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  • The Digital Society

    Empirical Perspectives on the Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere and its Institutions

    Edited by Mario Anastasiadis, Yannik Peters, Caja Thimm ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Debates about digitalization and democracy have always been controversial and range from optimistic views to sceptic or even dystopian perspectives. The former emphasize the potential of the internet to drive innovation in society and to enhance democracy. In contrast, skeptical views highlight the risks and even threats of digitalization. This finds expression in aspects such as the growing ... 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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  • Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology

    Edited by Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, Tom Postmes, Ulf-Dietrich Reips ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • The Science of Citizen Science

    Edited by Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists ... Read more

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  • Digital Disruption in Teaching and Testing

    Assessments, Big Data, and the Transformation of Schooling

    Edited by Claire Wyatt-Smith, Bob Lingard, Elizabeth Heck ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    This book provides a significant contribution to the increasing conversation concerning the place of big data in education. Offering a multidisciplinary approach with a diversity of perspectives from international scholars and industry experts, chapter authors engage in both research- and industry-informed discussions and analyses on the place of big data in education, particularly as it pertains ... Read more

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  • Research Ethics for Students in the Social Sciences

    by Jaap Bos, Friso Hoeneveld, Naomi van Steenbergen, Ruud Abma, Toon van Meijl, Dorota Lepianka ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access textbook offers a practical guide into research ethics for undergraduate students in the social sciences. A step-by-step approach of the most viable issues, in-depth discussions of case histories and a variety of didactical tools will aid the student to grasp the issues at hand and help him or her develop strategies to deal with them.This book addresses problems and questions that ... Read more

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  • Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

    Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Transdisciplinarity for Transformation

    Responding to Societal Challenges through Multi-actor, Reflexive Practices

    Edited by Barbara J. Regeer, Pim Klaassen, Jacqueline E. W. Broerse ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book presents state-of-the-art insights on transdisciplinary work towards societal transformation. It provides theoretical and practical guidance and tools, applicable across diverse empirical settings. The book supports researchers and practitioners, especially those early in their careers, to navigate dilemmas inherent in transdisciplinarity for transformation. The book serves ... Read more

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  • e-Science

    Open, Social and Virtual Technology for Research Collaboration

    Edited by Claudia Koschtial, Thomas Köhler, Carsten Felden ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book shows the breadth and various facets of e-Science, while also illustrating their shared core. Changes in scientific work are driven by the shift to grid-based worlds, the use of information and communication systems, and the existential infrastructure, which includes global collaboration. In this context, the book addresses emerging issues such as open access, collaboration ... Read more

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  • Using Communication Theory

    An Introduction to Planned Communication

    by Sven Windahl, Benno Signitzer, Jean T Olson ...
    "Using Communication Theory was a rarity in bridging the gap between ideas and practice. It was itself a model of good communication and in its second, revised edition, it is still a most reliable and accessible guide to the lessons that communication theory and research offer to practitioners, especially in planning for change."- Denis McQuail, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam"Using ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • From Education Policy to Education Practice

    Unpacking the Nexus

    Edited by Tine S. Prøitz, Petter Aasen, Wieland Wermke ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book addresses the complex interrelations between education policy and education practice developed under new ways of governance. It illuminates the nexuses of the interrelated fields of education policy and education practice including the characteristics of these relationships.The book offers a selection of cases with varied approaches to the question of how different actors and ... Read more

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  • Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics

    by Prof Carissa Véliz ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics offers a lively, authoritative, up-to-date exploration of pressing ethical issues in our digital world. An international team of philosophers, some pioneers of digital ethics, others experts in related areas of philosophy, give critical appraisals of research in the this fast-growing field and locate it in the broader philosophical context. They push the ... Read more

    $129.59 USD