Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of by V. Higgins,W. Larner

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single e-book of its kind--a concise, accomplished, and sensible consultant for college kids, academics, designers, and students drawn to utilizing ethnographic the right way to examine on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written by means of prime ethnographers of digital worlds, and targeting the major approach to player commentary, the publication presents valuable recommendation, tips, directions, and rules to help researchers via each degree of a venture, from selecting 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 various initiatives and workouts that form our day-by-day lifestyles can appear mundane, even invisible—and but they play a really strong function in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring daily life casts gentle 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 publication bargains scholars a complete, theoretical, and functional advisor to conversation conception. Croucher defines many of the views on verbal exchange theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and important approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with issues together with interpersonal verbal exchange, organizational conversation, intercultural conversation, persuasion, severe and rhetorical idea and different key suggestions.