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Becoming citizens in a changing world : IEA International Civic and Citizensh…
This open access book presents the results from the second cycle of the IEA International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2016). Using data from 24 countries in Asia, Europe and Latin America, the study investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. It also responds to th…
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- 9783319739632
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- xxi, 243p. : ill.
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- 371.26 BEC b
Preserving and exhibiting media art : challenges and perspectives
This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the emergence of time-based media such as film, video and digital technology, artists have used them to experiment with their potential. The resulting artworks, with their basis in rap…
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- 9789089642912
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- 428 p.
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- Framing Film
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- 776.075 PRE p
Computation and the humanities: towards an oral history of digital humanities
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its discipli…
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- 9783319201696
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- 285 p.; 22 cm.
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing
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- 384.648 NYH c
Fashion, history, museums
The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion curating and exhibitions, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices. Comparing and contrasting exhibitions from different museums and decades – from the Paris Exposition Unive…
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- 9781350048997
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- 746.92 PET f
IEA international computer and information literacy study 2018 assessment fra…
This open-access book presents the assessment framework for IEA’s International Computer an Information Literacy Study (ICILS) 2018, which is designed to assess how well students are prepared for study, work and life in a digital world. The study measures international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL): their ability to use computers to investigate, create, pa…
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- 9783030193898
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- vi, 74p. : ill.
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- 028.7 INT i
Deletion phenomena in comparative constructions: English comparatives in a cr…
This book provides a new analysis for the syntax of comparatives, focusing on various deletion phenomena affecting the subclause. In particular, the proposed account shows that Comparative Deletion is merely a surface phenomenon that can be drawn back to the overtness of the comparative operator and the availability of lower copies of a movement chain, and it is thus subject to both language-in…
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- 9783961100842
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- 252 p.; 22 cm.
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- Open Generative Syntax; Volume 3
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- 417.7 BAC d
The social Life of anti-terrorism laws
This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the »war on terror«, namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the re-moralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in which the trans-nationalisation of the »war on terror« has affected notions of »the dangerous other« in different p…
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- 9783899429640
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- 341.67 SOS t
Accountability in public policy partnerships
Public-private partnerships have become an important tool for delivering essential public goods, but critics fear that they erode public accountability. Making partnerships more accountable requires a clear understanding of what accountability means for partnerships and which mechanisms can be used to strengthen it. Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships develops a new model of accountabi…
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- 9780230290617
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- xiii, 264p. : ill.
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- 352.34 STE a
The Datafication of education
"This paper considers the social value of anonymity in online university student communities, through the presentation of research which tracked the final year of life of the social media application Yik Yak. Yik Yak was an anonymous, geosocial mobile application launched in 2013 which, at its peak in 2014, was used by around two million students in the US and UK. The research we report here is…
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- 130 p.; 22 cm.
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- 370.21 JAR d
Spatial and temporal dimensions for legal history : Research Experiences and …
"The spatiotemporal conjunction is a fundamental aspect of the juridical reflection on the historicity of law. Despite the fact that it seems to represent an issue directly connected with the question of where legal history is heading today, it still has not been the object of a focused inquiry. Against this background, the book’s proposal consists in rethinking key confluences related to thi…
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- 978394773056
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- 300 p.; 23 cm.
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- Global Perspectives on Legal History
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- 901 SPA s
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