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The Theater of Electricity Technology and Spectacle in the Late 19th Century
Since the 1880s, electrical energies started circulating in European theaters, generated from fossil fuels in urban power plants. A mysterious...
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Authenticity as Performativity on Social Media
Authenticity is a highly-prized concept on social media, but given the history of the term, has it been adequately scrutinised? This book provides...
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Policing in Smart Societies Reflections on the Abstract Police
Smart societies pose new challenges for police organizations. Demands for more efficiency and effectiveness test police organizations which are often...
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Adolescent Well-Being and ICT Use Social and Policy Implications
In this book, the authors expertly examine the issue of adolescent well-being in the light of their exposure to and use of information and...
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Representations of Poverty in Videogames
This book argues that videogames address contemporary, middle-class anxieties about poverty in the United States. The early chapters consider gaming...
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Transnational Television and Latinx Diasporic Audiences Abrazos Electrónicos in Four Global Cities
This book is based on a mixed-method, longitudinal study of the transmission, production, and reception of Spanish- and Portuguese-language...
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ICT in English Language Education Bridging the Teaching-Learning Divide in South Asia
This book discusses the use of Web 2.0 tools to leverage students’ own use of New Media, which can take learning beyond the classroom. This...
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Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard
This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the...
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Communicating Science and Technology in Society Issues of Public Accountability and Engagement
This volume addresses the engagement between science and society from multiple viewpoints. At a time when trust in experts is being questioned,...
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The Chinese Sharing Economy New Economy Program for Supply-Side Reform
This book explores the social and economic impact of the sharing economy- of taxis, apartments, and other goods and services- in China, and how the...
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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Online Self A Savage Journey into the Heart of Digital Cultures
This volume investigates our dissonant and exuberant existences online. As social media users we know we’re under surveillance, yet we continue to...
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Virtual Realities Case Studies in Immersion and Phenomenology
Virtual Realitiespresents a ground-breaking application of phenomenology as a critical method to explore the impact of immersive media. Specific...
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Indigenous Digital Life The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media
Settler societies habitually frame Indigenous people as ‘a people of the past’—their culture somehow ‘frozen’ in time, their identities tied to...
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Language, Gender and Videogames Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames
This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is...
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Energy Humanities. Current State and Future Directions
This edited book explicitly deals with the energy humanities, summarising existing knowledge in the area and outlining possible future directions for...
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Rethinking Cultural Criticism New Voices in the Digital Age
This edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age. It provides new insights into how critical authority and expertise in a cultural...
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Adoption of LMS in Higher Educational Institutions of the Middle East
This book discusses the adoption of learning management systems (LMS) in higher education institutions. It presents influential predictors that may...
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Social Digitalisation Persistent Transformations Beyond Digital Technology
This book shows how many previously contingent social processes have gradually been re-organised and transformed into entangled processes of...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the ‘digital’ is simultaneously changing Russia and the...
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The Cultural Life of Machine Learning An Incursion into Critical AI Studies
This book brings together the work of historians and sociologists with perspectives from media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and...