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Elections and Social Networks around the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Elections and Social Networks around the World

This book analyzes the role of social networks during electoral campaigns around the world, taking into account the non‐technological particularities (political, electoral, social, economic, cultural) of the media configurations of different countries. Political parties all over the world engage in real virtual battles to appear at the cutting edge of technology. Providing in‐depth case studies from across Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, this book emphasizes the need to study how institutions, culture, and politics shape the processes of technology diffusion in each context. It asks: what are the uses of social networks in election campaigns in different countries...

Digital Presences of Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Digital Presences of Organizations

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A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 470

A Critical Theory for the Anthropocene

This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach. This work explores the idea of ​​an anthropological mutation of political consolidation from a “post-Promethean togetherness”, to creating the capacity to act together. The political thinking of the human condition developed by Hannah Arendt is important here as a resource for thinking about humanity in terms of human adventure. This has three dimensions: hubris, the world and coexistence referring respectively to the logic of profit of the homo oeconomic...

Risk Communication and COVID-19
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

Risk Communication and COVID-19

Risk Communication and COVID-19 explores the “risk communication” responses by national governments to the outbreak and global spread of the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus. The book focuses on 17 country case studies, representing countries all around the world, covering a range of democratic and authoritarian systems, styles of leadership, and political contexts. The chapters analyze communication drawing on a modified risk communication framework to determine what patterns governmental risk communication followed in several areas: messenger attributes, consistency and clarity of communication, communication methods, message attributes, and public trust in government. The book also anal...

Routledge Handbook on Elections in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Routledge Handbook on Elections in the Middle East and North Africa

This Handbook analyzes elections in the Middle East and North Africa and seeks to overcome normative assumptions about the linkage between democracy and elections. Structured around five main themes, contributors provide chapters detailing how their case studies illustrate specific themes within individual country settings. Authors disentangle the various aspects informing elections as a process in the Middle East by taking into account the different contexts where the electoral contest occurs and placing these into a broader comparative context. The findings from this Handbook connect with global electoral developments, empirically demonstrating that there is very little that is “exceptional” about the Middle East and North Africa when it comes to electoral contests. Routledge Handbook on Elections in the Middle East and North Africa is the first book to examine all aspects related to elections in the Middle East and North Africa. Through such comprehensive coverage and systematic analysis, it will be a key resource for students and scholars interested in politics, elections, and democracy in the Middle East and North Africa.

Political Science and Digitalization – Global Perspectives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 293

Political Science and Digitalization – Global Perspectives

Digitalization is not only a new research subject for political science, but a transformative force for the discipline in terms of teaching and learning as well as research methods and publishing. This volume provides the first account of the influence of digitalization on the discipline of political science including contributions from 20 different countries. It presents a regional stocktaking of the challenges and opportunities of digitalization in most world regions.

Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 190

Organizing Smart Buildings and Cities

The United Nations included sustainable cities and communities in its 2030 SDGs. Cities and, on a smaller scale, neighborhoods, building managers and firms are now adopting technologies and information systems to help achieve the energy, economic, social and environmental transition. This volume gathers contributions on the key organizational success factors for this transition. To do so, it analyzes the role of information systems, use of data, and technological assistance solutions from multiple perspectives. The goal is to develop a framework that can successfully apply information systems to organizational and environmental issues for smart cities and smart buildings. Accordingly, the book addresses living-lab experiment evaluation techniques, and provides critical analyses of the role of the environment, context and users’ behavioral responses. In addition, it discusses key questions on the efficient management of resources, need for appropriate IT solutions, and employing co-creation with users to improve planning and organization.

Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 205

Innovations, Reinvented Politics and Representative Democracy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-07
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization. Including a wide and diverse range of alternatives in the organization of groups, campaigning, conducting initiatives and enhancing practices, they not only question the relevance of traditional institutions in representing citizens’ values and interests, but also share a common goal which is precisely – and perhaps paradoxically – to reshape and invigorate representative democracy This book is of key interest to scholars and students of party politics, elections/electoral studies, social movement and democratic innovations and more broadly to comparative politics, political theory and political sociology.

Les mots de l'info
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 140

Les mots de l'info

Apprenez le vocabulaire de l'actualité (niveaux B2 et C1) : plus de 400 mots-clés pour lire la presse et exprimer son opinion. Avec ses 40 fiches classées en 10 domaines (éducation, santé, travail...), le livre propose une méthode progressive aux candidats qui souhaitent se préparer aux examens du DELF B2 ou du DALF C1, comme à tous ceux qui désirent enrichir leur vocabulaire pour comprendre l'actualité en français. Les mots de l'info, ce sont : - 40 sujets d'actualité régulièrement traités par la presse francophone. - De courts articles de presse pour introduire le vocabulaire en contexte. - Des problématiques pour débattre et les arguments essentiels. - Plus de 400 mots-clés indispensables pour exprimer son opinion. - Des définitions rédigées en français facile et illustrées par des exemples. - 200 questions de test avec les corrigés pour vérifier ses connaissances. - Une version interactive des quiz accessible par un lien ou un code QR.

The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The Construction of ‘Ordinariness’ across Media Genres

Departing from the premise that ‘being ordinary’ is brought into the discourse and brought out in the discourse and is thus an interactional achievement, the contributions to this edited volume investigate its construction, reconstruction and deconstruction in media discourse. Ordinariness is perceived as a scalar notion which is conceptualised against the background of both non-ordinariness and extra-ordinariness. The chapters address its strategic construction across media genres (public talk, Prime Minister’s Questions, interview, radio call-in, commenting) and discursive activities (tweets, social media posts) as done in various languages (American English, Austrian German, British English, Chinese, French, Finnish, Hebrew and Japanese) by professional participants (e.g., politicians, journalists, scientists) and by ordinary people participating in media discourse (e.g., ordinary citizens, viewers, members of the audience). Discursive strategies used to bring about (non/extra) ordinariness include small stories, quotations, conversational style, irony, naming and addressing as well as references to the private-public interface.