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Needs Assessment, 2nd Ed
The idea of collecting citizen input before making decisions that would affect the lives of the citizens is fundamental to a democratic society where the people in power are supposed to serve the citizens. Collecting this information becomes crucial when it is the citizens money that would be spent by those in power. Needs Assessment: A Systematic Approach to Data Collection provides a road map for collecting citizen input whereby the input is reliably collected and honestly used, especially in the age of the connected citizen who has numerous digital ways of making oneself heard. As is the case in any scientific method, this book offers a treatment that can be conducted by anyone who is able to follow the directions in the book correctly. This makes the process repeatable and testable, both of which are critical to the scientific method. For the recreation practitioner, this book would show the best practices of collecting citizen data and, most important, allow the recreation professional to recognize the unscientific attempts at citizen data collection and be wary of information generated by less reliable methods.
Digital Music
Today there are talking toasters, cars that start;themselves using voice recognition, and telephones that use voice commands.
Alien Technology
This book explores the consequences of technological alienation on individuals and communities in the modern time. We have already started witnessing situations in which those who are alienated from technologies are at the mercy of those who are ?in the k Preface The Law of Technological Alienation The Cup Holder on My PC is Broken Maybe My Monitor`s Out of Ink Computer Problems? Don?t Go Nuts I Can Fix This I Am Glad I Don?t Know Those Who Know Are in Control What Do I Need to Do?
India on the Western Screen
An insightful analysis and impact assessment of the ways in which India is portrayed on different screens in the west This book examines the nuances of multiple images--cinema, TV, computer, and smartphones--that feed into the making of a new Indian narrative and showcase an India that is very different from the unilinear notion that used to exist a few decades ago. It elaborates on the critical role of the impressions formed in redefining how the Indian diaspora is imagined and received in the West, which in turn impacts everyday experiences of Indians living there. Building on his earlier book India through the Western Lens: Creating National Images in Film (SAGE 1999), which focused primarily on films, Mitra expands his latest study to new media. Effectively, the book highlights the West's perception of India based on what is being projected through visual media.
India Through the Western Lens
Ananda Mitra investigates the ways in which films made by westerners about India and its peoples affect the way in which westerners treat those same Indian people when they emigrate to western nations.
Television and Popular Culture in India
This book considers Indian television as a cultural form with the specific role of producing Indian popular culture. Using methods developed within the cultural studies tradition, the book conducts a textual analysis of a television serial, the Mahabharat. The analysis qualitatively examines the serial, concentrating on its signifying practices and narrative strategies specific to television. Conclusions drawn about the state of television in India and its effectiveness in producing a national image are then related to the political, social and cultural movements in India.
Modern Day Surveillance Ecosystem and Impacts on Privacy
The notion of surveillance has become increasingly more crucial in public conversation as new tools of observation are obtained by many different players. The traditional notion of “overseeing” is being increasingly replaced by multi-level surveillance where many different actors, at different levels of hierarchy, from the child surveilling the parent to the state surveilling its citizens, are entering the surveillance theater. This creates a unique surveillance ecosystem where the individual is observed not only as an analog flesh-and-blood body moving through real spaces such as a shopping mall, but also tracked as a data point where the volume of data is perpetually and permanently ex...
Meetings With My Master
A young American woman leaves the United States to train in India and become a yogic nun and meditation teacher for Ananda Marga (Path of Bliss). After waiting for years, she meets her spiritual master, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti. In a series of meetings, he guides her transformation. By sharing her meetings with the master, the reader gains insight into the miraculous and transformative power of the guru. The honored mystical path comes alive in modern times and brings hope that this ancient tradition is strong and attainable in the present age.
