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  • Transgressive Tech

    The Privatization of the Public Interest

    Series series Digital Studies
    This collection of essays, written by authors from diverse countries across four continents, explores the similarities and differences in technological expansionism. It examines how technology companies establish themselves in new markets and sectors and charts how technology projects increasingly capture public functions and infrastructures, raising critical concerns for democratic legitimacy and ... Read more

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  • The Rural and Peripheral in Regional Development

    An Alternative Perspective

    Series series Regions and Cities
    The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban. This book aims to stimulate a debate and a re-evaluation of how the concepts of the rural, peripheral and marginal are treated in academia and policy.Approaching this theme from geographic, demographic and economic perspectives, Peter de Souza makes a compelling case for giving ... Read more

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  • The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and its Epistemic Consequences

    Series series Oñati International Series in Law and Society
    This book brings together diverse perspectives from researchers working in the fields of law, justice, and design to interrogate the emergence of vocabularies and methods of legal design and unpack their epistemic consequences.Legal design has emerged in the last decade as an interdisciplinary practice, at the intersection of law and justice, and initially human-centred design. Despite the short ... Read more

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  • Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating

    Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping the World Today

    Citizens around the world use crowdsourced platforms to hold governments accountable, to fill gaps in infrastructural and municipal services, and to call attention to issues that impact everyday lives, such as sexual violence and environmental injustice.Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating brings together individuals and groups engaged in building and sustaining platforms for online ... Read more

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    Bram Stoker Gothic Classics: Dracula & more

    Nine Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations & Readings

    Unabridged

    6 hours 59 min

    An anthology of full-cast Gothic dramas and readings from the author of the world’s most famous vampire taleCelebrated today as the creator of the legendary blood-sucking Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was best known in his lifetime as stage manager to the actor Henry Irving. A former Dublin civil servant, he wrote a over a dozen other novels and numerous short stories, yet ... Read more

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    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
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  • Communications Policy for National Development

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies
    Originally published in 1977. Covering a wide international field and with the emphasis on communications in developing countries, this book contains chapters by eminent contributors looking at questions of policy, governance and planning in the field of mass communications. It also considers the role of the media in national development, multi-media education and critical theoretical issues ... Read more

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  • Spatial Planning and High-tech Development

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    n the past three decades, numerous high-tech city-regions have emerged with the rise of new high-tech industries across the world. Many of them have been specifically supported by national technology policies—in developed or developing countries—implemented to trigger economic growth and to enhance global competitiveness at the national and/or city-regional level. These policies have involved the ... Read more

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  • Whose Global Village?

    Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

    This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact ... Read more

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  • Twitter and Tear Gas

    The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

    A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challengesTo understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and ... Read more

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  • Public Policy in Action

    Perspectives on the Policy Process

    This comprehensive textbook explores the policy process from a multitude of perspectives, including rationalism, culturalism, institutionalism and from a political point of view. This allows students to discover key concepts from the policy science literature and gain a deeper understanding of how public policy is discussed academically and shaped empirically.Public Policy in Action gives a ... Read more

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  • Consent of the Networked

    The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom

    The Internet was going to liberate us, but in truth it has not. For every story about the web's empowering role in events such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same digital technologies we have come to depend upon. In Consent of the Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon ... Read more

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