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Community Engagement 2.0?: Dialogues on the Future of the Civic in the Disrupted University
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 133

Community Engagement 2.0?: Dialogues on the Future of the Civic in the Disrupted University

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

As higher education is disrupted by technology and takes place less and less on campus, what does meaningful community engagement look like? How can it continue to enrich learning? In Community Engagement 2.0? , Crabill and Butin convene a dialogue: five writers set out theoretical and practical considerations, five more discuss the issues raised.

Scholars in COVID Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Scholars in COVID Times

Scholars in COVID Times documents the new and innovative forms of scholarship, community collaboration, and teaching brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this volume, Melissa Castillo Planas and Debra A. Castillo bring together a diverse range of texts, from research-based studies to self-reflective essays, to reexamine what it means to be a publicly engaged scholar in the era of COVID. Between social distancing, masking, and remote teaching—along with the devastating physical and emotional tolls on individuals and families—the disruption of COVID-19 in academia has given motivated scholars an opportunity (or necessitated them) to reconsider how they interact with and inspire stude...

Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 938

Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-07-31
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

"This book explores the origin, structure, purpose, and function of socially interactive technologies known as social software"--Provided by publisher.

Transformation in Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 498

Transformation in Teaching

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Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2409

Social Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-11-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Uncovers the growing and expanding phenomenon of human behavior, social constructs, and communication in online environments.

Personal Media and Everyday Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Personal Media and Everyday Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-26
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced individualization and rationalization of the lifeworld, discussing the dramatic mediatization of daily life and calling on theorists such as McLuhan, Habermas and Goffman.

Policy and Political Theory in Trade Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Policy and Political Theory in Trade Practice

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  • Published: 2014-05-30
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  • Publisher: Springer

The book seeks to untangle the complexities of how America and the West work within emerging markets, addressing the political and diplomatic implications of investment alongside emerging theory within IPE and its implications for the USA.

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism, homophobia and a violence that has for decades resisted all attempts to tame it. Cashmore and Cleland examine football's dark side: the unpleasant, sleazy and downright nasty aspects of the sport.

Global Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Global Modernity

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-07
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book introduces the concept of global modernity as a paradigm for the analysis of the contemporary era. Building on Parson's distinction between social, cultural, personal and organismic systems, it presents a four-dimensional scheme that aims to identify modernity's key structural components.

Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 88

Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

Confronted with apartheid, dictatorship or the sheer scale of global economics, realism can no longer function with the certainties of the nineteenth century. Free Realist Style considers how the style of the realist novel changes as its epistemological horizons narrow.