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  • Civic Engagement and Social Media

    Political Participation Beyond Protest

    Edited by J. Uldam, A. Vestergaard ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering otherwise marginalized groups. This book addresses questions like what happens after the moment of protest and global visibility and whether social media can also help sustain civic engagement beyond protest. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • 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 USD

  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Creative Industries

    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and analyses how these developments relate to wider debates about globalization, cities, culture and the global creative economy.Flew considers creative ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • New Public Governance, the Third Sector, and Co-Production

    Edited by Victor Pestoff, Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    In recent years public management research in a variety of disciplines has paid increasing attention to the role of citizens and the third sector in the provision of public services. Several of these efforts have employed the concept of co-production to better understand and explain this trend. This book aims to go further by systematizing the growing body of academic papers and reports that focus ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mediation and Protest Movements

    Edited by Bart Cammaerts, Alice Mattoni, Patrick McCurdy ...
    Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Discreet Power

    How the World Economic Forum Shapes Market Agendas

    by Christina Garsten, Adrienne Sörbom ...
    Series series Emerging Frontiers in the Global Economy
    In Discreet Power, Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom undertake an ethnographic study of the World Economic Forum (WEF). Accessing one of the primary agenda-setting organizations of our day, they draw on interviews and participant observation to examine how the WEF wields its influence. They situate the WEF within an emerging system of "discretionary governance," in which actors craft ideas and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The New Public Governance?

    Emerging Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Public Governance

    Edited by Stephen P. Osborne ...
    Despite predictions that 'new public management' would establish itself as the new paradigm of Public Administration and Management, recent academic research has highlighted concerns about the intra-organizational focus and limitations of this approach. This book represents a comprehensive analysis of the state of the art of public management, examining and framing the debate in this important ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

  • The Information Society

    Issues and Illusions

    by David Lyon ...
    This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of social existence without precedent - the 'information society'. Intended as a bridge between the literatures of 'social theory' and the 'social impact of technology', this study exposes the myths surrounding the creation of the information society, discussing technologies such as cable TV and robotics. ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Network Society

    A New Context for Planning

    Edited by Louis Albrechts, Seymour Mandelbaum ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    In a clear and rewarding style, Albrechts and Mandelbaum consider the challenges that the new paradigm of the Network Society creates for Urban and Regional Planning. Chapters grouped into five themes discuss theoretical and practical perspectives on the contemporary organization of social, economic, cultural, political and physical spaces. These sections are:models of the Network Societythe ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Creative Industries

    Culture and Policy

    by Terry Flew ...
    "Moving from age-old warnings about the influence of the cultural industry to a tentative embrace of a global creative society, Terry Flew′s new book provides an excellent overview of this exciting field. Warmly recommended for students and policymakers alike."- Mark Deuze, Indiana University**"A comprehensive text on the state of the art of the creative industries... a running commentary on the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change

    by Karin Gwinn Wilkins, Thomas Tufte, Rafael Obregon ...
    Series series Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research
    This valuable resource offers a wealth of practical and conceptual guidance to all those engaged in struggles for social justice around the world. It explains in accessible language and painstaking detail how to deploy and to understand the tools of media and communication in advancing the goals of social, cultural, and political change.A stand-out reference on a vital topic of primary ... Read more

    $187.00 USD