An examination of the use of digital badges as a reward for both casual online music evaluators and professional musicians.
First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Does the fact that the majority of Turkey's population is Muslim form a hindrance to its EU membership? According to a recent policy advice by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), the answer is an adamant 'no'.
Integration of newcomers is a foremost challenge for contemporary Europe.
A study of European co-operation and transatlantic relations in the 1950s as well as on the changes these relations underwent during the early postwar period.
European Memory in Populism explores the links between memory and populism in contemporary Europe.
This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the dynamics of contemporary immigrant inflows and integration in Europe.
Participatory development and government accountability depend in part on the existence of media that provide broad access to information from varied sources and that equip and encourage people to raise and debate issues and develop public opinion. Conducive policies, laws, and regulations are essential for media to develop that are independent and widely accessible and that enable the expressi…
At the time of the U.S.-Japan auto conferences in March 1983, the hoped-for economic recovery as manifested in auto sales had revealed itself quite modestly. Three months later, the indicators were more robust and certainly long overdue for those whose livelihood depends on the health of the industry--some of whom are university professors. With Japanese import restrictions in place until Ma…
The information and risk society poses a new challenge for the law in all its fragments. Modern media communication and technologies increase people’s prosperity while stating new risks with not uncommonly devastating crisis-potential: The banking crisis, the safety net for the euro zone and the nuclear incident in Fukushima are only the latest forms of those specific modern common dangers wh…