Binczyk discusses caring about the future of the collective: monitoring technoscience in the sociology of risk and science and technology studies. She begins by describing the modern shape of technosc
Documenting an October 2012 conference in Heidelberg, Germany, 28 papers engage in the debate regarding science and religion and report on multi-year research programs on it. Among the topics are comm
What can philosophy tell us about privacy? Quite a lot as it turns out. With Privacy and Philosophy: New Media and Affective Protocol Andrew McStay draws on an array of philosophers to offer a refresh
Sociolinguists explore the interface between language policy mechanisms and practices in educational and additional sites, and examine the ways individuals experience multilingualism and mobility in t
Any appropriate philosophy of time presupposes an appropriate philosophy of images, argues Nyiri, and it is not possible to build up an argument for the reality of the passage of time without acceptin
McStay surveys a diverse range of approaches to exploring the relationship between privacy and philosophy, particularly as they apply to media, but he also dialogues with these philosophical tradition
Linguists working alone or in teams explore what language can reveal about the role of objective and subjective time and the multiple temporalities people live in, think, and talk about. They discuss
Uniquely amongst the numerous publications to appear on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book deals with data analysis, examining a range of techniques and instruments. Aft
This collection brings together established and emerging scholars in communication studies to examine the relationship between communication and the economy in contemporary society. Providing context
This volume brings together recent theoretical perspectives from critical communications scholarship on the political and social functions of communication within contemporary market economic practice
Volume three in Warsaw Studies in Culture and Society from Peter Lang Academic Research, this book documents an ethnographic study of teenagers in Poland. The goal was to understand their everyday use
What opportunities and challenges are presented to religious education across the globe by the basic human right of freedom of religion and belief? To what extent does religious education facilitate o
Globalisms and Power examines the effects neoliberal globalization is having on Spanish and Portuguese educational and curriculum policies and practices. The book dissects the nexus between globalizat
This collection of 16 essays examines trends in and possibilities for education in the Iberian Peninsula in light of theories about globalization. The essays consider "how education and curriculum pol
Speech Acts and Politeness are among the main areas of interest in pragmatics. These communicative phenomena can be considered universal and at the same time language and culture-specific. It is this
What are the points of contact between the study of language and the study of history? What are the possibilities for collaboration between linguists and historians, and what prevents it? This volume,
An increasing number of contributions have appeared in recent years on the subject of Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly in relation to dubbing and subtitling. The broad scope of this branch
This book contributes to the debate of the complex relations between development and adult learning in Europe, both at a local and global level. This integrated analysis provides models for interpreti
This book provides a depth-psychological, analytic reading of all Albert Camus’s imaginative literary works including his essays and reminiscences. The chronological procedure reveals an evolution of
Evidentiality, the linguistic encoding of a speaker’s or writer’s evidence for an asserted proposition, has begun to receive serious attention from linguists only in the last quarter century. Much of
US scholars of communication and education tease out differences in the behaviors of men and women in casino and non-casino gambling, and in the process demonstrate how the phenomenon of gambling can
This book examines the ways in which Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower appropriated their sources, paying particular attention to the theories of history and political agendas informing these appropriat
Sociologists and scholars of religion explore a new approach to the sociology of religion that considers churches as religious firms producing religious goods for a religious market. Their theoretical
Barone (education, Arizona State U.) collects 14 essays first published during the 1980s and 1990s. In both theoretical dissertations and case studies of schools and school people, he explores the pos
This book explores the remarkable diaries and memoirs of Mary Leadbeater (1758-1826) and Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829), both of whom lived in Ireland. Working on the premise that their identities are
Zichy (English literature, Canadian literature, and European literature in translation; U. of Saskatchewan) offers a detailed reading of Kroetsch's 1969 Canadian novel, drawing often from other discip
This book presents a collection of papers by researchers from several different institutions on a wide range of digital issues.Digitalization describes the phenomenon of how knowledge is processed and
History and Education is a text that engages the history of the global class war, from the United States to the former Soviet Union, from the People’s Republic of China to the Democratic People’s Repu
Drawing on Marx and Lenin, the author views education as a mechanism through which both sides of the global class war, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, have advanced their causes. He discusses the
Most theories of radicalization focus on the birth of antidemocratic ideas, semantics, behavior patterns and organizations. However, such focus is one-sided: radicalization is as much about the forget
Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores th
The fifth volume in the series of the Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook addresses two major topics: law and state. The authors shed new light on some
Editors Klimczyk and Swierzowska present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of scholarly essays and academic articles that examine of the music of genocide and the connections betw
Editors Yilmaz, Trandafoiu, and Mousoutzanis present students, academics, and researchers with a collection of essays focused on the relationship between cosmopolitanism and the media in contemporary
This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday c
UK and European contributors in digital media, creative industries, intellectual property law, social learning, and information science share their research into Twitter from a range of different disc
Theoreticians from China and philosophers and sociologists from Central and Eastern Europe trade insights and understandings about how to modernize while retaining collective identity. They look at Ce
Lion Feuchtwanger was one of the more famous German exiles living in the USA, in particular, California, during the World War II, and his decision to remain there after the war was over was of tremend
