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  • The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Communication technologies, including the internet, social media, and countless online applications create the infrastructure and interface through which many of our interactions take place today. This form of networked communication creates new questions about how we establish relationships, engage in public, build a sense of identity, and delimit the private domain. The ubiquitous adoption of ... Read more

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  • Decoding the Social World

    Data Science and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

    Series series Information Policy
    How data science and the analysis of networks help us solve the puzzle of unintended consequences.Social life is full of paradoxes. Our intentional actions often trigger outcomes that we did not intend or even envision. How do we explain those unintended effects and what can we do to regulate them? In Decoding the Social World, Sandra González-Bailón explains how data science and digital traces ... Read more

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  • Empowerment Evaluation Principles in Practice

    What principles should guide an empowerment evaluation? And how can these principles actually be put into practice? One of the primary tasks in an empowerment evaluation (EE) is to increase the capacity of program stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate their own programs. This book presents the most current formulation of the 10 principles of EE and provides professionals and students with ... Read more

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  • Telling Stories

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    In Telling Stories, Mary Jo Maynes, Jennifer L. Pierce, and Barbara Laslett argue that personal narratives—autobiographies, oral histories, life history interviews, and memoirs—are an important research tool for understanding the relationship between people and their societies. Gathering examples from throughout the world and from premodern as well as contemporary cultures, they draw from labor ... Read more

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  • Achieving Impact in Research

    Edited by Pam Denicolo ...
    Series series Success in Research
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  • Anthropology and Nostalgia

    Edited by David Berliner, Olivia Angé ...
    Nostalgia is intimately connected to the history of the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular, though finely grained ethnographies of nostalgia and loss are still scarce. Today, anthropologists have realized that nostalgia constitutes a fascinating object of study for exploring contemporary issues of the formation of identity in politics and history. Contributors to this volume ... Read more

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  • Media and Ethnic Identity

    Hopi Views on Media, Identity, and Communication

    Series series Indigenous Peoples and Politics
    Media and Ethnic Identity carries a Native American perspective to media and its role in ethnic identity construction. This perspective is gained through a case study of the Hopis, who live in northeast Arizona and are known for their devotion to their indigenous culture.The research data is built on a number of interviews with Hopis of a variety of ages from nine villages. The study also makes ... Read more

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    The evaluation profession has experienced rapid growth in the past five years. Prior to 1995. there were five national evaluation organizations: the American Evnluntion Association (AEA). the Asociacion Centroamericana de Evaluacion (ACE). the Australasian Evaluation Society (AES). the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). and the European Evaluation Society (EES). In November 1995. AEA and CES ... Read more

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    Series Book 16 - Environment & Policy
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    Series series Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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