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Open data protection : study on legal barriers to open data sharing - data pr…
This study analyses legal barriers to data sharing in the context of the Open Research Data Pilot, which the European Commission is running within its research framework programme Horizon2020. In the first part of the study, data protection issues are analysed. The main focus is on the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and its implementation in selected EU Member States. Additionally, the up…
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- 9783863953348
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- 260 p.
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- 340 WIE o
Prehistoric myths in modern political philosophy
This book looks at how modern philosophers pass on myths about prehistory.Why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, and the primordial nature of inequality and war are popular topics in political philosophy, but are they being used as more than just illustrative examples? Does the best available evidenc…
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- 9780748678662
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- 272 p.; 22 cm.
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- 350 WID p
making of Islamic heritage: Muslim pasts and heritage presents
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and ho…
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Working the Phones
Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2017*Over a million people in the UK work in call centres, and the phrase has become synonymous with low-paid and high stress work, dictatorial supervisors and an enforced dearth of union organisation. However, rarely does the public have access to the true picture of what goes on in these institutions. For Working the Phone…
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- 9781786800145
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- 338.142 WOO w
Performing the digital: performativity and performance studies in digital cul…
How is performativity shaped by digital media – and how do performance practices themselves reflect and alter techno-social configurations? Performing the Digital inquires into the technological terms and conditions of performance and performance studies, and maps and theorizes the registers of performance at work in digital cultures. The contributions range from the performativity of algorit…
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- 9783837633559
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- 1 electronic resource (300 pages )
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- 709.040755 BEY p
Participatory reading in late-medieval England
This book explores how modern media practices can illuminate participatory reading in England from the late-fourteenth to the early-sixteenth centuries. Nonlinear apprehension, immersion and embodiment are practices intimately familiar to readers of Wikipedia, players of video games and users of multi-touch mobile devices. But far from being unique to digital media, they have clear analogues in…
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- 9781526118004
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- 820.9001 BLA p
Medieval empires and the culture of competition: literary duels at Islamic an…
Shows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle AgesA probing inquiry into medieval court struggles, this book shows the relationship between intellectual conflict and the geopolitics of empire. It examines the Persian Buyids’ takeover of the great Arab caliphate in Iraq, the counter-Crusade under Saladin, and the literature of soverei…
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- 9781474425223
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- viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm
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Modernism as Institution
Anyone who studies the history of modern art—in art museums, in the classroom, in art historical handbooks or specialist surveys—will soon be aware of a certain recurrent pattern governing the selection of objects and forming a certain type of narrative where the history of modern art is presented as a variety of different -isms that dissolve into each other in the coherent sequence that co…
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TransCoding: from "Highbrow Art" to participatory culture : social media - ar…
Between 2014 and 2017, the artistic research project "TransCoding – From 'Highbrow Art' to Participatory Culture" encouraged creative participation in multimedia art via social media. Based on the artworks that emerged from the project, Barbara Lüneburg investigates authorship, authority, motivational factors, and aesthetics in participatory art created with the help of web 2.0 technology. T…
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- 9783837641080
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- 200 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
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Touring Pacific cultures
edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.
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- 9781921862441
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- xix, 457 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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