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“marie lapointe”

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  • The Wikimedia Movement in Canada

    Communities, Institutions, and Open Culture

    Edited by Jean-Michel Lapointe, Marie D. Martel ...
    The Wikimedia Movement in Canadaexamines the distinctive role Canadians have played in creating and sustaining the world’s largest free encyclopedia. Drawing on interdisciplinary case studies, this volume investigates how Wikimedia projects transform the creation, circulation, and governance of knowledge. Contributors probe the relationship between identity and contribution across English, French, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Peripheral Visions

    Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

    by Eric N. Baklanoff, Othon Banos Ramirez, Eugene M. Wilson, Marie Lapointe, Paul K. Eiss, Lynda S. Morrison0, Stephanie J. Smith1, Dr. Terry Rugeley3 ...
    The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Cloakers

    by Alexandra Lapointe ...
    Narrated by Mary Hildebrandt ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Shapeshifting—a Blessing or a Curse?Crystia is not a typical teenager—she’s a Cloaker. She spends her time perfecting her shapeshifting abilities under the watchful eyes of the Black Coats, who use her powers to maintain order. The good news is, she’s not alone. She’s trapped in The Port with other shapeshifters who were taken from their parents at birth. Under the guidance of the mysteriously ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Planned Obsolescence

    Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

    by Kathleen Fitzpatrick ...
    Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishingAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working ... Read more

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  • Digital Sociology in Everyday Life

    Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...
    Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

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    Why Location Matters in a Networked World

    by Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva ...
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  • Scholarly Communication

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Rick Anderson ...
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    Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

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  • Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

    Edited by Karol Jan Borowiecki, Neil Forbes, Antonella Fresa ...
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    The central purpose of this collection of essays is to make a creative addition to the debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain. In the 21st century the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which cultural heritage is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited, or simply exists. The book is about these changes; about the decentring of ... Read more

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