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Mobile Selves

Author : Ulla D. Berg
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479875708
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Mobile Selves written by Ulla D. Berg and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile Selves illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship, social relations, and subjectivities for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create and circulate new portrayals of themselves, which work both to challenge the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country and to shape how they construct and experience their mobility, and reenvision themselves and their communities in the process. In this engaging volume Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which racialized Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands of Peru to migrate to the United States, how they fare, and what constrains their movement and their attempts to maintain meaningful social relations across borders. By exploring the ways in which migration is mediated between the Peruvian Andes and the United States-by documents, money, and images and objects in circulation-this book makes a major contribution to the documentation and theorization of the role of technology and, more broadly, of communicative practices in fostering new forms of migrant sociality and subjectivity. In its focus on the forms of person-hood and belonging that these mediations enable, the volume adds to key anthropological debates about affect, subjectivity, and sociality in today's mobile world. It also makes significant contributions to studies of inequality in Latin America, showcasing the intersection of transnational mobility with structures and processes of exclusion in both national and global contexts.

Being Human, Being Migrant

Author : Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782380469
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Being Human, Being Migrant written by Anne Sigfrid Grønseth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrant experiences accentuate general aspects of the human condition. Therefore, this volume explores migrant's movements not only as geographical movements from here to there but also as movements that constitute an embodied, cognitive, and existential experience of living "in between" or on the "borderlands" between differently figured life-worlds. Focusing on memories, nostalgia, the here-and-now social experiences of daily living, and the hopes and dreams for the future, the volume demonstrates how all interact in migrants' and refugees' experience of identity and quest for well-being.

Words of Passage

Author : Hilary Parsons Dick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477314040
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Words of Passage written by Hilary Parsons Dick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants that range from hardworking family people to dangerous lawbreakers. These imagined lives have real consequences, however, because they help to determine who can claim the resources that facilitate economic mobility, which range from state-sponsored development programs to income earned in the North. Words of Passage is the first full-length ethnography that examines the impact of migration from the perspective of people whose lives are affected by migration, but who do not themselves migrate. Hilary Parsons Dick situates her study in the small industrial city of Uriangato, in the state of Guanajuato. She analyzes the discourse that circulates in the community, from state-level pronouncements about what makes a “proper” Mexican to working-class people’s talk about migration. Dick shows how this migration discourse reflects upon and orders social worlds long before—and even without—actual movements beyond Mexico. As she listens to men and women trying to position themselves within the migration discourse and claim their rights as “proper” Mexicans, she demonstrates that migration is not the result of the failure of the Mexican state but rather an essential part of nation-state building.

Bradstreet's Weekly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bradstreet's Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

We Are Data

Author : John Cheney-Lippold
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479802441
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book We Are Data written by John Cheney-Lippold and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities we inhabit in the process. We have little control over who we algorithmically are. Our identities are made useful not for us—but for someone else. Through a series of entertaining and engaging examples, John Cheney-Lippold draws on the social constructions of identity to advance a new understanding of our algorithmic identities. We Are Data will educate and inspire readers who want to wrest back some freedom in our increasingly surveilled and algorithmically-constructed world.

Understanding Media Users

Author : Tony Wilson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Media Users written by Tony Wilson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Understanding Media Users' provides students with a solid history of media effects' and an integrated account of analytical approaches that constitute media reception theory.

iGen

Author : Jean M. Twenge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501152025
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book iGen written by Jean M. Twenge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

Androids in the Enlightenment

Author : Adelheid Voskuhl
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022603402X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Androids in the Enlightenment written by Adelheid Voskuhl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the German lands. Designed to perform sophisticated activities such as writing, drawing, or music making, these “Enlightenment automata” have attracted continuous critical attention from the time they were made to the present, often as harbingers of the modern industrial age, an era during which human bodies and souls supposedly became mechanized. In Androids in the Enlightenment, Adelheid Voskuhl investigates two such automata—both depicting piano-playing women. These automata not only play music, but also move their heads, eyes, and torsos to mimic a sentimental body technique of the eighteenth century: musicians were expected to generate sentiments in themselves while playing, then communicate them to the audience through bodily motions. Voskuhl argues, contrary to much of the subsequent scholarly conversation, that these automata were unique masterpieces that illustrated the sentimental culture of a civil society rather than expressions of anxiety about the mechanization of humans by industrial technology. She demonstrates that only in a later age of industrial factory production did mechanical androids instill the fear that modern selves and societies had become indistinguishable from machines.

House documents

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Telephony

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1526 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Telephony written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Self Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Self Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication

Author : Ana Serrano Tellería
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315399296
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Between the Public and Private in Mobile Communication written by Ana Serrano Tellería and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 17 Structural Crises of Meaning and New Technologies: Reframing the Public and the Private in the News Media through the Expansion of Voices by Social Networks -- 18 A Starting Path for a Great Future -- List of Contributors -- Index

Fuel Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Fuel Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Labor, Slavery, and Self-government

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Labor, Slavery, and Self-government written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Manufactured Insecurity

Author : Esther Sullivan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520968352
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Manufactured Insecurity written by Esther Sullivan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufactured Insecurity is the first book of its kind to provide an in-depth investigation of the social, legal, geospatial, and market forces that intersect to create housing insecurity for an entire class of low-income residents. Drawing on rich ethnographic data collected before, during, and after mobile home park closures and community-wide evictions in Florida and Texas—the two states with the largest mobile home populations—Manufactured Insecurity forces social scientists and policymakers to respond to a fundamental question: how do the poor access and retain secure housing in the face of widespread poverty, deepening inequality, and scarce legal protection? With important contributions to urban sociology, housing studies, planning, and public policy, the book provides a broader understanding of inequality and social welfare in the United States today.

Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League

Author : Edward Cornelius Toune
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League written by Edward Cornelius Toune and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Law of Automobiles

Author : Claude Perrin Berry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1856 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of Automobiles written by Claude Perrin Berry and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: