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Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
by Grant BollmerSocial media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of "the network†? as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where "the human†? is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.
Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection
by Grant BollmerSocial media's connectivity is often thought to be a manifestation of human nature buried until now, revealed only through the diverse technologies of the participatory internet. Rather than embrace this view, Inhuman Networks: Social Media and the Archaeology of Connection argues that the human nature revealed by social media imagines network technology and data as models for behavior online. Covering a wide range of historical and interdisciplinary subjects, Grant Bollmer examines the emergence of “the network” as a model for relation in the 1700s and 1800s and follows it through marginal, often forgotten articulations of technology, biology, economics, and the social. From this history, Bollmer examines contemporary controversies surrounding social media, extending out to the influence of network models on issues of critical theory, politics, popular science, and neoliberalism. By moving through the past and present of network media, Inhuman Networks demonstrates how contemporary network culture unintentionally repeats debates over the limits of Western modernity to provide an idealized future where “the human” is interchangeable with abstract, flowing data connected through well-managed, distributed networks.
Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction
by Grant BollmerOur technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media's physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself. More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media's materiality.
Materialist Media Theory: An Introduction
by Grant BollmerOur technologies rely on an ever-expanding infrastructure of wires, routers, servers, and hard drives-a proliferation of devices that reshape human interaction and experience prior to conscious knowledge. Understanding these technologies requires an approach that foregrounds media as an agent that collaborates in the production of the world beyond content or representation. Materialist Media Theory provides an accessible, synthetic account of the cutting edge of the theoretical humanities, examining a range of approaches to media's physical, infrastructural role in shaping culture, space, time, cognition, and life itself. More than a mere introduction, Materialist Media Theory provides a critical intervention into matter and media, of interest to students and researchers in media studies, communication, cultural studies, visual culture, and beyond. Media determine our reality, and any politics of media must begin by foregrounding the media's materiality.
Theorizing Digital Cultures
by Grant David BollmerThe rapid development of digital technologies continues to have far reaching effects on our daily lives. This book explains how digital media—in providing the material and infrastructure for a host of practices and interactions—affect identities, bodies, social relations, artistic practices, and the environment. Theorizing Digital Cultures: Shows students the importance of theory for understanding digital cultures and presents key theories in an easy-to-understand way Considers the key topics of cybernetics, online identities, aesthetics and ecologies Explores the power relations between individuals and groups that are produced by digital technologies Enhances understanding through applied examples, including YouTube personalities, Facebook’s ‘like’ button and holographic performers Clearly structured and written in an accessible style, this is the book students need to get to grips with the key theoretical approaches in the field. It is essential reading for students and researchers of digital culture and digital society throughout the social sciences.
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
by Grant Bollmer Katherine GuinnessInfluencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"—a raw material for brands to use—with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.
The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
by Grant Bollmer Katherine GuinnessInfluencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"—a raw material for brands to use—with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life.
Lernen zwischen Formalität und Informalität: Zur Deformalisierung von Bildung
by Petra BollwegMit der These "Bildung ist mehr als Schule" wurde von Seiten der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe der Versuch unternommen, die einseitige Thematisierung von Schule als einzigem Lern- und Bildungsort aufzubrechen. Die dazu verwendete terminologische Unterscheidung zwischen formellem, nonformellem und informellem Lernen und formeller, nonformeller und informeller Bildung dient dabei der Verständigung, Einordnung und Legitimation verschiedener Konzepte und Angebotsformen. Zentrale These ist, dass sich die Unterscheidung einseitig an dem Vergleich Schule und nicht Schule orientiert. Auf diese Weise wird die traditionelle Sicht schulisch versus nicht schulisch nur reproduziert. Die sozialpädagogische Debatte nimmt sich damit einerseits die Chance, Lernen und Bildung als empirisch nicht beobachtbare und nicht messbare Prozesse in den Blick zu nehmen. Andererseits bleibt die Frage nach den eigenen formellen und informellen Bedingungen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe offen.
