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  • Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction

    by Garry Young ...
    It is commonplace for fictional content to depict immoral activities: the kidnapping of a politician, for example, or the elaborate theft of a national treasure, or perhaps the gruesome proclivities of a sadistic murderer. These and similar depictions can be found across a range of media, and in varying degrees of detail and realism. Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction examines potential ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Resolving the Gamer’s Dilemma

    Examining the Moral and Psychological Differences between Virtual Murder and Virtual Paedophilia

    by Garry Young ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book explores the gamer’s dilemma, which lies at the heart of theorising about the morality of certain video game content. The dilemma is as follows: given that gaming content involves virtual characters within a virtual environment, the moral permission of virtual murder would also appear to morally permit virtual paedophilia. Yet most gamers and members of wider society would not want to ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ethics in the Virtual World

    The Morality and Psychology of Gaming

    by Garry Young ...
    Ethics in the Virtual World examines the gamer's enactment of taboo activities in the context of both traditional and contemporary philosophical approaches to morality. The book argues that it is more productive to consider what individuals are able to cope with psychologically than to determine whether a virtual act or representation is necessarily good or bad. The book raises pertinent questions ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Cyberpsychology

    The Study of Individuals, Society and Digital Technologies

    by Monica T. Whitty ...
    Series series BPS Textbooks in Psychology
    CYBERPSYCHOLOGYAn important new textbook for an exciting area of contemporary psychological study and research...The field of cyberpsychology examines the psychology of interactions between individuals, societies and digital technologies. This engaging and accessible textbook offers a complete introduction to the subject. The authors outline key theories, provide critical assessments, identify ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Transcending Taboos

    A Moral and Psychological Examination of Cyberspace

    by Garry Young, Monica Whitty ...
    Cyberspace is composed of a multitude of different spaces where users can represent themselves in many divergent ways. Why in a video game, is it more acceptable to murder or maim than rape? After all, in each case, it is only pixels that are being assaulted. This book avoids wrestling with the common question of whether the virtual violation of real-world taboos is right or wrong, and instead ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Doing Narrative Research

    Edited by Maria Tamboukou, Molly Andrews, Corinne Squire ...
    Written by an international team of experts in the field, the second edition of this popular text considers both the theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of narrative research. The authors take the reader from initial decisions about forms of narrative research, through more complex issues of reflexivity, interpretation and the research context. Existing chapters have been updated ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Living with Robots

    by Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano ...
    Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise ...
    From artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, "a timely and well-written volume that addresses many contemporary and future moral questions" ( Library Journal).Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social robotics is grounded in artificial intelligence, but the field's most probing questions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Analyzing Narrative Reality

    by Jaber F. Gubrium, James A. Holstein ...
    Analyzing Narrative Reality offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing the construction and use of stories in society. This centers on the interplay of narrative work and narrative environments, viewed as reflexively related. Topics dealing with narrative work include activation, linkage, composition, performance, collaboration, and control. Those dealing with narrative environments include ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • What Love Is

    And What It Could Be

    by Carrie Jenkins ...
    A rising star in philosophy examines the cultural, social, and scientific interpretations of love to answer one of our most enduring questionsWhat is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is, philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Tools for Teaching

    by Barbara Gross Davis ...
    This is the long-awaited update on the bestselling book that offers a practical, accessible reference manual for faculty in any discipline. This new edition contains up-to-date information on technology as well as expanding on the ideas and strategies presented in the first edition. It includes more than sixty-one chapters designed to improve the teaching of beginning, mid-career, or senior ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Psychology: the Key Concepts

    by Graham Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Psychology: The Key Concepts is a comprehensive overview of 200 concepts central to a solid understanding of Psychology and includes the latest recommendations from the British Psychology Society (BPS). The focus is on practical uses of Psychology in settings such as nursing, education and human resources, with topics ranging from Gender to Psychometrics and Perception. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...
    The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD