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  • Network Society

    How Social Relations rebuild Space(s)

    by Roberta Iannone, Emanueal Ferreri, Maria Christina Marchetti ...
    Series series Vernon Series in Sociology
    The present volume attempts to critically evaluate claims that modern society may be read and understood as a network. Accepting that this perspective holds some potential, the question becomes how to best capitalize on it. To analyze society as a network means to respond not only to the “actual needs”, but also to highlight the "opportunities" and the "utilities", and to investigate whether ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Smart Society

    A Sociological Perspective on Smart Living

    by Roberta Iannone, Romina Gurashi, Ilaria Iannuzzi, Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe, Melissa Sessa ...
    Increasingly, we hear of ‘smart’ cities, communities, governance and people as constituting the basis of initiatives by which we might address various social and environmental problems, particularly those connected with sustainability, usually by means of an ‘intelligent’ connection with the ‘network society’. This book addresses the issues raised by the emergence of ‘smart’ dimensions and ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Controversy Mapping

    A Field Guide

    by Tommaso Venturini, Anders Kristian Munk ...
    As disputes concerning the environment, the economy, and pandemics occupy public debate, we need to learn to navigate matters of public concern when facts are in doubt and expertise is contested.Controversy Mapping is the first book to introduce readers to the observation and representation of contested issues on digital media. Drawing on actor-network theory and digital methods, Venturini and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, fourth edition

    Edited by Ulrike Felt, Rayvon Fouche, Clark A. Miller, Laurel Smith-Doerr ...
    The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and rearrange contemporary societies. The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies provides a comprehensive and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • After the Internet

    Digital Networks between Capital and the Common

    by Tiziana Terranova ...
    Series Book 33 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    On the internet's transformation from communication tool to computational infrastructure.The internet is no more. If it still exists, it does so only as a residual technology, still effective in the present but less intelligible as such. After nearly two decades and a couple of financial crises, it has become the almost imperceptible background of today’s Corporate Platform Complex (CPC)—a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Online Hate Speech in the European Union

    A Discourse-Analytic Perspective

    by Stavros Assimakopoulos, Fabienne H. Baider, Sharon Millar, Natalie Alkiviadou, César Arroyo López, Pablo Bernardino Tempesta, Tatsiana Chulitskaya, Anna Constantinou, Klaus Geyer, Łukasz Grabowski, Uladzislau Ivanou, Monika Kopytowska, Roberto Moreno López, Rasmus Nielsen, Valentina Oliviero, Anastasia Petrou, Ernesto Russo, Rebecca Vella Muskat, Anna Vibeke Lindø, Georgia Whitaker, Julita Woźniak ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book reports on research carried out as part of the European Union co-funded C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project which targeted hate speech and hate crime across a number of EU member states. It showcases the bearing that discourse analytic research can have on our understanding of this phenomenon that is a growing global cause for concern.Although ‘hate speech’ is often incorporated in legal ... Read more

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  • Feminist Translation Studies

    Local and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Olga Castro, Emek Ergun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Diversity and Super-Diversity

    Sociocultural Linguistic Perspectives

    by Jan Blommaert, Ruth Wodak, Markus Rheindorf, Elana Shohamy, Suresh Canagarajah, Fatma Said, Zhu Hua, Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge0, Rachel Hu1, Elizabeth Miller2, Anastasia Nylund3, Betsy Rymes4, Geeta Aneja5, Andrea Leone-Pizzighella6, Mark Lewis7, Robert Moore8, Luisa Martin Rojo9, Christine Anthonissen0, Inmaculada García-Sánchez1, Virginia Unamuno2, Anna De Fina4 ...
    Series series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
    Sociocultural linguistics has long conceived of languages as well-bounded, separate codes. But the increasing diversity of languages encountered by most people in their daily lives challenges this conception. Because globalization has accelerated population flows, cities are now sites of encounter for groups that are highly diverse in terms of origins, cultural practices, and languages. Further, ... Read more

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  • The Creative City

    Cultural policies and urban regeneration between conservation and development

    by Alessia Usai ...
    Series Book 2 - Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education
    This book focuses on the relationships between the creative city principles and the planning approach introduced by the European Landscape Convention in order to identify best practices for the development of innovative cultural policies and new urban regeneration tools.The research is characterized by a cross-cutting approach to cultural heritage. It proposes a new model for the design of ... Read more

    $50.69 USD

  • Advancing Folkloristics

    by Margaret A. Mills, Kay Turner, Andrea Kitta, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Cory W. Thorne, Solimar Otero, Gregory Hansen, Betty J. Belanus, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Anthony Guest-Scott, Anika Wilson, Wanda G. Addison, Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Lynne S. McNeill, Trevor J. Blank, Norma Elia Cantú, Guillermo De Los Reyes ...
    An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop critical personal narratives?Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • What People Leave Behind

    Marks, Traces, Footprints and their Relevance to Knowledge Society

    Edited by Francesca Comunello, Fabrizio Martire, Lorenzo Sabetta ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book focuses on a particular but significant topic in the social sciences: the concepts of “footprint” and “trace”. It associates these concepts with hotly debated topics such as surveillance capitalism and knowledge society. The editors and authors discuss the concept footprints and traces as unintended by-products of other (differently focused and oriented) actions that remain ... Read more

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  • Social Work Education

    Reflections and debate in the European context

    by Jorge Ferreira ...
    Series Book 2 - SOCIAL WORK
    Believing that the precondition for efficient social services lies in the education of well-trained, professional and ethically responsible social workers, this book offers a unique insight into different – yet converging on some aspects – models of social work education in four countries: Portugal, Spain, Italy and Albania.Starting from a comparative analysis of the organization of the Bachelor ... Read more

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