Health Literacy im Kindes- und Jugendalter: Ein- und Ausblicke (Gesundheit und Gesellschaft)
by Torsten M. Bollweg Janine Bröder Paulo PinheiroDas Thema Health Literacy, für das sich im deutschen Sprachgebrauch der Begriff der Gesundheitskompetenz etabliert hat, hat in der jüngeren Vergangenheit eine spürbare Aufwertung in Praxis, Politik und Forschung erfahren. Inhaltlich setzt es sich mit vielfältigen Aspekten des Umgangs mit gesundheitsbezogenen Informationen auseinander und adressiert somit eine Gelingensbedingung für den Erhalt und die Förderung von Gesundheit. Kinder und Jugendliche werden in diesen Kontexten zwar als hochrelevante Zielgruppe angesehen, sind in einer wissenschaftlichen Perspektive auf den Gegenstand bislang jedoch noch nicht ausreichend explizit berücksichtigt worden. Mit dem vorliegenden Sammelband wird ein strukturierender Überblick über den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand zum Thema Health Literacy im Kindes- und Jugendalter gegeben. Die Sammlung von Beiträgen setzt sich einerseits aus Einblicken in eine Reihe von Forschungsergebnissen zusammen, die sich mit der Tätigkeit des Forschungsverbunds ‚Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence (HLCA)‘ assoziieren lassen, und bietet andererseits zahlreiche Anknüpfungspunkte an, die Ausblicke auf künftige Ausrichtungen des Handlungsfelds Health Literacy ermöglichen.
Open: Museums & Social Issues 7:2 Thematic Issue (Museums & Social Issues)
by Elizabeth A. Bollwerk Natalye B. Tate Robert P. ConnollyFirst Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Open: Museums & Social Issues 7:2 Thematic Issue (Museums & Social Issues)
by Elizabeth A. Bollwerk Natalye B. Tate Robert P. ConnollyFirst Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
by Elizabeth A. Bollwerk Shannon TushinghamThis volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.
Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology Among British Pakistanis (Library of Crime and Criminology)
by Marta BolognaniThe Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime as well as terrorism. Muslim men, and Muslim communities more widely, seem particularly susceptible to negative stereotyping, at the same time that many media accounts focus on alleged 'dysfunctionalities' of certain groups. However, little is known about the complex relations between ethnicity and criminality; knowledge held by minority ethnic groups on these matters is still much overlooked, and academic criminological accounts tend to neglect minorities' views and their cultural specificities. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive cross-generational and cross-gender investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Avoiding ill-fitting generalisations and stereotypes, she analyses Bradford Pakistanis' perceptions of crime and its production, construction, sanctioning and prevention. These perceptions are analyzed in their specific reality, rather than by imposing abstract, universal categories. She also examines local and national state policies that are geared to preventing crime as well as people's responses to them. In so doing, she shows us how crime comes to be understood by participants as well as institutional actors, and offers a counterpoint to the 'taboo' of talking about crime and race in cultural terms. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis' perceptions of crime and control are a combination of the formal and informal, or British and 'traditional' Pakistani, that are no longer separable in the diasporic context. Bradford Pakistanis engage with mainstream criminological and policy discourses in a way that reflects the position of their diaspora: 'community' for them includes their traditional structures but also all the intra-communal and inter-communal relations that are meaningful, as resources and as constraints. 'Crime in Muslim Britain' is essential for all those interested in criminology, ethnicity and the predicaments of Muslim communities today.
Marriage Migration and Integration: British South Asian Transnational Marriages And Processes Of Integration (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
by Marta Bolognani Sarah Spencer Katharine Charsley Evelyn ErsanilliThis book provides the first sustained empirical evidence on the relationships between marriage migration and processes of integration, focusing on two of the largest British ethnic minority groups involved in these kinds of transnational marriages – Pakistani Muslims and Indian Sikhs. In Britain, and across Europe, concern has been increasingly expressed over the implications of marriage-related migration for integration. Children and grandchildren of former immigrants marrying partners from their ancestral ‘homelands’ is often presented as problematic in forming a 'first generation in every generation,’ and inhibiting processes of individual and group integration, impeding socio-economic participation and cultural change. As a result, immigration restrictions have been justified on the grounds of promoting integration, despite limited evidence. Marriage Migration and Integration provides much needed new grounding for both academic and policy debates. This book draws on both quantitative and qualitative data to compare transnational ‘homeland’ marriages with intra-ethnic marriages within the UK. Using a distinctive holistic model of integration, the authors examine processes in multiple interacting domains, such as employment, education, social networks, extended family living, gender relations and belonging. It will be of use to students and scholars across sociology, social anthropology, and social policy with a focus on migration, integration, family studies, gender, and ethnic studies, as well as policy-makers and service providers in the UK and across Europe.
Nacktheit und Prüderie: Eine Geschichte des Schamgefühls
by Jean-Claude BologneZum ersten Mal wird in diesem Buch das Phänomen des Schamgefühls unter dem historischen Aspekt untersucht. Jean-Claude Bologne gibt mit seiner Analyse neue Antworten auf alt bekannte Fragen: Welche Beziehung besteht zwischen körperlicher Scham und Scham der Gefühle? Gibt es eine weibliche und eine männliche Schamhaftigkeit? Warum errötet man vor Scham? Was ist eigentlich Schamgefühl? Am Beispiel historisch prominenter Persönlichkeiten dokumentiert er die Wandlung des Gefühls der Scham im Lauf der Jahrhunderte und spiegelt somit den Wandel der Gesellschaft und ihrer Wertvorstellungen wider.
From Building Information Modelling to Mixed Reality (Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering)
by Cecilia Bolognesi Daniele VillaThis book reports on the latest advances in using BIM modelling to achieve the semantic enrichment of objects, allowing them to be used both as multidimensional databases – as comprehensive sources of information for finalizing various types of documentation in the building industry – and as modelling tools for the construction of virtual environments. Having advanced to a new stage of development, BIM modelling is now being applied in a range of increasingly complex contexts, and for various new purposes. This book examines the role that virtual reality and related technologies such as AI and IoT can play in preserving and disseminating our cultural heritage and built environment.
Konstruktivismus und Umweltbildung (Schriften der DGfE #6)
by Dietmar Bolscho Gerhard De HaanDie Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven, welchen Beitrag der Konstruktivismus zu einer gelingenden Umweltbildung zu leisten vermag.
Methoden der Umweltbildungsforschung (Ökologie und Erziehungswissenschaft #3)
by Dietmar Bolscho Gerd MichelsenDie Beiträge befassen sich mit unterschiedlichen Forschungsansätzen in der Umweltbildung. Verschiedene Methoden der Umweltbildungsforschung werden erstmals in dieser Breite diskutiert.
Umweltbewusstsein unter dem Leitbild Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Ergebnisse empirischer Untersuchungen und pädagogische Konsequenzen (Ökologie und Erziehungswissenschaft #9)
by Dietmar Bolscho Gerd MichelsenNachhaltige Entwicklung ist seit der Rio-Konferenz 1992 das Leitbild für alle umweltpädagogischen Initiativen. Es gibt zahlreiche programmatische Konzepte und Umsetzungsversuche, jedoch sind Defizite festzustellen im Hinblick auf die empirische Erforschung von Implementationsstrategien. An diesem Punkt setzten die Beiträge des vorliegenden Sammelbandes an: Welche Voraussetzungen, Dispositionen, Vorerfahrungen, kurz: Welches Bewusstsein bei Lernenden ist der Populariseriung des Leitbildes Nachhaltigkeit förderlich? Die vorgestellten empirischen arbeiten sind Resultat eines von der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt geförderten Projektes , das in Kooperation zwischen den Universitäten Hannover und Lüneburg unter Leitung der Herausgeber durchgeführt wurde.
Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice: The Gendered Dynamics of Power (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
by Agnes Bolsø Stine H. Bang Svendsen Siri ØyslebøDespite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.
Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice: The Gendered Dynamics of Power (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)
by Agnes Bolsø Stine Helena Bang Svendsen Siri Øyslebø SørensenDespite all the efforts to promote change, power and authority still seem to be permanently associated with the white, the straight and the masculine, both symbolically and in the everyday world of organizations. As the intricate relationship between the symbolic and the everyday remains under-researched, this anthology proposes a transdisciplinary feminist perspective drawing on the humanities in order to explore the complex nature of the gendered politics of organizations. Indeed, analyzing how images, narratives, symbols and bodies are all part of how power and gender are constructed in organizations through a broad and international range of empirical studies, Bodies, Symbols and Organizational Practice explores issues at the interstices of the humanities and social sciences, combining theoretical and analytical perspectives from both areas. Providing a radical analysis of the gendered dynamics of power as well as petitioning for radical intervention into those dynamics, this timely volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as: Organization and Management Studies, Gender studies, Feminist theory and Sociology of Work & Industry.
The Alien Hunter's Guide (EDGE: Monster Tracker #4)
by Gomer BolstroodOver thousands of year, tales of UFOs speeding through the night sky have haunted people's dreams. Arm yourself against creatures from outer space with the Alien Hunter's Guide.A fantastically visual series of books, the Monster Tracker's Guides will chill as well as entertain.
American Indian Policy and American Reform: Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians (Routledge Revivals)
by Christine BoltFirst published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.
American Indian Policy and American Reform: Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians (Routledge Revivals)
by Christine BoltFirst published in 1987, American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes, economic issues, the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, missionary and reformer involvement with government policy, the political interaction of Indians and whites, and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies, Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory, American anthropologists and American Indians, Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century, Indian women, urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history, ‘minority’ history and race relations.
Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from historical, cultural, and educational studies (PDF)
by David BoltWhilst legislation may have progressed internationally and nationally for disabled people, barriers continue to exist, of which one of the most pervasive and ingrained is attitudinal. Social attitudes are often rooted in a lack of knowledge and are perpetuated through erroneous stereotypes, and ultimately these legal and policy changes are ineffectual without a corresponding attitudinal change.nbsp;