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Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-15
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

National constitutions allow citizens to exercise full citizenship rights, leading to a growing importance in understanding these laws. This knowledge, more widespread thanks to the ever-growing use of digital networks, allows for more enlightened national citizens in every corner of the world. Constitutional Knowledge and Its Impact on Citizenship Exercise in a Networked Society is a pivotal reference source that analyzes how constitutional awareness occurs in various countries and how citizenship participation is encouraged through the use of digital tools. While highlighting topics such as mobile security, transparency accountability, and constitutional awareness, this publication is ideally designed for professionals, students, academicians, and policymakers seeking current research on citizens' lack of awareness of their rights.

Handbook of Research on Cultural Heritage and Its Impact on Territory Innovation and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 447

Handbook of Research on Cultural Heritage and Its Impact on Territory Innovation and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-13
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Cultural heritage is perceived as the glue that keeps individuals together and makes them feel a part of something larger. It is the past that allows individuals to understand their present and move towards the future. In networked society, it is impossible to think about cultural heritage and its preservation and maintenance without including the digital processes and ICT systems, as well as its impact on territorial innovation. The Handbook of Research on Cultural Heritage and Its Impact on Territory Innovation and Development is a critical and comprehensive reference book that analyzes how preservation and sustainability of cultural heritage occurs in countries, as well as how it contributes to territorial innovation. Moreover, the book examines how technological tools contribute to its preservation and sustainability, as well as its dissemination. Highlighting topics that include public policies, spatial development, and architectural heritage, this book is ideal for cultural heritage professionals, government officials, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Emerging Topics in Management Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 451

Emerging Topics in Management Studies

Presently, Management has witnessed vast advancements, clearly becoming an area of trans and interdisciplinary knowledge. It has widened its scope from traditional business areas – such as marketing, strategy, management control, accounting and finance, taxation or operations – to other spaces, namely deepening bridges with behavioural sciences, engineering, health, or energy, fostering both quantitative models and methods. Management thinking at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC) has followed these trends, enabling students with the essential skills supporting the practice of the profession, both in business and public sector organisations. This book features t...

Managing Screen Time in an Online Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Managing Screen Time in an Online Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-22
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The number of hours individuals spend in front of screens, such as smartphones, televisions, computers, and tablets, is enormous in today’s society because screen time plays a very important role in work contexts and an even more significant role in social interaction and cultural consumption. This almost compulsive relationship with screens is more evident in children and young people and can have a lasting impact on how a society approaches screen time. Managing Screen Time in an Online Society is a collection of innovative research on how screen time seduces the person to stay in the online interaction leaving her/him in a state of alienation from her/his face-to-face context. While highlighting the methods and applications of time management in the context of screen time, especially during leisure, social interaction, and cultural consumption, this book covers topics including media consumption, psychology, and social networks. This book is ideal for researchers, students, and professionals seeking emerging information on the relationship between online interaction and personal relationships.

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 8356

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-20
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In recent years, our world has experienced a profound shift and progression in available computing and knowledge sharing innovations. These emerging advancements have developed at a rapid pace, disseminating into and affecting numerous aspects of contemporary society. This has created a pivotal need for an innovative compendium encompassing the latest trends, concepts, and issues surrounding this relevant discipline area. During the past 15 years, the Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology has become recognized as one of the landmark sources of the latest knowledge and discoveries in this discipline. The Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition is a 10-v...

Philosophising Experiences and Vision of the Female Body, Mind, and Soul: Historical Context and Contemporary Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Philosophising Experiences and Vision of the Female Body, Mind, and Soul: Historical Context and Contemporary Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-23
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Much of our understanding of the world, our societies, and ourselves rests on theories and knowledge generated predominantly by men of certain nationalities and economic classes. This male-dominated and culturally specific theorizing and knowledge have generally resulted in the exclusion of women and other groups from the process of formal theorizing and knowledge building. Feminism argues that the male-dominated knowledge represents a skewed perception of reality and is only partial knowledge. Feminism is a generalized, wide-ranging system of ideas about social life and human experience developed from a woman-centered perspective. It treats women as the central subjects in the investigative...

Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Impact of Immigration and Xenophobia on Development in Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-25
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Human movement has an influence on the socio-economic dynamics of people, regions, and countries. The schisms between host and immigrants impact how host countries utilize immigrant skills and expertise to benefit their economies. However, immigrants are impacted by negative diplomatic relations between countries that limit the free movement of people and the welfare of immigrants. In association, this brings about social challenges such as Afrophobia, racism, xenophobia, hatred, and violence within these countries. While these challenges are deeply rooted across the world, Africa has its own unique challenges. Still struggling with massive underdevelopment, Africa needs to remove all the ne...

Open and Social Learning in Impact Communities and Smart Territories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Open and Social Learning in Impact Communities and Smart Territories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-08-24
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Impact communities are the places where individuals gather to contribute to the transformation of their territories by disseminating knowledge. As such, it is vital to research the use of open and social learning in contributing to the evolution of impact communities and smart territories. Open and Social Learning in Impact Communities and Smart Territories is an essential reference source that discusses the learning processes in impact communities and in smart territories through case studies and other research methods. Featuring research on topics such as learning processes, smart communities, and social entrepreneurship, this book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, managers, academicians, and researchers seeking coverage on the concept of impact communities and smart territories.

Tools, Strategies, and Practices for Modern and Accountable Public Sector Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Tools, Strategies, and Practices for Modern and Accountable Public Sector Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-11-15
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The recent global financial and economic crisis has had surprising effects on several economies worldwide. This global event has promoted the discussion on how ethical, transparent, and rigorous the accountability of public sector institutions is. However, public manager accountability is translated into a vision that goes beyond its sphere of activity, demanding information on how public resources have been managed based on the maximization of social welfare and sustainable development. Tools, Strategies, and Practices for Modern and Accountable Public Sector Management is an essential reference source that discusses the process behind how public resources are managed as well as how they are coordinated to achieve collective success. Featuring research on topics such as corporate responsibility, fiscal accountability, and public administration, this book is ideally designed for researchers, managers, financial authorities, auditors, public managers, public administrators, regulatory authorities, accountants, professionals, and students involved with the accountability and reform of public management in local governments.