Social capital and information technology

A selection of revised papers from a workshop organized by the editors and held in Amsterdam on 21-22 May 2002, with the addition of some invited papers by social researchers.A multidisciplinary examination of the interplay between social capital-the value derived from social ties-and information technology.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The Sports Business in the Pacific Rim Economics and Policy

Following consistent and rapid general economic growth, Pacific Rim countries have grown as a major force in sports. Australia, China, Japan and Korea populated the top ten medals list at the 2012 London Olympics. Pacific Rim countries are major consumers of international sports and domestic professional sports have expanded continuously over time. Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korean Ba…

Cracking the Bro Code

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice. Cracking the Bro Code is a bold ethnographic study of sexism and racism in contemporary computing cultures theorized through the analytical frame of the “Bro Code.” Drawing …

Selling the American People: Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Ad…

How marketers learned to dream of optimization and speak in the idiom of management science well before the widespread use of the Internet. Algorithms, data extraction, digital marketers monetizing "eyeballs": these all seem like such recent features of our lives. And yet, Lee McGuigan tells us in this eye-opening book, digital advertising was well underway before the widespread use of the I…

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Past, present and future of historical information science

This book evaluates the results of two decades of research in ‘history and computing’. In spite of the fact that a lot has been accomplished, the report indicates critical places for improvement. Many historians and other humanities scholars seem satisfied with standard office tools, which do not always suit their complex sources and research questions. While more and more archival sources …

Proceedings of the III Advanced Ceramics and Applications Conference

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Exploring Education and Professional Practice

This book was written to help people understand and transform education and professional practice. It presents and extends the theory of practice architectures, and offers a contemporary account of what practices are composed of and how practices shape and are shaped by the arrangements with which they are enmeshed in sites of practice. Through its empirically-based case chapters, the book demo…

Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns

This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely populated urban environments, and when faced with invasive species, governments have resorted to large-scal…

Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM …

Prosiding Kongres Dunia Ketujuh tentang Manajemen Aset Teknik (WCEAM) yang diadakan di Kota Daejeon, Korea dari tanggal 8-9 Oktober 2012. Termasuk kompilasi makalah mutakhir di lapangan yang mencakup berbagai mata pelajaran yang komprehensif. Mencakup sumber daya untuk praktisi manajemen aset, peneliti dan akademisi, serta mahasiswa sarjana dan pascasarjana di perguruan tinggi dan di industri. …