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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “debora halbert”
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  • The State of Copyright

    The complex relationships of cultural creation in a globalized world

    by Debora Halbert ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws.While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further expansion of copyright are necessary. By examining the multiple and competing interests in creating the ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Resisting Intellectual Property

    by Debora J. Halbert ...
    Series series RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
    Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to infringe upon other, more basic, priorities. This book investigates the ways in which activists, scholars, and communities are resisting the expansion of copyright and patent law in the information age.Debora J. Halbert explores how an alternative ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Owning the World of Ideas

    Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism

    by Matthew David, Debora Halbert ...
    Series series SAGE Swifts
    Formally, ownership of ideas is legally impossible, and can never be globally secured. Yet, in very real and significant ways these limits have been undone. In principle, ideas cannot be owned, yet, undoing the distinction between ideas and tangible manifestations, the distinction which underpins the principle, allows the principle to hold even whilst its meaning is hollowed out.Post-Cold War ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Intellectual Property

    Edited by Matthew David, Debora Halbert ...
    This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of academic disciplines, from law, economics, geography, sociology, politics and anthropology.This volume addresses the full spectrum of ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Research and Practice in Physical Education

    by Deborah Tannehill, Ann MacPhail, Ger Halbert, Frances Murphy ...
    Research findings in education can provide invaluable insight into how teaching practice can be improved, but research papers are often inaccessible and hard to digest. This innovative new text is designed to assist physical education students, pre-service teachers, practising teachers and teacher educators to learn how to read research and to apply it to practice in primary and secondary physical ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

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  • Castells and the Media

    Theory and Media

    by Philip N. Howard ...
    Series series Theory and Media
    One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital media strategy, new communication technologies are a fundamental infrastructure for the economy, and the internet has become an invaluable tool for ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Civic Media

    Technology, Design, Practice

    Edited by Eric Gordon, Paul Mihailidis ...
    Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture—the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civic, political, and social life.Countless people around the world harness the affordances of digital media to enable democratic participation, coordinate disaster relief, campaign for policy change, and strengthen local advocacy groups. The world watched ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

    by Yochai Benkler ...
    With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Intellectual Property and Human Development

    Current Trends and Future Scenarios

    Edited by Tzen Wong, Graham Dutfield ...
    This book examines the social impact of intellectual property laws. It addresses issues and trends relating to health, food security, education, new technologies, preservation of bio-cultural heritage and contemporary challenges in promoting the arts. It explores how intellectual property frameworks could be better calibrated to meet socio-economic needs in countries at different stages of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Smart Citizens, Smarter State

    The Technologies of Expertise and the Future of Governing

    by Beth Simone Noveck ...
    Government “of the people, by the people, for the people” expresses an ideal that resonates in all democracies. Yet poll after poll reveals deep distrust of institutions that seem to have left “the people” out of the governing equation. Government bureaucracies that are supposed to solve critical problems on their own are a troublesome outgrowth of the professionalization of public life in the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Cyberactivism

    Online Activism in Theory and Practice

    Edited by MARTHA MCCAUGHEY, Michael Ayers ...
    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa

    by John Abbott ...
    This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made.With ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD