Peter Lang: 4879 books
by Natalia Karmaeva
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This study is an empirical and a theoretical contribution to academic labor market research in the social and educational sciences. The main focus is the situation of young academics who teach at German universities. Both the role of research and teaching in the academic labor market as well as opportunities...
Hopes and Anxieties in Europe
Six Waves of the European Social Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
The present collection of articles is based on data from the European Social Survey (ESS) and analyses the changes in European societies. The first part of the volume is devoted to relations between legitimization, subjective well-being, voting patterns, and the role of social cohesion in determination...
by Erik Balleza, Mayra Saenz, Lukasz Czarnecki
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
How deep is the impact of the 2008 global crisis on Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico? Although having similar experience with the policies of the Washington Consensus, Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico have established different concepts of social and economic development during the last decade. These differences...
Staging Memory
Myth, Symbolism and Identity in Postcolonial Italy and Libya
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi’s deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to...
Visualizing Culture
Analyzing the Cultural Aesthetics of the Web
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
In an increasingly global society, the ability to identify a culture’s visual aesthetics helps us localize messages for better understanding and resonance with targeted audiences. But how do we identify the visual cues that specific cultures respond to? Based on Web design «best practices» and...
Privileged Mobilities
Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
As corporations ramp up «workforce globalization» and young professionals increasingly pursue opportunities to work abroad, social entrepreneurs use online digital platforms to create offline social events where foreigners can meet face-to-face. Through ethnographic study of such groups in Paris,...
Sexing the Media
How and Why We Do It
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Sex in the media is one of the hottest topics of the day. We know that advertising, television, cinema, and other forms of communication use sex to sell us products and pump up story lines. The question is: why are sex and sexuality such effective tools for getting our attention?
Sexing the Media:...
Digital Contagions
A Media Archaeology of Computer Viruses, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Now in its second edition, Digital Contagions is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical analysis of the culture and history of the computer virus.
At a time when our networks arguably feel more insecure than ever, the book provides an overview of how our fears about networks are part...
A Different Place in the Making
The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based...
Shaping International Public Opinion
A Model for Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Bridging two «camps» in the field of international public opinion – nation branding and public diplomacy – this book presents a first-of-its-kind cohesive framework with which readers can better research, teach, practice, and understand the field. At its core is the introduction of the Model...
Organizing after Crisis
The Challenge of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
How do actors organize after crisis? Do they «simply» return to normal? The post-crisis phase is anything but a linear process. Actors and their practices may be transformed by learning from crises and by implementing the lessons.
In this volume, 19 contributors from 7 countries analyse how learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The articles in this volume are selected from the contributions to two international conferences. Authors and teams tackle general economic approaches and developments with respect to new concepts for the production possibility frontier, the connection of development and exports diversification and...
by Dimosthenis Daskalakis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
The book investigates Greek industrial relations in a global context at different periods. Combining sociological, institutional, political and social aspects, it discusses industrial relations from statism that prevailed up to the ‘80s, to policies after the early ‘90s requesting modernisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book dissiminates a selected collection of research texts from the Congress Hybrid Identities, held in 2011 in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). Outstanding researchers from Social and Humanities fields adapted the hybridization of...