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A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture
seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The
Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,
"culture jamming" refers to an array of tactics deployed by
activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise "jam" the workings of
consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising
parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to
interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate
our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the
Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming
scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences
to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays,
interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume
explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its
history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and
assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once
playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection
explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its
revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media
scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts
such as Mark Dery's culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and
interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla
Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a
crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance
and participatory culture.
As software and computer hardware grows in complexity, networks
have grown to match. The increasing scale, complexity,
heterogeneity, and dynamism of communication networks, resources,
and applications has made distributed computing systems brittle,
unmanageable, and insecure. Internet and Distributed Computing
Advancements: Theoretical Frameworks and Practical Applications is
a vital compendium of chapters on the latest research within the
field of distributed computing, capturing trends in the design and
development of Internet and distributed computing systems that
leverage autonomic principles and techniques. The chapters provided
within this collection offer a holistic approach for the
development of systems that can adapt themselves to meet
requirements of performance, fault tolerance, reliability,
security, and Quality of Service (QoS) without manual intervention.
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of
macabre nonsense. ’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel
Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events From The
Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly
funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our
culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil
Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of
Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand
books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and
was known – in the late 1940s, no less – to traipse around in
full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard?
An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of
whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes – but who was the real
Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a
hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot,
Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel
Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same
time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man
whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the
darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and
interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald
Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to be
Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and
mysterious life of Edward Gorey.
This is a work on "hostile" data and the conditions under which
they are accepted and rejected. What is the place of data in
politics and organization? Why are politicians and administrators
so often hostile to research data, or why do they tend to perceive
data as hostile to them? How can data become relevant to policy?
These questions are the focus of this book. In answer I try to show
how political and administrative institutions cope with "hostile"
data; how they seek to maintain closedness to disconfirming data,
and how they are led, in a free society, to change their policies
despite the epistemological bias in favor of the already known and
the initial inclination to resist change. At the same time, I
demonstrate that data producers must learn that while their
research findings may be subjected to science's own standards of
verifiability, such data must also meet standards of contestability
by the various interests involved in political and administrative
decisions. The production and "appropriate" publication of a
research report may at best buy one an admission ticket to
participate in political and administrative contests, but not the
power nor the justification to determine the outcomes of the
contest. I begin with two hypotheses: Hypothesis 1: Politicians or
administrators reject data that do not coincide with behavior they
are unwilling to change. Hypothesis II: Politicians or
administrators change behavior that does not coincide with data
they are unwilling to reject.
Sabiha Sertel was born into revolution in 1895, as an independent
Turkey rose out of the dying Ottoman Empire. The nation's first
professional female journalist, her unrelenting push for democracy
and social reforms ultimately cost Sertel her country and freedom.
Shortly before her death in 1968, Sertel completed her
autobiography Roman Gibi (Like a Novel), which was written during
her forced exile in the Soviet Union. Translated here into English
for the first time, and complete with a new introduction and
comprehensive annotations, it offers a rare perspective on Turkey's
history as it moved to embrace democracy, then violently recoiled.
The book reveals the voice of a passionate feminist and committed
socialist who clashes with the young republic's leadership. A
unique first-hand account, the text foreshadows Turkey's
increasingly authoritarian state. Sertel offers her perspective on
the fierce divisions over the republic's constitution and covers
issues including freedom of the press, women's civil rights and the
pre-WWII discussions with European leaders about Hitler's rising
power. More information about the book, photographs, reviews and
events can be found at a special website dedicated to the book:
www.struggleformodernturkey.com
These proceedings gather outstanding research papers presented at
the Second International Conference on Data Engineering 2015
(DaEng-2015) and offer a consolidated overview of the latest
developments in databases, information retrieval, data mining and
knowledge management. The conference brought together researchers
and practitioners from academia and industry to address key
challenges in these fields, discuss advanced data engineering
concepts and form new collaborations. The topics covered include
but are not limited to: * Data engineering * Big data * Data and
knowledge visualization * Data management * Data mining and
warehousing * Data privacy & security * Database theory *
Heterogeneous databases * Knowledge discovery in databases *
Mobile, grid and cloud computing * Knowledge management * Parallel
and distributed data * Temporal data * Web data, services and
information engineering * Decision support systems * E-Business
engineering and management * E-commerce and e-learning *
Geographical information systems * Information management *
Information quality and strategy * Information retrieval,
integration and visualization * Information security * Information
systems and technologies
Geospatial Technologies and Climate Change describes various
approaches from different countries on how to use geospatial
technologies to help solving climate change issues. It also details
how different geospatial technologies (remote sensing, Geographical
Information System...) can be used to help with climate monitoring
and modeling, how to work with them and what to be careful about.
This book is written by scientific experts from four different
continents. Written in a comprehensive and complete way, this book
is essential reading material for graduate and undergraduate
students interested in these techniques and in climate change.
This book unfolds ways to transform data into innovative solutions
perceived as new remarkable and meaningful value. It offers
practical views of the concepts and techniques readers need to get
the most out of their large-scale research and data mining
projects. It strides them through the data-analytical thinking,
circumvents the difficulty in deciphering complex data systems and
obtaining commercialization value from the data. Also known as
data-driven science, soft computing and data mining disciplines
cover a broad spectrum, an interdisciplinary field of scientific
methods and processes. The book, Recent Advances in Soft Computing
and Data Mining, delivers sufficient knowledge to tackle a wide
range of issues seen in complex systems. This is done by exploring
a vast combination of practices and applications by incorporating
these two domains. To thrive in these data-driven ecosystems,
researchers, data analysts, and practitioners must choose the best
design to approach the problem with the most efficient tools and
techniques. To thrive in these data-driven ecosystems, researchers,
data analysts, and practitioners must understand the design choice
and options of these approaches, thus to better appreciate the
concepts, tools, and techniques used.
The book offers new critical insights into the relationship between
corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable development
in Africa. The extent to which CSR initiatives can contribute to
sustainable development in Africa remains debatable. This book
examines in a very clear structure how, when, and whether CSR
initiatives are able to contribute to the realization of the
sustainable development goals, peace, and environmental
sustainability at the micro-levels of society. It also explores
some macro-level issues such as the relationship between taxation
and CSR, CSR and human rights, and CSR and public governance and,
in so doing, challenges existing CSR dogmas. With themes aligned
with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this book
provides useful practical guidance for policymakers and business
leaders seeking to better understand the strength and limitations
of CSR as a vehicle for advancing sustainable development in
Africa. It will also appeal to scholars, researchers, and students
of African studies, development studies, international business,
strategic management, and business and society.
Business Welsh is a reference volume for native speakers and second
language learners who wish to use Welsh in a business or
professional environment.
This book comprises a wide range of sample situations in English
and Welsh which can be adapted to meet the specific requirements of
the user.
Business Welsh is:
* fully bilingual
* covers 45 business situations
* comprises letters, faxes, adverts and other essential business
documents
From letters of complaint to job applications, Business Welsh is
the essential handbook for using Welsh in a professional
environment.
Business Welsh is a reference volume for native speakers and second
language learners who wish to use Welsh in a business or
professional environment. This book comprises a wide range of
sample situations in English and Welsh which can be adapted to meet
the specific requirements of the user. Business Welsh is: fully
bilingual covers 45 business situations comprises letters, faxes,
adverts and other essential business documents From letters of
complaint to job applications, Business Welsh is the essential
handbook for using Welsh in a professional environment.
Today more pediatric therapists are centering their work on the
parent-child relationship and are turning to parents as a primary
modality in solving children's problems. Parent-Focused Child
Therapy: Attachment, Identification, and Reflective Functions is an
edited collection, drawing from leading psychotherapists with
specialties in family therapy. Carrol Wachs and Linda Jacobs tap
into the current literature on the efficacy of working with parents
in therapy situations. The collected essays in this book, from
renowned psychotherapists, focus on identifying and evaluating a
variety of approaches and their effects on standard questions of
attachment, identity, and reflection in dealing with children in
therapy. Parent-Focused Child Therapy is especially attractive
given its currency, integrating relational theory, attachment
theory and infant research.
A principal aim of this first biography of Robert Le Rossignol,
engineer of the Haber process, is to bring new evidence to the
attention of the scientific community allowing a re-assessment of
the origins of the 'Haber' process. However, the scope of the book
is much wider and goes beyond the discovery of 'fixation' to
account for a life distinct from Haber, one full of remarkable
science, cruel circumstance, personal tragedy and amazing
benevolence, the latter made possible by Haber's generous financial
arrangement with Le Rossignol regarding his royalties from the
BASF.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Advances such as cloud computing and streaming multimedia are
steadily increasing the demand on network resources, and
telecommunications providers must ensure that their networks are
managed effectively in order to ensure that Internet and mobile
users remain satisfied with their quality of service. Network and
Traffic Engineering in Emerging Distributed Computing Applications
focuses on network management and traffic engineering for Internet
and distributed computing technologies, as well as present emerging
technology trends and advanced platforms. This premier reference
source for academics, students, researchers, readers, and knowledge
seekers puts together some of the critical aspects of Internet and
distributed systems.
A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture
seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The
Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others. Coined in the 1980s,
"culture jamming" refers to an array of tactics deployed by
activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise "jam" the workings of
consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising
parodies to flash mobs and street art, these actions seek to
interrupt the flow of dominant, capitalistic messages that permeate
our daily lives. Employed by Occupy Wall Street protesters and the
Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot alike, culture jamming
scrambles the signal, injects the unexpected, and spurs audiences
to think critically and challenge the status quo. The essays,
interviews, and creative work assembled in this unique volume
explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its
history, mapping its transformations, testing its force, and
assessing its efficacy. Revealing how culture jamming is at once
playful and politically transgressive, this accessible collection
explores the degree to which culture jamming has fulfilled its
revolutionary aims. Featuring original essays from prominent media
scholars discussing Banksy and Shepard Fairey, foundational texts
such as Mark Dery's culture jamming manifesto, and artwork by and
interviews with noteworthy culture jammers including the Guerrilla
Girls, The Yes Men, and Reverend Billy, Culture Jamming makes a
crucial contribution to our understanding of creative resistance
and participatory culture.
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