Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex by Shu-Heng Chen,Takao Terano,Ryuichi Yamamoto

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the one booklet of its kind--a concise, entire, and functional advisor for college kids, lecturers, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic ways to research on-line digital worlds, together with either online game and nongame environments. Written through major ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the most important approach to player remark, the booklet presents important suggestion, information, directions, and rules to assist researchers via each degree of a venture, from determining an internet fieldsite to writing and publishing the consequences.

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 varied projects and exercises that form our day-by-day life can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play an exceptionally strong function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring lifestyle casts mild on those so-called trivia, serving as either a consultant to the invisible global of the typical and an handbook for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This e-book bargains scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and functional consultant to conversation concept. Croucher defines a number of the views on conversation theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and important approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal communique, organizational verbal exchange, intercultural communique, persuasion, serious and rhetorical conception and different key recommendations.