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  • Regression Inside Out

    by Eric W. Schoon, David Melamed, Ronald L. Breiger ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Linear regression analysis, with its many generalizations, is the predominant quantitative method used throughout the social sciences and beyond. The goal of the method is to study relations among variables. In this book, Schoon, Melamed and Breiger turn regression modeling inside out to put the emphasis on the cases (people, organizations, and nations) that comprise the variables. By re-analyzing ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change

    Edited by Thomas V. Maher, Eric W. Schoon ...
    Series Book 47 - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change
    The 21st century has brought many changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements. Organizations and scholars alike have developed new techniques for bridging cultural divides and enhancing democracy and respect for human rights. Moreover, technological changes have significantly altered conflict spaces.Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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    Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges

    Edited by Steffen Pötzschke, Sebastian Rinken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • Surveillance, Privacy and Security

    Citizens’ Perspectives

    Edited by Michael Friedewald, J. Peter Burgess, Rocco Bellanova, Walter Peissl, Johann Čas ...
    This volume examines the relationship between privacy, surveillance and security, and the alleged privacy–security trade-off, focusing on the citizen’s perspective.Recent revelations of mass surveillance programmes clearly demonstrate the ever-increasing capabilities of surveillance technologies. The lack of serious reactions to these activities shows that the political will to implement them ... Read more

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  • Our Biometric Future

    Facial Recognition Technology and the Culture of Surveillance

    by Kelly Gates ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Cultural Communication
    Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to “see” the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying faces and distinguishing them from one another—commonly known as Facial Recognition Technology. While computer scientists are developing FRT in order to design more intelligent and interactive machines, businesses and states agencies view the technology ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences

    Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations

    by Katherine Erdman ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Dutch anthropologist Geert Hofstede is recognized as a pioneer in the fields of international management and social psychology – and his work is a perfect example of the ways in which interpretative skills can help solve problems and provide the foundation for strong thinking and understanding both in business and beyond.Hofstede’s central achievement was setting up an efficient interpretative ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Framing Public Life

    Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World

    Edited by Stephen D. Reese, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., August E. Grant ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or "frame," our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Computer Mediated Communication

    by Crispin Thurlow, Lara Lengel, Alice Tomic ...
    This book offers students a task-based introduction to Computer-Mediated Communication and the impact of the internet on social interaction. Divided into four parts which require students to learn, (theory), critique, (current issues), explore, (methods), and reflect, (practice), the book aims to:Provide a foundation to the social and communicative nature of information and communication ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Linked Democracy

    Foundations, Tools, and Applications

    by Marta Poblet, Pompeu Casanovas, Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Law
    This open access book shows the factors linking information flow, social intelligence, rights management and modelling with epistemic democracy, offering licensed linked data along with information about the rights involved. This model of democracy for the web of data brings new challenges for the social organisation of knowledge, collective innovation, and the coordination of actions. Licensed ... Read more

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  • Datafied Childhoods

    Data Practices and Imaginaries in Children’s Lives

    by Giovanna Mascheroni, Andra Siibak ...
    Series Book 124 - Digital Formations
    Datafied Childhoods examines the multiple ways in which datafication, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) transform the contexts for children: at home, school, and in peer and parent-child relationships. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an important moment for reimagining how data are repurposed for the social good and best interests of children. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD