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  • Women in the Digital World

    Edited by Anya Schiffrin, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Michelle Ferrier ...
    Women’s existence in the digital world has been closely studied by scholars and attracted the attention of activists worldwide. Women, like men, early on saw the Internet as a potentially powerful and liberating tool that would help them find groups or communities with similar aims and interests. Today there is more awareness of the deleterious effects of unconstrained online speech such as online ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Oil In The World Economy

    Edited by R. W. Ferrier, A. Fursenko ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Economics and Politics of Oil and Gas
    This book discusses the oil industry and its impact on the world economy in the twentieth century. It examines the importance of oil in different sectors, from 1900-1973 and stresses the relevance of oil as a factor in modern economic history not only in national terms but also within an international context. The book includes chapters on American policy towards developing economies in the first ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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  • Migration Research in a Digitized World

    Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges

    Edited by Steffen Pötzschke, Sebastian Rinken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • E-Research

    Transformation in Scholarly Practice

    Edited by Nicholas W. Jankowski ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Research Methods
    No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Ethical Evidence and Policymaking

    Interdisciplinary and International Research

    Edited by Ron Iphofen, Dónal O’Mathúna ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice.The book covers important policy areas including ... Read more

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  • Scholarship in the Digital Age

    Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

    by Christine L. Borgman ...
    An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

  • Beyond Data

    Human Rights, Ethical and Social Impact Assessment in AI

    by Alessandro Mantelero ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book focuses on the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on individuals and society from a legal perspective, providing a comprehensive risk-based methodological framework to address it. Building on the limitations of data protection in dealing with the challenges of AI, the author proposes an integrated approach to risk assessment that focuses on human rights and encompasses ... Read more

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  • Research for Development

    A Practical Guide

    by Sophie Laws, Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Rachel Marcus ...
    Research for Development offers a comprehensive guide to commissioning, managing and undertaking research in development work. It serves both as a practical reference manual and an indispensable learning tool.Divided into three parts, the book provides a complete overview of the research process spanning:- the uses, planning and management of research- reviewing existing evidence- learning ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Participatory Design

    Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Toni Robertson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use. Its central concern is how collaborative design processes can be driven by the participation of the people affected by the technology designed. Embracing a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies, tools, environments, businesses, and social institutions ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

  • Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector: Advances in E-Government

    Edited by Vishanth Weerakkody ...
    Electronic Government is continually advancing in topics such as hardware and software technology, e-government adoption and diffusion, e-government policy, e-government planning, management, e-government applications, and e-government impacts. Technology Enabled Transformation of the Public Sector: Advances in E-Government is filled with original research about electronic government and supplies ... Read more

    $189.59 CAD

  • Restricted Access

    Media, Disability, and the Politics of Participation

    by Elizabeth Ellcessor ...
    Series Book 6 - Postmillennial Pop
    How reconsidering digital media and participatory cultures from the standpoint of disability allows for a full understanding of accessibility.While digital media can offer many opportunities for civic and cultural participation, this technology is not equally easy for everyone to use. Hardware, software, and cultural expectations combine to make some technologies an easier fit for some bodies than ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD