Social Media in Industrial China

Social Media in Industrial China
Author: Xinyuan Wang
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 191063462X

Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker. Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’. Wang’s fascinating study explores the full range of preconceptions commonly held about Chinese people – their relationship with education, with family, with politics, with ‘home’ – and argues why, for this vast population, it is time to reassess what we think we know about contemporary China and the evolving role of social media.

Geosimulation

Geosimulation
Author: Itzhak Benenson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2004-08-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780470843499

Geosimulation is hailed as ‘the next big thing’ in geographic modelling for urban studies. This book presents readers with an overview of this new and innovative field by introducing the spatial modelling environment and describing the latest research and development using cellular automata and multi-agent systems. Extensive case studies and working code is available from an associated website which demonstrate the technicalities of geosimulation, and provide readers with the tools to carry out their own modelling and testing. The first book to treat urban geosimulation explicitly, integrating socio-economic and environmental modelling approaches Provides the reader with a sound theoretical base in the science of geosimulation as well as applied material on the construction of geosimulation models Cross-references to an author-maintained associated website with downloadable working code for readers to apply the models presented in the book Visit the Author's Website for further information on Geosimulation, Geographic Automata Systems and Geographic Automata Software http://www.geosimulationbook.com

Unpacking IKEA

Unpacking IKEA
Author: Pauline Garvey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317642961

This book represents the first anthropological ethnography of Ikea consumption and goes to the heart of understanding the unique and at times frantic popularity of this one iconic transnational store. Based on a year of participant observation in Stockholm’s Kungens Kurva store – the largest in the world - this book places the retailer squarely within the realm of the home-building efforts of individuals in Stockholm and to a lesser degree in Dublin. Ikea, the world’s largest retailer and one of its most interesting, is the focus of intense popular fascination internationally, yet is rarely subject to in-depth anthropological inquiry. In Unpacking Ikea, Garvey explores why Ikea is never ‘just a store’ for its customers, and questions why it is described in terms of a cultural package, as everyday and classless. Using in-depth interviews with householders over several years, this ethnographic study follows the furniture from the Ikea store outwards to probe what people actually take home with them.

Social Media in an English Village

Social Media in an English Village
Author: Daniel Miller
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-02-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1910634433

Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social media is to appreciate just how ‘English’ their usage has become. He introduces the ‘Goldilocks Strategy’: how villagers use social media to calibrate precise levels of interaction ensuring that each relationship is neither too cold nor too hot, but ‘just right’.

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop
Author: D. Pardue
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2008-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0230613403

Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English to analyze Brazilian hip hop.

The Decline of Transit

The Decline of Transit
Author: Glenn Yago
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1984-04-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521256339

An examination of the social, political and technological forces that shaped our cities and their transportation systems.

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy

Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy
Author: V. Kostakis
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2014-08-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137406895

This book builds on the idea that peer-to-peer infrastructures are gradually becoming the general conditions of work, economy, and society. Using a four-scenario approach, the authors seek to simplify possible outcomes and to explore relevant trajectories of the current techno-economic paradigm within and beyond capitalism.

Mapping Cultures

Mapping Cultures
Author: L. Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137025050

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies.

Car Mania

Car Mania
Author: Winfried Wolf
Publisher: Pluto Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1996
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780745309712

This study, covering 200 years, takes a look at transport past and present. It examines current European and American transport structures and policies in the light of sustainability and the environment and the social and economic consequences of the prese