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Wired to the World Chained to the Home
Author | : Penny Gurstein |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0774808470 |
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How does working at home change people’s activity patterns, social networks, and their living and working spaces? Will telecommuting solve many of society’s ills, or create new ghettos? Penny Gurstein combines a background in planning, sociology of work, and feminist theory with qualitative and quantitative data from ten years of original research, including in-depth interviews and surveys, to understand the impact of home-based work on daily life patterns. She analyzes the experiences of employees, independent contractors, and self-employed entrepreneurs, and presents significant findings regarding the workload, mobility, differences according to work status and gender, and the tensions in trying to combine work and domestic activities in the same setting.
The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology
Author | : Pramod K. Nayar |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 569 |
Release | : 2010-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781405183086 |
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Moving beyond traditional cyberculture studies paradigms in several key ways, this comprehensive collection marks the increasing convergence of cyberculture with other forms of media, and with all aspects of our lives in a digitized world. Includes essential readings for both the student and scholar of a diverse range of fields, including new and digital media, internet studies, digital arts and culture studies, network culture studies, and the information society Incorporates essays by both new and established scholars of digital cultures, including Andy Miah, Eugene Thacker, Lisa Nakamura, Chris Hables Gray, Sonia Livingstone and Espen Aarseth Created explicitly for the undergraduate student, with comprehensive introductions to each section that outline the main ideas of each essay Explores the many facets of cyberculture, and includes sections on race, politics, gender, theory, gaming, and space The perfect companion to Nayar's Introduction to New Media and Cyberculture
Information Communication Technologies and Emerging Business Strategies
Author | : van der Graaf, Shenja,Washida, Yuichi |
Publsiher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006-08-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781599042367 |
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"This book explores new media such as online music stores, iPods, games, and digital TV and the way corporations are seeking innovative ways to (re)engage with their consumers in the digital era"--Provided by publisher.
Insomnia
Author | : Eluned Summers-Bremner |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2008-02-27 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1861893175 |
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The roots and effects of insomnia are complex, Eluned Summers-Bremner reveals in this fascinating study, and humans have employed everything from art to science to understand, explain, and mitigate this problem.
Encyclopedia of Community
Author | : DAVID LEVINSON,KAREN CHRISTENSEN |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 2045 |
Release | : 2003-06-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780761925989 |
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The Encyclopedia of Community is a major four volume reference work that seeks to define one of the most widely researched topics in the behavioural and social sciences. Community itself is a concept, an experience, and a central part of being human. This pioneering major reference work seeks to provide the necessary definitions of community far beyond the traditional views.
Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia
Author | : Stella R. Quah |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 751 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134712908 |
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Research on the family has expanded considerably across Asia but studies tend to be fragmented, focusing on narrow issues within limited areas (cities, towns, small communities) and may not be accessible to international readers. These limitations make it difficult for researchers, students, policy makers, and practitioners to obtain the information they need. The Routledge Handbook of Families in Asia fills that gap by providing a current and comprehensive analysis of Asian families by a wide range of experts in a single publication. The thirty-two chapters of this comparative and multi-disciplinary volume are organized into nine major themes: conceptual approaches, methodological issues, family life in the context of culture, family relationships across the family life cycle, issues of work and income, stress and conflict, family diversity, family policy and laws, and environmental setting of homes. Each chapter examines family life across Asian countries, studying cultural similarities and differences and exploring how families are changing and what trends are likely to develop in the future. To provide a fruitful learning experience for the reader, each chapter offers examples, relevant data, and a comprehensive list of references. Offering a complete interdisciplinary overview of families in Asia, the Handbook will be of interest to students, academics, policy makers and practitioners across the disciplines of Asian Studies, Sociology, Demography, Social Work, Law, Social Policy, Anthropology, Geography, Public Health and Architecture.
Work and Life in the Global Economy
Author | : D. Howcroft,H. Richardson |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2009-11-30 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780230277977 |
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This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work. Written by specialists in their respective fields, this book draws together authors from interdisciplinary areas that are carrying out significant research into gender and service work within an international context.
Me
Author | : William J. Mitchell |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2004-09-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262250462 |
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How the transformation of wireless technology and the creation of an interconnected world are changing our environment and our lives. With Me++ the author of City of Bits and e-topia completes an informal trilogy examining the ramifications of information technology in everyday life. William Mitchell describes the transformation of wireless technology in the hundred years since Marconi—the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. It is, he says, as if "Brobdingnag had been rebooted as Lilliput"; Marconi's massive mechanism of tower and kerosene engine has been replaced by a palm-size cellphone. If the operators of Marconi's invention can be seen as human appendages to an immobile machine, today's hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body. This transformation has, in turn, changed our relationship with our surroundings and with each other. The cellphone calls from the collapsing World Trade Center towers and the hijacked jets on September 11 were testimony to the intensity of this new state of continuous electronic engagement. Thus, Mitchell proposes, the "trial separation" of bits (the elementary unit of information) and atoms (the elementary unit of matter) is over. With increasing frequency, events in physical space reflect events in cyberspace, and vice versa; digital information can, for example, direct the movement of an aircraft or a robot arm. In Me++ Mitchell examines the effects of wireless linkage, global interconnection, miniaturization, and portability on our bodies, our clothing, our architecture, our cities, and our uses of space and time. Computer viruses, cascading power outages, terrorist infiltration of transportation networks, and cellphone conversations in the streets are symptoms of a dramatic new urban condition—that of ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity. He argues that a world governed less and less by boundaries and more and more by connections requires us to reimagine and reconstruct our environment and to reconsider the ethical foundations of design, engineering, and planning practice.