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Aftermath
The consequences of the financial crisis may be uncertain, but are sure to reach deep into the body politic, civil society, welfare systems, and reform. This collection of essays by leading international sociologists and social scientists explores the likely outcomes and consequences
Sociología de las pantallas
L'objectiu de Psicologia i salut: una visió integradora dels conflictes psicològics consisteix a mostrar al lector, d'una manera pràctica i accessible, alguns dels problemes que usualment es presenten en el marc de la psicologia clínica, i mostrar tres aspectes que, segons el nostre paper, són fonamentals: el marc teòric referencial del terapeuta avaluador, els instruments d'avaluació i els recursos d'intervenció terapèutica.
Piracy Cultures
Piracy CulturesEditorial Introduction MANUEL CASTELLS 1 University of Southern California GUSTAVO CARDOSO Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) What are "Piracy Cultures"? Usually, we look at media consumption starting from a media industry definition. We look at TV, radio, newspapers, games, Internet, and media content in general, all departing from the idea that the access to such content is made available through the payment of a license fee or subscription, or simply because its either paid or available for free (being supported by advertisements or under a "freemium" business model). That is, we look at content and the way people interact with it within a given system of thought that ...
Movements of Movements
Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global. Rethinking Ou...
The Social in the Global
Applies sociological concepts to international relations by examining how influential social ideas contribute to global governance.
China's Futures
China's Futures cuts through the sometimes confounding and unfounded speculation of international pundits and commentators to provide readers with an important yet overlooked set of complex views concerning China's future: views originating within China itself. Daniel Lynch seeks to answer the simple but rarely asked question: how do China's own leaders and other elite figures assess their country's future? Many Western social scientists, business leaders, journalists, technocrats, analysts, and policymakers convey confident predictions about the future of China's rise. Every day, the business, political, and even entertainment news is filled with stories and commentary not only on what is h...
Citizenship, Activism and the City
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The invisible and the impossible -- Concrete life -- Note -- 1. What we talk about when we talk about Occupy: Politics and citizenship in crisis -- Occupy as politics -- Occupy as a story -- Occupy as art -- Occupy as grammar -- The occupied city -- 2. Radical politics and the 'post-political' critique -- The unbearable whiteness of the post-political critique -- Solidarity and intersectionality -- More, better democracy? -- Notes -- 3. Sad, sick and diva citizens: Resistance, refusal and urban space -- Marginalization and suffering in the city -- Diva citizenship, utopian spaces and the politics of refusal -- Art, play and the city: Acts of citizenship and healing -- Conclusion -- 4. The arc of politics -- The politics of critical urban theory -- Anarchist theory and the politics of the inhabited city -- The constitutionalism of invisible, impossible politics -- Note -- References -- Index
The Network Society
This volume explores the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its policy dimension, ranging from the knowledge economic, based in technology and innovation, to the organizational reform and modernization in the public sector, focusing also the media and communication policies. The Network Society is our society, a society made of individuals, businesses and state operating from the local, national and into the international arena.
Artificial Intelligence and Playable Media
This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life. From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute to our sense of self, while also harnessing our data, tightening our bonds with computation and realigning play with the demands of network logic. Author Eric Freedman examines a number of popular media forms - from the Sony AIBO robotic dog, video game developer Naughty Dog’s Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises...
Postgrowth Imaginaries
Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine counterhegemonic narratives and radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis of 2008. A number of critical voices worldwide have emphasized that in the context of a finite biosphere, constant economic growth is a biophysical impossibility. The problem is not a lack of growth but rather the globalization of an economic system addicted to constant growth, which destroys the ecological planetary systems that support life on Earth while failing to fulfil its social promises. Post-2008 Spain offers an optimal context to investigate these cultural processes, and this book dem...
