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Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)
By John Hartley. 2011
This fourth edition of Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts is an indispensible guide to the most important…
terms in the field. It offers clear explanations of the key concepts, exploring their origins, what they're used for and why they provoke discussion. The author provides a multi-disciplinary explanation and assessment of the key concepts, from 'authorship' to 'censorship'; 'creative industries' to 'network theory'; 'complexity' to 'visual culture'. The new edition of this classic text includes: Over 200 entries including 50 new entries All entries revised, rewritten and updated Coverage of recent developments in the field Insight into interactive media and the knowledge-based economy A fully updated bibliography with 400 items and suggestions for further reading throughout the textThe two LNCS volume set 9180-9181 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cross-Cultural Design CCD…
2015 held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction HCII 2015 in Los Angeles CA USA in August 2015 jointly with 15 other thematically similar conferences The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions These papers of the two volume set address as follows LNCS 9180 Cross-Cultural Design Methods Practice and Impact Part I addressing the following major topics cross-cultural product design cross-cultural design methods and case studies design innovation social development and sustainability and LNCS 9181 Cross-Cultural Design Applications in Mobile Interaction Education Health Transport and Cultural Heritage Part II addressing the following major topics cultural aspects of social media and mobile services culture for transport and travel culture for design and design for culture and culture for health learning and gamesThe Onion Presents: Love, Sex, and Other Natural Disasters
By The Staff of The Onion. 2011
Here are more than one hundred news stories of high-school sweethearts, college hook-ups, dating disasters, weddings, divorces, and restraining orders.…
From "18-Year-Old Miraculously Finds Soulmate in Hometown" to "Couple Forgets 70th Wedding Anniversary," these reports capture the heartbreak and hilarity of the human experience.The 50 Year Anniversary of the development of electron counting paradigms for polyhedral molecules is celebrated in two volumes of…
Structure and Bonding. Volume 1 covers the historical development, theoretical models and applications to boranes and metalloboranes.GeNeDis 2020: Geriatrics (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology #1337)
By Panayiotis Vlamos. 2021
The 4th World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research (GeNeDis 2020) focuses on the latest major challenges in…
scientific research, new drug targets, the development of novel biomarkers, new imaging techniques, novel protocols for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, and several other scientific advances, with the aim of better, safer, and healthier aging. The increase in the average length of life leads to the development of various diseases in the elderly population. This volume focuses on the sessions from the conference on Geriatrics.Information Systems Reengineering, Integration and Normalization: Heterogeneous Database Connectivity
By Joseph S. Fong, Kenneth Wong Ting Yan. 2021
Database technology is an important subject in Computer Science. Every large company and nation needs a database to store information.…
The technology has evolved from file systems in the 60’s, to Hierarchical and Network databases in the 70’s, to relational databases in the 80’s, object-oriented databases in the 90’s, and to XML documents and NoSQL today. As a result, there is a need to reengineer and update old databases into new databases. This book presents solutions for this task.In this fourth edition, Chapter 9 - Heterogeneous Database Connectivity (HDBC) offers a database gateway platform for companies to communicate with each other not only with their data, but also via their database. The ability of sharing a database can contribute to the applications of Big Data and surveys for decision support systems. The HDBC gateway solution collects input from the database, transfers the data into its middleware storage, converts it into a common data format such as XML documents, and then distributes them to the users. HDBC transforms the common data into the target database to meet the user’s requirements, acting like a voltage transformer hub. The voltage transformer converts the voltage to a voltage required by the users. Similarly, HDBC transforms the database to the target database required by the users.This book covers reengineering for data conversion, integration for combining databases and merging databases and expert system rules, normalization for eliminating duplicate data from the database, and above all, HDBC connects all legacy databases to one target database for the users.The authors provide a forum for readers to ask questions and the answers are given by the authors and the other readers on the Internet.'Religion’ and ‘Secular’ Categories in Sociology: Decolonizing the Modern Myth
By Mitsutoshi Horii. 2021
Informed by ‘critical religion’ perspective in Religious Studies and postcolonial self-reflection in Sociology, this book interrogates the ideas of ‘religion’…
and ‘the secular’ in social theory and Sociology. It argues that as long as social theory and sociological discourse embed the religion-secular distinction and locate themselves on the ‘secular’ side of the binary, Sociology will continue to serve the very ideologies it tries to subvert – namely Western modernity/coloniality.The Culture and Communities Mapping Project
By Morgan Currie, Melisa Miranda Correa. 2021
This book describes three years of work by the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a research project based in Edinburgh…
