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  • Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy

    Philosophy, Practice and Autonomy of a Collective Platform in the Age of Digital Intelligence

    by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, Carol Romero ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, and used by more than 500 institutions with over three million users worldwide.The platform allows ... Read more

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  • Sensorimotor Life

    An enactive proposal

    by Ezequiel Di Paolo, Thomas Buhrmann, Xabier Barandiaran ...
    How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds work - how we learn about the world and how we remember people and events - may feel dissatisfied with the answers contemporary science has to offer. Sensorimotor Life draws on current theoretical developments in the enactive approach ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual

    Edited by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Arantza Etxeberria ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book offers an innovative exploration of the concept of autonomy, extending beyond the traditional individualistic perspectives to encompass a richer, more interdependent understanding of autonomy in various domains. The authors delve into the multifaceted nature of autonomy, traversing theoretical, biological, psychological, and technological landscapes to present a comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice

    The Capability Approach Re-Examined

    by Ingrid Robeyns ...
    How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues.Wellbeing, Freedom and ... Read more

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  • Beyond Data

    Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

    by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...
    Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding E-Government

    Information Systems in Public Administration

    by Vincent Homburg ...
    Governments these days often boast about the efficiency of their electronic systems. Information communication technologies (ICTs) apparently allow public service to become cheaper, faster and more democratic. E-government has become another buzzword, the shining future of the public realm. Critics claim, however, that ICTs’ potential for democratic renewal is hampered by ancient assumptions of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Cognitive Science of Science

    Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change

    by Paul Thagard ...
    A cognitive science perspective on scientific development, drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computational modeling.Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Logic of Connective Action

    Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

    by W. Lance Bennett, Alexandra Segerberg ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
    The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated. In many of ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Agent-Based Computational Sociology

    by Flaminio Squazzoni ...
    Most of the intriguing social phenomena of our time, such as international terrorism, social inequality, and urban ethnic segregation, are consequences of complex forms of agent interaction that are difficult to observe methodically and experimentally. This book looks at a new research stream that makes use of advanced computer simulation modelling techniques to spotlight agent interaction that ... Read more

    $74.00 USD

  • Cyberactivism

    Online Activism in Theory and Practice

    Edited by MARTHA MCCAUGHEY, Michael Ayers ...
    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Biosocial Becomings

    Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology

    Edited by Tim Ingold, Gisli Palsson ...
    All human life unfolds within a matrix of relations, which are at once social and biological. Yet the study of humanity has long been divided between often incompatible 'social' and 'biological' approaches. Reaching beyond the dualisms of nature and society and of biology and culture, this volume proposes a unique and integrated view of anthropology and the life sciences. Featuring contributions ... Read more

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  • E-government in Europe

    Re-booting the State

    Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes.Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe:the degree to which e-government translates into genuine reform of government and public administrationthe dual role of the EU as ... Read more

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