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Representations of transnational human trafficking : present-day news media, …
This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and…
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- 9783319782140
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- 401.41 REP r
Transformative Communication Technologies: the accountability challenge (36th…
"This booklet documents the 36th Boehm-Bawerk Lecture, presented by Prof. Robin Mansell on October 31, 2017 as a ceremonial opening ceremony for the Institute of Media, Society and Communication at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. "
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- 9783903187146
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- 96p.: ill.
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- 070.4 MAN t
mHealth innovation in Asia : grassroots challenges and practical interventions
This book offers a detailed account of a range of mHealth initiatives across South, Southeast and East Asia. It provides readers with deep insights into the challenges such initiatives face on the ground, and a view of the diverse cultural contexts shaping strategies for overcoming these challenges. The book brings together various discussions on the broader mHealth literature, and demonstrates…
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- 9789402412512
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- x, 131p. : ill.
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- 302.23 MHE m
Language vitalization through language documentation and description in the K…
This study on language vitalization and community empowerment in the Kosovar sign language community focuses on linguistic work taking place within the framework of a development co-operation project between two NGOs in Kosovo and Finland. The long-term objectives were to improve the status of Kosovar Sign Language (KosSL) and to guarantee the human (linguistic) rights of Deaf language users …
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- 9789086560004
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- IV, 138 p.
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- Ishara Research Series, 1
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- 400 HOY l
Medium, format, configuration : the displacements of film
In contrast with media constructed as vast, ontologically homogeneous, non-localized systems, formats show material networks of interoperability and exclusions, inscribed in local specificities, and involving precise conditions for the circulation of images and sounds. Formats, institutionalized as standards, frame the “technical networks” defined by Gilbert Simondon, that unfold technical …
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- 9783957960047
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- 54 p.
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- Configurations of Film
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- 791.43079 TUR m
Cracking facebook : the importance of understanding technology-based communic…
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as “part digital natives” to easily acquire and use new media technologies, whil…
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- 9789463002110
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- IX, 153 p.
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- Youth, Media, and Culture Series
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- 370 LEE c
The Web as history: using web archives to understand the past and the present
This article puts on the agenda one of the fundamental theoretical questions within the emerging field of website history: how can the object of historical study — the website — be delimited? Its focus is on the 'website' artefact as a medium and a text. After elaborating a definition of the website, as well as discussing how the website is distinct from other possible analytical web object…
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- 9781911307563
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- 296 p.; 22 cm.
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- 310 BRU w
Communicative capacity : public encounters in participatory theory and practice
Participatory democracy has become an unshakable norm and its practice is widespread. Nowadays, public professionals and citizens regularly encounter each other in participatory practice to address shared problems. But while the frequency, pace and diversity of their public encounters has increased, communicating in participatory practice remains a challenging, fragile and demanding undertaking…
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- 9781447318507
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- X, 274 p.
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- 320.941 BAR c
eIoT : the development of the energy internet of things in energy infrastructure
This open access book explores the collision between the sustainable energy transition and the Internet of Things (IoT). In that regard, this book’s arrival is timely. Not only is the Internet of Things for energy applications, herein called the energy Internet of Things (eIoT), rapidly developing but also the transition towards sustainable energy to abate global climate is very much at the f…
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- 9783030104276
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- xxviii, 160p. : ill
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- 333.79 MUH e
The cold war in the classroom : international perspectives on textbooks and m…
This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the past. Authors analysing educational media point t…
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- 9783030119997
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- xxx, 459p. : ill.
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- 909.825072 COL c
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