Pacific Rim Objective Measurement Symposium (PROMS) 2014 by Quan Zhang,Hong Yang

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

Ethnography and digital Worlds is the single e-book of its kind--a concise, finished, and useful consultant for college students, academics, designers, and students attracted to utilizing ethnographic how you can examine on-line digital worlds, together with either video game and nongame environments. Written through best ethnographers of digital worlds, and concentrating on the major approach to player commentary, the publication offers useful recommendation, suggestions, instructions, and rules to assist researchers via each level of a venture, from settling on a web 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 workouts that form our day-by-day life can look mundane, even invisible—and but they play an exceptionally strong position in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring lifestyle casts mild on those so-called minutiae, serving as either a advisor to the invisible global of the standard and an guide for first-time explorers.

Understanding Communication Theory: A Beginner's Guide

This booklet deals scholars a accomplished, theoretical, and sensible advisor to verbal exchange thought. Croucher defines some of the views on conversation theory—the social clinical, interpretive, and demanding approaches—and then takes at the theories themselves, with themes together with interpersonal communique, organizational verbal exchange, intercultural communique, persuasion, serious and rhetorical concept and different key options.