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Internet and Surveillance
The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media
Av Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
878 kr
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The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this …
Blockchain and Web 3.0
Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges
Av Massimo Ragnedda, Giuseppe Destefanis
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Instead, it can be seen as a disruptive, revolutionary technology which will have major impacts on multiple aspects of our lives. The revolutionary power of such technology compares with the revolution sparked by the World …
Understanding Digital Events
Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital
Av David Kreps
Inbunden, 2019
2517 kr
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This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are …
Policies and Politics of Interdisciplinary Research
Nanomedicine in France and in the United States
Inbunden, 2020
2517 kr
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Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders …
Questing Excellence in Academia
A Tale of Two Universities
Av Knut H. Sørensen, Sharon Traweek
Inbunden, 2021
2446 kr
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Unlike almost most other studies of neoliberal universities and academic capitalism this book ethnographically explores and interprets those transformations and their contradictions empirically in the everyday practices of students, faculty members, and administrators at two public universities: …
Apocalyptic Narratives
Science, Risk and Prophecy
Av Hauke Riesch
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Linking literature from the sociological study of the apocalyptic with the sociology and philosophy of science, Apocalyptic Narratives explores how the apocalyptic narrative frames and provides meaning to contemporary, secular and scientific crises focussing on nuclear war, general environmental …
Big Data—A New Medium?
Inbunden, 2020
2740 kr
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Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the big data phenomenon.Big data architectures are increasingly transforming political questions into technical management by determining …
Big Data—A New Medium?
Häftad, 2020
647 kr
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Drawing on a range of methods from across science and technology studies, digital humanities and digital arts, this book presents a comprehensive view of the big data phenomenon.Big data architectures are increasingly transforming political questions into technical management by determining …
Public Communication of Research Universities
‘Arms Race’ for Visibility or Science Substance?
Av Marta Entradas, Martin W. Bauer
Inbunden, 2022
2437 kr
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This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing the ‘decentralisation hypothesis’, it asserts that communication structures are increasingly built also at ‘subordinate unit’ levels of research universities.The book presents a …
Future Courses of Human Societies
Critical Reflections from the Natural and Social Sciences
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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The future as a field of inquiry, debate or forecasts continues to flourish. However, this book differs from existing literature in several important ways. It is not another publication on future scenarios guided by a linear technological fix - nor is it simply a volume of new statistics on …
Cultural Authority of Science
Comparing across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas
Av Martin Bauer, Petra Pansegrau m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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The cultural authority of science is the authority that is granted to science in any particular context. This authority is as much a matter of image and perceived legitimacy as of statutory guarantee. However, while authority can be charismatic, based on tradition or based on competence, we would …
Public Communication of Research Universities
‘Arms Race’ for Visibility or Science Substance?
Av Marta Entradas, Martin W. Bauer
Häftad, 2024
690 kr
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This book analyses communication of university research institutes, with a focus on science communication. Advancing the ‘decentralisation hypothesis’, it asserts that communication structures are increasingly built also at ‘subordinate unit’ levels of research universities.The book presents a …
Emotion in the Digital Age
Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life
Häftad, 2022
671 kr
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Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age. The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in, through, and with digital technologies. The …
Science, Africa and Europe
Processing Information and Creating Knowledge
Av Martin Lengwiler, Nigel Penn m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
726 kr
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Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms …
Globalization of American Infrastructure
The Shipping Container and Freight Transportation
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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This book gives an account of how the U.S. freight transportation system has been impacted and “globalized,” since the 1950s, by the presence of the shipping container. A globally standardized object, the container carries cargo moving in international trade, and it utilizes and fits within the …
Digitizing Identities
Doing Identity in a Networked World
Av Irma van der Ploeg, Jason Pridmore
Häftad, 2020
458 kr