that uses maps as an object of study and also a means to facilitate research. Taking a self-reflexive approach, the book draws on a variety of iterative mapping procedures and visual methodologies, from online virtual tours to photo elicitation, to capture the voices of inhabitants and their distinctive perspectives on the city. The book argues that practices of cultural mapping consist of a research field in and of itself, and it situates this work in relation to other areas of research and practice, including critical cartography, cultural geography, critical GIS, activist mapping and artist maps. The book also offers a range of practical approaches towards using print and web-based maps to give visibility to spaces traditionally left out of city representations but that are important to the local communities that use them. Throughout, the authors reflect critically on how, through the processes of mapping, we create knowledge about space, place, community and culture.Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb
By Ramona Mielusel. 2021
Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb is a collection of essays that explores the…
question of artistic representation(s)/self-representation(s) of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France, the Maghreb and in/between since the 2000s. The volume offers a plurality of feminine and masculine voices and points of view on cultural Islam (Franco-French, Franco-Maghrebi, Maghrebi), all the while addressing the impact of events like 9/11, the tragic attacks in France in 2015-2016 (Charlie Hebdo, Stade de France, Bataclan, Nice), and the Arab Spring. Taken together, the volume features a transnational and transversal set of artistic voices that are not looking for consensus, but rather invoke dissensus (Rancière) and a full range of expression. A necessary part of that full range of expression is (self)-representations: Muslims representing themselves, though this is no facile (self)-representations, as artists continue to use the properties of the imagination and performance to complexify an easy reading, reductive meaning, or oversimplified interpretation. This interdisciplinary study contributes to the fields of French and Francophone Studies, Humanities and Global/Cultural Studies such as political studies, sociology, political philosophy, literature, cinema, visual arts and media studies with a focus on broadening views on the topic of Islam and Muslim (self)-representations across disciplines.The Moment-Weight Inequality and the Hilbert–Mumford Criterion: GIT from the Differential Geometric Viewpoint (Lecture Notes in Mathematics #2297)
By Joel W. Robbin, Valentina Georgoulas, Dietmar Arno Salamon. 2021
This book provides an introduction to geometric invariant theory from a differential geometric viewpoint. It is inspired by certain infinite-dimensional…
analogues of geometric invariant theory that arise naturally in several different areas of geometry. The central ingredients are the moment-weight inequality relating the Mumford numerical invariants to the norm of the moment map, the negative gradient flow of the moment map squared, and the Kempf--Ness function. The exposition is essentially self-contained, except for an appeal to the Lojasiewicz gradient inequality. A broad variety of examples illustrate the theory, and five appendices cover essential topics that go beyond the basic concepts of differential geometry. The comprehensive bibliography will be a valuable resource for researchers.The book is addressed to graduate students and researchers interested in geometric invariant theory and related subjects. It will be easily accessible to readers with a basic understanding of differential geometry and does not require any knowledge of algebraic geometry.The 50 Year Anniversary of the development of electron counting paradigms is celebrated in two volumes of Structure and Bonding.…
Volume 2 covers applications to metal and metalloid clusters of the transition and post-transition elementsStorytelling Pedagogy in Australia & Asia
By Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Thao Thi Phuong Nguyen. 2021
This book on teaching through story is the first to highlight the rich storytelling cultures of Australia and Asia. It…
presents insights from practicing storytelling educators from Black and White Australia, China, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam, who share their art of storytelling as pedagogy. Designed for early childhood and primary teachers, teacher educators and student teachers across Australia and Asia, Storytelling Pedagogy in Australia & Asia provides inspiration to teach through storytelling to promote intercultural understanding, imagination, active citizenship and language and literacy learning. Each chapter includes told stories, and teaching and learning ideas to guide and encourage those who are new to the art of storytelling pedagogy and those wishing to expand their understanding of storytelling in Australia and Asia.Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development: Pursuing Economic Growth, Environmental Protection and Social Cohesion (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)
By Constantin Zopounidis, Michalis Doumpos, Fernando A. F. Ferreira. 2021
This book presents a rich collection of studies on the analysis of sustainable development from a multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)…
perspective, written by some of the most prominent authors in the field of MCDM/A. The book constitutes a unique international reference guide to the analysis, measurement, and management of sustainability in a multidimensional decision analysis context. Chiefly intended for academics and policymakers, it reflects some of the latest methodological advances in decision-making, which are illustrated in real-life applications to sustainability-related topics in both the private and public sector.Artificial Intelligence in Education and Teaching Assessment
By Wei Wang, Baoju Zhang, Guangming Wang, Xiaoming Ding. 2021
This book collects papers on education quality assessment based on AI technology and introduces the latest research direction and progress…
