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Libraries driving access to knowledge
This book is a must for librarians with international interest in access to knowledge. It includes a collection of 15 chapters written by authors from all over the world and covers different approaches to the vital role of libraries driving access to knowledge. There are chapters that offer solutions and ideas to enable libraries to become the knowledge engine in society. Other chapters discuss…
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- 9783110263121
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- 402p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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- IFLA publications, 151
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- 021.2 LAU l
3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology
This open access peer-reviewed volume was inspired by the UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology International Workshop held at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia in November 2016. Content is based on, but not limited to, the work presented at the workshop which was dedicated to 3D recording and interpretation for maritime archaeology. The volume consists of contributions from …
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- 9783030036355
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- xii, 237p.: ill.
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- 930.102804 McC t
Mobilizing labour for the global cofee market
Coffee has been grown on Java for the commercial market since the early eighteenth century, when the Dutch East India Company began buying from peasant producers in the Priangan highlands. What began as a commercial transaction, however, soon became a system of compulsory production. This book shows how the Dutch East India Company mobilised land and labour, why they turned to force cultivation…
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- 9789048527144
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- 413p.: ill.
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- 950 BRE m
Digital objects, digital subjects : interdisciplinary perspectives on capital…
This book explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists a…
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- 9781912656103
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- iv, 242p. : ill.
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- 303.4834 DIG g
Cultural crowdfunding : platform capitalism, labour and globalization
"This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (an…
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- 9781912656417
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- vii, 118p. : ill.
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- 338.4730223 CUL c
Critical theory of communication : new readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, …
"This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of th…
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- 9781911534075
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- iv, 230p. : ill.
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- 301.01 FUC c
Collaborative production in the creative industries
"In recent years research into creative labour and cultural work has usually addressed the politics of production in these fields, but the sociotechnical and aesthetic dimensions of collaborative creative work have been somewhat overlooked. This book aims to address this gap. Through case studies that range from TV showrunning to independent publishing, from the film industry to social media pl…
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- 9781911534310
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- vii, 231p. : ill.
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- 338.477 COL c
The big data agenda : data ethics and critical data studies
"This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, fo…
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- 9781911534754
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- vi, 148p. : ill.
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- 005.7 RIC b
Artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things : UK policy opportunities …
"Through algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), objects and digital services now demonstrate new skills they did not have before, right up to replacing human activity through pre-programming or by making their own decisions. As part of the internet of things, AI applications are already widely used today, for example in language processing, image recognition and the tracking and processin…
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- 9781911534846
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- 27p. : ill.
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- 384.33 BUN a
Developing educators for the digital age : a framework for capturing knowledg…
"Evaluating skills and knowledge capture lies at the cutting edge of contemporary higher education where there is a drive towards increasing evaluation of classroom performance and use of digital technologies in pedagogy. Developing Educators for the Digital Age is a book that provides a narrative account of teacher development geared towards the further usage of technologies (including iPads, …
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- 9781911534679
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- vii, 210p. : ill.
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- 371.3344678 BRE d
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