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Learning Spaces : Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia
“This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology…The young people who move through these pages are motivated and proud of having had the opportunities that make possible their linking together of historical knowledge and contemporary means of com…
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- 9781922144089
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- XI, 123 p.
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- 371.26 KRA l
Techlash : the future of the socially responsible tech organization
Technology has made human lives incomparably better. Civilization as we know it would utterly collapse without it. However, if not properly managed, technology can and will be systematically abused and misuse and thereby become one of the biggest threats to humankind. This open access book applies proactive crisis management to the management of technology organizations to make them more sustai…
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- 9783030432799
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- xix, 55p. : ill.
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- 658.4038 MIT t
Nuaulu Religious Practices : The frequency and reproduction of rituals in a M…
How religious practices are reproduced has become a major theoretical issue. This work examines data on Nuaulu ritual performances collected over a 30 year period, comparing different categories of event in terms of frequency and periodicity. It seeks to identify the influencing factors and the consequences for continuity. Such an approach enables a focus on related issues: variation in perform…
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- 9789004253452
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- xxviii, 356 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 283
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- 299.9222 ELL n
Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice - Participation, Ter…
Community and participation have become central concepts in the nomination processes surrounding heritage, intersecting time and again with questions of territory. In this volume, anthropologists and legal scholars from France, Germany, Italy and the USA take up questions arising from these intertwined concerns from diverse perspectives: How and by whom were these concepts interpreted and re-in…
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- 9783863952051
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- 315 p.
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- 306.42 BET b
Following the Cap-Figure in Majapahit Temple Reliefs : a new look at the reli…
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields an outstanding contribution to the uniqueness of Majapahit culture.
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- 9789004258655
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- XVII, 397 p.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 280
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- 294.550959828 KIE f
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out : Kids Living and Learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
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- 9780262518543
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- XIX, 419 p.
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- 302.23083 ITO h
Theories of social capital
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine consolidates his position as the world's leading critic of the concept. Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social the…
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- 9781849644426
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- 302 FIN t
Intel trusted execution technology for server platforms : a guide to more sec…
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel TXT) is a new security technology that started appearing on Intel server platforms in 2010. This book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, its purpose, application, advantages, and limitations. This book guides the server administrator / datacenter manager in enabling the technology as well as establishing a launch control policy t…
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- 9781430261490
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- xvii, 156p. : ill.
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- 005.8 FUT i
Sensor technologies : healthcare, wellness, and environmental applications
Sensor Technologies: Healthcare, Wellness and Environmental Applications explores the key aspects of sensor technologies, covering wired, wireless, and discrete sensors for the specific application domains of healthcare, wellness and environmental sensing. It discusses the social, regulatory, and design considerations specific to these domains. The book provides an application-based approac…
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- 9781430260141
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- xxv, 336p. : ill.
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- 681.2 MCG s
Android on x86 : an introduction to optimizing for Intel architecture
Android on x86: an Introduction to Optimizing for Intel® Architecture serves two main purposes. First, it makes the case for adapting your applications onto Intel’s x86 architecture, including discussions of the business potential, the changing landscape of the Android marketplace, and the unique challenges and opportunities that arise from x86 devices. The fundamental idea is that extending…
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- 9781430261315
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- xxvii, 380p. : ill.
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- 004 KRA a
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