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Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung
Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung hinterlässt Datenspuren, ermöglicht vielfältige und intensive Datensammlungen über Menschen, …
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- 978-3-658-35263-9
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Wohnen und Gesundheit im Alter
Vor dem Hintergrund der demographischen Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft nimmt der Open-Access-Sammelband die Wohnsituation älterer Menschen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der gesundheitlichen Situation in den Blick. Lebensqualität, Wohlbefinden, Teilhabe sowie Autonomie und Selbstbestimmung älterer Menschen stehen dabei im Mittelpunkt.
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- 978-3-658-34386-6
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The Hoarding Vikings
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1 Bornholm: a treasure island -- 2 The multi-causal hoards -- 3 Identifying Bornholm's hoards: content, character, and chronology -- 4 Classification of production, circulation, and distribution data -- 5 Silver flows: analysis of production data -- 6 Stab, bend, and cut: analysi…
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Digital Platform Regulation
This Open Access volume provides an in-depth exploration of global policy and governance issues related to digital platform regulation. With an international ensemble of contributors, the volume has at its heard the question: what would actually be involved in digital platform regulation?’. Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has i…
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- 978-3-030-95220-4
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State-sponsored disinformation around the globe: how politicians deceive thei…
Introduction : deceiving from the top : state-sponsored disinformation as a contemporary global phenomenon / Martin Echeverría and Sara García Santamaría -- Theoretical understanding of state-sponsored disinformation / Petros Iosifidis -- Rethinking disinformation for the global South : towards a particular research agenda / Grisel Salazar Rebolledo -- Statistics and state-sponsored disin…
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such …
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Biological and Social Issues in Biotechnology Sharing
ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in both agriculture and the human genome. One controversial issue is the cr…
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- 9780429460883
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- 176 p
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News literacy and democracy
ABSTRACT News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and routines that comprise news media systems. This introductory text underscores the importance of news literacy to democratic life and advances an argument that critical contexts regarding news media structures and institutions should be cen…
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- 9780429460227
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- 218 p
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Narratives of low-carbon transitions: understanding risks and uncertainties
ABSTRACT "The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429458781, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license." This book examines the uncertainties underlying various strategies for a low-carbon future. Most prominently, such strategies relate to transitions in the energy sector, on both the suppl…
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- 296 p
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Genetics in human reproduction
ABSTRACT Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the current and possible future technological progress in genetic technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six sections medical a…
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