07703nam 22004812 4500 fecbc7a9-15db-422d-82ff-c0aae8abed8b m o d cr n 260402t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386329 (Paperback) 9781914386336 (PDF) 9781914386343 (Mobi) 10.16997/book61 doi UkCbTOM eng local TK5103.7.K86 SOC041000 bisacsh SOC052000 bisacsh SOC063000 bisacsh Kuntsman, Adi, author. Manchester Metropolitan University. (orcid)0000000299709866 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9970-9866 Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement : In Search of the Opt-Out Button / Adi Kuntsman, Esperanza Miyake. London : University of Westminster Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (xiii+154 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Listen to authors Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake discuss collective data justice, the rights, refusals and ethics of digital (dis)engagement in this latest podcast from Lateral, the Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.https://csalateral.org/podcasts/positions/for-the-moment-i-am-not-scrolling-culp-skinner-kuntsman-miyake-karppi/“The digital now thoroughly saturates our everyday lives to the point where it seems we are drowning. But is it possible to swim on our terms? This book thoughtfully examines this question, critically teasing apart the structures of power that permeate digital relations and charting pathways to a more just digital world. Essential reading for those who want to move beyond personal digital detoxes to challenge and transform our digital society and economy.” - Professor Rob Kitchin, author of The Data Revolution and Data Lives“The seductions of tech have ushered in the encroachment of technological solutions into policing, law enforcement and ever-widening systems of social regulation across the UK and Europe. This book marks a critical intervention – by conceptualising our understanding of the ways in which data and digital harms are systemically expended against the powerless. It is a must read for those of us who are concerned to resist the (digital) exclusion of the marginalised, and the (digital) banishment of the vulnerable.” - Dr Patrick Williams, author of Data-Driven Policing: The Hardwiring of Discriminatory Policing Practices Across Europe“While imaginaries of techno futures constructed by the Digital Lords of contemporary societies become self-fulfilling prophecies, we struggle to imagine a present and future free from digital coercion and exclusion. In their powerful interdisciplinary analysis, Adi Kuntsman and Esperanza Miyake delve into the personal, social, political and environmental costs of compulsory digitality. Rejecting a self-defeating naturalisation of digitality and digital inevitability Paradoxes of Digital Disengagement compellingly shows how collective digital justice is imperative in this future/present where the machine rules and people can become marginalized and excluded. A much-needed scholarly intervention that can inspire our collective thinking, research and praxis.” - Dr Benedetta Brevini, author of Is AI Good for the Planet? (https://csalateral.org/podcasts/positions/for-the-moment-i-am-not-scrolling-culp-skinner-kuntsman-miyake-karppi/)“Kuntsman and Miyake have written an engaging book. It offers a readable critique of enforced digitality and broadens the scope of disconnection studies. The detailed analyses of complicated documents are elegantly structured and thought-provoking.” - (https://csalateral.org/podcasts/positions/for-the-moment-i-am-not-scrolling-culp-skinner-kuntsman-miyake-karppi/)https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/11/16/book-review-paradoxes-of-digital-disengagement-in-search-of-the-opt-out-button-by-adi-kuntsman-and-esperanza-miyake/Life is increasingly governed and mediated through digital and smart technologies, platforms, big data and algorithms. However, the reasons, practices and impact of how the digital is used by different institutions are often deeply linked to social oppression and injustice. Similarly, the ability to resist these digital impositions is based on inequality and privilege. Challenging the ways in which we are increasingly dependent on the digital, this book raises a set of provocative and urgent questions: in a world of compulsory digitality is there an opt out button? Where, when, how, why and to whom is it available? Answering these questions has become even more relevant since the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the book puts forward the concept of ‘digital disengagement’ which is explored across six key areas of digitisation: health; citizenship; education; consumer culture; labour; and the environment. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/11/16/book-review-paradoxes-of-digital-disengagement-in-search-of-the-opt-out-button-by-adi-kuntsman-and-esperanza-miyake/)Part I examines the difficulty of opting out of compulsory digitality in a world where most things are digital by default. From health apps, algorithmic decision-making to learning analytics, opting out comes with a set of troubling consequences. Part II turns to several examples of disconnection and disengagement. The chapters reveal how phenomena like digital detoxes, time-management apps and online ‘green’ spaces are co-opted by the very digital systems one is trying to resist. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/11/16/book-review-paradoxes-of-digital-disengagement-in-search-of-the-opt-out-button-by-adi-kuntsman-and-esperanza-miyake/)The book critiques issues relating to digital surveillance, algorithmic discrimination and biased tech, corporatisation and monetisation of data, exploitative digital labour, digitalised self-discipline and destruction of the environment. As an interdisciplinary piece of work, the book will be useful to any scholar and activist in Digital, Internet and Social Media Studies; Digital Sociology and Social Policy; Digital Health; Media, Popular and Communication Studies; Consumer culture; and Environment Studies. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2022/11/16/book-review-paradoxes-of-digital-disengagement-in-search-of-the-opt-out-button-by-adi-kuntsman-and-esperanza-miyake/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Digital Capitalism Data Rights and Data Justice COVID-19 Pandemic Digital Abolition Digital Disengagement Platform Society Miyake, Esperanza, author. University of Strathclyde. (orcid)0000000155047648 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5504-7648 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book61 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/62/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03041nam 22004692 4500 107766b4-37a9-4efa-9be3-8345396d5fd7 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534778 (Paperback) 9781911534785 (PDF) 9781911534792 (Epub) 9781911534808 (Mobi) 10.16997/book33 doi UkCbTOM eng local HD2963.B38 Bauwens, Michel, author. P2P Foundation. (orcid)0000000192455907 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9245-5907 Peer to Peer : The Commons Manifesto / Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (102 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Not since Marx identified the manufacturing plants of Manchester as the blueprint for the new capitalist society has there been a more profound transformation of the fundamentals of our social life. As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer.What is peer to peer? Why is it essential for building a commons-centric future? How could this happen? These are the questions this book tries to answer. Peer to peer is a type of social relations in human networks, as well as a technological infrastructure that makes the generalization and scaling up of such relations possible. Thus, peer to peer enables a new mode of production and creates the potential for a transition to a commons-oriented economy. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. peer to peer commons capitalism digital technology P2P innovation Kostakis, Vasilis, author. Tallinn University of Technology; P2P Lab. (orcid)0000000232769282 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3276-9282 Pazaitis, Alex, author. Tallinn University of Technology; P2P Lab. (orcid)000000024998304X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4998-304X University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book33 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/30/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03155nam 22004692 4500 fbbbe327-0439-4764-b989-ac685d90ac01 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534402 (Paperback) 9781911534419 (PDF) 9781911534426 (Epub) 9781911534433 (Mobi) 10.16997/book5 doi UkCbTOM eng local JF1001.S65 Smith, Trevor Garrison, author. Carleton University. Politicizing Digital Space : Theory, the Internet, and Renewing Democracy / Trevor Garrison Smith. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (vi+141 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The objective of this book is to outline how a radically democratic politics can be reinvigorated in theory and practice through the use of the internet. The author argues that politics in its proper sense can be distinguished from anti-politics by analyzing the configuration of public space, subjectivity, participation, and conflict. Each of these terrains can be configured in a more or less political manner, though the contemporary status quo heavily skews them towards anti-political configuration.Using this understanding of what exactly politics entails, this book considers how the internet can both help and hinder efforts to move each area in a more political direction. By explicitly interpreting contemporary theories of the political in terms of the internet, this analysis avoids the twin traps of both technological determinism and technological cynicism.Raising awareness of what the word ‘politics’ means, the author develops theoretical work by Arendt, Rancière, Žižek and Mouffe to present a clear and coherent view of how in theory, politics can be digitized and alternatively how the internet can be deployed in the service of trulydemocratic politics. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Digital media subjectivity politics participation internet democracy Arendt Rancière University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book5 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/5/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03263nam 22004452 4500 2e8be61c-aa17-4422-a0c7-dd4899625959 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656127 (Paperback) 9781912656134 (PDF) 9781912656141 (Epub) 9781912656158 (Mobi) 10.16997/book28 doi UkCbTOM eng local JS3325.O9B69 Bowie, Duncan, author. Independent scholar. (orcid)0009000299727535 https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9972-7535 Reform and Revolt in the City of Dreaming Spires : Radical, Socialist and Communist Politics in the City of Oxford 1830–1980 / Duncan Bowie. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (354 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Books about Oxford have generally focused on the University rather than the city. This original book on the local politics of Oxford City from 1830 to 1980 is based on a comprehensive analysis of primary sources and tells the story of the city’s progressive politics. The book traces this history from Chartism and electoral reform in the mid-nineteenth century, through the early years of socialism to the impact of communism in the interwar period, the struggle between nuclear disarmers and Gaitskellites in the 1960s and the impact of the new revolutionary left in the late 1970s. Throughout the narrative, the book contrasts the two approaches of those engaged in progressive politics, those who focused on the politics of reform and improved government and those who preferred the politics of revolt, protest and revolutionary rhetoric. The author argues that a central feature of this history has been the co-existence and interaction of working- and middle- class elements. It rediscovers a rich heritage, a fascinating story and offers a rare wide-ranging chronological narrative of local UK city politics. Through its extensive quotes from primary sources, the book presents a vivid picture of local politics over 150 years. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Oxford city local politic Labour Party radical Oxford University class University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book28 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/25/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03574nam 22004812 4500 a622fbc0-5419-4dce-ac3b-a3bac275e099 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534648 (Paperback) 9781911534655 (PDF) 9781911534709 (Epub) 9781911534716 (Mobi) 10.16997/book12 doi UkCbTOM eng local K487.S65S44 SEE / edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (226 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity conveyed by vision, allows it to be explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, to imagery and emblems. The law and its normative gaze can be understood as that which decrees what is permitted to be and become visible and what is not. Indeed, even if law’s perspectival view is bound to be betrayed by the realities of perception, it is nonetheless productive of real effects on the world. This first title in the interdisciplinary series ‘Law and the Senses’ asks how we can develop new theoretical approaches to law and seeing that go beyond a simple critique of the legal pretension to truth. This volume aims to understand how law might see and unsee, and how in its turn is seen and unseen. It explores devices and practices of visibility, the evolution of iconology and iconography, and the relation between the gaze of the law and the blindness of justice. The contributions, all radically interdisciplinary, are drawn from photography, legal theory, philosophy, and poetry. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. law senses seeing posthuman vision legality Pavoni, Andrea, editor. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (orcid)0000000287979981 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-9981 Mandic, Danilo, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)000000019149447X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-447X Nirta, Caterina, editor. University of Roehampton. (orcid)0000000178705914 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-5914 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000285039208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-9208 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book12 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/13/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02922nam 22004452 4500 f8bccca0-cf65-4d39-aa27-36ffb0ac2d43 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534563 (Paperback) 9781911534570 (PDF) 9781911534587 (Epub) 9781911534594 (Mobi) 10.16997/book16 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM851.F38 Faucher, Kane X., author. Western University. Social Capital Online : Alienation and Accumulation / Kane X. Faucher. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (xxv+142 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star What is ‘social capital’? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new ‘network spectacle’ of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas – alienation and accumulation – new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today’s digital society. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Digital capitalism accumulation social capital alienation neoliberalism digital sociology University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book16 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/16/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03751nam 22004812 4500 5d707656-b1dd-40dc-8025-2930b76f12e3 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534327 (Paperback) 9781911534334 (PDF) 9781911534341 (Epub) 9781911534358 (Mobi) 10.16997/book21 doi UkCbTOM eng local K487.S65T37 TASTE / edited by Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (vi+288 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. law senses taste epistemology phenomonology pleasure Pavoni, Andrea, editor. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (orcid)0000000287979981 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-9981 Mandic, Danilo, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)000000019149447X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-447X Nirta, Caterina, editor. University of Roehampton. (orcid)0000000178705914 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-5914 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000285039208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-9208 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book21 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/21/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04086nam 22004092 4500 71eeedb6-c662-46d4-be92-7da6c1aa046c m o d cr n 260402t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445810 (Paperback) 9781915445827 (PDF) UkCbTOM eng local DES007040 bisacsh LAN005050 bisacsh PER017000 bisacsh PER004080 bisacsh AKC thema ATFX thema ATFV thema Wille, Jakob, author. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation. (orcid)0000000296916640 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9691-6640 How to Create a Universe / Jakob Ion Wille, Simon Jon Andreasen, Gunnar Wille. London, UK : University of Westminster Press, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (311 pages): 249 illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star How to Create a Universe helps you create and understand the universes that you love from books, films, TV series and games. Through ideas, reflections, drawings, conversations, theories and first-hand examples, the book takes the mystery out of universe building and provides new knowledge and methods for understanding and creating content for fictional universes. You can use the methods in the book to develop, conceptualize and devise universes whether you are a game creator, film producer, writer, TV series showrunner, designer, theatre director, artist, researcher, student or educator – or simply enjoy being a curious explorer wishing to understand the creative process of building a fictional universe. The book follows a similar approach to design research by focusing on methods and tools and, not least, interdisciplinary collaboration. Combining approaches from art research and the humanities with media studies and development processes, the book draws on extensive studies of works across different media, including film, TV series, games, computer games, theatre, literature and oral lore. We are inspired by explanations from narrative theory and biological evolution of the human urge to create and delve into fiction and fictive universes. Furthermore, we share the interest in methods, tools and collaboration models that characterizes design thinking.The book’s nine chapters contain insights into the process of universe building from idea to publication; interviews with some of the world’s leading universe thinkers and builders; practical exercises for developing universes across traditional, new and future media formats; and more than 200 drawings and illustrations of models and examples to provide support and inspiration. The authors draw on knowledge and information collected around the world over several years. In the book, you will meet people who have been involved in creating and developing the universes for Squid Game, Fight Club, The Terminal, Minority Report, Your Name, Suzume, Black Mirror, Mr. Turner, Wallace and Gromit, Pandemic Legacy, Dead of Winter, Dark, Lego, El Tigre, Avatar, Spiderman, Halo, Quirky Circuits, End of Night, The Guilty and Enforcement. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Andreasen, Simon, author. Wille, Gunnar, author. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03471nam 22004452 4500 82fd9e7d-debc-4294-ba70-a7742727d573 m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656424 (Paperback) 9781912656431 (PDF) 9781912656448 (Epub) 9781912656455 (Mobi) 10.16997/book39 doi UkCbTOM eng local QA76.76.S46B57 Birkinbine, Benjamin J., author. University of Nevada, Reno. (orcid)000000028858798X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8858-798X Incorporating the Digital Commons : Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software / Benjamin J. Birkinbine. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (xii+130 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software (FLOSS). FLOSS emerged as an alternative to proprietary software in the 1980s. However, both the products and production processes of FLOSS have become incorporated into capitalist production. For example, Red Hat, Inc. is a large publicly traded company whose business model relies entirely on free software, and IBM, Intel, Cisco, Samsung, Google are some of the largest contributors to Linux, the open-source operating system. This book explores the ways in which FLOSS has been incorporated into digital capitalism. Just as the commons have been used as a motivational frame for radical social movements, it has also served the interests of free-marketeers, corporate libertarians, and states to expand their reach by dragging the shared resources of social life onto digital platforms so they can be integrated into the global capitalist system. The book concludes by asserting the need for a critical political economic understanding of the commons that foregrounds (digital) labour, class struggle, and uneven power distribution within the digital commons as well as between FLOSS communities and their corporate sponsors. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. political economy digital capitalism commons free software open source software studies University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book39 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/39/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 06289nam 22005172 4500 26e1643b-318c-480a-9d55-72baefc18f0c m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656875 (Paperback) 9781912656882 (PDF) 9781912656899 (Epub) 9781912656905 (Mobi) 10.16997/book49 doi UkCbTOM eng local K1401.B76 LAW050000 bisacsh LAW050000 bisacsh BUS072000 bisacsh POL024000 bisacsh BUS069000 bisacsh SOC071000 bisacsh Broumas, Antonios, author. Independent researcher. Intellectual Commons and the Law : A Normative Theory for Commons-Based Peer Production / Antonios Broumas. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (xiv+193 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star ‘With clarity and sophistication, Antonios Broumas presents a bold new theory of intellectual commons and powerful arguments for a new body of supportive law. This book not only reveals the misleading logic of intellectual property law in our time; it reveals the rich possibilities for constructive change that legally protected commoning can bring. Highly recommended!’ — David Bollier, Director, Reinventing the Commons Program, Schumacher Center for a New Economics. ‘Liberating the Intellectual Commons from the fetters of capital accumulation and appropriation, would give us a renaissance of creative energies and empowered communities: exactly what the world needs to move away from the social and ecological devastations of our times. This book is a thoughtful and compelling argument for making this possible through the works of the law and the redesign of public domain as a common space.’ — Massimo De Angelis, Professor of Political Economy and Social Change, Co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Change, University of East London.‘In this pioneering book, Antonios Broumas argues that philosophically, morally, politically and economically we are in urgent need of a new legal regime that recognizes the intellectual commons, peer production and sharing as the primary practices of intellectual production, distribution and consumption. I cannot imagine a more urgent task today. A legally protected intellectual commons will lead to greater scientific and cultural innovation and creativity and will lead to an urgently needed second Enlightenment. This book should be read by lawyers, critical theorists, economists and the many professionals of science, culture and the academy.’ — Costas Douzinas, Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London.‘Antonios Broumas’ book is an excellent critical analysis of the cultural commons and a must-read for everyone interested in understanding what the commons, the cultural commons, and the digital commons are all about. This work brilliantly outlines the foundations of an empirically grounded critical theory of the commons and the cultural commons in the context of the interactions of law and society.’ — Christian Fuchs, Professor of Media and Communication Studies, author of Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory (2020). ‘Broumas takes us on a spellbinding tour of how and why the law could and should change to accommodate the creative multitude, which engages into an emerging mode of production. He tells a vibrant story that makes us shout: “Lawmakers of the world, unite!”’ — Vasilis Kostakis, Professor of P2P Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School. At the cutting edge of contemporary wealth creation people form self-governed communities of collaborative innovation in conditions of relative equipotency and produce resources with free access to all. The emergent intellectual commons have the potential to commonify intellectual production and distribution, unleash human creativity through collaboration and democratise innovation with wider positive effects for our societies. Contemporary intellectual property laws fail to address this potential. We are, therefore, in pressing need of an institutional alternative beyond the inherent limitations of intellectual property law. This book offers an overall analysis of the moral significance of the intellectual commons and outlines appropriate modes for their regulation. Its principal thesis is that our legal systems are in need of an independent body of law for the protection and promotion of the intellectual commons, in parallel to intellectual property law. In this context, the author of the book proposes the reconstruction of the doctrine of the public domain and the exceptions and limitations of exclusive intellectual property rights into an intellectual commons law, which will underpin a vibrant non-commercial zone of creativity and innovation in intellectual production, distribution and consumption alongside commodity markets enabled by intellectual property law. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. copyright intellectual property law ethics commons-based peer production intellectual commons University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book49 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/50/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03602nam 22004452 4500 a2818144-c32c-437e-9dec-519ac81fb979 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534242 (Paperback) 9781911534259 (PDF) 9781911534266 (Epub) 9781911534273 (Mobi) 10.16997/book3 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM851.Z85 Zukerfeld, Mariano, author. Buenos Aires University (UBA). (orcid)000000028547842X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8547-842X Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism : An Introduction to Cognitive Materialism / Mariano Zukerfeld. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (ix+252 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Author Mariano Zukerfeld was awarded the best book prize by The Association ESOCITE (Asociación Latinamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Cience y la Tecnología). (https://uwestminsterpress.blog/?s=zukerfeld) (https://uwestminsterpress.blog/?s=zukerfeld)“the book is a refreshing, dynamic approach leading back into discussions which have been neglected during the last 20 years.” - (https://uwestminsterpress.blog/?s=zukerfeld)https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971 (https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971) Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the framework of cognitive materialism to address some of the great themes of the social sciences: knowledge, exploitation and social class in an account of capitalism's totality in the present day. Author Mariano Zukerfeld reinvigorates materialist study of communications, presenting a typology of knowledge to explain the underlying material forms of information, intellectual property and cognitive work in contemporary societies. Using current examples the book also examines concerns such as free labour and the pivotal role of intellectual property. The book offers nothing less than an introduction to the theory of cognitive materialism and an account of the entirety of the digital (or knowledge) capitalism of our time. (https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/971) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Knowledge Materialism Capitalism Cognitive Intellectual Property Marxism University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book3 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/3/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04231nam 22005172 4500 38e88fac-4b62-4e2e-a7e1-b34133b3da08 m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656790 (Paperback) 9781912656806 (PDF) 9781912656813 (Epub) 9781912656820 (Mobi) 10.16997/book47 doi UkCbTOM eng local T58.5.H43 SOC071000 bisacsh COM079000 bisacsh BUS097000 bisacsh SOC026000 bisacsh POL013000 bisacsh BUS070030 bisacsh Healy, Mike, author. Independent researcher. Marx and Digital Machines : Alienation, Technology, Capitalism / Mike Healy. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (xiii+143 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star “Healy closes his marvellous book by saying that ‘alienation is a constant feature and is experienced as a norm rather than as an aberration’.” - https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19718_marx-and-digital-machines-alienation-technology-capitalism-by-mike-healy-reviewed-by-thomas-klikauer/This book explores the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the digital environment: technology offers all manner of promises, yet habitually fails to deliver. This failure often arises from numerous problems: the proficiency of the technology or end-user, policy failure at various levels, or a combination of these. Solutions such as better technology and more effective end-user education are often put into place to solve these failures.  (https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19718_marx-and-digital-machines-alienation-technology-capitalism-by-mike-healy-reviewed-by-thomas-klikauer/)Mike Healy argues that such approaches are inherently faulty drawing upon qualitative research informed by Marx’s theory of alienation. Using Marx’s theory, he considers participants in three distinct settings: the workplace of information and communications technology (ICT) professionals; university scholars researching the ethical and societal implications of our digital environment; and a group of pensioners living in South London, UK, undertaking ICT training. By delving beneath the surface of how digital technologies are created, researched and experienced, this study illustrates the contradictory nature of our digital lives, as they directly arise from the needs of capitalism.  (https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19718_marx-and-digital-machines-alienation-technology-capitalism-by-mike-healy-reviewed-by-thomas-klikauer/)The book also places Marx’s theory in contrast to the mainstream approaches derived from Seaman and Blauner. In researching and comprehending ICT, this book reaffirms the superior explanatory power of Marx’s theory of alienation. (https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19718_marx-and-digital-machines-alienation-technology-capitalism-by-mike-healy-reviewed-by-thomas-klikauer/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. alienation capitalism Karl Marx technology digital society University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book47 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/48/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04751nam 22005532 4500 f42790f9-cdfa-454c-9b76-23fdd8ff6437 m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386053 (PDF) 9781914386060 (Epub) 9781914386077 (Mobi) 10.16997/book53 doi UkCbTOM eng local LB1033.5.C86 POL050000 bisacsh POL065000 bisacsh LAN004000 bisacsh Cunliffe-Jones, Peter, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000330237386 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3023-7386 Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa : From Laws and Regulations to Media Literacy / Peter Cunliffe-Jones. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (224 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is a single volume containing two research reports by eight authors examining policy towards misinformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume first examines the teaching of ‘media literacy’ in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of media and information literacy (MIL) that are included in the curricula in the seven countries studied and the elements of media literacy related to misinformation taught in schools in one province of South Africa since January 2020. The authors propose six fields of knowledge and skills specific to misinformation that are required in order to reduce students’ susceptibility to false and misleading claims. Identifying obstacles to the introduction and effective teaching of misinformation literacy, the authors make five recommendations for the promotion of misinformation literacy in schools, to reduce the harm misinformation causes.The second report in the volume examines changes made to laws and regulations related to ‘false information’ in eleven countries across Sub-Saharan Africa 2016-2020 from Ethiopia to South Africa. By examining the terms of such laws against what is known of misinformation types, drivers and effects, it assesses the likely effects of punitive policies and those of more positive approaches that provide accountability in political debate by promoting access to accurate information and corrective speech. In contrast to the effects described for most recent regulations relating to misinformation, the report identifies ways in which legal and regulatory frameworks can be used to promote a healthier information environment. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Misinformation News Media Literacy Fact-checking Africa Information regulation Gaye, Sahite, editor. l'Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Dakar. Finlay, Alan, editor. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Gichunge, Wallace, editor. Centre for Media & Information Literacy in Kenya. Schiffrin, Anya, editor. Columbia University. (orcid)0000000211031801 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1103-1801 Pretorius, Cornia, editor. North-West University, Potchefstroom. (orcid)0000000193256539 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9325-6539 Onumah, Chido, editor. African Centre for Media & Information Literacy, Abujah. (orcid)0000000197343568 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-3568 Diagne, Assane, editor. Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme, des Métiers de l’Internet et de la Communication (EJICOM). (orcid)0000000200465524 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0046-5524 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book53 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/54/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03410nam 22004452 4500 7f08c5f4-d452-4dbf-9058-be15382637e9 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534099 (PDF) 9781911534105 (Epub) 9781911534112 (Mobi) 10.16997/book2 doi UkCbTOM eng local D215.N39 Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World : The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700–1850 / edited by Richard Harding, Agustín Guimerá. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xiv+183 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The naval leader has taken centre stage in traditional naval histories. However, while the historical narrative has been fairly consistent the development of various navies has been accompanied by assumptions, challenges and competing visions of the social characteristics of naval leaders and of their function. Whilst leadership has been a constant theme in historical studies, it has not been scrutinised as a phenomenon in its own right. This book examines the critical period in Europe between 1700 -1850, when political, economic and cultural shifts were bringing about a new understanding of the individual and of society. Bringing together context with a focus on naval leadership as a phenomenon is at the heart of this book, a unique collaborative venture between British, French and Spanish scholars. As globalisation develops in the twenty-first century the significance of navies looks set to increase. This volume of essays aims to place naval leadership in its historical context.An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. The Open Access ISBN for this book is 978-1-911534-76-1. More information about the initiative and details about KU’s Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Naval leadership Maritime history Ancien Régime French Revolution Royal Navy Spanish Navy Harding, Richard, editor. University of Westminster. Guimerá, Agustín, editor. Instituto de Historia. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book2 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/2/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03607nam 22004812 4500 da87ac51-3fc5-4ebb-90ac-d8f802d2289b m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656516 (PDF) 9781912656523 (Epub) 9781912656530 (Mobi) 10.16997/book41 doi UkCbTOM eng local HE8689.7.P82A24 Deane, James, author. BBC Media Action. Achieving Viability for Public Service Media in Challenging Settings : A Holistic Approach / edited by Naomi Sakr; James Deane. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (32 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star In the face of challenges posed by a shifting digital media landscape, an array of international bodies continue to endorse public service media (PSM) as an essential component of democratisation. Yet how can PSM achieve viability in settings where models of media independence and credibility are unfamiliar or rejected by political leaders? The answer lies in a holistic approach that is neither media-centric nor defeatist about PSM’s place in a landscape marked by younger generations’ widespread preference for social media platforms. There are more ways of working towards PSM than are often recognized. Wide-ranging research from media NGOs and academics demonstrates the potential of diverse, incremental approaches to embedding the values and mechanisms of PSM. These are as likely to involve regulatory and licensing institutions, unions of media practitioners, audiences, advocacy groups or social media platforms as content producers themselves. This Policy Brief considers the issues, research and policy options around achieving viability for PSM. It concludes with six recommendations that are relevant to policymakers, practitioners and media studies specialists. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. public service media policy social media broadcasting audiences public interest Sakr, Naomi, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000267335484 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6733-5484 Docquir, Pierre, author. ARTICLE 19. (orcid)0009000724807078 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2480-7078 Mano, Winston, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000169583716 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6958-3716 Sabry, Tarik, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305621570 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0562-1570 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book41 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/42/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03933nam 22004812 4500 6a177c9e-2bbf-4a74-9f1c-b3c1e9cc1d87 m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386169 (Paperback) 9781914386138 (PDF) 9781914386145 (Epub) 9781914386152 (Mobi) 10.16997/book55 doi UkCbTOM eng local Q335.A4 POL017000 bisacsh SOC057000 bisacsh POL063000 bisacsh AI for Everyone? : Critical Perspectives / edited by Pieter Verdegem. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (310 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Editor Pieter Verdegem was shortlisted for best edited collection in the 2022 MeCCSA outstanding achievement awards. See (https://www.meccsa.org.uk/meccsa-outstanding-achievement-awards-2022/#:~:text=The%20MeCCSA%20Awards%20recognise%20outstanding,2021%20and%20nominated%20by%20peers.)https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2022/08/18/original-and-timely-uwp-title-shortlisted-for-major-academic-book-prize/ for more details. (https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2022/08/18/original-and-timely-uwp-title-shortlisted-for-major-academic-book-prize/)We are entering a new era of technological determinism and solutionism in which governments and business actors are seeking data-driven change, assuming that Artificial Intelligence is now inevitable and ubiquitous. But we have not even started asking the right questions, let alone developed an understanding of the consequences. Urgently needed is debate that asks and answers fundamental questions about power. This book brings together critical interrogations of what constitutes AI, its impact and its inequalities in order to offer an analysis of what it means for AI to deliver benefits for everyone. The book is structured in three parts: Part 1, AI: Humans vs. Machines, presents critical perspectives on human-machine dualism. Part 2, Discourses and Myths About AI, excavates metaphors and policies to ask normative questions about what is ‘desirable’ AI and what conditions make this possible. Part 3, AI Power and Inequalities, discusses how the implementation of AI creates important challenges that urgently need to be addressed. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and regional contexts, this book offers a vital intervention on one of the most hyped concepts of our times. (https://uwestminsterpress.blog/2022/08/18/original-and-timely-uwp-title-shortlisted-for-major-academic-book-prize/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. AI algorithms good data social justice machine learning solutionism Verdegem, Pieter, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)000000017906002X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7906-002X University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book55 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/58/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02380nam 22004212 4500 083c45af-2b11-4330-b312-506f5a68158a m o d cr n 260402t20132013 ob 000 0 eng d 9781857571080 (Paperback) 9781911534143 (PDF) 10.16997/book8 doi UkCbTOM eng local LF449.W47C53 Clapson, Mark, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000248072906 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4807-2906 An Education in Sport : Competition, communities and identities at the University of Westminster since 1864 / Mark Clapson. London : University of Westminster Press, 2013. ©2013 1 online resource (x+116 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Polytechnic of Central London University of Westminster Regent Street London Young Women's Christian Institute Polytechnic Harriers Quintin Hogg Memorial Sports Ground University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book8 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/6/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04869nam 22004932 4500 41564265-2284-4c1b-ba39-dea1776b22bd m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386008 (Paperback) 9781914386015 (PDF) 9781914386022 (Epub) 9781914386039 (Mobi) 10.16997/book52 doi UkCbTOM eng local GF61.P84 PHI040000 bisacsh NAT000000 bisacsh SOC000000 bisacsh Pugh, Jonathan, author. University of Newcastle. (orcid)0000000153086379 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-6379 Anthropocene Islands : Entangled Worlds / Jonathan Pugh, David Chandler. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (xv+228 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star ‘Ambitious, sophisticated, timely and downright inspirational.’ – Philip Hayward, University of Technology Sydney, Okinawan Journal of Island Studies'A must read … a new analytical agenda for the Anthropocene, coherently drawing out the power of thinking with islands.' – Elena Burgos Martinez, Leiden University‘This is an essential book. [The] analytics they propose … offer both a critical agenda for island studies and compass points through which to navigate the haunting past, troubling present, and precarious future.’ – Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawai’i, Manoa‘All academic books should be like this: hard to put down. Informative, careful, sometimes devasting, yet absolutely necessary - if you read one book about the Anthropocene let it be this. You will never think of islands in the same way again.’ – Kimberley Peters, University of Oldenburg‘ … a unique journey into the Anthropocene. Critical, generous and compelling’. — Nigel Clark, Lancaster UniversityThe island has become a key figure of the Anthropocene – an epoch in which human entanglements with nature come increasingly to the fore. For a long time, islands were romanticised or marginalised, seen as lacking modernity’s capacities for progress, vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic climate change and the afterlives of empire and coloniality. Today, however, the island is increasingly important for both policy-oriented and critical imaginaries that seek, more positively, to draw upon the island’s liminal and disruptive capacities, especially the relational entanglements and sensitivities its peoples and modes of life are said to exhibit.Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds explores the significant and widespread shift to working with islands for the generation of new or alternative approaches to knowledge, critique and policy practices. It explains how contemporary Anthropocene thinking takes a particular interest in islands as ‘entangled worlds’, which break down the human/nature divide of modernity and enable the generation of new or alternative approaches to ways of being (ontology) and knowing (epistemology). The book draws out core analytics which have risen to prominence (Resilience, Patchworks, Correlation and Storiation) as contemporary policy makers, scholars, critical theorists, artists, poets and activists work with islands to move beyond the constraints of modern approaches. In doing so, it argues that engaging with islands has become increasingly important for the generation of some of the core frameworks of contemporary thinking and concludes with a new critical agenda for the Anthropocene. