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Jiný Kontext author focused on evidence, the limits of interpretation and clear explanations of complex systems.

  • evidence and interpretation
  • digital forensics
  • technology and society
  • critical thinking
jinykontext@proton.me

Published work

37 articles
SocietyAnalysis

A T-Shirt Costs CZK 199. Its True Cost Did Not Fit on the Receipt

A T-shirt priced at CZK 199 has an exact price at the checkout, but the tag alone does not show wages, purchasing pressure, resource use, or waste. What can be documented about its journey, and what would be no more than an estimate without a particular brand's data?

Science & knowledgeAnalysis

When judgement cannot tolerate “I don’t know”

Why uncertainty feels psychologically uncomfortable, why the brain would rather create a story than leave a blank space, and why the ability to say “I don’t know” is one of the hardest forms of critical thinking.

SocietyAnalysis

When Does an Explanation Become an Excuse?

Understanding the causes of human behavior does not mean approving the act. Where is the line between an explanation, a mitigating circumstance, an excuse, and responsibility?

Justice & lawAnalysis

When a Confession Is Not Proof of Truth

Why innocent people sometimes confess, how interrogation changes decision-making, and why a confession must be separated from independent verification of its details.

Science & knowledgeAnalysis

Memory Is Not a Recording. It Is a Reconstruction.

An eyewitness can speak with complete sincerity — and still be wrong. How reconstructive memory works, how leading questions affect it, and why confidence is not the same as accuracy.

Technology & AIAnalysis

The Algorithm as Editor of Our World

An algorithm does not show us the world. It selects fragments of it, orders them, and repeats them. How personalized feeds reshape attention, content creation, and our sense of what is normal and important.

Technology & AIAnalysis

A perfect copy is not an original. But why?

Two visually indistinguishable works can have radically different values. An analysis of authenticity, provenance, aura, psychology, artificial intelligence and what we really value when looking at art.

Science & knowledgeAnalysis

How an Error Happens That No One Made

A catastrophe, miscarriage of justice, or organizational collapse may have no single author. An analysis of how reasonable individual decisions can create an unreasonable whole.

Technology & AIAnalysis

Who owns your voice after you die?

Technology can now make the dead speak new sentences. Law, consent, and mourning, however, show that the faithful voice is not yet a continuation of man.

SocietyAnalysis

The City Is Not a Backdrop. Its Design Influences How We Behave.

We tend to think that we simply move through a city, carrying our decisions within us. Yet a pavement can offer a route—or break it into a sequence of obstacles. A bench can invite someone to stay—or quietly determine how long they are allowed to remain. Streets, lighting, noise, public transport and even the absence of a toilet do not command us. But they alter the cost of each option. And in doing so, they subtly change what we are likely to do in the city.

Justice & lawAnalysis

Why an Innocent Person Sometimes Acts Guilty

Nervousness, contradictions, anger, or silence can look like signs of guilt. Research shows why reading character from momentary behavior is dangerously inaccurate.

Justice & lawAnalysis

The Phone Was at the Crime Scene. Was Its Owner There Too?

The difference between the digital trace of a device and evidence of a particular person’s conduct. What do GPS, mobile networks, Wi-Fi, IP addresses, cloud accounts and application records actually prove?

SocietyData analysis

Crime Can Fall Even as Fear Rises

Police statistics, hidden crime, victimisation surveys and the sense of safety measure different layers of reality. Czech data show why apparently contradictory claims can all be true at once.

Media & thinkingAnalysis

The truth doesn't start with a headline

The same facts can create opposite stories. Not because the truth has changed, but because the selection, order and framing of information has changed.