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Thumb Culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society
Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles the fascinating approaches and new insights of leadin…
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- 9783899424034
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- 621.38456 GLO t
Learning from the field: innovating China's higher education system
edited by Ronnie Vernooy ... [et al.].
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- 9788175966017
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- xix, 227 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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- 378.51 LEA l
Gender in science and technology: interdisciplinary approaches
What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the appli…
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- 9783837624342
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- 1 electronic resource (262 pages)
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- 303.483 GEN g
Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance
‘Transgovernance: Advancing Sustainability Governance’ analyses the question what recent and ongoing changes in the relations between politics, science and media – together characterized as the emergence of a knowledge democracy – may imply for governance for sustainable development, on global and other levels of societal decision making, and the other way around: How can the discussion…
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- 9783642280092
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- 344.046 MEU t
Promoting Social Dialogue in European Organizations: Human Resources Manageme…
This volume focuses on describing the social dialogue system in organizations from an Human Resources Management perspective. Based on the NEIRE model for industrial relations, key factors are determined contributing to creative social dialogue in European organizations. Actual data from surveys and interviews from more than 700 CEO and HR managers in eleven European countries give insights in …
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- 9783319086057
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- 358.30094 EUW p
Thinking in action
Action can only be spontaneous and impulsive if not guided by contemplation; contemplation, on the other hand, may only be luxurious playfulness if not either purposed - or suitable - to motivate action. This volume seeks to prove what may seem self-evident to common sense, but adhering to common sense is never pointless nor excessive. Next to this, Thinking in Action is the offspring of friend…
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- 9786188372900
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- 138 p.; 22 cm.
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- Hellenic-Serbian Philosophical Dialogue Series; Vol. I
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- 153.42 EVA
Origins of human language: continuities and discontinuities with nonhuman pri…
This book proposes a detailed picture of the continuities and ruptures between communication in primates and language in humans. It explores a diversity of perspectives on the origins of language, including a fine description of vocal communication in animals, mainly in monkeys and apes, but also in birds, the study of vocal tract anatomy and cortical control of the vocal productions in monkeys…
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- 9783631737262 (hardcover)
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- 365 pages ; 22 cm.
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- Speech production and perception ; vol. 4
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- 401 ORI o
Research universities in Africa
This book is certainly different from previous publications in several respects. First, it is the only book to include an analysis of eight African universities based on the full 15 years of empirical data collected by the project. It is true that the data are available in the report ‘An Empirical Overview of Emerging Research Universities in Africa 2001-2015’ and as open data on the web. …
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- 9781928331889
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- xiv, 293 p.; 24 cm.
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- 378.6 CLO r
Consumer data research
Big Data collected by customer-facing organisations – such as smartphone logs, store loyalty card transactions, smart travel tickets, social media posts, or smart energy meter readings – account for most of the data collected about citizens today. As a result, they are transforming the practice of social science. Consumer Big Data are distinct from conventional social science data not only …
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- 9781787353886
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- 198 .p
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- 658.8342 CON c
Studying diversity, migration and urban multiculture
Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what…
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- 9781787354784
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- XIII, 200 p
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- 301.01 BER s
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