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  • Digital Inequality in Cultural Institutions

    Rethinking Digital Transformation Policy and Practice

    by Indigo Holcombe-James ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
    What do cultural institutions need to do digital work- and what happens when those needs go unmet?Contemporary cultural policy positions digital transformation as a democratic enterprise: a path toward greater access, inclusion, and participation. But this book shows that the reality is far more uneven.Drawing on nearly a decade of ethnographic research with more than 100 cultural institutions ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Is Technology Good for Education?

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Regulating Platforms

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global digital economy, concerns about information monopolies, hateful online content, and the impact on media content creators and creative industries have become more marked. Consequently governments, politicians, and civil society ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    Rhetoric, Reality and Promise

    by Patrice Dutil, Cosmo Howard, John Langford, Jeffrey Roy ...
    Series series Governance Series
    In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable resources are being invested in measuring and showcasing performance improvement.This book probes ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Higher Expectations

    How to Survive Academia, Make it Better for Others, and Transform the University

    by Roberta Hawkins, Leslie Kern ...
    Higher Expectations is a practical guide to navigating academia for people who want to improve their own day-to-day work lives and create better conditions for everyone. Universities are broken: they’re built on systems that are discriminatory, hierarchical, and individualistic. This hurts the people that work and learn in them and limits the potential for universities to contribute to a better ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Uneven Innovation

    The Work of Smart Cities

    by Jennifer Clark ...
    The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter cities will bring in new revenue while saving money. They will be more of everything that a twenty-first century urban planner, citizen, and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Art Institution of Tomorrow

    Reinventing the Model

    by Fatos Üstek ...
    Series series Hot Topics in the Art World
    The Art Institution of Tomorrow is a unique manifesto for raising the standard of institutional practices across the world. It suggests that existing art institutions are not equipped to deal with the radical social, economic and environmental change we are living through and engage with advancement in the arts, and that unless they re-focus on their core purpose and fundamentally transform their ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sharing Cities

    A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

    by Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Industry Unbound

    The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

    by Ari Ezra Waldman ...
    In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research based on interviews with scores of tech employees and internal documents outlining corporate strategies, Waldman reveals that companies don't just lobby against privacy law; they also manipulate how we think about privacy, how their employees approach ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

    How Design Activism Confronts Growth

    by Ann Thorpe ...
    The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Evidence and Results in International Development eBook

    Playing the game to change the rules?

    Edited by Rosalind Eyben, Irene Guijt, Chris Roche, Cathy Shutt ...
    Understanding and demonstrating the effectiveness of efforts to improve the lives of those living in poverty is an essential part of international development practice. But who decides what counts as good or credible evidence? Can the drive to measure results do justice to and promote transformational change – change that challenges the power relations that produce and reproduce inequality, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Corporate Social Responsibility

    Strategy, Communication, Governance

    Edited by Andreas Rasche, Mette Morsing, Jeremy Moon ...
    This upper-level textbook offers an original and up-to-date introduction to issues in corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a global perspective. Written by an international team of experts, it guides students through key themes in CSR including strategy, communication, regulation and governance. Balancing critiques of CSR with a discussion of the opportunities it creates, it includes ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD