Books written by Ralph Schroeder
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Social Theory after the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
... which they say constitutes a 'representation gap': 'Donald Trump's simple, Manichean rhetoric is quintessentially populist... the opportunity for a Donald Trump presidency is ultimately rooted in a failure of the Republican Party to ...
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Social Theory after the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and ...
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
Lintott, Chris J., Kevin Schawinski, William Keel, Hanny Van Arkel, Nicola Bennert, Edward Edmondson, Daniel Thomas, ... Lisa Brooks, Collaborative Association Study of Psoriasis, Dennis Ballinger, Mark Daly, Peter Donnelly, et al.
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
Edie Rasmussen, Ray R. Larson, Elaine Toms, and Shigeo Sugimoto, 269–277. New York: Association for Computing Machinery. Börner, Katy, Chaomei Chen, and Kevin W. Boyack. 2005. Visualizing Knowledge Domains. Annual Review of Information ...
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Global Powers
Sources of Social Power. Volume 2: The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Sources of Social Power. Volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945.
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Social Theory after the Internet: Media, Technology, and Globalization
He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and ...
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An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann
It also contains Mann's reply where he answers his critics and forcefully restates his position. This is a unique and provocative study for scholars and students alike.
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Social Theory After the Internet
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Social Theory After the Internet: Media, Technology and Globalization
"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and ...
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Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic Of Virtual Reality Technology
Once a tool of the 1960s military through which virtual wars were staged and studied so that actual wars could be perfected, in the 1990s virtual reality (VR) has become...
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Possible Worlds: The Social Dynamic of Virtual Reality Technology
A study exploring the social implications of virtual reality (VR) technology, tracing the history of VR and relating it to general issues in the study of the effects of new information and communication technologies.
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The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
Chapters 4 and 5 can be seen as two sides of the issue of deviance and belonging in virtual worlds; in Chapter 5, from the point of view of the community, in Chapter 4 in relation to the individual. Both point to a widely discussed ...
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Max Weber, Democracy and Modernization
These essays bring Weber's sociology to bear on the current transformation of the political landscape.
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Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change
Rethinking Science, Technology, and Social Change challenges the prevailing notion that science and technology are constructed or socially shaped. The text puts forth a case for technological determinism, based on...
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Being There Together: Social Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments
This book is a state-of-the art survey of research on these topics, and offers a framework for understanding this technology and its future implications.
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The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present
It is curious, therefore, that historians and social scientists have thus far made little use of the Web to investigate historical patterns of culture and society, despite making good use of letters, novels, newspapers, radio and television ...
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An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann
This timely volume also contains Mann's reply where he answers his critics and forcefully restates his position. It will appeal to scholars across the social sciences.
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The Web as History: Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present
It is curious, therefore, that historians and social scientists have thus far made little use of the Web to investigate historical patterns of culture and society, despite making good use of letters, novels, newspapers, radio and television ...
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Knowledge Machines: Digital Transformations of the Sciences and Humanities
This book considers the transformations of research from a number of perspectives, drawing especially on the sociology of science and technology and social informatics.