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Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures for a Public Right to Hear
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - Stanford University, Department of Communication, 2011) issued under title: A new way to think about press freedom : networked journalism and a public right to Hear in the Age of "Newsware."Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262345828
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The Environmental Advantages of Cities: Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be parti…
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- 9780262314091
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- 1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions
"With many new forms of digital media--including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr -- the people formerly known as the audience no longer only consume but also produce and even design media. Jonas L?owgren and Bo Reimer term this phenomenon collaborative media, and in this book they investigate the qualities and characteristics of these forms of media in terms of what t…
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- 9781461952190
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- 1 online resource (198 pages) :illustrations
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Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran
"Is psychoanalysis possible in the Islamic Republic of Iran? This is the question that Gohar Homayounpour poses to herself, and to us, at the beginning of this memoir of displacement, nostalgia, love, and pain. Twenty years after leaving her country, Homayounpour, an Iranian, Western-trained psychoanalyst, returns to Tehran to establish a psychoanalytic practice. When an American colleague excl…
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- 9780262305983
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 145 pages)
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Subjunctive Conditionals: A Linguistic Analysis
Ippolito proposes a compositional semantics for subjunctive (or would) conditionals in English that accounts for their felicity conditions and the constraints on the satisfaction of their presuppositions by capitalizing on the occurrence of past tense morphology in both antecedent and consequent clauses.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9781461943273
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- 1 online resource (xii, 159 pages).
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Communicating Moral Concern: An Ethics of Critical Responsiveness
A novel reframing of moral agency, emphasizing the responsive habits and skills by which we engage one another's attention to moral concerns.Modern moral theories have crystallized around the logic of individual choices, abstracted from social and historical context. Yet most action, including moral theorizing, can equally be understood as a response, conscious or otherwise, to the social world…
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- 9781461931171
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Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
A provocative argument that environmental thinking would be better off if it dropped the concept of ""nature"" altogether and spoke instead of the built environment.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326988
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- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) :illustrations
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The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation
The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. In this book, Peter Tse examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262313155
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- 1 online resource (xii, 456 pages) :illustrations
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The Software Arts
An alternative history of software that places the liberal arts at the very center of software's evolution. In The Software Arts, Warren Sack offers an alternative history of computing that places the arts at the very center of software's evolution. Tracing the origins of software to eighteenth-century French encyclopedists' step-by-step descriptions of how things were made in the workshops of …
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- 9780262352369
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- 1 online resource (400 pages) :illustrations.
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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines
An exploration of what experimental literature in both print and programmable media tells us about the act of reading.In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela examines a series of prin…
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- 9781461943303
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- 1 online resource (ix, 410 pages) :illustrations
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