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"Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life - or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at home, at work, and at school, and raises broader concerns about politics and culture both global and local." "Drawing on data gathered from around the world, the authors explore who has access to wireless technology, and why, and analyze the patterns of social differentiation seen in unequal access. They explore the social effects of wireless communication - what it means for family life, for example, when everyone is constantly in touch, or for the idea of an office when workers can work anywhere. Is the technological ability to multitask further compressing time in our already hurried existence?" "The authors consider the rise of a mobile youth culture based on peer-to-peer networks, with its own language of texting, and its own values. They examine the phenomenon of flash mobs, and the possible political implications. And they look at the relationship between communication and development and the possibility that developing countries could "leapfrog" directly to wireless and satellite technology. This sweeping book - moving easily in its analysis from the United States to China, from Europe to Latin America and Africa - answers the key questions about our transformation into a mobile network society."--Jacket.
Mass communications --- Communication --- Mobile communication systems --- Information technology --- Radiocommunications mobiles --- Technologie de l'information --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H1711 --- 316.323.9 --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Nieuwe media, informatietechnologie (videotex, beeldplaat, interactieve televisie, vergadertelevisie,...) --- Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- 316.323.9 Postmoderne maatschappij. Sociologie van het postmodernisme --- Vehicles --- Vehicular communication systems --- Communication systems --- Radio --- Wireless communication systems --- Communication and culture --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy --- Communication - Social aspects --- Mobile communication systems - Social aspects --- Information technology - Social aspects --- Acqui 2006
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Taking a hard look at the crisis afflicting Western economies in recent years, Manuel Castells suggests that the very structures that fostered economic growth since 1945 are the same structures that are now undermining these economics. Pinpointing the new forms of the capitalist mode of production and the contradictory nature of its class relations as the root of the problem, he offers a comprehensive critique of American society and its economy.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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In this wide-ranging book, Castells analyses the transformation of the global media industry by the revolution in communication technologies. He argues that a new communication system, mass self-communication, has emerged, & power relationships have been profoundly modified by the emergence of this new communication environment.
Mass communications --- digitalisering --- sociale netwerken --- multimedia --- nieuwe media --- communicatiepsychologie --- netwerken (informatica) --- Communication --- Power (Social sciences) --- Communication and technology --- Technology and communication --- Technology --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Mass media --- Globalization. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Communication and culture --- Social aspects.
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Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in a dynamic discussion about the Muslim populations living in Europe and about Europe's role in framing Islam today. The book raises several crucial questions: Does Is
Sociology of religion --- Islam --- Sociology of culture --- Europe --- Muslims --- Musulmans --- Islamic countries --- Pays musulmans --- Ethnic relations --- Relations --- Relations interethniques --- Ethnic relations. --- Muslims - Europe --- Islam - Europe --- Europe - Ethnic relations --- Islamic countries - Relations - Europe --- Europe - Relations - Islamic countries
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"For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing. The revolution will be tweeted, but tweets alone do not the revolution make. In Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! Costanza-Chock traces a much broader social movement media ecology. Through a richly detailed account of daily media practices in the immigrant rights movement, he argues that there is a new paradigm of social movement media making: transmedia organizing. Despite the current spotlight on digital media, he finds, social movement media practices tend to be cross-platform, participatory, and linked to action. Immigrant rights organizers leverage social media creatively, even as they create media ranging from posters and street theater to Spanish-language radio, print, and television. Drawing on extensive interviews, workshops, and media organizing projects, Costanza-Chock presents case studies of transmedia organizing in the immigrant rights movement over the last decade. Chapters focus on the historic mass protests against the anti-immigrant Sensenbrenner Bill; coverage of police brutality against peaceful activists; efforts to widen access to digital media tools and skills for low-wage immigrant workers; paths to participation in DREAM activism; and the implications of professionalism for transmedia organizing. These cases show us how savvy transmedia organizers work to strengthen movement identity, win political and economic victories, and transform public consciousness forever."--Publisher's description.
Immigrants --- Mass media --- Social justice --- Civil rights --- United States --- Europe --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy. --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Communications & Telecommunications --- INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Political & Social Theory --- Equality --- Justice --- Media studies --- Civics and citizenship
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Castells in Africa: Universities and Development collects the papers produced by Manuel Castells on his visits to South Africa, and publishes them in a single volume for the first time. The book also publishes a series of empirically-based papers which together display the multi-faceted and far-sighted scope of his theoretical framework, and its fecundity for fine-grained, detailed empirical investigations on universities and development in Africa. Castells, in his afterword to this book, always looking forward, assesses the role of the university in the wake of the upheavals to the global economic order. He decides the university's function not only remains, but is more important than ever. This book will serve as an introduction to the relevance of his work for higher education in Africa for postgraduate students, reflective practitioners and researchers. Includes two previously unpublished public lectures and an Afterword by Manuel Castells.
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Ciencias politicas. --- Political science. --- Ziccardi, Alicia. --- Ziccardi C., Alicia --- Ziccardi Contigiani, Alicia --- Contigiani, Alicia Ziccardi
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Les sciences humaines et sociales ne sont plus le monopole d’une petite partie du monde, l’Europe occidentale, l’Amérique du Nord, rejointes assez tôt par l’Amérique latine. Elles sont pratiquées partout, avec de plus en plus souvent une capacité des chercheurs à se situer au meilleur niveau, et à participer à des échanges scientifiques réellement planétaires, tout en ayant un fort ancrage dans leur propre société. L’Occident a perdu l’hégémonie scientifique, ce qui présente des implications considérables. Les chercheurs occidentaux, ou formés à l’Ouest, ou par lui, ne peuvent se contenter du projet d’une extension à la planète tout entière de concepts et de catégories nés exclusivement, croit-on trop souvent, dans une seule partie du monde. Nous devons repenser les valeurs universelles […]. L’expression « Penser global » constitue un signe de ralliement pour cet ouvrage qui rassemble les contributions de chercheurs en sciences sociales parmi les plus reconnus dans le monde. Penser global, c’est s’inté-resser à des logiques mondiales, planétaires, et articuler ce niveau d’analyse à d’autres niveaux, régionaux, nationaux ou encore locaux. (Michel Wieviorka) Avec les contributions de : Elijah Anderson, Jean Baubérot, Rajeev Bhargava, Judit Bokser Liwerant, Manuel Castells, Philippe Descola, Mireille Delmas-Marty, Jean-Pierre Dozon, Marc Fleurbaey, Michel Foucher, Nancy Fraser, René Frydman, Nilüfer Göle, Alain d’Iribarne, François Jullien, Hervé Le Bras, Dominique Méda, Edgar Morin, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Ernesto Ottone, Jean-Luc Racine, Jean-Daniel Rainhorn, Ignacy Sachs, Yves Schemeil, Farzana Shaikh, Brian Stock, Alain Touraine, Yuan Tseh Lee, Imma Tubella, Immanuel Wallerstein, Michel Wieviorka.
Globalization --- Social sciences --- Research --- Humanities --- Sciences sociales --- Sciences humaines --- Mondialisation --- Recherche --- Research. --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Classical education --- Globalization - Congresses --- Social sciences - Research - Congresses --- sciences sociales --- mondialisation --- science de l’information et de la communication --- sciences humaines et sociales --- savoir --- globalisation
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