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Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137565454
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society. With approaches ranging from semiotic theory to psychoanalytic theory, sociological theory to personal reflection, Berger taps the span of knowledge from his prolific career to help readers better understand the role digital devices play both in their technologic, economic, and common-use forms. Using accessible, conversational language and numerous illustrations, Berger deconstructs familiar objects and media for readers ranging from field specialists to everyday cultural consumers alike.

تبيان الاسرار الربانية في النباتات و المعادن و الخواص الحيوانية

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The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption

Author : Rosa Llamas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000644642
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption written by Rosa Llamas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of the ground-breaking first edition, there has been an exponential growth in research and literature about the digital world and its enormous potential benefits and threats. Fully revised and updated, this new edition brings together an expertly curated and authoritative overview of the impact and emerging horizons of digital consumption. Divided into sections, it addresses key topics including digital entertainment, self-representation, communication, Big Data, digital spirituality, online surveillance, and algorithmic advertising. It explores developments such as consumer data collection techniques, peer-to-peer payment systems, augmented reality, and AI-enhanced consumer well-being, as well as digital transgression, secrecy, crypto-currencies, NFTs, and cultural concerns such as the spread of conspiracy theories and fake news. From digital influencers, digital nomads, and digital neo-tribalism to robots and cyborgs, it explores existences that blur boundaries between humans and machines, reality and the metaverse, and the emerging "technoculture" – a state of all-encompassing digital being. This unique volume is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers, and will continue to provide a new generation of readers with a deep understanding of the universe of digital consumption.

The Creative Process

Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152757489X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book The Creative Process written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and highly readable book, illustrated with many drawings by the author, uses semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, Marxist theory, and sociological theory to analyze creativity. It also includes short “inserts” by a communications scholar, a psychiatrist, a psychoanalyst, a semiotician, a humor scholar, and a media scholar offering their perspectives on the subject. The book relates creativity to humor, deals with the way Freud’s and Marx’s ideas can be applied to humor, and discusses many aspects of everyday life such as smart speakers, TikTok, hairstyles, bagels, and personal taste. It argues that creativity is not limited to a small number of people in the arts, but that everyone is, to varying degrees, creative. An unusual feature of the book is that it offers notes from the author’s journal to show his thinking processes in writing the book.

The Academic Book of the Future

Author : Rebecca E. Lyons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137595779
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Academic Book of the Future written by Rebecca E. Lyons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia, libraries, and bookselling.

The Four Faces of the Republican Party and the Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination

Author : H. Olsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137577533
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Four Faces of the Republican Party and the Fight for the 2016 Presidential Nomination written by H. Olsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Faces of the Republican Party clearly describes how Republican Presidential nominating contests unfold. Its focus on party factions allows readers to understand the process and to predict who the eventual nominee will be. In particular, the authors explore why a conservative party always nominates candidates favored by the party's establishment and why evangelical conservatives always emerge as one of the two final contenders for the nomination. This book is essential reading for anyone – professor, student, journalist, consultant, or candidate – who wishes to understand, report on, or influence a Republican Presidential nomination contest.

Community Reparation for Young Offenders

Author : N. Pamment
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137400463
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Community Reparation for Young Offenders written by N. Pamment and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community reparation for young offenders involves unpaid work such as painting and decorating, litter picking and graffiti removal. Whilst remaining a major part of the youth justice landscape, concern has been raised about the poor quality of workplace provision. In this book, Nicholas Pamment provides the first fully researched examination of community reparation. He establishes the most comprehensive model for the effective delivery of unpaid work, demonstrating the importance of 'meaningful' work placements which facilitate key employability skills, associated with reductions in re-offending. Drawing upon empirical evidence and the experience of offenders, he warns against a formulaic approach to workplace allocation, where there is an over-reliance on low cost menial tasks. His timely study concludes that more attention needs to be paid to the rehabilitative potential of community reparation, requiring the commitment and dedication of service providers.

Central Bank Ratings

Author : Indranarain Ramlall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137524014
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Central Bank Ratings written by Indranarain Ramlall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the global financial crisis broke, central banks in both the US and the UK undertook massive asset purchase programmes which resulted in considerable increase in assets. Cross-border spillover effects were noted across global economies. Balance sheet adjustments may eventually gnaw at the profit-earning capacities of central banks, and in extreme cases, negative equity can manifest. This study investigates a benchmark for comparing central banks. The author employs a unique and large set of metrics to gauge the quality of central banks and presents an argument to reflect upon international best practices. The study uses different criteria including the accounting body, research, presence of stress-testing exercises, inflation-targeting frameworks, staff efficiency, and languages of communication with the public, amongst others. The book begins by providing an overview of central banking, before exploring some stylized facts about central banks in unique detail. It then presents a ratings methodology for worldwide central banks to analyse the results. A backtesting exercise is included to validate the quality of the ratings obtained. The book concludes by offering insights into the comparison of central banks.

Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones

Author : S. Tate
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498463
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones written by S. Tate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's discussion of skin bleaching, lightening and toning in Black Atlantic zones disengages with the usual tropes of Black Nationalism and global white supremacy such as 'the desire to be white', 'low self-esteem' and 'self-hatred' and instead engages with the global multi-billion dollar market in lighter skins with products from local cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies and entrepreneurs. This practice can be for short-term strategic purposes and the production of bleached lightness and new subjectivities through skin shades across Black Atlantic zones - the UK, USA, Caribbean, Latin America and the Africa continent- is also a simultaneous critique of continuing pigmentocracy and darker skin disadvantage. This book seeks to decolonize skin bleaching, lightening and toning by exploring its racialized gender political and libidinal economies in the Black Atlantic. In so doing it moves past the notion that global white supremacy dynamizes the practice to a position where the interaction of colourism and 'post-race' neo-liberal racialization aesthetics becomes the focus.

