as institutional disruption, normalization and historical attenuation, and ethical reconstruction. Rather than presuming discriminatory intent, the analysis retains alternative organizational explanations and treats silence as a phenomenon requiring contextual interpretation. The chapter argues that narrative reconstruction can render institutional silence visible while supporting consequential voice, organizational learning, ethical agency, and more responsive leadership.
This chapter examines how Indigenous Peoples and Bangsamoro beneficiaries experience, negotiate, and respond to systemic silence within the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in the Southern Philippines. Guided by a decolonial framework, the qualitative study draws on narrative inquiry, focus group discussions involving 65 participants, 25 key informant interviews, and documentary evidence collected across five regions between 2022 and 2025. Findings identify three interconnected dimensions of silence: institutional, protective, and cultural. Beneficiaries nevertheless exercise constrained agency through selective compliance, household negotiation, relational support, instrumental participation, and interpretive negotiation. Documentary and narrative evidence further reveals possibilities for more responsive institutional practice through dynamic information systems, accessible grievance mechanisms, culturally responsive implementation, Indigenous representation, and co-creation. The chapter distinguishes voice from consequential voice and argues that breaking systemic silence requires epistemic responsiveness: institutional capacity to recognize, learn from, and respond consequentially to knowledge produced by marginalized communities within social protection systems.
PurposeThis study investigates the impact of military-experienced board members on firm-level investment efficiency, focusing on Indonesian non-financial listed companies from 2011 to 2019. It integrates upper echelons and imprinting theories to explain how military backgrounds shape corporate decision-making, particularly in relation to risk preferences.Design/methodology/approachBased on 2,648 firm-year observations, this study employs fixed-effects regression to analyze the relationship between military experience and investment efficiency. To address endogeneity and ensure robustness, we apply Heckman's two-stage regression, coarsened exact matching (CEM), propensity score matching (PSM) and the generalized method of moments (GMM).FindingsThe results reveal a significantly positive association between military-experienced boards and investment efficiency. This effect is particularly pronounced in underinvesting firms, in firms operating in low-concentration industries, and where board commissioners have military backgrounds. The positive association is also evident in the context of R&D efficiency.Originality/valueThese findings suggest that appointing board commissioners with military backgrounds can enhance disciplined and context-sensitive investment decisions. However, military discipline alone may not substitute for financial expertise, underscoring the need for a balanced board composition.
