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The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age
How do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention? Feature films, television shows, homemade videos, tweets, blogs, and breaking news: digital media offer an always-accessible, apparently inexhaustible supply of entertainment and information. Although choices seems endless, public attention is not. How do digital media find the …
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Computer algebra and polynomials : applications of algebra and number theory
Algebra and number theory have always been counted among the most beautiful mathematical areas with deep proofs and elegant results. However, for a long time they were not considered that important in view of the lack of real-life applications. This has dramatically changed: nowadays we find applications of algebra and number theory frequently in our daily life. This book focuses on the theory …
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Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact
Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Beyond Bibliometrics: Harnessing Multidimensional Indicators of Scholarly Impact Edited by Blaise Cronin, Cassidy R. Sugimoto The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9445.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323284 Publication date: 2014 A comprehensive, state-of-the-art examination of the changing w…
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Learning Disability and Inclusion Phobia
ABSTRACT The social position of learning disabled people has shifted rapidly over the last 20 years, from long-stay institutions, first into community homes and day centres, and now to a currently emerging goal of "ordinary lives" for individuals using person-centred support and personal budgets. These approaches promise to replace a century and a half of "scientific" pathological models based…
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The Political Attitudes of Divided European Citizens : Public Opinion and Soc…
ABSTRACT The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003046653, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book unveils the significant impact of the European integration process on the political thinking of European citizens. With close attention to the interrelation between s…
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Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis
Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis By Vili Lehdonvirta, Edward Castronova The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9525.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323314 Publication date: 2014 How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods. …
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Eat, Cook, Grow: Mixing Human-Computer Interactions with Human-Food Interactions
Tools, interfaces, methods, and practices that can help bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture—blogs, wikis, online photo-…
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Inside Technology Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Governance Edited by Anique Hommels, Jessica Mesman, Wiebe E. Bijker The MIT Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9209.001.0001 ISBN electronic: 9780262323130 Publication date: 2014 Analysis and case studies e…
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DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption. Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways (as in Egypt's “Twitter revolution” of 2011) and to repurpose corporate content (or create new …
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Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity: The Bright, the Dark, and the…
This open acess book extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who face chronic adversity more deeply. Instead of focusing on the sort of responses intended to destroy the institutions that create and sustain chronic adversity, the authors are interested in how individuals use entrepreneurial action to find a way within …
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