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The Wikimedia Movement in Canada

Communities, Institutions, and Open Culture

Edited by Jean-Michel Lapointe, Marie D. Martel ...

The Wikimedia Movement in Canadaexamines the distinctive role Canadians have played in creating and sustaining the world’s largest free encyclopedia. Drawing on interdisciplinary case studies, this volume investigates how Wikimedia projects transform the creation, circulation, and governance of knowledge. Contributors probe the relationship between identity and contribution across English, French, ... Read more

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The Wikimedia Movement in Canadaexamines the distinctive role Canadians have played in creating and sustaining the world’s largest free encyclopedia. Drawing on interdisciplinary case studies, this volume investigates how Wikimedia projects transform the creation, circulation, and governance of knowledge. Contributors probe the relationship between identity and contribution across English, French,
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Peripheral Visions

Politics, Society, and the Challenges of Modernity in Yucatan

by Eric N. Baklanoff, Othon Banos Ramirez, Eugene M. Wilson, Marie Lapointe, Paul K. Eiss, Lynda S. Morrison0, Stephanie J. Smith1, Dr. Terry Rugeley3 ...

The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced ... Read more

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The essays in this collection illuminate both the processes of change and the negative reactions that they frequently elicitedYucatan has been called “a world apart”—cut off from the rest of Mexico by geography and culture. Yet, despite its peripheral location, the region experienced substantial change in the decades after independence. As elsewhere in Mexico, apostles of modernization introduced
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Cloakers

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Shapeshifting—a Blessing or a Curse?Crystia is not a typical teenager—she’s a Cloaker. She spends her time perfecting her shapeshifting abilities under the watchful eyes of the Black Coats, who use her powers to maintain order. The good news is, she’s not alone. She’s trapped in The Port with other shapeshifters who were taken from their parents at birth. Under the guidance of the mysteriously ... Read more

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Shapeshifting—a Blessing or a Curse?Crystia is not a typical teenager—she’s a Cloaker. She spends her time perfecting her shapeshifting abilities under the watchful eyes of the Black Coats, who use her powers to maintain order. The good news is, she’s not alone. She’s trapped in The Port with other shapeshifters who were taken from their parents at birth. Under the guidance of the mysteriously
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When There Is Peace (Unabridged)

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Immerse yourself in the calming verses of "When There Is Peace" by Henry Austin Dobson. This collection of poems offers a soothing escape from the daily clamor. Dobson's lyrical voice paints a world where worries fade and tranquility reigns. Imagine flickering firelight dancing on a hearth, a gentle breeze rustling through leaves, or the quiet murmur of a babbling brook. With each turn of the ... Read more

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Immerse yourself in the calming verses of "When There Is Peace" by Henry Austin Dobson. This collection of poems offers a soothing escape from the daily clamor. Dobson's lyrical voice paints a world where worries fade and tranquility reigns. Imagine flickering firelight dancing on a hearth, a gentle breeze rustling through leaves, or the quiet murmur of a babbling brook. With each turn of the
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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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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
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Planned Obsolescence

Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

by Kathleen Fitzpatrick ...

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishingAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working ... Read more

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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishingAcademic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working
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Digital Sociology in Everyday Life

Edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, Tressie McMillan Cottom ...

Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics ... Read more

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Digital technologies, digital media, and mobile technologies now shape the experience of everyday life in the Western world, yet the way our quotidian lives are enmeshed with these technologies is far from clearly understood.Through studies of the digital everyday, sociologists are beginning to reinvigorate the sociological imagination in light of digitization. Chapters in this Byte cover topics
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The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...

The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

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The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most
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Net Locality

Why Location Matters in a Networked World

by Eric Gordon, Adriana de Souza e Silva ...

The first book to provide an introduction to the new theory of Net Locality and the profound effect on individuals and societies when everything is located or locatable.Describes net locality as an emerging form of location awareness central to all aspects of digital media, from mobile phones, to Google Maps, to location-based social networks and games, such as Foursquare and facebook.Warns of the ... Read more

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The first book to provide an introduction to the new theory of Net Locality and the profound effect on individuals and societies when everything is located or locatable.Describes net locality as an emerging form of location awareness central to all aspects of digital media, from mobile phones, to Google Maps, to location-based social networks and games, such as Foursquare and facebook.Warns of the
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Scholarly Communication

What Everyone Needs to Know®

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The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that ... Read more

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The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and more effective than it was just a few years earlier. "Scholarly communication" itself has become an umbrella term for the increasingly complex ecosystem of publications, platforms, and tools that
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Facebook Democracy

The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life

by José Marichal ...

In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little ... Read more

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In July 2010, Facebook had over 500 million subscribers worldwide and the rapid rise of the site prompted Time magazine to name Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year for 2010. This novel book advances our understanding of how democratic citizens are transformed by the "Facebook revolution". Despite increasing interest in politics and popular media, there has been little
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Scholarship in the Digital Age

Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet

by Christine L. Borgman ...

An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and ... Read more

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An exploration of the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the scholarly infrastructure needed to support research activities in all fields in the twenty-first century.Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and
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