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This book explores contemporary transformations of identities in a digitizing society across a range of domains of modern life. As digital technology and ICTs have come to pervade virtually all aspects of modern societies, the routine registration of personal data has increased exponentially, thus …
Visualization in the Age of Computerization
Av Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
647 kr
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Digitalization and computerization are now pervasive in science. This has deep consequences for our understanding of scientific knowledge and of the scientific process, and challenges longstanding assumptions and traditional frameworks of thinking of scientific knowledge. Digital media and …
Transnational Environmental Policy
Reconstructing Ozone
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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Transnational Environmental Policy analyses a surprising success story in the field of international environmental policy making: the threat to the ozone layer posed by industrial chemicals, and how it has been averted. The book also raises the more general question about the problem-solving …
Policies and Politics of Interdisciplinary Research
Nanomedicine in France and in the United States
Häftad, 2022
690 kr
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Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders …
Understanding Digital Events
Bergson, Whitehead, and the Experience of the Digital
Av David Kreps
Häftad, 2020
719 kr
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This book introduces an events-based approach to understanding digital experience. Focusing on the event-ontologies of Bergson and Whitehead’s process metaphysics, it explores subjective experience and objective reality as unified ‘events’ in the form of concrete slabs of existence. Such slabs are …
Blockchain and Web 3.0
Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges
Av Massimo Ragnedda, Giuseppe Destefanis
Häftad, 2021
722 kr
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Blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general. Instead, it can be seen as a disruptive, revolutionary technology which will have major impacts on multiple aspects of our lives. The revolutionary power of such technology compares with the revolution sparked by the World …
Distributed Perception
Resonances and Axiologies
Av Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell
Häftad, 2023
693 kr
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Who, what, and where perceives, and how? What are the sedimentations, inscriptions, and axiologies of animal, human, and machinic perception/s? What are their perceptibilities? Deleuze uses the word ‘visibilities’ to indicate that visual perception isn’t just a physiological given but cues …
Distributed Perception
Resonances and Axiologies
Av Natasha Lushetich, Iain Campbell
Inbunden, 2021
2517 kr
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Who, what, and where perceives, and how? What are the sedimentations, inscriptions, and axiologies of animal, human, and machinic perception/s? What are their perceptibilities? Deleuze uses the word ‘visibilities’ to indicate that visual perception isn’t just a physiological given but cues …
Science, Risk, and Policy
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy. Experts argue that the fears of the public are irrational, and that public policy should be based on sound science. The public, on the other hand, is …
Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives
A Digital Coming of Age
Av Jill Walsh
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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Adolescents are forging a new path to self-development, taking advantage of the technology at their fingertips to produce desired results.In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, Walsh specifically explores how social media impacts teenagers' personal development. Indeed, through unique …
Scientific Imperialism
Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity
Av Uskali Mäki, Adrian Walsh m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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The growing body of research on interdisciplinarity has encouraged a more in depth analysis of the relations that hold among academic disciplines. In particular, the incursion of one scientific discipline into another discipline’s traditional domain, also known as scientific imperialism, has been a …
Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society
Av Gert Verschraegen, Frédéric Vandermoere m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
722 kr
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Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of …
Animals, Disease and Human Society
Human-animal Relations and the Rise of Veterinary Medicine
Av Joanna Swabe
Inbunden, 1998
2592 kr
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This book explores the history and nature of our dependency on other animals and the implications of this for human and animal health. Writing from an historical and sociological perspective, Joanna Swabe's work discusses such issues as:* animal domestication* the consequences of human exploitation …
Science and the Media
Alternative Routes to Scientific Communications
Inbunden, 1998
2517 kr
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In the days of global warming and BSE, science is increasingly a public issue. This book provides a theoretical framework which allows us to understand why and how scientists address the general public. The author develops the argument that turning to the public is not simply a response to …
Biology and Political Science
Av Robert Blank, Samuel M. Hines Jnr.
Inbunden, 2001
2517 kr
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This book demonstrates the increasing interest of some social scientists in the theories, research and findings of life sciences in building a more interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics. It discusses the development of biopolitics as an academic perspective within political science, …
