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Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now

Edited by Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm, Astrid J. Nyland, Noa Lavi ...

Series Book 10 - Human-Environment Interactions
This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and ... Read more

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This open access book gathers different case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards. Joined in this book, authors display a range of strategies how people could face natural hazards and climate change, how they manage stress at a group or personal level, and how they transmit their knowledge about dreadful events and
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Media Industries in Crisis

What COVID Unmasked

Edited by Vicki Mayer, Noa Lavie, Miranda Banks ...

This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries—examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis.With accounts from the frontlines, Media Industries in Crisis provides readers with a stakeholder framework, management lessons, and urgent commentaries to ... Read more

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This edited volume offers a global overview of the immediate impacts the COVID pandemic had on local and national film, television, streaming, and social media industries—examining in compelling detail how these industries managed the crisis.With accounts from the frontlines, Media Industries in Crisis provides readers with a stakeholder framework, management lessons, and urgent commentaries to
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The Chaos Machine

The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

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Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in JournalismFrom a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review)tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for ... Read more

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Move Fast and Break Things

How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

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A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the ... Read more

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A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.Move Fast and Break Things is the riveting account of a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the
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News Writing and Reporting

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News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory is a concise, friendly guide to mastering the fundamentals of journalism practice in Canada. Award-winning Canadian writer and editor Bruce Gillespie demonstrates essential skills - such as conducting interviews, evaluating newsworthiness, developing story ideas, and recognizing legal and ethical issues - which are followed by a ... Read more

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News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory is a concise, friendly guide to mastering the fundamentals of journalism practice in Canada. Award-winning Canadian writer and editor Bruce Gillespie demonstrates essential skills - such as conducting interviews, evaluating newsworthiness, developing story ideas, and recognizing legal and ethical issues - which are followed by a
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While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of ... Read more

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While today’s business world is dominated by technology and data analysis, award-winning financial journalist and anthropology PhD Gillian Tett advocates thinking like an anthropologist to better understand consumer behavior, markets, and organizations to address some of society’s most urgent challenges.Amid severe digital disruption, economic upheaval, and political flux, how can we make sense of
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Spreadable Media

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Spreadable Media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts “stickiness”—aggregating attention in centralized places—with “spreadability”—dispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks,some ... Read more

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**A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades—a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge.“In a world of half-baked hot takes, Marian Salzman is a true seer.”—Andrew Yang**A little more than twenty years ago, the Y2K computer glitch threatened to bring the global economy ... Read more

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**A pioneering forecaster predicts the trends and technologies that will shape global culture and commerce in the next two decades—a must-read guide for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and anyone looking for an edge.“In a world of half-baked hot takes, Marian Salzman is a true seer.”—Andrew Yang**A little more than twenty years ago, the Y2K computer glitch threatened to bring the global economy
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A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine ... Read more

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A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine
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Unwoke

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Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now.In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America.The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push ... Read more

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Our institutions have gone "woke." Everybody knows that. But nobody has come up with a way to stop it. Until now.In this hard-hitting new book, Senator Ted Cruz delivers a realistic battle plan for defeating the woke assault on America.The Democratic Party is now controlled by Cultural Marxists. So are our universities and public schools, the media, Big Tech, and Big Business. Corporations push
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Communication, Power and Social Change

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