In this ground-breaking book, we navigate the uncharted terrain of social virtual reality (VR), a technology that, while offering unprecedented immersive experiences, brings forth significant governance challenges.
This edited volume focuses on the (un)equal access to the public space granted to the various groups that make up hybrid and multicultural societies: i.
This book is the first linguistic study that combines CL and CDA to compare the media representations of Macau's gaming industry in English-language newspapers published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau.
This book includes the proceedings of the fourth workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2022), and it aims to present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the field of recommendation systems with focused application to e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters covering contributions from academic as well as industrial researchers active within this emerging new field.
Professor Drew's latest work makes the case that even great public policy needs to be deliberately and strategically sold in order for it to ultimately be considered a success.
This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public.
This book introduces the basic principles underlying the design and analysis of the digital communication systems that have heralded the information revolution.
This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public.
This book offers new definitions, vocabularies and insights for "e;scribbling"e;, viewing it as a fascinating and revealing process shared by many different disciplines and practices.
This book offers new definitions, vocabularies and insights for "e;scribbling"e;, viewing it as a fascinating and revealing process shared by many different disciplines and practices.
This book covers sugar, salt and milk fat from a chemical perspective, and presents an overview of the role of these ingredients in our food, focusing on their flavors, satiety-inducing properties, nutritional impact, and health effects.
This edited collection takes the prompt "e;hope in crisis"e; as a starting point for investigating sound research as it is situated in these troubling times.
This book critically examines the role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education, against the backdrop of rapid developments in online learning.
New and fully updated to cover the last 10 years of accessibility research published since the first edition, this book covers key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities.
This book presents a series of studies on the status quo, characteristics of and trends in China's eSports industry, while also analyzing key problems to help the industry avoid potential risks, seize opportunities for development, and promote industrial drivers.
This book presents the outcomes of the 9th International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), "e;Towards creating more human-like conversational agent technologies"e;.