Collaborative Society, Jemielniak Dariusz, Przegalinska Aleksandra

Автор: Tsing Anna Lowenhaupt, Bubandt Nils, Gan Elaine
Название: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
ISBN: 1517902371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517902377
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste-in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch.Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.

Автор: Russell Bertrand
Название: Impact of Science on Society
ISBN: 1138641154 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138641150
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a 'race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason.

Автор: Barnes, Susan B.
Название: Branding as Communication
ISBN: 1433128039 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781433128035
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: Once only a sign, technologies have helped to transform brands into symbols that we constantly encounter in our natural and mediated environments. Moreover, the branding of culture marks a commercialization of society. Almost everywhere we look, a brand name or logo appears.
By combining a scholarly approach with case studies and examples, this text bridges the worlds of communication and business by providing a single vocabulary in which to discuss branding. It brings these ideas together into a coherent framework to enable discussions on the topic to occur in a variety of disciplines. A number of perspectives are also provided, including brands as signs and symbols, brand personality, history, communication, cognitive factors, loyalty, personal branding, community, and social issues.
Providing a comprehensive overview of the branding process – from the creation of brands to analysis of their messages – readers will begin to understand the communicative impact of branding.

Автор: Fuchs C
Название: Social Media: Second Edition
ISBN: 1473966833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473966833
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: "Timely new chapters on China and the 'sharing economy' of Uber and Airbnb strengthen an already vital contribution to communication studies. Through the lens of critical theory, Fuchs provides the essential text for students of our new media world." –Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Ontario With social media changing how we use and understand everything from communication and the news to transport, more than ever it is essential to ask the right kinds of questions about the business and politics of social media. This book equips students with the critical thinking they need to understand the complexities and contradictions and make informed judgements. This Second Edition: Lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape Explores the sharing economy of Uber and Airbnb in a brand new chapter Takes us into the politics and economy of social media in China Puts forward powerful arguments for how to achieve a social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again.

Автор: Murphy Michelle
Название: The Economization of Life
ISBN: 0822363453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822363453
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Автор: Hodkinson Paul
Название: Media, Culture and Society
ISBN: 1473902363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473902367
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: Combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting-edge developments, this second edition cements its reputation as the `must have` text for any undergraduate student studying media and communication studies.

Автор: Buckland Michael
Название: Information and Society
ISBN: 0262533383 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262533386
Издательство: MIT Press
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A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.

Buckland argues that every society is an "information society"; a "non-information society" would be a contradiction in terms. But the shift from oral and gestural communication to documents, and the wider use of documents facilitated by new technologies, have made our society particularly information intensive. Buckland describes the rising flood of data, documents, and records, outlines the dramatic long-term growth of documents, and traces the rise of techniques to cope with them. He examines the physical manifestation of information as documents, the emergence of data sets, and how documents and data are discovered and used. He explores what individuals and societies do with information; offers a basic summary of how collected documents are arranged and described; considers the nature of naming; explains the uses of metadata; and evaluates selection methods, considering relevance, recall, and precision.

Автор: Michael Crowley
Название: Preventing chemical weapons
ISBN: 1782626492 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782626497
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: This multi-disciplinary book analyses predicted developments in chemical and life sciences and the risks of their application in the development of weapons as well as regulatory mechanisms for their control.

Автор: Richard J. Parmentier
Название: Signs in Society: Studies in Semiotic Anthropology
ISBN: 0253327571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253327574
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: Richard Parmentier takes up Ferdinand de Saussure's challenge to study the "life of signs in society" by using semiotic tools proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce. He studies how semiotic theory can illuminate highly complex social and cultural practices.

Автор: James C. Zimring
Название: What Science Is and How It Really Works
ISBN: 1108701647 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108701648
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: What is the basis of scientific claims? How much confidence should we put in them? What is defined as science and what is not? This timely synthesis conveys the strengths, weaknesses and reality of science to inform the general reader and help professional scientists articulate what they do and why.

Автор: David Trippett, Benjamin Walton
Название: Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
ISBN: 1107111250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107111257
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduates to professional researchers. Chapters explore topics such as hypnosis, vocal physiology, stage machinery, histories of listening and the interaction of opera with nineteenth-century scientific theories.

Автор: Gigler
Название: Development As Freedom In A Digital Age
ISBN: 1464804206 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464804205
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? The study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's well-being, rather than technology, at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance people's informational capabilities and improve people's human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses people's individual and collective capabilities, rather than measures of access or use, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from indigenous communities use of new technologies in rural Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing poor people's informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. Improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of poor and marginalized peoples to make strategic life choices and achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people's lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational, and cultural dimensions of their lives.The study concludes that intermediaries are bound to play a central, even fundamental, role in this process. They help poor communities to enact and appropriate ICTs to their local socio-cultural context so that their use becomes meaningful for people's daily lives, enhances their informational capabilities, and ultimately improves their human and social capabilities.