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- Tags: Sociology and anthropology
Understanding Society and Natural Resources
In this edited volume leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds wrestle with social science integration opportunities and challenges. This book explores the growing concern of how best to achieve effective integration of the social…
Arcticness
Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world – or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and…
Tags: Anthropology, Earth Sciences, Environment, Geography, Human geography Society and social sciences, Planning, Social impact of disasters Society and social sciences, Social issues and processes, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, Sociology Society and social sciences, Sociology and anthropology
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…
Tags: Business and Management, Communication Studies, Cultural studies Society and social sciences, Film, Finance, Industry and industrial studies, information and communication industries Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects, Interdisciplinary studies, Media, Media studies Society and social sciences, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, sociology, Sociology and anthropology, Sociology: work and labour The arts, TV and radio Economics
Critical Theory of Communication: New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet
"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…
Tags: Communication studies Society and social sciences, information and interdisciplinary subjects, Interdisciplinary studies, Media studies Society and social sciences, Philosophy, Reference, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, Sociology Humanities, Sociology and anthropology
Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
Tags: Business and Management, Economics, Finance, immigration and emigration Society and social sciences, Migration, Political economy Society and social sciences, Population and demography, Social issues and processes, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, sociology, Sociology and anthropology
Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
Tags: Business and Management, Economics, Finance, immigration and emigration Society and social sciences, Migration, Political economy Society and social sciences, Population and demography, Social issues and processes, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, sociology, Sociology and anthropology
Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections
This volume draws together three core concerns for the social sciences: the senses and embodiment, emotions, and space and place. The chapters engage with intersections between space, sense and emotion through a range of experiences and activities…
Environment in the lives of children and families
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism: An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism
Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into…
Tags: Communication studies Society and social sciences, information and interdisciplinary subjects, Interdisciplinary studies, Media studies Society and social sciences, Philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge Reference, Reference, Social theory Humanities, Society and culture: general, Society and social sciences, sociology, Sociology and anthropology
Making Things Stick: Surveillance Technologies and Mexico’s War on Crime
Prison, Architecture and Humans
Visualising Facebook
Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves…