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  • The Politics and Possibilities of Self-Tracking Technology

    Data, Bodies and Design

    by Suneel Jethani ...
    Collecting data about our lives, our bodies and our behaviours has become a part of everyday practice that promises greater self-awareness, healthier living and increased productivity. This book focuses on the dialectical relationship between users and designers of self-tracking technology to examine how logics of datafication redefine the body. It explores what these emerging relations mean for ... Read more

    $112.99 CAD

  • Openness in Practice

    Understanding Attitudes to Open Government Data

    by Suneel Jethani, Dale Leorke ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at open data practices historically and from the perspective of those currently involved in advocating for making government data freely available. Based on interviews with practitioners, users and evangelists across three Australian-based case studies illustrating contemporary open data practices, this book discusses how open data has evolved, why certain barriers to openness ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

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  • The Quantified Self

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains. The Quantified Self movement has emerged to promote 'self-knowledge through numbers'.In this groundbreaking book Deborah Lupton critically analyses the social, cultural and political dimensions of contemporary self-tracking and identifies the ... Read more

    $17.99 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 Handbook of Online and Social Media Research

    Tools and Techniques for Market Researchers

    by Ray Poynter ...
    Drawing together the new techniques available to the market researcher into a single reference, The Handbook of Online and Social Media Research explores how these innovations are being used by the leaders in the field. This groundbreaking reference examines why traditional research is broken, both in theory and practice, and includes chapters on online research communities, community panels, blog ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Big Data in Education

    The digital future of learning, policy and practice

    by Ben Williamson ...
    Big data has the power to transform education and educational research. Governments, researchers and commercial companies are only beginning to understand the potential that big data offers in informing policy ideas, contributing to the development of new educational tools and innovative ways of conducting research.This cutting-edge overview explores the current state-of-play, looking at big data ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Managing Social Research

    A Practical Guide

    by Roger Tarling ...
    Series series Social Research Today
    An essential tool for those planning to undertake social research, this exceptional book tackles many of the specific concerns and issues that arise. A well structured text, it offers a comprehensive introduction to a range of important areas in project management, including:commissioning researchpreparing a tender or grant applicationrisk and stakeholder analysismanaging the field work and data ... Read more

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  • Writing For Academic Journals

    by Rowena Murray ...
    This book unravels the process of writing academic papers. It tells readers what good papers look like and how they can be written. ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Digital Dominance

    The Power of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple

    Edited by Martin Moore, Damian Tambini ...
    Across the globe, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft have accumulated power in ways that existing regulatory and intellectual frameworks struggle to comprehend. A consensus is emerging that the power of these new digital monopolies is unprecedented, and that it has important implications for journalism, politics, and society. It is increasingly clear that democratic societies require ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Digital Health

    Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Series series Critical Approaches to Health
    The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response to the techno-utopian and entrepreneurial vision of the digital health phenomenon. Deborah Lupton, internationally renowned for her scholarship on the sociocultural and political aspects of medicine and health as ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age

    by Muhammad Muinul Islam, Mohammad Ehsan ...
    In simple terms, e-governance revolves around the idea of performing the policy, service and development functions of the government with the help of the ICTs so as to manage and steer the multi-sectoral stakeholder relations on a non-hierarchical way. Keeping this simple notion in mind, From Government to E-Governance: Public Administration in the Digital Age attempts to introduce innovative ... Read more

    $189.99 CAD

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  • Education and Social Media

    Toward a Digital Future

    Edited by Christine Greenhow, Julia Sonnevend, Colin Agur ...
    Series series The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
    Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn, and the very foundations of education? What controversies surround the integration of social media in students ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD