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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Digital Literacy and Inclusion

    Stories, Platforms, Communities

    Edited by Danica Radovanović ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Amid the opportunities and challenges we face at the dawn of the fifth industrial revolution, Digital Literacy and Inclusion presents a carefully curated selection of case studies, theories, research, and best practices based on digital literacy as a prerequisite for effective digital inclusion.More than a dozen experts provide deep insights in stories, research reports, and geographical studies ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Migration Research in a Digitized World

    Using Innovative Technology to Tackle Methodological Challenges

    Edited by Steffen Pötzschke, Sebastian Rinken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores implications of the digital revolution for migration scholars’ methodological toolkit. New information and communication technologies hold considerable potential to improve the quality of migration research by originating previously non-viable solutions to a myriad of methodological challenges in this field of study. Combining cutting-edge migration scholarship and ... Read more

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  • Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations

    Edited by Vanessa Dennen, Camille Dickson-Deane, Xun Ge, Dirk Ifenthaler, Sahana Murthy, Jennifer C. Richardson ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book focuses on making the transition from in-person, classroom education to other feasible alternative modes and methodologies to deliver education at all levels. The book presents and analyzes research questions to explore in this arena, including pedagogical issues relating to technological and infrastructure challenges, teacher professional development, issues of disparity, ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2019

    Comparative Methodology in the Era of Big Data and Global Networks

    Edited by Radhika Gorur, Sam Sellar, Gita Steiner-Khamsi ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    Digital methodologies, new forms of data visualization and computer-based learning and assessment are creating new challenges as well as opportunities for scholars in educational research. The World Yearbook of Education 2019 explores this highly relevant topic, opening a new discussion about the various conceptual and methodological challenges and opportunities in contemporary educational ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

    Edited by Arul Chib, Julian May, Roxana Barrantes ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy

    Edited by Eleonora Bertoni, Matteo Fontana, Lorenzo Gabrielli, Serena Signorelli, Michele Vespe ...
    This open access handbook describes foundational issues, methodological approaches and examples on how to analyse and model data using Computational Social Science (CSS) for policy support. Up to now, CSS studies have mostly developed on a small, proof-of concept, scale that prevented from unleashing its potential to provide systematic impact to the policy cycle, as well as from improving the ... Read more

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  • Technology and Social Inclusion

    Rethinking the Digital Divide

    by Mark Warschauer ...
    Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies. Drawing on theory from political science, economics, sociology, psychology, communications, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Data Revolution

    A Critical Analysis of Big Data, Open Data and Data Infrastructures

    by Rob Kitchin ...
    Our world is becoming ever more data-driven, transforming how business is conducted, governance enacted, and knowledge produced. Yet, the nature of data and the scope and implications of the changes taking place are not always clear. The Data Revolution is a must read for anyone interested in why data have become so important in the contemporary era.Thoroughly updated, including ten new chapters, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance

    Technologies and Methods for Online Citizen Engagement in Public Policy Making

    Edited by Yannis Charalabidis, Sotirios Koussouris ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government. Moving towards open governance roadmaps worldwide, electronic participation and citizen engagement stand out as a new domain, important both for decision makers and citizens; and over the last decade, there have ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory

    Edited by Arthur Tatnall ...
    Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has existed as a topic of interest among social theorists for decades. Due to the prevalence of technology in modern society, discussions over the influence of actor-network theory on the changing scope of technology can assist in facilitating further research and scientific thought. Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory focuses on cross ... Read more

    $166.49 USD

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  • Digital Towns

    Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies

    by Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati, Edel Conway, Declan Curran, Grace Fox, Colm O'Gorman ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This open access book explores the digital transformation of small and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources, competition from urban and global markets, and population trends, rural communities present lesser access and use of digital technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than their urban ... Read more

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