After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn by Laurel Richardson

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one booklet of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and sensible consultant for college students, lecturers, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic the right way to research on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written by means of prime ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the main approach to player remark, the ebook presents priceless recommendation, information, instructions, and ideas to assist researchers via each degree of a undertaking, from opting for an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the implications.

Religionsgemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie: Handlungsräume religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz (Politik und Religion) (German Edition)

Melanie Zurlinden untersucht die Rolle religiöser Minderheiten in der Schweiz. Anhand von Gruppendiskussionen und publizierten Texten analysiert sie, wie sich freikirchliche, jüdische und muslimische Gemeinschaften in der direkten Demokratie an Kampagnen zu Volksabstimmungen beteiligen. Die Studie fokussiert auf die Diskussionen über Bioethik, Ausländer- und Asylfragen sowie das Religion-Staat-Verhältnis.

Exploring Everyday Life: Strategies for Ethnography and Cultural Analysis

The various initiatives and workouts that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play a very robust function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring way of life casts mild on those so-called trivia, serving as either a advisor to the invisible global of the typical and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This ebook bargains scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and sensible consultant to communique idea. Croucher defines a few of the views on conversation theory—the social medical, interpretive, and significant approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with subject matters together with interpersonal conversation, organizational verbal exchange, intercultural communique, persuasion, serious and rhetorical conception and different key options.