A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation

Author : Daniel Aronoff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137562218
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation written by Daniel Aronoff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Malthus identified a crucial tension at the heart of a market economy: While an accumulation of wealth is necessary to provide the capital investment needed to generate growth, too much accumulation will cause planned saving to exceed profitable investment, which will result in secular stagnation, a condition of low growth and underemployment of resources. Keynes drew inspiration from Malthus in his attempt to comprehend the causes of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Now, Aronoff demonstrates how a related but slightly different aspect of Malthus' thought can illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our times. In A Theory of Accumulation and Secular Stagnation, Aronoff explores Malthus' ideas relating to secular stagnation and uses the insight gained to understand the origins of the subpar growth and tepid employment, periodically punctuated by booms, that has plagued the US economy since the turn of the millennium. He explains how the rise of mercantilism among Asian countries – principally China – and increased income concentration generated an upsurge in excess saving. This accumulation created a chronic deficiency in demand while also depressing interest rates, which generated a search for yield that fuelled periodic booms.

iMedia

Author : Sarah Kember
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137374853
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book iMedia written by Sarah Kember and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open out the new dialecticism of structure and scale, critique and creativity? Drawing on science and technology studies and feminist theory, this book examines the gendering of current and future media technologies such as smart phones, Google glass, robot nurses, tablets and face recognition. Kember argues that there is a tendency to affirm and celebrate the existence of smart and often sexist objects, environments and materials in themselves; to elide writing and other forms of mediation; and to engage in disembodied knowledge practices. Disembodied knowledge practices tend towards a scientism that currently includes physics envy and are also masculinist. Where there is some degree of convergence between masculinist and feminist thinking about objects, environments and materials, there is also divergence, conflict and the possible opening towards a politics of imedia. Presenting a lively manifesto for refiguring imedia, this book forms an often neglected gender critique of developments in smart technologies and will be essential reading for scholars in Communication Studies, Cultural and Media, Science and Technology and Feminism.

Scenes, Semiotics and The New Real

Author : Chris Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137591129
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Scenes, Semiotics and The New Real written by Chris Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a semiotic analysis of 'scenes', powerful vehicles for introducing new ideas, perspectives and behaviours, as a concept. In particular, it examines the types of scene that exist; explores their effectiveness in spreading new ideas; and considers their vital role in introducing originality and difference in modern society.

Detainee Abuse During Op TELIC

Author : Timothy Wood
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137588802
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Detainee Abuse During Op TELIC written by Timothy Wood and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the nature of the alleged abuse committed by the UK military forces, exploring the legal paradigm in which the abuse allegedly occurred; the morality of those accused; and the robustness of the accusation of a 'policy of abuse'.

The Towers of New Capital

Author : P. Tiwari
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137586265
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Towers of New Capital written by P. Tiwari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With mega townships as the tool, this book analyses the complexity, scale and the challenges associated with the development paradigm in India from various built environment lenses. The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization.

Modern Multi-Factor Analysis of Bond Portfolios

Author : Giovanni Barone-Adesi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137564865
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Modern Multi-Factor Analysis of Bond Portfolios written by Giovanni Barone-Adesi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where institutions and individuals averagely invest the majority of their assets in money-market and fixed-income instruments, interest rate risk management could be seen as the single most important global financial issue. However, the majority of the key techniques used by most investors were developed several decades ago, and the advantages of multi-factor models are not fully recognised by many researchers and practitioners. This book provides clear and practical insight into bond portfolios and portfolio management through key empirical analysis. The authors use extensive sets of empirical data to describe the value potentially added by more recent techniques to manage interest rate risk relative to traditional techniques and to present empirical evidence of such an added value. Beginning with a description of the simplest models and moving on to the most complex, the authors offer key recommendations for the future of rate risk management.

Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences

Author : F. Callard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137407964
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences written by F. Callard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Rooting itself in the authors' own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines. This book is open access under a CC-BY license.

Transmission Channels of Financial Shocks to Stock, Bond, and Asset-Backed Markets

Author : Massimo Guidolin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137561394
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Transmission Channels of Financial Shocks to Stock, Bond, and Asset-Backed Markets written by Massimo Guidolin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers, policymakers and commentators have long debated the patterns through which adverse shocks in a few markets may quickly spread to a range of apparently disconnected financial markets causing widespread losses and turmoil. This book uses modern linear and non-linear econometric methods to characterize how shocks to the yield of risky fixed income securities, such as sub-prime asset-backed or low-credit rating sovereign bonds, are transmitted to the yields in other markets. These include equity and corporate bond markets as well as relatively risk-free fixed income securities, such as highly rated asset-backed securities and sovereign bonds from core Eurozone countries. The authors analyse and compare the results from linear and non-linear models to identify and assess four distinct contagion channels characterizing both US and European financial markets. These include the correlated information, risk premium, flight-to-liquidity, and flight-to quality channels. The results of this study support the theory that both investors and policy-makers ought to pay special attention to liquidity and commonalities in the perceptions of the probabilities of default, as channels through which financial shocks propagate.