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Families and New Media: Comparative Perspectives on Digital Transformations in Law and Society
Wiesbaden: Springer (2023), xv, 272 pp.
"The open access edited volume addresses children's rights and their ability to act in the digital world. The focus is on the position of children as subjects with their own rights and developing capacities. Their consideration by parents, courts and legislators is critically examined. Aspects of di
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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa: A Developing Country Perspective
Cham: Springer (2022), xxi, 257 pp.
"Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This
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Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change
Singapore: Springer (2022), xxi, 318 pp.
"This volume focuses on indigenous knowledge in analyzing the traditions and communication processes within various communities of Northeast India. It deals with the historical and theoretical trajectory of communication for social change as a discipline, bringing together a series of interesting ca
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Springer (2022), 283 pp.
"The chapters here explore the impact, especially of Covid-19, on the media while unpacking the complexities, intersections and dynamics surrounding technological, political and economic developments and trends. Similarly, media discourses on journalism practice, audience narratives and news discour
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Digital Humanism: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age
Cham: Springer (2022), ix, 127 pp.
"This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a “digital humanism”. This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formula
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Cybersecurity in Poland: Legal Aspects
Cham: Springer (2022), xvi, 513 pp.
"The diversity of the state of media freedoms in Europe is reflected in its geography, where more liberal regimes are to be found in the north and the west of the continent where the freedoms are secured firmer in countries’ legislations, governments’ practices, and citizens’ behaviours. Some
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Migration in West Africa
Cham: Springer (2022), vi, 265 pp.
Endangered Voices: Nigerian Journalists’ Safety amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
"This chapter examines the difficult conditions Nigerian journalists faced while reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the threats and dangers faced by Nigerian broadcast journalists and its implication for journalism practice amid a pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted
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The Risks of Social Media Platforms for Democracy: A Call for a New Regulation
In: Law and Artificial Intelligence: Regulating AI and Applying AI in Legal Practice
The Hague; Berlin: Asser Press; Springer (2022), pp. 169-186
"This chapter critically discusses how the democratic arena is changing and deteriorating due to the impact of the power of social media platforms. The focus is on the consequences that personalized forms of information and digital affordances can produce, leading to online information cocoons or fi
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Diversity nutzen und annehmen: Praxisimplikationen für das Diversity Management
Springer (2022), xiii, 400 pp.
"Das vorliegende Buch liefert einen Einblick in das hoch aktuelle Thema (kulturelle) Vielfalt (Diversity) in Organisationen und Unternehmen. Dabei verbindet es den aktuellen theoretischen Forschungsstand zum Thema Diversity mit Handlungsmöglichkeiten zum erfolgreichen Umgang mit dieser Vielfalt (Di
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Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia
Singapore: Springer; South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE); International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) (2022), xxvii, 460 pp.
"Using a narrative style, this book draws on stories and examples from seven South Asian countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—to highlight how communities in South Asia are building resilience to climate change. A total of 58 authors have contributed to t
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Understanding Digital Conflict Drivers
"This chapter explores digital drivers of conflict. We examine how technologies are affecting conflict dynamics and what peacebuilders can do to mitigate these effects. We argue that because digital technologies are fundamentally altering the human experience, they are by extension fundamentally alt
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Face-to Face with COVID-19: Experiences of Ghanaian Frontline Journalists Infected with the Virus
"Journalists around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, media houses have had to make drastic adjustments to the impact of challenges wrought by the pandemic on their operations. Ghanaian media houses also faced similar challenges and disruptions. News reporters and
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New Dimensions of Information Warfare
Cham: Springer (2021), xv, 251 pp.
"This book intends to provide a conceptual framework and a methodological guide, enriched with vivid and compelling use cases for the readers (e.g. technologists, academicians, military, government) interested in what Information Warfare really means, when its lenses are applied to current technolog
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Data Science for Fake News: Surveys and Perspective
Cham: Springer (2021), xiv, 302 pp.
"This book provides an overview of fake news detection, both through a variety of tutorial-style survey articles that capture advancements in the field from various facets and in a somewhat unique direction through expert perspectives from various disciplines. The approach is based on the idea that
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Digital Literacy and Socio-Cultural Acceptance of ICT in Developing Countries
Cham: Springer (2021), viii, 313 pp.
"This book discusses the role of human computer interaction (HCI) design in fostering digital literacy and promoting socio-cultural acceptance and usage of the latest ICT innovations in developing countries. The book presents techniques, theories, case studies, and methodologies in HCI design approa
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Handbook of Global Media Ethics
Cham: Springer (2021), xxxii, 1460 pp.
"The first handbook on global media ethics; provides a valuable resource for teaching media ethics in a global era; addresses all major approaches to global media ethics; contains contributions by leading, internationally recognized authors in the field of media ethics." (Publisher description)
Learning from Communicators in Social Change: Rethinking the Power of Development
Singapore: Springer (2021), xxiii, 270 pp.
"This book presents the perspectives of some of the main players, both academics and professionals, in communication for sustainable development and social change so as to provide valuable lessons for future generations of change agents. It places emphasis on both the theoretical foundation and prac
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