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Global voices in higher education
Traveling from Zimbabwe to New Zealand and on to Ghana and the United States, the voices of higher education are presented in a way only scholars from these regions can fully articulate and understand. The changing world of higher education challenges all of those involved in very unique ways. In Global Voices in Higher Education, scholars from 10 different countries share their work, describin…
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- 9789535132301
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- 218 p
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- 378 GLO g
Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003111474
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- 308 p.
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- 507.105 KNO k
Everyday automation : experiencing and anticipating emerging technologies
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003170884
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- 250 p.
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- 303.483 EVE e
The philosophy of online manipulation
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003205425
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- 424 p.
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- 302.231 PHI p
Videogames and agency
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How …
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- 9781003298786
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- 226 p.
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- 794.8 BOD v
Young people as agents of sustainable society : reclaiming the future
This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system. It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003345114
- Collation
- 258 p.
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- 304.2 YOU y
Building the inclusive city: governance, access, and the urban transformation…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 9783030329884
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- 169p.: ill.
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- 307.1216095357 PIN b
Disciplinary struggles in education
This book discusses disciplinary struggles in education from three perspectives. The chapters in the first section analyse the disciplinary character of educational practice and institutions. The second section focuses on justification of educational knowledge in transmission between theory and practice. The contributions of the third section problematise the aims and functions of educational p…
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- 9789523590021
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- 262 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370 PAT d
Eating disorders and obesity: the challenge for our times
Eating Disorders have traditionally been considered apart from public health concerns about increasing obesity. It is evident that these problems are, however, related in important ways. Comorbid obesity and eating disorder is increasing at a faster rate than either obesity or eating disorders alone and one in five people with obesity also presents with an Eating Disorder, commonly but not limi…
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- 9783038979982
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- 264 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306.44 EAT e
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