"Selfie Democracy exposes the unintended consequences of wireless technologies on political leadership and shows how seemingly benign mobile devices that hold out the promise of direct democracy ultimately undermine representative forms of government and deepen partisan divides. As the smart phone and mobile applications are reshaping civic participation, attitudes about freedom, civic rights, …
"A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Reports from America's political crisis, exposing a new "iconopolitics," in which words and images lose their connection to reality. The political crisis that sneaked up on America--the rise of Trump and Trumpism--has revealed the rot at the core of American exceptionalism. Recent changes in the way words and images are produced and received have made the current surreality possible; communicat…
"The untold history of experimental art in a late GDR; analyzes photography, performance art, film, publications & galleries as a form of public life that destabilized the State"--Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2017.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements. As trade negotiations within the World Trade Organization seem permanently stalled, countries turn increasingly to preferential trade agreements (PTAs) between smaller groups of nations. Many of these PTAs…
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"Contributors analyze and re-envision the field and profession of library and information science from the perspective of critical race theory"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Why America's data system is broken, and how to fix it.Why, with data increasingly important, available, valuable and cheap, are the data produced by the American government getting worse and costing more' State and local governments rely on population data from the US Census Bureau; prospective college students and their parents can check data from the National Center for Education Statistics;…
How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers , Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the…
An accessible guide to the major issues and arguments surrounding school choice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.