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“lori townsend”

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  • Transforming Information Literacy Instruction

    Threshold Concepts in Theory and Practice

    by Amy R. Hofer, Silvia Lin Hanick, Lori Townsend ...
    Provides information literacy practitioners with a thorough exploration of how threshold concepts can be applied to information literacy, identifying important elements and connections between each concept, and relating theory to practical methods that can transform how librarians teach.A model that emerged from the Enhancing Teaching-Learning Environments project in Great Britain, threshold ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions

    Cultural Humility in Library Work

    Edited by Sarah R. Kostelecky, Lori Townsend, David A. Hurley ...
    Cultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first book-length treatment of ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

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  • The Digital Divide

    Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

    by Mark Bauerlein ...
    This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Filling the Void

    Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Digital Experience Design

    Ideas, Industries, Interaction

    by Linda Leung ...
    Although the dot-com bubble burst long ago, the interactive media industry is still flush with fresh talent, new ideas and financial success. Digital Experience Design chronicles the diverse histories and perspectives of people working in the dot-com world alongside an account of the current issues facing the industry. From the perspective of older disciplines such as education, fine art and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Doing Economics

    What You Should Have Learned in Grad School—But Didn’t

    by Marc F. Bellemare ...
    A guide for research economists: how to write papers, give talks, navigate the peer-review process, advise students, and more.Newly minted research economists are equipped with a PhD’s worth of technical and scientific expertise but often lack some of the practical tools necessary for “doing economics.” With this book, economics professor Marc Bellemare breaks down the components of doing research ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Kickstarting Your Academic Career

    Skills to Succeed in the Social Sciences

    by Robert L. Ostergard, Jr., Stacy B. Fisher ...
    Kickstarting Your Academic Career is a primer on the common scholastic demands that social sciences students face upon entering college or university. Based on the challenges that instructors most often find students need help with, the authors offer practical advice and tips on topics such as how to communicate with instructors, take notes, read a textbook, research and write papers, and write ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Technical Communication and the World Wide Web

    Edited by Carol Lipson, Michael Day ...
    Over the past decade, the World Wide Web has dramatically changed the face of technical communication, but the teaching of writing has thus far altered very little to accommodate this rapidly changing context. Technical Communication and the World Wide Web offers substantial and broadly applicable strategies for teaching global communication issues affecting writing for the World Wide Web.Editors ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Emerging Media

    Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

    Edited by PhD Bruce E. Drushel, PhD Kathleen German ...
    The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe.Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Computer Mediated Communication

    by Crispin Thurlow, Lara Lengel, Alice Tomic ...
    This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Divided into four parts which require students to learn, (theory), critique, (current issues), explore, (methods), and reflect, (practice), the book aims to:Provide a foundation to the social and communicative nature of information and communication ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • The Wiley Handbook of Learning Technology

    Edited by Nick Rushby, Dan Surry ...
    Series series Wiley Handbooks in Education
    The Wiley Handbook of Learning Technology is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the fast-growing field of learning technology, from its foundational theories and practices to its challenges, trends, and future developments.Offers an examination of learning technology that is equal parts theoretical and practical, covering both the technology of learning and the use of technology in ... Read more

    $181.00 USD