of AI technology in the field of education and teaching, including classroom teaching quality assessment, online education quality assessment, teaching reflection quality assessment, etc. This book promotes the application of artificial intelligence technology in the field of education and teaching, effectively improving the quality of education and teaching. Researchers in artificial intelligence technology, teachers, students, and others benefit from this book.The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
By Stephen Wagg, Allyson M. Pollock. 2021
This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of…
the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class; gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights; and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball; Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport in an imagined dystopian future.The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Violence and Technology
By Asher Flynn, Anastasia Powell, Lisa Sugiura. 2021
This handbook provides a comprehensive treatise of the concepts and nature of technology-facilitated gendered violence and abuse, as well as…
legal, community and activist responses to these harms. It offers an inclusive and intersectional treatment of gendered violence including that experienced by gender, sexuality and racially diverse victim-survivors. It examines the types of gendered violence facilitated by technologies but also responses to these harms from the perspectives of victim advocates, legal analyses, organisational and community responses, as well as activism within civil society. It is unique in its recognition of the intersecting drivers of inequality and marginalisation including misogyny, racism, colonialism and homophobia. It draws together the expertise of a range of established and globally renowned scholars in the field, as well as survivor-advocate-scholars and emerging scholars, lending a combination of credibility, rigor, currency, and innovation throughout. This handbook further provides recommendations for policy and practice and will appeal to academics and students in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law, Socio-Legal Studies, Politics, as well as Women’s and/or Gender Studies.This book introduces the fascinating world of self-assembly in mesoporous ordered silica films. Beginning from a single droplet, it guides…
the reader, in a step-by-step learning process, how to obtain and control ordered porous mesophases in thin films by varying only the precursor chemistry and the process. It explains, in great detail, how order control is achieved through chemical design and post-deposition processing, the latter of which is a unique property in materials science. The book places a special focus on silica, whose particularly complex chemistry enables order control over a range of different length scales. This book is suitable for students and researchers in the fields of sol-gel or colloidal chemistry and interested in the topics of self-assembly and mesoporous phases.Information Security Practice and Experience: 16th International Conference, ISPEC 2021, Nanjing, China, December 17–19, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #13107)
By Mark Ryan, Ding Wang, Feng Bao, Robert Deng, Weizhi Meng, Jian Shen, Guilin Wang. 2021
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2021, held…
in Nanjing, China, in December 2021. The 23 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The conference focus on new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors.This volume brings together chapters about aging in many non-Western cultures, from Africa and Asia to South America, from American…
Indians to Australian and Hawaii Aboriginals. It also includes articles on other issues of aging, such as falling, dementia, and elder abuse. It was thought that in Africa or Asia, elders were revered and taken care of. This certainly used to be the case. But the Western way has moved into these places, and we now find that elders are often left on their own or in institutions, as younger people have migrated to other cities and even countries. Grandparents often find themselves being parents to their grandchildren, a far cry from the kind of life they believed they would have as they aged. This book will explore all these issues and will be of use to students and researchers in this relatively new field.FlexAbility: How High Achievers Beat Burnout and Find Freedom in an Overworked World
By Karen Morley. 2022
A comprehensive, coach-yourself guide for busy, burnt-out leaders to take back control of flexible working arrangements and find balance in…
an overworked world. Despite the promise of a post-pandemic ‘reset' that would make flexible work practices mainstream, it seems that overwork is here to stay. According to leading executive coach and psychologist, Dr Karen Morley, overwork is driven by ambitious, competitive and over-confident bosses who chase continuous growth and are prepared to sacrifice their own health and wellbeing, and that of their workforce, to achieve increasingly unrealistic targets. Remote work or not, this hasn't changed.High achieving, conscientious and agreeable leaders, the lifeblood of organizational success, get caught in the slipstream. In a world where overwork remains an expectation, flexible work has not been the solution we had all been hoping for. Rather, it has just blurred the boundaries between personal and professional life. It's time for leaders to take better control of where and when they work – a concept the author refers to as ‘flexAbility'. Flexibility is how the system operates, flexAbility is how to operate in this demanding system.FlexAbility is a comprehensive guide for leaders seeking to take back control and redefining their approach to work. It's about rediscovering why they do what they do and where work fits into their sense of purpose, so they can better align their work practices to suit their lives. In a world where more workers have burnout than don't, and feelings of anxiety are increasing, FlexAbility is a life-changing resource that every leader needs.