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  • Calibrated Intimacies

    Algorithms, Emotion, and the Soft Power of Apps

    by Tanja Bosch ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access Palgrave Pivot examines how mobile apps organise emotional life, digital intimacy and everyday forms of platform power. Bringing platform studies and app studies into dialogue with digital sociology, feminist theory and the sociology of emotions, Tanja Bosch develops four connected concepts: affective legibility, calibrated intimacy, emotional governance and the soft power of apps ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics

    Edited by Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Jessica Yarin Robinson, Tanja Bosch, Kateryna Kasianenko ...
    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    This updated and expanded second edition brings together cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of political uses of social media.In its 32 chapters, this second edition of The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics covers the good, the bad, and the as yet uncertain of current developments in the uses of social media in political ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa

    by Tanja E Bosch ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Africa
    This bookexplores how social media is used in South Africa, through a range of case studies exploring various social networking sites and applications.This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Filling the Void

    Social Media and The Continuation of Capitalism

    by Marcus Gilroy-Ware ...
    Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • 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

  • The Internet of Things

    by Mercedes Bunz, Graham Meikle ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things have become media, able to both generate and communicate information. This has become known as 'the internet of things'.In this ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Media and Information Literacy

    An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century

    by Marcus Leaning ...
    Media and Information Literacy: An Integrated Approach for the 21st Century provides a novel rationale for the integration of media and information literacy and gives direction to contemporary media and information literacy education. The book takes a synthetic approach to these two areas, presenting critical histories of both. The book explores the influence of political forces and educational ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • Ten Drafts to Complete Your PhD

    by Tara Brabazon ...
    Starting a PhD is an important moment in our lives. Completing a PhD is an incredible achievement. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Attrition rates are high. In many nations, only 50% of the people that start a PhD finish it. Why? What is going wrong between admission and graduation?Ten drafts to complete your PhD provides concrete strategies to complete a doctorate. Structured ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Writing for Academic Success

    by Gail Craswell, Megan Poore ...
    Series series Student Success
    Writing for Academic Success is a vital practical guide for any ambitious student. If you seek to manage your writing effectively, reduce stress, and improve your confidence and efficiency, this book is for you. The authors show you how to acquire communicative rigor in research essays, reports, book and article reviews, exam papers, research proposals, and literature reviews, through to thesis ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Algorithmic Intimacy

    The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships

    by Anthony Elliott ...
    Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live, who to befriend and who to date.In Algorithmic Intimacy, Anthony Elliott examines the power of predictive algorithms in reshaping ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Information Technology and Authentic Learning

    Realising the Potential of Computers in the Primary Classroom

    by Angela McFarlane ...
    As the presence of computers in the primary classroom increases and IT becomes a bigger part of learning, the book takes a realistic look at the role of the computer in the National Curriculum, and asks some important questions. The book is designed to help teachers incorporate IT into their day-to-day teaching, offering practical guidance and advice on task planning and management and includes ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Everyday Data Cultures

    by Jean Burgess, Kath Albury, Anthony McCosker, Rowan Wilken ...
    The AI revolution can seem powerful and unstoppable, extracting data from every aspect of our lives and subjecting us to unprecedented surveillance and control. But at ground level, even the most advanced ‘smart’ technologies are not as all-powerful as either the tech companies or their critics would have us believe.From gig worker activism to wellness tracking with sex toys and TikTokers' ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD