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Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 260 pp.
"An exploration of the video games as an atmospheric medium questioning its impact on us and our mental health." (Publisher description)
Technologien der Krise: Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Katalysator neuer Formen der Vernetzung
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 199 pp.
COVID-19, Digital Substitutional and Intersectional Inequality: The Case of South Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 54 pp.
"This study analyses the impacts of COVID-19 and its associated public policy responses on digital and intersectional inequality in South Africa from a demand-side perspective. The overarching research question it seeks to address is: To what extent were people in South Africa able to mitigate the n
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Towards a Digital Development Partnership That Meets African Interests
Washington, DC: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2022), 24 pp.
"Africa has become a linchpin in the EU’s ambitions to support economic development, particularly through digital transformation. The February 2022 EU-African Union (AU) Summit will provide an opportunity to present the EU’s Global Gateway not only in opposition to China’s Belt and Road Initia
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Music and Digital Media: A Planetary Anthropology
London: UCL Press (2022), xvi, 526 pp.
"Music and Digital Media is the first comparative ethnographic study of the impact of digital media on music worldwide. It offers a radical and lucid new theoretical framework for understanding digital media through music, showing that music is today where the promises and problems of the digital as
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(Dis)Obedience in Digital Societies: Perspectives on the Power of Algorithms and Data
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 377 pp.
"Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into our political and social system. Algorithms shape human behavior on various levels: they influence not only the aesthetic reception of the world but also
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The Economics of Digital Transformation: The Disruption of Markets, Production, Consumption, and Work
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xix, 283 pp.
"The book refers to academic insights from economics and sociology while giving numerous empirical examples drawn from basic and applied research and business. It addresses several burning issues: how are digital processes transforming traditional business models? Does intelligent automation threate
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Digital Trends in Africa 2021: Information and Communication Technology Trends and Developments in the Africa Region 2017-2020
Quick Overview
Geneva: ITU (2021), 65 pp.
"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in ICT infrastructure, access and use in Africa, which includes 44 member states and is home to a population of 1.04 billion people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the last World Telecommunication Development Conferenc
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Six Stories of Resilience: Digital Technologies as Drivers of Development in the COVID-19 Era
Asia Foundation (2021), 32 pp.
"This white paper discusses how digital technologies are building COVID resilience, shaping and accelerating the recovery, and diffusing within Asia Pacific region (APAC) in ways that are likely to persist in a post-COVID world. Section 1 presents the role of digital technologies in the Sustainable
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Digitalisierung aus theologischer und ethischer Perspektive: Konzeptionen - Anfragen - Impulse
Baden-Baden; Zürich: Nomos;Pano Verlag (2021), 310 pp.
"Es geht in diesem Band um die Fokussierung, Ethik und Religion als Teil von gesellschaftlichen Phänomenen zu verstehen, die insbesondere hinsichtlich Wirtschaft und Politik zu untersuchen sind. Da sich Gesellschaft heutzutage jedoch nicht mehr ohne Digitalisierung analysieren lässt, tritt für di
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La transición digital: Retos y oportunidades para Iberoamérica
Madrid: Fundación Carolina (2021), 216 pp.
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.
"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in
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Postdigital: Medienkritik im 21. Jahrhundert
Hamburg: Meiner (2021), 175 pp.
"Die völlige Computerisierung der Lebenswelt entwickelt eine geradezu mahlstromartige Dynamik. Massenhaft sind die Köpfe über die Bildschirme gesenkt und starren auf vereinheitlichten Geräten auf die überall gleichen Apps. Von informationeller Autonomie kann keine Rede sein, dafür umso mehr vo
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The Digital Disconnect: The Social Causes and Consequences of Digital Inequalities
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2021), viii, 231 pp.
"Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who's connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and prac
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Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2021), vi, 318 pp.
"As media environments and communication practices evolve over time, so do theoretical concepts. This book analyzes some of the most well-known and fiercely discussed concepts of the digital age from a historical perspective, showing how many of them have pre-digital roots and how they have changed
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Muster: Theorie der digitalen Gesellschaft
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 352 pp.
"Techniken etablieren sich nur dann, wenn sie ein Problem lösen. Auch digitale Technik setzt einen Bedarf voraus. Von diesem Grundgedanken ausgehend, beschäftigt sich der Soziologie Armin Nassehi mit der Frage, welches gesellschaftliche Problem Digitalisierung löst. Seine Antwort verweist darauf,
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Digitalisierung
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2020), 83 pp.
"Diese Themenausgabe ermöglicht einen ersten Einstieg in das Thema Digitalisierung. Sie vermittelt Grundkenntnisse über die digitale Infrastruktur und bietet einen breitgefächerten Überblick über die neuen technologischen Entwicklungen und deren Relevanz für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Umwelt, B
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Menschliche Gesellschaft 4.0: (christliche) Beiträge zum digitalen Wandel
Freiburg: Herder (2020), 141 pp.
"Grundlage für die im Buch enthaltenen Aufsätze ist eine Fachtagung, die im Juli 2019 vom Caritasverband für die Diözese Osnabrück e. V. und dem Ludwig-Windhorst-Haus, der Katholischen Sozialen Akademie des Bistums Osnabrück, initiiert wurde. Dabei sollte das Zentrum der Tagung (und damit des
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Prinzip Mensch: Macht, Freiheit und Demokratie im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz
Bonn: Dietz (2020), 431 pp.
"Paul Nemitz und Matthias Pfeffer zeigen eindrücklich, wie die derzeitigen Versuche ethischer Regulierung von Künstlicher Intelligenz zu kurz greifen. Nemitz ist Mitglied der Datenethikkommission der Bundesregierung und war massgeblich verantwortlich für die Einführung der EU-Datenschutzgrundver
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Digital-Report 2020: Non-Profits & IT
München: Haus des Stiftens (2020), 75 pp.
"Die neuen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung werden von vielen Organisationen bislang nicht ausreichend genutzt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen dafür vier wesentliche Erklärungen: Einseitiges Digitalisierungsverständnis: a) Digitalisierung wird in 86% der gemeinnützigen Organisationen als Mittel der Arb
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