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Understanding energy innovation : learning from smart grid experiments
This open access book uses smart grids to explore and better understand energy innovation, from a social science perspective. Understanding Energy Innovation has four core themes—networks, nodes, narratives and nostalgia—and each chapter tackles a theme, using case studies from Australia and Europe. Energy innovation is currently occurring at a rapid pace, in response to a host of problems …
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- 9789811662539
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- XI, 101 p
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- 621.31 HEA u
Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that inf…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003111474
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- 308 p.
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- 507.105 KNO k
Everyday automation : experiencing and anticipating emerging technologies
This Open Access book brings the experiences of automation as part of quotidian life into focus. It asks how, where and when automated technologies and systems are emerging in everyday life across different global regions? What are their likely impacts in the present and future? How do engineers, policy makers, industry stakeholders and designers envisage artificial intelligence (AI) and automa…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003170884
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- 250 p.
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- 303.483 EVE e
The philosophy of online manipulation
Are we being manipulated online? If so, is being manipulated by online technologies and algorithmic systems notably different from human forms of manipulation? And what is under threat exactly when people are manipulated online? This volume provides philosophical and conceptual depth to debates in digital ethics about online manipulation. The contributions explore the ramifications of our in…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003205425
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- 424 p.
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- 302.231 PHI p
Videogames and agency
Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is discussed by designers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. What can we learn from existing theories around agency? How …
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003298786
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- 226 p.
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- 794.8 BOD v
Leading change in gender and diversity in higher education from margins to ma…
This edited book provides international insights and recommendations around topics of gender and diversity in higher education linking to larger societal goals of improving equality. Within each of the four sections – Student recruitment and retention, Student experience, Faculty and staff experiences and culture, and Higher education cultures of teaching and research – topics unpack and…
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- Ed. 1
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- 9781003286943
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- 348 p.
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- 378 LEA l
Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …
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- 9783030785895
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- xv, 283p. : ill.
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- 810.93561 SWE p
Big data in organizations and the role of human resource management : a compl…
Big data are changing the way we work. This book conveys a theoretical understanding of big data and the related interactions on a socio-technological level as well as on the organizational level. Big data challenge the human resource department to take a new role. An organization’s new competitive advantage is its employees augmented by big data.
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- 9783631719046
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- ix, 237p ;ill.
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- 658.403801 MSC b
Causality in Policy Studies: a Pluralist Toolbox
This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a methodologically pluralistic approach to policy studies. Each chapter clarifies the research question that each technique can answer, the research design and data treatment th…
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- 9783031129827
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- X, 274p ; ill.
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- Texts in Quantitative Political Analysis
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- 320 CAU c
Digital technology and the practices of humanities research
This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …
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- 9781783748419
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- xi, 267p. : ill.
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- 001.3072 DIG d
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