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Meaning Systems eBook Series

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  • Upside-Down Gods

    Gregory Bateson's World of Difference

    by Peter Harries-Jones ...
    Series series Meaning Systems
    This intellectual biography covers the trajectory of Bateson’s career, from his anthropological work in Bali alongside his wife, Margaret Mead, to his contributions to family therapy in the United States, and to studies of recursion as a feature of communication patterns in both the human and in the animal world. Layers of feedback with their many differing contexts, highlight the presence of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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  • The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

    A Critical History of Social Media

    by Jose van Dijck ...
    Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Emergence

    The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software

    by Steven Johnson ...
    In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKA VOICE LITERARY SUPPLEMENT TOP 25 FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARAN ESQUIRE MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARExplaining wh... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Bursts

    The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We Do, from Your E-mail to Bloody Crusades

    by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi ...
    A revolutionary new theory showing how we can predict human behavior-from a radical genius and bestselling authorCan we scientifically predict our future? Scientists and pseudo scientists have been pursuing this mystery for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years. But now, astonishing new research is revealing patterns in human behavior previously thought to be purely random. Precise, orderly, ... Read more

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  • 18 Rules of Community Engagement

    by Angela Connor ...
    A study of more than 100 businesses with online communities found that 35% had less than 100 members and less than 25% had more than 1,000 members. The consultant's recommendation who conducted the study was "Put someone who has experience running an online community in charge of the project." Here's your chance to learn from someone with experience. In "18 Ways to Engage Users Online," Angela ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Engine of Complexity

    Evolution as Computation

    by John Mayfield ...
    The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and, more recently, management science and economics. In this book, John E. Mayfield elegantly synthesizes core concepts from multiple disciplines to offer a new approach to understanding how evolution works and how complex organisms, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Introducing Baudrillard

    A Graphic Guide

    by Chris Horrocks ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007. Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France's most subtle and powerful theorists. But his provocative style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of promoting a ... Read more

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  • Tweeting to Power

    The Social Media Revolution in American Politics

    by Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Online social media are changing the face of politics in the United States. Beginning with a strong theoretical foundation grounded in political, communications and psychology literature, Tweeting to Power examines the effect of online social media on how people come to learn, understand and engage in politics. Gainous and Wagner propose that platforms such as Facebook and Twitter offer the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks

    Edited by Andrea Galeotti, Brian Rogers, Yann Bramoullé ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks represents the frontier of research into how and why networks they form, how they influence behavior, how they help govern outcomes in an interactive world, and how they shape collective decision making, opinion formation, and diffusion dynamics. From a methodological perspective, the contributors to this volume devote attention to theory, field ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • The Good Life in a Technological Age

    Edited by Philip Brey, Adam Briggle, Edward Spence ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technology on human well-being? Bringing together scholars from a cross-section of disciplines, this volume combines an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Giving Voice

    Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality

    by Meryl Alper ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    How communication technologies meant to empower people with speech disorders—to give voice to the voiceless—are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.Mobile technologies are often hailed as a way to “give voice to the voiceless.” Behind the praise, though, are beliefs about technology as a gateway to opportunity and voice as a metaphor for agency and self-representation. In Giving ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Business as an Instrument for Societal Change

    In Conversation with the Dalai Lama

    by Sander Tideman ...
    Business as an Instrument for Societal Change: In Conversation with the Dalai Lamais the result of two decades of research and dialogue with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other leaders in business, government, science and education. Author Sander Tideman, a lawyer and banker who has maintained a friendship with the Dalai Lama over all these years, presents a practical framework and methodology ... Read more

    $48.99 USD