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  • On Display

    Instagram, the Self, and the City

    by John D. Boy, Justus Uitermark ...
    Series series Computational Social Science
    Two billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram's reputation for shallowness, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas. Who are we? What do we want to show of ourselves? What do we aspire to be? On Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century

    Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy

    by Nahide Konak, Rasim Özgür Dönmez, Sam Halvorsen, Walter Nicholls, Mark Purcell, Simon Thorpe, Helga Rittersberger-Tiliç, BEYZA TEKIN, Justus Uitermark0, Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda1, Gökçe Bayindir Goularas2, Rifat Baris Tekin3, Ernesto Castañeda4 ...
    Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • Cities and Social Movements

    Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015

    by Walter J. Nicholls, Justus Uitermark ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and sustained mobilizations.Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Dynamics of Power in Dutch Integration Politics

    From Accommodation to Confrontation

    by Justus Uitermark ...
    Series series Solidarity and Identity
    Integration politics in the Netherlands has changed dramatically between 1990 and 2005. Whereas ethnic and religious differences were hitherto pacified through accommodation, a new and increasingly powerful current in Dutch politics problematized the presence of minorities. This development represents a challenge to sociologists and political scientists: how to map and explain drastic changes? ... Read more

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  • Seeing Like a Platform

    An Inquiry into the Condition of Digital Modernity

    by Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark ...
    Series series Complexity in Social Science
    Power needs abstraction, to make the unwieldy complexity of the social world legible and manageable. The proposition at the heart of Seeing Like a Platform is that digital technology brings new metaphors through which power operates. While industrial modernity saw society as a machinery to be designed according to detailed blueprints, digital modernity views society as organic and alive, to be ... Read more

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    Edited by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents

    by Rogers Brubaker ...
    Digital hyperconnectivity is a defining fact of our time. The Silicon Valley dream of universal connection – the dream of connecting everyone and everything to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time – is rapidly becoming a reality. In this wide-ranging and sharply argued book, Rogers Brubaker develops an original interpretive account of the pervasive and unsettling changes ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Smart Urbanism

    Utopian vision or false dawn?

    Edited by Simon Marvin, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Colin McFarlane ...
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a supremacy of urban ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    by Simon Lindgren ...
    *What does it mean to live in a digital society?Does social media empower political activism?How do we form and express our identity in a digital age?Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role?How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other?*In the early 21st century, digital media and the social have become irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Organizations

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Mary Jo Hatch ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Privacy in Context

    Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life

    by Helen Nissenbaum ...
    Privacy is one of the most urgent issues associated with information technology and digital media. This book claims that what people really care about when they complain and protest that privacy has been violated is not the act of sharing information itself—most people understand that this is crucial to social life —but the inappropriate, improper sharing of information.Arguing that privacy ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Practical Ethnography

    A Guide to Doing Ethnography in the Private Sector

    by Sam Ladner ...
    Ethnography is an increasingly important research method in the private sector, yet ethnographic literature continues to focus on an academic audience. Sam Ladner fills the gap by advancing rigorous ethnographic practice that is tailored to corporate settings where colleagues are not steeped in social theory, research time lines may be days rather than months or years, and research sponsors expect ... Read more

    $55.99 USD