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Anthropocene Islands Relationality Entanglements Ontology Epistemology Chandler, David, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000227667169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-7169 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book52 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/55/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03183nam 22004572 4500 cb32e3f2-16a8-466e-9bad-18fd4f46b9e4 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656233 (PDF) 9781912656240 (Epub) 9781912656257 (Mobi) 10.16997/book31 doi UkCbTOM eng local P94.5.P462G7G37 Garrisi, Diana, author. Xi’an Jiaotong – Liverpool University. (orcid)0000000154389427 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5438-9427 Appearance, Discrimination and the Media : Portraying Facial Disfigurement Fairly in the News / Diana Garrisi, Laima Janciute, Jacob Johanssen. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (28 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The portrayal of disfigurement in the UK media must change. This policy brief is based on recent research that found a general negative and sensationalised attitude towards disfigurement in the media. Disfigurement is a condition that can affect anyone at any time in life regardless their social or demographic background due to accidents or health conditions or be congenital. In the UK, one in 111 people have facial disfigurements. In order to improve the ways in which media portray disfigurement, this policy brief argues that media should move away from sensationalised coverage on disfigurement and focus instead on the lived experiences of individuals with this condition. It recommends strengthening diversity-oriented editorial practices and training as well as media literacy education. In addition, it addresses the lack of guidelines on the portrayal of disfigurement and urges regulatory bodies to be more efficient in handling complaints. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. facial disfigurement disability media representation prejudice newspapers journalism Janciute, Laima, author. University of Westminster. Johanssen, Jacob, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000286821648 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8682-1648 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book31 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/22/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02869nam 22004332 4500 d53689cc-4d89-4a53-8127-aaa6c2139ac8 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534822 (PDF) 9781911534839 (Epub) 9781911534846 (Mobi) 10.16997/book25 doi UkCbTOM eng local ZA3250.G7B86 Bunz, Mercedes, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000328760522 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-0522 Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things : UK Policy Opportunities and Challenges / Mercedes Bunz, Laima Janciute. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (31 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Through algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), objects and digital services now demonstrate new skills they did not have before, right up to replacing human activity through pre-programming or by making their own decisions. As part of the internet of things, AI applications are already widely used today, for example in language processing, image recognition and the tracking and processing of data. This policy brief illustrates the potential negative and positive impacts of AI and reviews related policy strategies adopted by the UK, US, EU, as well as Canada and China. Based on an ethical approach that considers the role of AI from a democratic perspective and considering the public interest, the authors make policy recommendations that help to strengthen the positive impact of AI and to mitigate its negative consequences. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. artificial intelligence algorithms internet of things AI regulation policy Janciute, Laima, author. University of Westminster. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book25 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/19/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03003nam 22004452 4500 00026055-ed08-4b0c-8df0-fffd4b75b3fb m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656004 (Paperback) 9781912656011 (PDF) 9781912656028 (Epub) 9781912656035 (Mobi) 10.16997/book34 doi UkCbTOM eng local HB3722.L44 Lee, Micky, author. Suffolk University, Boston. (orcid)000000022081033X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2081-033X Bubbles and Machines : Gender, Information and Financial Crises / Micky Lee. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (164 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Are financial crises embedded in IT? Can gender studies offer insights into financial reporting? Feminist theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS) can enrich a critique of financial crises in capitalism as the author argues their critical, political economic approaches to communication can help in understanding because they historicize technology and economy and how these are materially embedded. Current literature has neglected finance and capital’s gendered aspect – even – the ideology of a ‘crisis’. This book develops four themes: women as resources in financial markets and as producers of values; gender ideology and unequal distribution; machine production and distribution of financial information and the varied actuality of markets. Working with case histories of tulipmania, microcredit, Wall Street reporting and the role of ‘screens’, Bubbles and Machines argues that rather than calling financial crises human-made or inevitable they should be recognized as technological. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. financial crisis feminism technology science and technology studies gender financial information University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book34 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/32/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 06484nam 22004812 4500 6b7eaaa4-9809-4d16-9cee-3145acf3d626 m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656653 (Paperback) 9781912656653 (Hardback) 9781912656615 (PDF) 9781912656622 (Epub) 9781912656639 (Mobi) 10.16997/book43 doi UkCbTOM eng local ML3838.G76 Gross, Sally-Anne, author. (orcid)0000000192471253 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-1253 Can Music Make You Sick? : Measuring the Price of Musical Ambition / Sally-Anne Gross, George Musgrave; edited by Sally Anne Gross. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (x+176 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Stream Podcast (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)Grant Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit): ‘This book should be mandatory reading for every label, booking agent, manager and tour manager in the business of music and touring so we can all better understand what’s really involved in living the life of a professional musician and the role we all have in making that life as liveable as possible’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress) Tim Shiel (Double J/Triple J Radio, Australia): ‘The most important book I’ve ever read about music’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)‘An eye-opening must read’ ** (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)Shaun Ryder (Happy Mondays): ‘Holding on to your mental health in this pressured environment is so important and at times so very difficult, I know that all too well. This book lays bare what it is like to live for your music and how it can feel to be a musician today’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress) The Wire magazine: ‘Poses uncomfortable questions…[and] sheds light on complex issues with compelling thoroughness’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)‘Musicians often pay a high price for sharing their art with us. Underneath the glow of success can often lie loneliness and exhaustion, not to mention the basic struggles of paying the rent or buying food. Sally-Anne Gross and George Musgrave raise important questions – and we need to listen to what the musicians have to tell us about their working conditions and their mental health’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)Crispin Hunt (Multi-Platinum Songwriter/Record Producer & Chair of the Ivor’s Academy): ‘In this important book, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave investigate the relationship between the well-being music brings to society and the well-being of those who create. It's a much needed reality-check, deglamorising the romantic image of the tortured artist’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)Adam Ficek (Psychotherapist [Music and Mind]/BabyShambles): ‘A critical and timely book’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress) Joe Muggs (DJ, Promoter, Journalist [Guardian, Telegraph, FACT, Mixmag, The Wire]): ‘The best guide to what being a musician, and what "the music industry" actually are that I can remember reading’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress) Andreea Magdalina (Founder of shesaid.so): ‘This book is extremely important....The pandemic is forcing our industry to reinvent itself, once again, and this book is a call to ensure these new systems are fairer for everyone and that they foster a healthier lifestyle’ (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)It is often assumed that creative people are prone to psychological instability, and that this explains apparent associations between cultural production and mental health problems. In their detailed study of recording and performing artists in the British music industry, Sally Anne Gross and George Musgrave turn this view on its head.  (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)By listening to how musicians understand and experience their working lives, this book proposes that whilst making music is therapeutic, making a career from music can be traumatic. The authors show how careers based on an all-consuming passion have become more insecure and devalued. Artistic merit and intimate, often painful, self-disclosures are the subject of unremitting scrutiny and data metrics. Personal relationships and social support networks are increasingly bound up with calculative transactions.  (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress)Drawing on original empirical research and a wide-ranging survey of scholarship from across the social sciences, their findings will be provocative for future research on mental health, wellbeing and working conditions in the music industries and across the creative economy. Going beyond self-help strategies, they challenge the industry to make transformative structural change. Until then, the book provides an invaluable guide for anyone currently making their career in music, as well as those tasked with training and educating the next generation. (https://anchor.fm/uniwestminsterpress) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. gig economy mental health digital culture popular music music industries music professions Musgrave, George, author. University of Westminster; Goldsmiths University of London. (orcid)0000000243365443 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4336-5443 Gross, Sally Anne, editor. University of Westminster. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book43 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/47/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03201nam 22004452 4500 8638911c-5fbb-430c-ae6b-73c16578a398 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534365 (Paperback) 9781911534372 (PDF) 9781911534389 (Epub) 9781911534396 (Mobi) 10.16997/book6 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM851.T56 Timcke, Scott, author. The University of West Indies. (orcid)0000000171258306 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7125-8306 Capital, State, Empire : The New American Way of Digital Warfare / Scott Timcke. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xvii+170 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The United States presents the greatest source of global geo-political violence and instability. Guided by the radical political economy tradition, this book offers an analysis of the USA’s historical impulse to weaponize communication technologies.Scott Timcke explores the foundations of this impulse and how the militarization of digital society creates structural injustices and social inequalities. He analyses how new digital communication technologies support American paramountcy and conditions for worldwide capital accumulation. Identifying selected features of contemporary American society, Capital, State, Empire undertakes a materialist critique of this digital society and of the New American Way of War. At the same time it demonstrates how the American security state represses activists—such as Black Lives Matter—who resist this emerging security leviathan. The book also critiques the digital positivism behind the algorithmic regulation used to control labour and further diminish prospects for human flourishing for the ‘99%’.Capital, State, Empire contributes to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and political power in the early 21st century. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. communication technologies inequality digital society global capitalism militarization empire University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book6 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/10/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02861nam 22003732 4500 59be0645-e4e0-4d63-801f-4dd83a4e78ac m o d cr n 260402t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445605 (Paperback) 9781915445629 (Epub) 10.16997/14610450 doi UkCbTOM eng local Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism / edited by Alessandro D’Arma, Maria Michalis, Gregory Ferrell Lowe, Michael-Bernhard Zita. ©2024 1 online resource (310 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism, the 11th RIPE Reader, examines the role of public service journalism, as well as the opportunities and challenges of delivering it in today’s increasingly complex and competitive digital media environment. The volume is organised in three parts: ‘Normative frameworks’; ‘Platform Power, Artificial Intelligence and Public Service Journalism’; and ‘National and Regional Cases’ in Europe and beyond – especially Africa, Asia and India. The book addresses the formidable challenges facing public service journalism in the digital media ecology and provides rich and insightful analyses based on empirical research with findings that are relevant for policy interventions, developing organisational strategy, and for applied practice. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Media Studies D’Arma, Alessandro, editor. (orcid)0000000288452030 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-2030 Michalis, Maria, editor. (orcid)0000000191778667 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9177-8667 Ferrell Lowe, Gregory, editor. (orcid)0000000329100876 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2910-0876 Zita, Michael-Bernhard, editor. (orcid)0000000313328083 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1332-8083 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/14610450 Connect to e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/image-service/5m60qv8971732123147/full/286,/0/default.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03787nam 22004692 4500 214f3033-44d6-4627-80e4-fe12ad58fd24 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534280 (Paperback) 9781911534297 (PDF) 9781911534303 (Epub) 9781911534310 (Mobi) 10.16997/book4 doi UkCbTOM eng local HD9999.C9472C655 Collaborative Production in the Creative Industries / edited by James Graham, Alessandro Gandini. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (vi+225 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star In recent years research into creative labour and cultural work has usually addressed the politics of production in these fields, but the sociotechnical and aesthetic dimensions of collaborative creative work have been somewhat overlooked.This book aims to address this gap. Through case studies that range from TV showrunning to independent publishing, from the film industry to social media platforms such as Tumblr and Wattpad, this collection develops a critical understanding of the integral role collaboration plays in contemporary media and culture. It draws attention to diverse kinds of creative collaboration afforded via the intermediation of digital platforms and networked publics. It considers how these are incorporated into emergent market paradigms and investigates the complicated forms of subjectivity that develop as a consequence. But it also acknowledges historical continuities, not least in terms of the continued exploitation of ‘support personnel’ and of resulting artistic conflicts but also of alternative models that resist the precarious nature of contemporary cultural work.Finally, this volume attempts to situate creative collaboration in broader social and economic contexts, where the experience and outcomes of such work have proved more problematic than the rich potential of their promise would lead us to expect.The Editors: James Graham is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries, Middlesex University, London. Alessandro Gandini is Lecturer in Digital Media Management and Innovation in the Department of Digital Humanities, Kings College, London. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Social media Cultural work collaborative production collaborative production auteur subjectivity digital platform Graham, James, editor. Middlesex University. (orcid)0000000347782161 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-2161 Gandini, Alessandro, editor. King's College. (orcid)0000000277057625 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7705-7625 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book4 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/4/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03690nam 22004452 4500 20eccac7-6df0-41b4-8a1f-ab72a3b17492 m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656714 (Paperback) 9781912656721 (PDF) 9781912656738 (Epub) 9781912656745 (Mobi) 10.16997/book45 doi UkCbTOM eng local HB501.F83 Fuchs, Christian, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 Communication and Capitalism : A Critical Theory / Christian Fuchs. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (406 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star ‘An authoritative analysis of the role of communication in contemporary capitalism and an important contribution to debates about the forms of domination and potentials for liberation in today’s capitalist society.’ — Professor Michael Hardt, Duke University, co-author of the tetralogy Empire, Commonwealth, Multitude, and Assembly ‘A comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism. It is a major work of synthesis and essential reading for anyone wanting to know what critical analysis is and why we need it now more than ever.’ — Professor Graham Murdock, Emeritus Professor, University of Loughborough and co-editor of The Handbook of Political Economy of CommunicationsCommunication and Capitalism outlines foundations of a critical theory of communication. Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines a communicative materialism that is a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. The book renews Marxist Humanism as a critical theory perspective on communication and society. The author theorises communication and society by engaging with the dialectic, materialism, society, work, labour, technology, the means of communication as means of production, capitalism, class, the public sphere, alienation, ideology, nationalism, racism, authoritarianism, fascism, patriarchy, globalisation, the new imperialism, the commons, love, death, metaphysics, religion, critique, social and class struggles, praxis, and socialism. Fuchs renews the engagement with the questions of what it means to be a human and a humanist today and what dangers humanity faces today. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Marxism capitalism communication humanism society materialism University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book45 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/44/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03275nam 22004572 4500 c822ac65-a310-497f-90c5-cf4e6d91fa2c m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656219 (Paperback) 9781912656042 (Hardback) 9781912656059 (PDF) 9781912656066 (Epub) 9781912656073 (Mobi) 10.16997/book30 doi UkCbTOM eng local JC423.C75 Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism / edited by Jeremiah Morelock. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (xxxvii+222 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star After President Trump’s election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of far-Right political parties, much public discussion has intensely focused on populism and authoritarianism. In the middle of the twentieth century, members of the early Frankfurt School prolifically studied and theorized fascism and anti-Semitism in Germany and the United States. In this volume, leading European and American scholars apply insights from the early Frankfurt School to present-day authoritarian populism, including the Trump phenomenon and related developments across the globe. Chapters are arranged into three sections exploring different aspects of the topic: theories, historical foundations, and manifestations via social media. Contributions examine the vital political, psychological and anthropological theories of early Frankfurt School thinkers, and how their insights could be applied now amidst the insecurities and confusions of twenty-first century life. The many theorists considered include Adorno, Fromm, Löwenthal and Marcuse, alongside analysis of Austrian Facebook pages and Trump’s tweets and operatic media drama. This book is a major contribution towards deeper understanding of populism’s resurgence in the age of digital capitalism. