This fascinating dictionary covers the whole realm of social media, providing accessible, authoritative, and concise entries centred primarily on websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking. From the authors of the popular Dictionary of Media and Communication, Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday, comes a title that complements and supplements their previous dictionary, and that will be of great use to social media marketing specialists, bloggers, and to any general internet user.
See also FAKE NEWS . disinhibition See DISCLOSURE. disinhibition theory A *hypothesis formerly advanced by Berkowitz that people are naturally aggressive, but that they normally repress this aggression; heavy viewing of violence on ...
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Pearson's Coefficient Correlation The most frequently used method to determine the strength of the relationship between two variables. The correlation coefficient is between -1 and 1; if there is a positive relationship, the coefficient ...
Revised content of existing material keeps the encyclopedia current. The second edition is intended for college students as well as public and academic libraries.
Featuring over 1,800 concise definitions of key terms, the Dictionary of the Social Sciences is the most comprehensive, authoritative single-volume work of its kind.
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This new edition has been fully revised and updated to provide over 1,800 A-Z definitions of terms from the field of social care, concentrating on social work as a significant area within this field.
For this fourth edition, Professor John Scott has conducted a thorough review of all entries to ensure that they are concise, focused, and up to date.
Bradshaw has usefully called attention to different ways of arriving at 'need' statements, through expert judgment, through experience, and through comparison of provision for one group as contrasted with another.