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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as...
Technology and Social Inclusion
Rethinking the Digital Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2004
Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies....
Social Media, Politics and the State
Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there...
Social Media in Emergent Brazil
How the Internet Affects Social Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became prosperous businesses in working-class neighbourhoods and rural settlements,...
Common Purpose
Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild America
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
In her previous book, Within Our Reach, renowned Harvard social analyst Lisbeth Schorr examined pilot social programs that were successful in helping disadvantaged youth and families. But as those cutting-edge programs were expanded, the very qualities that had made them initially successful were...
The People's Pension
The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
“Laursen has given us a comprehensive account of the three decade long war against Social Security. . . . This is a fascinating history that progressives must learn, not only to protect Social Security but also to understand the dynamics behind an effective long-term strategy.”—Dean Baker, author...
Social policy in a cold climate
Policies and their consequences since the crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Social Policy in a Cold Climate offers a data-rich, evidence-based analysis of the impact Labour and coalition government policies have had on inequality and on the delivery of services such as health, education, adult social care, housing and employment in the wake of the greatest recession of our...
by Lewis D. Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
America's elderly population is soaring, presenting numerous challenges for policymakers in the United States. Other developed nations with aging populations face similar problems. There will be fewer workers relative to retirees in coming decades and the elderly are also expected to live longer....
Social Decision Making
Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
This book, in honor of David Messick, is about social decisions and the role cooperation plays in social life. Noted contributors who worked with Dave over the years will discuss their work in social judgment, decision making and ethics which was so important to Dave.
The book offers a unique...
Social Computing Theory and Practice
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Social computing has seen exponential growth in various application areas, enabling new digital contexts for almost any type of interaction. This growth is expected to continue in various domains as social computing becomes a new paradigm for the next generation applications. Social Computing Theory...
The Divided Welfare State
The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2002
The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending...
A sharing economy
How social wealth funds can reduce inequality and help balance the books
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Britain is a society increasingly divided between the super-affluent and the impoverished. A Sharing Economy proposes radical new ways to close the growing income gap and spread social opportunities. Drawing on overseas examples, Stewart Lansley argues that mobilising the huge financial potential...
University Social Responsibility and Quality of Life
A Global Survey of Concepts and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility. In addition to addressing the nature of and concepts surrounding University Social Responsibility, as well as its ties to areas such as service learning or engaged scholarship, the book also presents...