Society and culture: general

A cutting-edge selection of current issues and explorations of the ethics of artificial intelligence As artificial intelligence continues to influence virtually every facet of modern life, Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence offers a timely and rigorous examination of the field's most pressing questions.

First published in 1985, Communication and Persuasion examines the subject of persuasion from a broader perspective, encouraging readers to analyze the social and psychological factors alongside the various verbal and non-verbal agencies and media through which influence is often exerted.

Based on an analysis of 22 crisis cases from 20 countries and NATO (an IGO), this book highlights the link between socio-cultural variables and crisis communication.

Sound Knowledge and the Liminal explores liminality as a key feature of life in the Anthropocene.

A Michael Eigen Companion offers 150 essential quotes, carefully selected from Michael Eigen's books, alongside explorative commentary.

This book helps readers understand the persuasiveness of popular message levels (agenda, knowledge, attitude, and behavioral intention) and factors (sidedness, conclusiveness, and gain- or loss-framing) in communicating critical environmental issues, particularly the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus.

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

This book examines how digital platforms are reconfiguring the parameters of agency and reflexivity in contemporary social life.

Sound Knowledge and the Liminal explores liminality as a key feature of life in the Anthropocene.

While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan's (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment.

Each city from across the globe has its vibrant shades of various histories, cultures, and experiences, and their identities are often most expressed through architecture and the arts.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

This book is an extensive guide that covers topics related to building sustainable and resilient urban environments.

This edited book examines the cultural construction of the “public child” and its impact on children’s rights in Australia.

This book explores how minoritized languages and identities are impacted by “deglobalization” - marked by increased state control, declining global market power, and growing repression of civil liberties.

This book is an extensive guide that covers topics related to building sustainable and resilient urban environments.

In Copts and Muslims, Jack Tajer presents a controversial study of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest to 1922, addressing the political, social, religious, and spiritual dimensions of Muslim-Coptic relations.

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The first interdisciplinary empirically-grounded pluri-jurisdictional assessment of the origins, operation and main causes of the growing global investment migration trend.

Since 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises.

An essential guide to writing and editing for digital media, this sixth edition responds to the mainstreaming of genAI (Generative AI) and LLMs (Large Language Models), among many other changes in the best practices of digital storytelling.

This pioneering volume presents a comprehensive assessment of generative artificial intelligence's impact on African journalism, bringing together insights from academics, technologists, and practicing journalists across the continent.

This book offers innovative insights from across disciplines to explore the soulful survival of migrants, refugees, and displaced individuals and communities amidst stalemates, crises and compromises in human rights.

The Coddy was one of the most renowned storytellers and characters of the Western Isles at the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth and beyond, and was the inspiration for Compton MacKenzie's Whisky Galore.

Matt Hopwood set off with just a small bag and a walking stick, no possessions and an open mind to walk many hundreds of miles the length and breadth of the country.

Reveals how inclusive heritage policies simultaneously created exclusion and conflict within the Palenquero community in Colombia.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

Explores the spaces and events of the interwar Round Table Conference which drafted the blueprint for colonial India''s constitutional future.

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

Situating Birsa Munda as the canon, the book demonstrates how political parties and civil societies mobilise and reproduce his memory.

Explores both Zambian dress practices from the late-colonial period until the present and African contributions to globally circulating fashions.

This volume focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published in Kurseong, Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919.

Historic littoral cities and sites of Southeast Asia that grew along the coast, seascapes, and the confluence of rivers as evolvements from Indigenous settlements linked the dynamism of trade and confluence of cultures, have defied categorization and characterization.

This book offers a new interpretation of Hegel''s Logic, the foundational work of his philosophical system.

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

By analyzing migration-food security linkages, this book engages with the larger process of uneven development in India.

Uses a policy regime approach to conduct a comparative analysis of the public policies of shale gas in Eastern Europe.

An exploration of the controversies surrounding Singlish and how they illuminate wider issues of identity and language in the context of globalization.

The first study to systematically trace the impact of theatre on the emerging public of the early modern period.

The public sphere can undermine liberal democracy, law, and morality.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

An analysis of Balkan Islam and the formation of one of the largest Muslim communities in the early-modern Ottoman Balkans.