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Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain. The aspiration of such...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-05
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From TV bulletins to social media newsfeeds, the media plays a massive role in shaping the world as we see it. In fact, different media have helped make possible our world of independent nations, binding together disparate communities through shared cultural...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-11-05
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Why It Matters
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This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Bolívar Echeverría was one of the leading philosophers and critical theorists in Latin America and his work on capitalism and modernity offers a distinctive account, informed by the experiences of Latin American societies, of the social and historical forces shaping the...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-11-05
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Ausgehend vom in den britischen Cultural Studies entwickelten Domestizierungskonzept nimmt der Band einerseits aktuelle Prozesse der Verbreitung digitaler Medien und ihre Folgen für Alltag, Zusammenleben und Medienfunktionen in den Blick (Internet, Mobiltelefon). Er...
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Springer VS
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2019-11-05
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Dieser Band fragt nach dem Beitrag der populären Musik zu den gesellschaftlichen Transformationen der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre und verbindet kultursoziologische, musik- und kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. Welchen neuartigen Erlebensweisen, welchen sozialen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-11-05
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Auditive Vergesellschaftungen Hörsinn - Audiotechnik - Musikerleben
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This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-05
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This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in...
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Springer
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2019-11-05
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The SAGE Handbook of International Migration provides an authoritative and informed analysis of key issues in international migration, including its crucial significance far beyond the more traditional questions of immigrant settlement and incorporation in particular...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-05
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Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-04
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This book provides a feminist analysis of #MeToo and the sexual assault allegations against celebrity perpetrators which have emerged since the Weinstein story of October 2017. It argues for the importance of understanding #MeToo in relation to an on-going history of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-04
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Currently it is fashionable to talk about digitisation, robotisation, industry 4.0, but also about the gig economy, the Millenials, precarisation and the like. However, the relevant issues are too often taken in isolation, referring to an extrapolation of overcome...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-11-04
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Das Buch enthält die Beschreibung und Ergebnisse der Studie „Kooperation von Akteuren vorbeugender Sozialpolitik. Eine Analyse am Beispiel der Berufsorientierung jugendlicher Flüchtlinge“. Auf der Basis eines theoretischen Rahmens zur Analyse von förderlichen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-11-04
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The amount of data produced, captured and transmitted through the media has never been greater. But for this data to be useful, it needs to be properly understood and claims made about or with data need to be properly scrutinized. Through a series of examples of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-11-04
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This book builds upon critiques of development in the disability domain by investigating the necessity and implications of theorising disability from the Global South and how development policies and practices pertaining to disabled people in such contexts might be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-04
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For more than two decades, anthropologists have wrestled with new digital technologies and their impacts on how their data are collected, managed, and ultimately presented. Anthropological Data in the Digital Age compiles a range of academics in anthropology...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-01
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This book presents the first comprehensive set of principles for an ethics of science communication. We all want to communicate science ethically, but how do we do so? What does being ethical when communicating science even mean? The authors argue that ethical reasoning...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Whether members of the family are headed to school or work, smartphones accompany family members throughout the day. The growing sophistication of mobile communication has unleashed a proliferation of apps, channels, and platforms that link parents to their children and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-11-01
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Man’s best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the great outdoors—dogs matter to us because we love them. But is that all there is...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-11-01
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