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Hanging on to the edges : essays on science, society and the academic life
What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and …
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- 9781783745821
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- 262 p.; 23 cm.
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- 802.4 NET h
How the world changed social media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the…
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- 9781910634493
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- XXIV, 262 p.
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- Why We Post
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- 302.23 HOW h
Preparing for life in a digital world IEA : international computer and inform…
This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) i…
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- 9783030387815
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- XXII, 297 p.
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- 302.209 PRE p
Technology, design and the arts - opportunities and challenges
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and application domains. This has produced new kinds of created works which can be viewed, explored, and interacted with, either as an installation or via a virtual environment s…
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- 9783030420970
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- xxv, 387p. : ill.
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- 700.105 TEC t
Violence and trolling on social media : history, affect, and effects of onlin…
'Trolls for Trump', virtual rape, fake news - social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has become a formidable, yet elusive, political force. What characterizes online vitriol? How do we understand the narratives generated, and also address their real-world - even life-and-death - impact? How can hatred, bullying, and dehumanization on social media platforms be addr…
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- 9789048542048
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- 266 p,
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- MediaMatters
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- 006.754 VIO v
Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities : collected …
Perspectives and research on play for children with disabilities. Collected Papers. This book includes eight chapters reflecting various approaches towards the theme of play for children with disabilities that characterised the work of the members of the COST Action TD1309 “LUDI–Play for Children with Disabilities”: barriers and facilitators to play, guidelines on accessibility and usabil…
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- 9788395669613
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- XVI, 189 p.
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- 371.9 BUL p
Social Media in an English Village
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social med…
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- 9781910634448
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- xii, 209p.: ill.
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- 302.2310942 MIL s
Integrated groundwater management : concepts, approaches and challenges
The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge, one that remains one of humanity’s foremost priorities. It has become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from how to si…
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- 9783319235769
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- xiii, 762p. : ill.
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- 628.114 INT i
Research assessment in the humanities : towards criteria and procedures
This book analyses and discusses the recent developments for assessing research quality in the humanities and related fields in the social sciences. Research assessments in the humanities are highly controversial and the evaluation of humanities research is delicate. While citation-based research performance indicators are widely used in the natural and life sciences, quantitative measures for …
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- 9783319290164
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- xviii, 247p. : ill.
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- 371.26 RES r
Intergenerational family relations: an evolutionary social science approach
This book offers a synthesis of social science and evolutionary approaches to the study of intergenerational relations, using biological, psychological and sociological factors to develop a single framework for understanding why kin help one another across generations. With attention to both biological family relations as well as in-law and step-relations, it provides an overview of existing st…
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- 9781138091870
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- 182 p.; 22 cm
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- 306.85 TAN i
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