Taking a hands-on and holistic approach to data, Data + Journalism provides a complete guide to reporting data-driven stories. This book offers insights into data journalism from a global perspective, including datasets and interviews with data journalists from countries around the world. Emphasized by examples drawn from frequently updated sets of open data posted by authoritative sources like…
This collection considers how digital images and social media reconfigure the way conflicts are played out, represented and perceived around the globe. Devoted to developing original theoretical frameworks and empirical insights, the volume addresses the role of user images and social media in relation to urgent subjects such as public opinion and emotion, solidarity, evidence and verification,…
With essays by today's leading leftist social critics, Identity Trumps Socialism presents a rigorous and persuasive primer on the problems generated by postmodern and neoliberal challenges to the legacy of emancipatory universality. In addition to the ways in which capitalism has used racialized and gendered forms of oppression to divide the working class, today's activism must also understand …
Once staunch advocates of international cooperation, political elites are increasingly divided over the merits of global governance. Populist leaders attack international organizations for undermining national democracy, while mainstream politicians defend their importance for solving transboundary problems. Bridging international relations, comparative politics, and cognitive psychology, Lisa …
This book meticulously examines the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (including numerous letters) to present their thoughts on communication and media studies from the perspective of “world intercourse” to reveal their spread in all areas of social information dissemination of ideas. The scope of the book ranges from language, writing and printing to newspapers, and from religion, li…
In contrast to other social science disciplines, communication studies has hardly dealt systematically with the phenomenon of terrorism. The book presented by Liane Rothenberger on “Terrorism as Communication” closes this gap in a convincing manner. In addition to a concise review of the current state of international research, the work provides a differentiated analysis of theoretical appr…
We give up too easily. With a simple change of attitude, what seem like insurmountable obstacles become once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Ryan Holiday, who dropped out of college at nineteen to serve as an apprentice to bestselling 'modern Machiavelli' Robert Greene and is now a media consultant for billion-dollar brands, draws on the philosophy of the Stoics to guide you in every situation, sh…
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Do numbers have a life of their own or do we give them meaning? How do data play a role in constructing people’s perceptions of the world around them? How far can we trust numbers to speak truth to power? The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique moment to answer these questions. This book examines how politicians, experts and journalists gave meaning to data through the story of seven iconic …
Terror warnings, fake news, spectacles and scandals in real time – the networked world has wound itself up into a nervous frenzy, where everything has become visible: the banal and the terrible, the uninhibited abuse and the anonymous attack. Translated for the first time into English, Digital Fever analyses the patterns of outrage and agitation that have come to define social media and th…
This auto-translation book overviews the fish population and its research methods, help readers in understanding the concept of fish population and population identification. It divides into seven chapters according to the characteristics of the subject and the development results. Based on a systematic introduction to the basic concepts and research contents of the biology of fishery resources…
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This book is structured so that each section builds on the previous one, progressing from simpler concepts to more complicated ones. However, the book is also assembled so that you can flip directly to a chapter or specific topic to find the exact information you seek, such as information on buying a home or planning for retirement. Imagine that your financial journey is like a cross-country r…
Th e term “network” can mean all sorts of things, but I use it here to describe three levels of connections, all insecure. Th ere are the social connec- tions made explicit by social technologies; the behavioral networks mapped and traced through consumer-level tracking and aggregation of big data; and perhaps most powerful and invisible, the deeply rooted and interconnected networ…
This little book was written to accomplish something big: economic literacy. It is intentionally kept very short to be inviting rather than intimidating. You will gain life-changing understanding of how the economy works in practically no time. Per Bylund will make you excited about what economics has to offer. Because economic literacy is mind-opening. Sound economic reasoning is an enormou…
As this project started as a PhD dissertation, I express my great thanks to my first supervisor, Birgit Krawietz, whose provided criticism and constructive advice on writing a dissertation which is not only enjoyable for expert readers, but also for non-expert readers. Without her suggestions, I would have ignored the importance of an international audience. Furthermore, her comments and s…
This book is about more than business or economics. The rise of the Velvet Rope Economy threatens to worsen the divisiveness that plagues our politics and culture today. After all, if you never actually encounter people from a different class or social background, it’s much easier to demonize them. “With growing inequality, there is an attempt by the affluent to buy their way out of public …
Late in December 2019, the world first learnt about the outbreak of a cluster of viral pneumonia cases in Wuhan Province, China. Soon after, on 9 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the Chinese authorities had identified a novel coronavirus as the cause of these cases. The virus spread rapidly across the globe, and the out- break of the initially unnamed disea…
This book addresses the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in and by companies and the consequent need for private sector AI regulation. Highlighting the challenges to responsible business conduct and considering stakeholder interests, it identifies ethical concerns and discusses AI standards and AI norms. Based on this needs-based analysis, the author chooses relational e…