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Security, Disinformation and Harmful Narratives: RT and Sputnik News Coverage…
It is a well-known fact both among scholars of propaganda and disinformation, and among political leaders that Sputnik and RT are using their news coverage for disinformation purposes to harm Western and European societies. Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which enhanced the security threat by disinformation, the EU decided to ban these two media. Against this backdrop, the study asks…
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- 978-3-031-58747-4
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- The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
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- XIX, 293
Bearing Witness
This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas …
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- 978-3-030-62792-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
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- XXVI, 271
Philosophy of Astrophysics: Stars, Simulations, and the Struggle to Determine…
This is an open access book. This book, the first edited collection of its kind, explores the recent emergence of philosophical research in astrophysics. It assembles a variety of original essays from scholars who are currently shaping this field, and it combines insightful overviews of the current state of play with novel, significant contributions. It therefore provides an ideal source for un…
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- 9783031266171
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Programming Languages and Systems: 30th European Symposium on Programming, ES…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 24 papers included in thi…
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- 978-3-030-72019-3
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 24th Internationa…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format du…
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Knowledge from a Human Point of View
This open access book – as the title suggests – explores some of the historical roots and epistemological ramifications of perspectivism. Perspectivism has recently emerged in philosophy of science as an interesting new position in the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. But there is a lot more to perspectivism than discussions in philosophy of science so far have suggested.…
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- 9783030270414
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- XVIII, 152
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Organisationsbildung und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
Dieses Open-Access-Buch bricht mit dem Konsens in der Forschung, nach dem Organisationen als Errungenschaft der modernen Gesellschaft und Produkt der Industrialisierung angesehen werden. Die Frage, wie sich Organisationen als eigenlogische Sozialform konkret ausdifferenziert haben, ist bislang weitgehend unklar geblieben. Das Buch zeigt auf, dass sich bereits in der „unorganisierten Gesellsch…
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- 978-3-658-32871-9
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- Organisation und Gesellschaft - Forschung
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- XIII, 322
Environmental Governance in Latin America
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The multiple purposes of nature – livelihood for communities, revenues for states, commodities for companies, and biodiversity for conservationists – have turned environmental governance in Latin America into a highly contested arena. In such a resource-rich region, unequal power relations, conflicting priorities, and trade-offs among multi…
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- 978-1-137-50572-9
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- XII, 338
Social Theory of Fear
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites promote fear of crime and terrorism to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion. This ebook is participating in an experiment and is a…
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- 978-0-230-11263-6
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- XI, 234
Accountability in Public Policy Partnerships
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.
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- XIII, 264
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