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  • Digital Justice

    Engineering Disadvantage?

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world. It asks what do we lose and gain when legal proceedings go online? Adopting a multi-disciplinary socio-legal perspective, it draws on an emerging body of empirical evidence from the UK, Australia, Canada and the US about the ways in which digital justice is being conceived of and experienced. Insights are drawn ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Social Beings, Future Belongings

    Reimagining the Social

    Series series Sociological Futures
    Social Beings, Future Belongings is a collection of sociological essays that address an increasingly relevant matter: what does belonging look like in the twenty-first century? The book critically explores the concept of belonging and how it can respond to contemporary problems in not only the traditional domains of citizenship and migration, but also in detention practices, queer and feminist ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not... ... Read more

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  • Brand Command

    Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control

    by Alex Marland ...
    Series series Communication, Strategy, and Politics
    The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision making is increasingly centralized in the Prime Minister’s Office. What is happening to our democracy? In this persuasive book, Alex argues that political parties and government are beholden to the same marketing ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Make Bosses Pay

    Why We Need Unions

    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    With the world changing at breakneck speed and workers at the whim of apps, bad bosses and zero-hours contracts, why should we care about unions? Aren’t they just for white-haired, middle-aged miners anyway?The government constantly attacks unions, CEOs devote endless time and resources to undermining them, and many unions themselves are stuck in the past. Despite this, inspiring work is happening ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irish Business and Society

    Governing, Participating and Transforming in the 21st Century

    A collection of stimulating essays exploring the wide-ranging debates surrounding the relationship between business and society in 21st century Ireland.Wide-ranging, diverse and thought-provoking contributions from leading business researchers, economists, sociologists and political scientists from Ireland and abroad probe five central themes: the making and unmaking of the Celtic Tiger; ... Read more

    $20.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Politics in Canada

    Promises and Realities

    Edited by Tamara Small, Harold Jansen ...
    Digital Politics in Canada addresses a significant gap in the scholarly literature on both media in Canada and Canadian political science. Using a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, historical, and focused analysis of Canadian digital politics, this book covers the full scope of actors in the Canadian political system, including traditional political institutions of the government, elected ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Ultra Libris

    Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada

    The definitive policy overview of the book publishing industry in CanadaIn a thorough exploration of Canadas book industry, Ultra Libris provides a historical backdrop to understand modern events in book publishing. From the Massey Commission (1952) and the Ontario Royal Commission on Book Publishing (1971–72) to the explosion of national book publishing in the 1970s and the industry–government ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Brother Watch

    The State of Civil Liberties in Britain

    by Alex Deane ...
    The debate about our DNA database, the largest per capita in the world, has dominated headlines throughout the last few years. Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in the world, and even more are being installed - including in private homes, facing out into the street. With the Intercept Modernisation Programme, the current government plans to record details of every telephone call ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Power University, The

    The Social Purpose Of Higher Education In The 21St Century

    In a changing world, what is the social purpose of higher education?Combining a critique of contemporary universities, a manifesto for the future and a provocation to stimulate change, The New Power University examines how higher education can flourish in the 21st century. Using the framing of ‘new power’, Jonathan Grant illustrates how a different purpose for universities is necessary, through ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Media and Public Shaming

    Drawing the Boundaries of Disclosure

    by Julian Petley ...
    Series series Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
    The media today, and especially the national press, are frequently in conflict with people in the public eye, particularly politicians and celebrities, over the disclosure of private information and behaviour. Historically, journalists have argued that 'naming and shaming' serious wrong-doing and behaviour on the part of public officials is justified as being in the public interest. However, when ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Corrupted

    A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities

    In South African higher education, the images of dysfunction are everywhere. Student protests. Violence. Police presence. Rubber or real bullets. Class disruptions. Burning tyres. Damaged buildings. Injury and sometimes death. Reports of wholesale corruption. Year after year, often in the same set of universities; the problem of routine instability seems insoluble.The financial, academic and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD