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Author |
: Steve Woolgar |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2013-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199584741 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199584745 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mundane Governance by : Steve Woolgar
The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports.
Author |
: Jörg Krüger |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2012-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781447147633 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1447147634 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Secure Information Society by : Jörg Krüger
In our modern information societies, we not only use and welcome computers; we are highly dependent upon them. There is a downside of this kind of progress, however. Computers are not 100% reliable. They are insecure. They are vulnerable to attackers. They can either be attacked directly, to disrupt their services, or they can be abused in clever ways to do the bidding of an attacker as a dysfunctional user. Decision-makers and experts alike always struggle with the amount of interdisciplinary knowledge needed to understand the nuts and bolts of modern information societies and their relation to security, the implications of technological or political progress or the lack thereof. This holds in particular for new challenges to come. These are harder to understand and to categorize; their development is difficult to predict. To mitigate this problem and to enable more foresight, The Secure Information Society provides an interdisciplinary spotlight onto some new and unfolding aspects of the uneasy relationship between information technology and information society, to aid the dialogue not only in its current and ongoing struggle, but to anticipate the future in time and prepare perspectives for the challenges ahead.
Author |
: Jörg Dünne |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2020-08-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110645347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110645343 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Techniques by : Jörg Dünne
This volume presents the preliminary results of the work carried out by the interdisciplinary cultural techniques research lab at the University of Erfurt. Taking up an impulse from media studies, its contributions examine —from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—the interplay between the formative processes of knowledge and action outlined within the conceptual framework of cultural techniques. Case studies in the fields of history, literary (and media) studies, and the history of science reconstruct seemingly fundamental demarcations such as nature and culture, the human and the nonhuman, and materiality and the symbolical order as the result of concrete practices and operations. These studies reveal that particularly basic operations of spatialization form the very conditions that determine emergence within any cultural order. Ranging from manual and philological "paper work" to practices of opening up and closing off spaces and collective techniques of assembly, these case studies replace the grand narratives of cultural history focusing on micrological examinations of specific constellations between human and nonhuman actors.
Author |
: Mike Michael |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
Release |
: 2016-10-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781473987739 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1473987733 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Actor-Network Theory by : Mike Michael
In this thought-provoking and engaging book, Mike Michael brings us a powerful overview of Actor-Network Theory. Covering a breadth of topics, Michael demonstrates how ANT has become a major theoretical framework, influencing scholarly work across a range of fields. Critical and playful, this book fills a notable gap in the literature as Michael expertly explicates the theory and demonstrates how its key concepts can be applied. Comparing and contrasting ANT with other social scientific perspectives, Michael provides a robust and reflexive account of its analytic and empirical promise. A perfect companion for any student of Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Geography, Management & Organisation Studies, Media & Communication, and Cultural Studies.
Author |
: Tanja Schneider |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2017-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351614566 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351614568 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Digital Food Activism by : Tanja Schneider
Digital Food Activism is a new edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food systems. Bringing together critical food studies, economic anthropology, digital sociology, and science and technology studies, Digital Food Activism offers innovative multi-disciplinary analyses of food activist practices on social media, mobile apps, and hybrid online and offline alternative spaces. With chapters that focus on diverse digital platforms, food-related issues, and geographic locales, this volume reveals how platforms, programmers, and consumers are becoming key mediators of the mandate of food corporations and official governing actors. Digital Food Activism thereby suggests that emerging forms of activism in the digital era hold the potential to reshape the ethics, aesthetics, and patterns of food consumption.
Author |
: Gary Hart |
Publisher |
: Blue Rider Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2016-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780399575938 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0399575936 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Republic of Conscience by : Gary Hart
This book is a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape. Going back as early as 400 BC, the idea of a true republic has been threatened by narrow, special interests taking precedence over the commonwealth. The U.S. Constitution was drafted to protect against such corruption, but as this book shows, America is nowhere near the republic it set out to be almost 250 years ago, falling to the very misconduct it hoped to avoid.
Author |
: Isabelle Dussauge |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2015-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191003721 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191003727 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine by : Isabelle Dussauge
Many deep concerns in the life sciences and medicine have to do with the enactment, ordering and displacement of a broad range of values. This volume articulates a pragmatist stance for the study of the making of values in society, exploring various sites within life sciences and medicine and asking how values are at play. This means taking seriously the work scientists, regulators, analysts, professionals and publics regularly do, in order to define what counts as proper conduct in science and health care, what is economically valuable, and what is known and worth knowing. A number of analytical and methodological means to investigate these concerns are presented. The editors introduce a way to indicate an empirically oriented research program into the enacting, ordering and displacing of values. They argue that a research programme of this kind, makes it possible to move orthogonally to the question of what values are, and thus ask how they are constituted. This rectifies some central problems that arise with approaches that depend on stabilized understandings of value. At the heart of it, such a research programme encourages the examination of how and with what means certain things come to count as valuable and desirable, how registers of value are ordered as well as displaced. It further encourages a sense that these matters could be, and sometimes simultaneously are, otherwise.
Author |
: Christopher W. J. Steele |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2020-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781839091612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1839091614 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Macrofoundations by : Christopher W. J. Steele
This volume of Research in the Sociology of Organizations explores the institutional macrofoundations of action, providing an array of insights into the constitutive and contextualizing powers of institutions, and an agenda for further exploration of these themes.
Author |
: Martin Innes |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2020-05-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191092817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191092819 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neighbourhood Policing by : Martin Innes
Neighbourhood policing is one of the most significant and high profile innovations in UK policing in recent times. It has also been one of the most successful, garnering widespread political and public support for its objectives and the processes of policing that it has sought to embed. Indeed, it has recently been described as the 'bedrock' of the British policing model. But it was not always so lauded. At the time of its initial development it encountered considerable opposition and scepticism from both within and outside of the police. This book tells the story of how and why the neighbourhood policing model was originally designed and implemented, and then, what has led to a decline in its prominence in terms of everyday police practice. To do this, Neighbourhood Policing draws upon unparalleled empirical data from the authors' ten-year programme of research to provide unique and compelling insights into the key practices and processes associated with the concept and implementation of neighbourhood policing. The chapters describe how: key processes and practices have evolved and matured; the ways neighbourhood policing delivers a range of local policing services; as well as how, in some towns and cities, it has provided a platform for tackling violent extremism and organised crime. This approach is used to set out a broader analytic frame that addresses the conditions under which innovative policing models emerge, are developed and decline. In so doing, the book engages with wider and deeper questions about the police function in contemporary society.
Author |
: Ariane M. Tabatabai |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2020-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197566916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019756691X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Conquest, No Defeat by : Ariane M. Tabatabai
In early 2019, the Islamic Republic of Iran marked its fortieth anniversary, despite decades of isolation, political pressure, sanctions and war. Observers of its security policies continue to try and make sense of this unlikely endurance. Some view the regime as a purely rational actor, whose national security decisions and military affairs are shaped by the same considerations as in other states. Others believe that it is ideology driving Tehran's strategy. Either way, virtually everyone agrees that the mullahs' policies are fundamentally different from those pursued by their monarchical predecessors. No Conquest, No Defeat offers a historically grounded overview of Iranian national security. Tabatabai argues that the Islamic Republic is neither completely rational nor purely ideological. Rather, its national security policy today is largely shaped by its strategic culture, a product of the country's historical experiences of war and peace. As a result, Iranian strategic thinking is perhaps best characterized by its dynamic yet resilient nature, one that is continually evolving. As the Islamic Republic enters its fifth decade, this book sheds new light on Iran's controversial nuclear and missile programs and its involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.