Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Geek Heresy
Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
In 2004, Kentaro Toyama, an award-winning computer scientist, moved to India to start a new research group for Microsoft. Its mission: to explore novel technological solutions to the world's persistent social problems. Together with his team, he invented electronic devices for under-resourced urban...
Taken for Grantedness
The Embedding of Mobile Communication into Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
An examination of how the mobile phone has become part of the fabric of society—as did such earlier technologies as the clock and the car.
Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social...
by Tracy Cross, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Raising happy, successful children is a goal of every parent of gifted children. In "On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children," the nation's leading authority on the psychology of gifted children offers advice and encouragement for both parents and teachers. In a thoughtful,...
Studies in Virtual Communities, Blogs, and Modern Social Networking
Measurements, Analysis, and Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Social networks are a nearly universal element of modern, information-driven societies, one that presents many opportunities and advantages—and challenges and hazards—for organizations as well as individuals. Studies in Virtual Communities, Blogs, and Modern Social Networking: Measurements, Analysis,...
I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Hailed as “stunning” (New York Post), “authoritative” (Kirkus Reviews), and “comprehensively researched” (Shelf Awareness), a shocking exposé of the widespread abuses of our personal online data by a leading specialist on Web privacy.
Social networks, the defining cultural movement...
The Qualified Self
Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion....
Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation
A Social and Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it analyzes...
by Emma Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
‘This highly accessible book weaves together discussion of recent research findings, policy developments and theoretical perspectives. It provides a thought-provoking and at times contentious introduction that will challenge students and teachers to look beyond the easy and glib rhetoric, helping...
Social Knowledge
Using Social Media to Know What You Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
For the past two decades, executives have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Organizational leaders are now seeking ways to share knowledge with both internal and external stakeholders driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers,...
Entanglements
Conversations on the Human Traces of Science, Technology, and Sound
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Conversations with a founder of the influential Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) approach in science and technology studies offer an introduction to the field.
Science and technology studies (STS) is a relatively young but influential field. Scholars from disciplines as diverse as urban...
Jesus and the Streets
The Loci of Causality for the Intra-Racial Gender Academic Achievement Gap in Black Urban America and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Against John Ogbu’s oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele’s disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1966
(From the forward) We are confronted by demands for social reconstruction. These pose grave problems with far-reaching implications. This books is written with the conviction that their solution must be looked for along lines not yet considered. Its aim is to show what has to be done in order that social...
Participatory Activist Research in the Globalised World
Social Change Through the Cultural Professions
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Action research was conceived as a method of collaborative, self-reflective problem-solving in a community context. Yet many believe it has evolved too far away from its original, directly activist roots. As a direct response to calls for a rejuvenation of the social agenda of ‘action research’,...
Personhood and Social Robotics
A psychological consideration
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
An exponentially growing industry, human robot interaction (HRI) research has drawn predominantly upon psychologists’ descriptions of mechanisms of face-to-face dyadic interactions. This book considers how social robotics is beginning unwittingly to confront an impasse that has been a perennial...