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Decolonizing science in Latin American art
Projects that bring the ‘hard’ sciences into art are increasingly being exhibited in galleries and museums across the world. In a surge of publications on the subject, few focus on regions beyond Europe and the Anglophone world. Decolonizing Science in Latin American Art assembles a new corpus of art-science projects by Latin American artists, ranging from big-budget collaborations with NAS…
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- 9781787359765
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- xi, 288 p. : ill.
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- 709.8 PAG d
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION
In the continuous search for sustainability, the exchange of diverse perspectives, assumptions, and values is indispensable to environmental protection. Through anthropological and ethnographic analyses, this collection addresses how interests, values, and ideologies affect dialogue and sustainability work. Drawing on studies from three continents – Europe, North America, and South America â€â€¦
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- 9783030780395
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- xxi, 264 p. : ill.
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- 304.2014 SJO a
The linguistics of newswriting
The Linguistics of Newswriting focuses on text production in journalistic media as both a socially relevant field of language use and as a strategic field of applied linguistics. The book discusses and paves the way for scientific projects in the emergÂing field of linguistics of newswriting. From empirical micro and theoretical macro perspectives, strategies and practices of research developm…
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- 9789027271389
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- xiiii, 317 p. : ill.
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- 302.2 PER t
Adaptation in the age of media convergence
This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies. The contributions take the most prominent methods within the field to offer reconsiderations of theoretical concepts and practices in participatory culture, transmedia franchises, and new media adaptations. The authors discuss phenomena ranging from mash-ups of novels and Yo…
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- 10
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- 9789048534012
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- 232 p.
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- 700.457 FEH a
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy : Care and community in Milan and beyond
‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and spaces beyond.Ageing with Smartpho…
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- 9781787359710
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- 188p. ; ill.
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- Ageing with Smartphones
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- 305.260945211 SHI a
A New Science for Future : Climate Impact Modeling and the Quest for Digital …
Building on concepts from Science & Technology Studies, Simon David Hirsbrunner investigates practices and infrastructures of computer modeling and science communication in climate impact research. The book characterizes how scientists calculate future climate risks in computer models and scenarios, but also how they circulate their insights and make them accessible and comprehensible to others…
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- 9783839452653
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- 186p. ; ill.
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- 551.5 SIM a
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media
Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities.As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, how does it affect their sense of self and others? As they define and redefine their identities through engagements with technology, what are the implications for their experi…
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- 9780262524834
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- ix, 216 p.: ill
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- 302.2310835 BUC y
Social media in northern Chile : posting the extraordinarily ordinary
Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospiceños – express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the na…
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- 9781910634592
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- xii, 178p.: ill.
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- 302.2310983 SOC h
The public service media and public service internet manifesto
This book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials.The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politi…
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- 9781914386299
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- 127 p.
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- 004.678 PUB p
Opposing democracy in the digital age : the Yellow Shirts in Thailand
Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age is about why ordinary people in a democratizing state oppose democracy and how they leverage both traditional and social media to do so. Aim Sinpeng focuses on the people behind popular, large-scale antidemocratic movements that helped bring down democracy in 2006 and 2014 in Thailand. The yellow shirts (PAD—People’s Alliance for Democracy) that are the…
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- 13
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- 9780472128563
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- xiii, 270 p.
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- 322.4209593 SIN o
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