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  • Big Data, Surveillance and Crisis Management

    Edited by Kees Boersma, Chiara Fonio ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Surveillance
    Big data, surveillance, crisis management. Three largely different and richly researched fields, however, the interplay amongst these three domains is rarely addressed.Through unique international case studies this book examines the links between these three fields. Considering crisis management as an 'umbrella term' that covers a number of crises and ways of managing them, this book explores the ... Read more

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  • Histories of State Surveillance in Europe and Beyond

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    Does the development of new technology cause an increase in the level of surveillance used by central government? Is the growth in surveillance merely a reaction to terrorism, or a solution to crime control? Are there more structural roots for the increase in surveillance?This book attempts to find some answers to these questions by examining how governments have increased their use of ... Read more

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  • Disaster Management and Information Technology

    Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited book entertains a multitude of perspectives on crisis information management systems (CIMS)-based disaster response and recovery management. The use of information technology in disaster management has become the central means for collecting, vetting, and distributing information. It also serves as the backbone for coordination and collaboration between response and recovery units as ... Read more

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  • Internet and Surveillance

    The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context. With such platforms comes the massive provision and storage of personal data that are ... Read more

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    This book tracks post 9/11 developments in national security and policing intelligence and their relevance to new emerging areas of intelligence practice such as: corrections, biosecurity, private industry and regulatory environments. Developments are explored thematically across three broad sections:applying intelligenceunderstanding structuresdeveloping a discipline.Issues explored include: ... Read more

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  • Comparing Media Systems

    Three Models of Media and Politics

    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why ... Read more

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  • Crime Control As Industry

    Towards Gulags, Western Style

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    Crime Control As Industry, translated into many languages, is a modern classic of criminology and sociology. Nils Christie, one of the leading criminologists of his era, argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate and show no signs of slowing. Christie argues ... Read more

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    by Kelly Holt ...
    This book is your ultimate Systems engineering resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Systems engineering's whole picture right away. Get countless Systems engineering facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Systems ... Read more

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  • Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)

    by Richard Heeks ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; ... Read more

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  • Citizens of Nowhere

    How Europe Can Be Saved from Itself

    Europe might appear like a continent pulling itself apart. Ten years of economic and political crises have pitted North versus South, East versus West, citizens versus institutions. And yet, these years have also shown a hidden vitality of Europeans acting across borders, with civil society and social movements showing that alternatives to the status quo already exist.This book is at once a ... Read more

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  • Cyber-Security and Threat Politics

    US Efforts to Secure the Information Age

    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book explores the political process behind the construction of cyber-threats as one of the quintessential security threats of modern times in the US.Myriam Dunn Cavelty posits that cyber-threats are definable by their unsubstantiated nature. Despite this, they have been propelled to the forefront of the political agenda. Using an innovative theoretical approach, this book examines how, under ... Read more

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  • Intelligence dictionary

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