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  • Multi-Surveillances

    Transnational Digital Agencies in the Outsourced Services of Indian Call Centers

    by Winifred R. Poster ...

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  • Borders in Service

    Enactments of Nationhood in Transnational Call Centres

    by Kiran Mirchandani, Winifred Poster ...
    Borders in Service traces the intersection of service labour and national identity across global call centres in seven countries: El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mauritius, Morocco, the Philippines, and the US-Mexico border. While most studies on offshore call centres have focused on India this collection explores the experiences of call center workers in many of the newly emerging hubs of ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Invisible Labor

    Hidden Work in the Contemporary World

    Edited by Marion Crain, Winifred Poster, Miriam Cherry ...
    Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses—and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. Invisible workers who remain under-protected by wage laws include retail workers who function as walking billboards and take payment in clothing discounts or prestige; waitstaff at ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • digitalSTS

    A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

    by Janet Vertesi, Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, David Ribes, Laura Forlano, Alexandre Camus, Dominique Vinck, Nerea Calvillo, Daniela K. Rosner, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Xaroula (Charalampia) Kerasidou0, Luke Stark1, Stéphane Couture2, Steven J. Jackson3, Anita Say Chan4, Camilla A. Hawthorne5, Carla Ilten6, Paul-Brian McInerney7, David Nemer8, Padma Chirumamilla9, Winifred R. Poster0, Steve Sawyer1, Ingrid Erickson2, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi3, Ranjit Singh4, Chris Hesselbein5, Jessica Price6, Michael Lynch7, Elena Parmiggiani8, Eric Monteiro9, Doris Allhutter0, Brit Ross Winthereik1, James Maguire2, Laura Watts3, Carl DiSalvo4, Guillaume Latzko-Toth5, Johan Söderberg6, Florence Millerand7, Steve Jones8, Nick Seaver9, Marisa Leavitt Cohn0, Yanni Loukissas1, Daniel Cardoso Llach2, Anders Kristian Munk3, Axel Meunier4, Tommaso Venturini5, Juan Salamanca6, Mathieu Jacomy7 ...
    New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realitiesScholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Communication and Social Change

    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Can NGOs Make a Difference?

    The Challenge of Development Alternatives

    Edited by Anthony J. Bebbington, Samuel Hickey, Diana C. Mitlin ...
    Can non-governmental organisations contribute to more socially just, alternative forms of development? Or are they destined to work at the margins of dominant development models determined by others? Addressing this question, this book brings together leading international voices from academia, NGOs and the social movements. It provides a comprehensive update to the NGO literature and a range of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Partisan Publics

    Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks

    by Ann Mische ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention. In the midst of this turmoil, Ann Mische argues in this remarkable book, youth activists of various stripes played a vital and unrecognized role, contributing new forms of ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

    $187.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

    Edited by Janet Wasko, Graham Murdock, Helena Sousa ...
    Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date and accessible overview of key areas and debates ... Read more

    $47.00 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Facing An Unequal World

    Challenges for Global Sociology

    Edited by Raquel Sosa Elízaga ...
    Series series SAGE Studies in International Sociology
    "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading."- Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale UniversityOver recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global ... Read more

    $24.69 USD