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Data Ethics and Digital Privacy in Learning Health Systems for Palliative Medicine
Informing both research and practice, Data Ethics and Digital Privacy in Learning Health Systems for Palliative Medicine brings attention to an important issue that lies at the intersection of medicine, science, and digital technology and communication.
Creating Culture Through Media and Communication
Sponsored by the American Sociological Association Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS), Creating Culture Through Media and Communication addresses the media and communications challenges of our time.
Technology vs. Government
Technology vs. Government examines why government fails at technology acquisitions, innovation, and implementation, the impact on people, and the future opportunities and implications for government service, administration and policy.
Geo Spaces of Communication Research
The volume brings together scholars from across the Americas to address the complex evolution of political and policy media spaces as they are studied from a range of perspectives.
Networks, Hacking and Media - CITAMS@30
Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), this volume celebrates the section's thirtieth anniversary. It looks at the history of the section, reviews some of its most important themes, and sets the agenda for future discussion.
eHealth
This special volume contributes to the rapidly growing body of eHealth research, presenting a selection of multidisciplinary studies on the role and impacts of technology and the Internet in health communication, healthcare delivery, and patient self-management.
Media and Power in International Contexts
Media and Power is sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology (CITAMS). This volume contributes phenomenological and epistemic knowledge of the intersection of media and various forms of power, addressing the relationships between media and gender, race, ethnicity, and national identity.
Happiness: The 40% Solution
How much of our happiness do we have control over? It seems that external forces are responsible for how happy we are, or rather, how unhappy we are. From getting cut off in traffic to a shocking health diagnosis, everyone has experienced events that threaten to diminish their happiness. What if we could bring more happiness into our lives, at no financial cost? Discover how you can increase your happiness by up to 40 percent. With a dash of humour and wit, Ron Morris offers practical ideas rooted in positive psychology that you can use right now to increase your level of happiness. Find out how your character strengths, social media, and money affect your happiness. Employ simple strategies involving gratitude, savouring, and kindness to increase your happiness. If you have suffered trauma, depression, anxiety, or just the day-to-day stresses of life, this book is for you. Knowledge is power, but actions get results. Start increasing your happiness today.
Digital Work in the Planetary Market
Understanding the embedded and disembedded, material and immaterial, territorialized and deterritorialized natures of digital work. Many jobs today can be done from anywhere. Digital technology and widespread internet connectivity allow almost anyone, anywhere, to connect to anyone else to communicate and exchange files, data, video, and audio. In other words, work can be deterritorialized at a planetary scale. This book examines the implications for both work and workers when work is commodified and traded beyond local labor markets. Going beyond the usual “world is flat” globalization discourse, contributors look at both the transformation of work itself and the wider systems, networks...
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology
Digital media are normal. But this was not always true. For a long time, lay discourse, academic exhortations, pop culture narratives, and advocacy groups constructed new Information and communications technologies (ICTs) as exceptional. Whether they were believed to be revolutionary, dangerous, rife with opportunity, or other-worldly, these tools and technologies were framed as extraordinary. But digital media are now mundane, thoroughly embedded - and often unquestioned - in everyday life. Digital ICTs are enmeshed in health and wellness, work and organizations, elections, capital flows, intimate relationships, social movements, and even our own identities. And although the study of these ...
