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  • Criminal Futures

    Predictive Policing and Everyday Police Work

    by Simon Egbert, Matthias Leese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Policing and Society
    This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts and intervene into the future through targeted prevention measures. Based on three years of field research in Germany and Switzerland, this book provides a theoretically sophisticated and empirically detailed account of how ... Read more

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  • Algorithmic Regimes

    Methods, Interactions, and Politics

    Edited by Juliane Jarke, Bianca Prietl, Simon Egbert, Yana Boeva, Hendrik Heuer ...
    Series series Digital Studies
    Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift has, and will continue to have, profound implications for how knowledge is produced and what and whose knowledge is valued and deemed valid. To ... Read more

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    Enriched edition. Fantasy and science fiction short stories

    by H. G. Wells, Russell Clarke ...
    In 'The Argonauts of the Air & Other Stories', H. G. Wells showcases his mastery of science fiction with 17 captivating tales that explore futuristic concepts and imaginative scenarios. Wells' fluid literary style makes his stories easily digestible yet thought-provoking, drawing readers into the realms of alternate universes and advanced technology. Set against the backdrop of the late 19th and ... Read more

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  • Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    This carefully crafted ebook: "Absolution - a false start to The Great Gatsby" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. With The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald made a conscious departure from the writing process of his previous novels. He started planning it in June 1922, after completing his play The Vegetable and began composing The Great Gatsby in 1923. He ended ... Read more

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  • The Pat Hobby Stories

    by F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
    Series Book 1 - Classic Short Story Collections: American
    The setting: Hollywood: the character: Pat Hobby, a down-and-out screenwriter trying to break back into show business, but having better luck getting into bars. Written between 1939 and 1940, when F. Scott Fitzgerald was working for Universal Studios, the seventeen Pat Hobby stories were first published in Esquire magazine and present a bitterly humorous portrait of a once-successful writer who ... Read more

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  • Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy

    The Crisis of Information

    by Jutta Haider, Olof Sundin ...
    Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are ... Read more

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  • The Mediated Construction of Reality

    by Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp ...
    Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world ... Read more

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  • Digital Sociology

    The Reinvention of Social Research

    by Noortje Marres ...
    This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life.Digital Sociology introduces key concepts, methods and understandings that currently inform the development of specifically digital forms of social ... Read more

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  • Sociological Theory for Digital Society

    The Codes that Bind Us Together

    by Ori Schwarz ...
    The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities.What would symbolic interactionism ... Read more

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  • Digital Humanities

    Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

    by David M. Berry, Anders Fagerjord ...
    As the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be human: areas traditionally explored by the humanities.In a world of automation, Big Data, algorithms, Google searches, digital archives, real-time streams and social networks, our use of culture has been changing dramatically. The digital humanities give us powerful ... Read more

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  • Machine Habitus

    Toward a Sociology of Algorithms

    by Massimo Airoldi ...
    We commonly think of society as made of and by humans, but with the proliferation of machine learning and AI technologies, this is clearly no longer the case. Billions of automated systems tacitly contribute to the social construction of reality by drawing algorithmic distinctions between the visible and the invisible, the relevant and the irrelevant, the likely and the unlikely – on and beyond ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods

    Edited by Grant Blank, Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee ...
    Online research methods are popular, dynamic and fast-changing. Following on from the great success of the first edition, published in 2008, The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, Second Edition offers both updates of existing subject areas and new chapters covering more recent developments, such as social media, big data, data visualization and CAQDAS.Bringing together the leading names in ... Read more

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