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Social media Critical theory Populism authoritarianism Frankfurt School Trump Morelock, Jeremiah, editor. Boston College, Massachussetts. (orcid)0000000265064940 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-4940 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book30 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/26/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03331nam 22004452 4500 d1d6ffe9-352f-498a-b46a-b7a5bdccc665 m o d cr n 260402t20162016 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534044 (Paperback) 9781911534051 (PDF) 9781911534068 (Epub) 9781911534075 (Mobi) 10.16997/book1 doi UkCbTOM eng local P90.F755 Fuchs, Christian, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 Critical Theory of Communication : New Readings of Lukács, Adorno, Marcuse, Honneth and Habermas in the Age of the Internet / Christian Fuchs. London : University of Westminster Press, 2016. ©2016 1 online resource (iv+226 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book contributes to the foundations of a critical theory of communication as shaped by the forces of digital capitalism. One of the world's leading theorists of digital media Professor Christian Fuchs explores how the thought of some of the Frankfurt School’s key thinkers can be deployed for critically understanding media in the age of the Internet. Five essays that form the heart of this book review aspects of the works of Georg Lukács, Theodor W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Axel Honneth and Jürgen Habermas and apply them as elements of a critical theory of communication's foundations. The approach taken starts from Georg Lukács Ontology of Social Being, draws on the work of the Frankfurt School thinkers, and sets them into dialogue with the Cultural Materialism of Raymond Williams.Critical Theory of Communication offers a vital set of new insights on how communication operates in the age of information, digital media and social media, arguing that we need to transcend the communication theory of Habermas by establishing a dialectical and cultural-materialist critical theory of communication.It is the first title in a major new book series 'Critical Digital and Social Media Studies' published by the University of Westminster Press. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (182 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed, and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural practices, politics and production, and their critical analysis. It builds on the University of Westminster’s Contemporary China Centre Blog, providing additional reflective introductory pieces to contextualise each of the eight chapters.The articles in this Review speak to the turbulent year that was 2020 as it unfolded across cultural China. Thematically, they range from celebrity culture, fashion and beauty, to religion and spirituality, via language politics, heritage, and music. Pieces on representations of China in Britain and the Westminster Chinese Visual Arts Project reflect our particular location and home. Many of the articles in this book focus on the People’s Republic of China, but they also draw attention to the multiple Chinese and Sinophone cultural practices that exist within, across, and beyond national borders.The Review is distinctive in its cultural studies-based approach and contributes a much-needed critical perspective from the Humanities to the study of cultural China. It aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about the social, cultural, political, and historical dynamics that inform life in cultural China today, offering academics, activists, practitioners, and politicians a key reference with which to situate current events in and relating to cultural China in a wider context. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. China Culture Society Ethnicity Gender Asia Kehoe, Séagh, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000329205619 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2920-5619 Wielander, Gerda, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000174784838 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7478-4838 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book58 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/59/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03561nam 22004932 4500 bc9b9cb1-b767-4091-9945-3545cde859e9 m o d cr n 260402t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445209 (Paperback) 9781915445179 (PDF) 9781915445186 (Epub) 9781915445193 (Mobi) 10.16997/book69 doi UkCbTOM eng local DS721.C85 SOC053000 bisacsh LAN000000 bisacsh SOC022000 bisacsh Cultural China 2021 : The Contemporary China Centre Review / edited by Séagh Kehoe, Gerda Wielander. London : University of Westminster Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (132 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Cultural China is a unique annual publication for up-to-date, informed and accessible commentary about Chinese and Sinophone languages, cultural practices, politics and production, and their critical analysis. It builds on research and perspectives central to the Contemporary China Centre, based at the University of Westminster, and the Contemporary China Centre Blog.The chapters in this Review speak to the challenging and eventful year that was 2021 as it unfolded across cultural China. Thematically, they range from health and medicine, environment, food, children and parenting via film, red culture and calls to action. Many of the contributions in this edited collection focus on the People’s Republic of China, but they also draw attention to the multiple Chinese and Sinophone cultural practices that exist within, across and beyond national borders.The Review is distinctive in its cultural studies-based approach and contributes a much-needed critical perspective from the humanities to the study of cultural China. It aims to promote interdisciplinary dialogue and debate about the social, cultural, political and historical dynamics that inform life in cultural China today offering academics, activists, practitioners and politicians a key reference with which to situate current events in and relating to cultural China in a wider context. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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(orcid)0000000174784838 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7478-4838 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/64/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03247nam 22004452 4500 e998ebd0-4f51-4dfa-9ace-e60abdd8bcb7 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656387 (Paperback) 9781912656394 (PDF) 9781912656400 (Epub) 9781912656417 (Mobi) 10.16997/book38 doi UkCbTOM eng local HG4751.C85 Cultural Crowdfunding : Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization / edited by Vincent Rouzé. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (128 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This new book analyses the strategies, usages and wider implications of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in the culture and communication industries that are reshaping economic, organizational and social logics. Platforms are the object of considerable hype with a growing global presence. Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, supposedly enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propose a critical analysis of these phenomena by questioning what follows from decisions to outsource modes of creation and funding to consumers. Drawing on research carried out within the ‘Collab’ programme backed by the French National Research Agency, the book considers how platforms are used to organize cultural labour and/or to control usages, following a logic of suggestion rather than overt injunction. Four key areas are considered: the history of crowdfunding as a system; whose interests crowdfunding may serve; the implications for digital labour and lastly crowdfunding’s interface with globalization and contemporary capitalism. The book concludes with an assessment of claims that crowdfunding can democratize culture. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. arts platforms participation crowdfunding culture crowdsourcing Rouzé, Vincent, editor. University of Paris 8. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book38 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/35/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03665nam 22005292 4500 02c3de5b-64e7-49e9-a58e-58057ac1c45d m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386176 (Paperback) 9781914386183 (PDF) 9781914386190 (Epub) 9781914386206 (Mobi) 9781914386206 (AZW3) 10.16997/book57 doi UkCbTOM eng local JF799.D46 POL007000 bisacsh POL017000 bisacsh SOC057000 bisacsh Democracy in a Pandemic : Participation in Response to Crisis / edited by Graham Smith, Tim Hughes, Lizzie Adams, Charlotte Obijiaku. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (vii+184 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation in times of crises. During the pandemic, mutual aid and self-help groups have realised unmet needs. And forward-thinking organisations have shown that listening to and working with diverse social groups leads to more inclusive outcomes. Participation and deliberation are not just possible in an emergency. They are valuable, perhaps even indispensable. This book draws together a diverse range of voices of activists, practitioners, policy makers, researchers and writers. Together they make visible the critical role played by participation and deliberation during the pandemic and make the case for enhanced engagement during and beyond emergency contexts.Another, more democratic world can be realised in the face of a crisis. The contributors to this book offer us meaningful insights into what this could look like. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Democracy Activism Covid-19 Participation Emergency measures Deliberation Smith, Graham, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000237589221 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3758-9221 Hughes, Tim, editor. Involve and participatory and deliberative democracy specialist.. (orcid)0000000209239937 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0923-9937 Adams, Lizzie, editor. Involve. Obijiaku, Charlotte, editor. Involve. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book57 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/56/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04055nam 22004572 4500 f763b0da-cc4b-4538-8aac-00dada36aa24 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656264 (Paperback) 9781912656271 (PDF) 9781912656288 (Epub) 9781912656295 (Mobi) 10.16997/book35 doi UkCbTOM eng local G155.G7D47 Destination London : The Expansion of the Visitor Economy / edited by Andrew Smith, Anne Graham. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (viii+249 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star “A welcome addition to the field of urban tourism research... its content could prove useful not only to students and academic, but also to policymakers interested in better understanding the implications of tourism development and the expansion of the visitor economy in large cities.” - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301785London is one of the world’s most popular destinations and visitors contribute approximately £14.9 billion of expenditure to the city every year. Its tourism and events sectors are growing and over the last few years London has received more visitors than ever before. However, detailed accounts of the city’s visitor economy are conspicuously absent. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301785)This book analyses how the capital is developing as a destination through the expansion of tourism and events into new urban spaces. The book outlines how parts of London not previously regarded as tourist territory are now subject to the visitor gaze with tourism spreading beyond established central zones into peripheral, suburban and residential areas – in part propelled by a big rise in peer to peer accommodation use. Simultaneously, London’s airports and sports stadiums and their surrounds are becoming destinations in their own right. New vantage points have been created, allowing tourists to explore the city: from above, at night-time or through tours given by the homeless; via the opening up of the River Thames; or through the transformation of local parks into eventscapes.  (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301785)The book explores these trends and shows how urban destinations expand. In doing so, it enhances our understanding of London and highlights the growing significance of tourism and events in global cities. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261517719301785) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. tourism London urban visitors overtourism development Smith, Andrew, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000251723984 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-3984 Graham, Anne, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000309788781 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-8781 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book35 Connect to e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/image-service/ns064891v1726700904/full/286,/0/default.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03219nam 22004452 4500 355f9336-b677-4eca-a61e-93610c94c6ab m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534686 (Paperback) 9781911534693 (PDF) 9781911534662 (Epub) 9781911534679 (Mobi) 10.16997/book13 doi UkCbTOM eng local LB1028.3.B744 Breen, Paul, author. University of Westminster. Developing Educators for The Digital Age : A Framework for Capturing Knowledge in Action / Paul Breen. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (viii+202 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Evaluating skills and knowledge capture lies at the cutting edge of contemporary higher education where there is a drive towards increasing evaluation of classroom performance and use of digital technologies in pedagogy. Developing Educators for the Digital Age is a book that provides a narrative account of teacher development geared towards the further usage of technologies (including iPads, MOOCs and whiteboards) in the classroom presented via the histories and observation of a diverse group of teachers engaged in the multiple dimensions of their profession. Drawing on the insights of a variety of educational theories and approaches (including TPACK) it presents a practical framework for capturing knowledge in action of these English language teachers – in their own voices – indicating how such methods, processes and experiences shed light more widely on related contexts within HE and may be transferable to other situations. This book will be of interest to the growing body of scholars interested in TPACK theory, or communities of practice theory and more widely anyone concerned with how new pedagogical skills and knowledge with technology may be incorporated in better practice and concrete instances of teaching. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. communities of practice teacher development knowledge capture TPACK digital technologies English for Academic Purposes University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book13 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/12/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03564nam 22004932 4500 613ef724-8557-42c5-9868-ebbae82af584 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656301 (Paperback) 9781912656318 (PDF) 9781912656325 (Epub) 9781912656332 (Mobi) 10.16997/book36 doi UkCbTOM eng local eng fre K240.N36 Nancy, Jean-Luc, author. European Graduate School. Dies Irae / Jean-Luc Nancy; edited by Angela Condello, Carlo Grassi, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (107 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Edited by Angela Condello, Carlo Grassi and Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos With an introduction by Carlo GrassiTranslated by Cadenza Academic Translations and Angela CondelloWhat does it mean to judge when there is no general and universal norm to define what is right and what is wrong? Can laws be absent and is law always necessary? This is the first English translation published of Jean- Luc Nancy’s acclaimed consideration of the law’s most pervasive principles in the context of actual systems and contemporary institutions, power, norms, laws. In a world where it is impossible to imagine the realisation of an ideal of justice that corresponds to every person’s ideal of justice, Nancy probes the limits of legal normativity. Moreover, the question is asked: how can legal normativity be legitimised? A legal order based on performativity and formal validity is questionable and other forces than juridical normativity are at the heart of Dies Irae. Such leads inevitably to the processes of inclusion and exclusion that characterise contemporary juridical systems and those issues of identity, hostility and self-representation central to contemporary political and legal debates Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. law normativity Kant judgement justice reason Condello, Angela, editor. University of Turin. (orcid)0009000962995991 https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6299-5991 Grassi, Carlo, editor, introduction by. Università Iuav di Venezia. (orcid)0000000154157511 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5415-7511 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000285039208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-9208 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book36 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/33/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03668nam 22004692 4500 64401841-1b87-4165-a177-3f7d71495706 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656202 (Paperback) 9781912656080 (Hardback) 9781912656097 (PDF) 9781912656103 (Epub) 9781912656110 (Mobi) 10.16997/book29 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM851.D54 Digital Objects, Digital Subjects : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data / edited by David Chandler, Christian Fuchs. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (iv+238 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This volume explores activism, research and critique in the age of digital subjects and objects and Big Data capitalism after a digital turn said to have radically transformed our political futures. Optimists assert that the ‘digital’ promises: new forms of community and ways of knowing and sensing, innovation, participatory culture, networked activism, and distributed democracy. Pessimists argue that digital technologies have extended domination via new forms of control, networked authoritarianism and exploitation, dehumanization and the surveillance society. Leading international scholars present varied interdisciplinary assessments of such claims – in theory and via dialogue – and of the digital’s impact on society and the potentials, pitfalls, limits and ideologies, of digital activism. They reflect on whether computational social science, digital humanities and ubiquitous datafication lead to digital positivism that threatens critical research or lead to new horizons in theory and society.An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU’s Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. (http://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Big Data posthuman digital capitalism digital labour digital politics digital democracy Chandler, David, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000227667169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-7169 Fuchs, Christian, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book29 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/29/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03487nam 22005172 4500 2978665e-5822-4e1e-9d87-ae4b7f0e80d7 m o d cr n 260402t20222022 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386121 (Paperback) 9781914386114 (Hardback) 9781914386084 (PDF) 9781914386091 (Epub) 9781914386107 (Mobi) 10.16997/book54 doi UkCbTOM eng local QA9.58.D54 LAN004000 bisacsh SOC052000 bisacsh SOC026040 bisacsh Digital Platforms and Algorithmic Subjectivities / edited by Emiliana Armano, Marco Briziarelli, Elisabetta Risi. London : University of Westminster Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (ix+249 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Algorithms are a form of productive power – so how may we conceptualise the newly merged terrains of social life, economy and self in a world of digital platforms? How do multiple self-quantifying practices interact with questions of class, race and gender? This edited collection considers algorithms at work – for what purposes encoded data about behaviour, attitudes, dispositions, relationships and preferences are deployed – and black box control, platform society theory and the formation of subjectivities. It details technological structures and lived experience of algorithms and the operation of platforms in areas such as crypto-finance, production, surveillance, welfare, activism in pandemic times. Finally, it asks if platform cooperativism, collaborative design and neomutualism offer new visions. Even as problems with labour and in society mount, subjectivities and counter subjectivities here produced appear as conscious participants of change and not so much the servants of algorithmic control and dominant platforms. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Digital media Platform society Social theory Gig economy Digital subjectivities Platform economy Armano, Emiliana, editor. University of Milan. (orcid)0000000212809494 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-9494 Briziarelli, Marco, editor. University of New Mexico. (orcid)0000000243112534 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4311-2534 Risi, Elisabetta, editor. IULM University (Milan). (orcid)000000020237217X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0237-217X University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book54 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/63/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02537nam 22003972 4500 fe8f3881-0bc2-4e88-bfc5-f36049aefd70 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534983 (PDF) 10.16997/book18 doi UkCbTOM eng local LF449.W47P46 Penn, Elaine, author. University of Westminster. Educating for Professional Life : Twenty-five Years of the University of Westminster / Elaine Penn. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xii+136 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The story of the University of Westminster is the fifth volume in a (https://www.westminster.ac.uk/)series of titles exploring the University's long and diverse history. This book celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution gaining university status, the right to award its own degrees and to participate in publicly funded research. Drawing on extensive research conducted in the University of Westminster Archive this volume investigates the evolution from Polytechnic to University within the broader context of the transformation of UK higher education in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. (https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/series/history-university-westminster/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Polytechnic of Central London Polytechnic movement University of Westminster PCL higher education University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book18 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/14/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02575nam 22004572 4500 93b6530d-cf9e-445c-bca4-f723844fa9cf m o d cr n 260402t20132013 ob 000 0 eng d 9781857571172 (Paperback) 9781911534174 (PDF) 10.16997/book9 doi UkCbTOM eng local LF449.R69G63 Glew, Helen, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000235013261 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3501-3261 Educating Mind, Body and Spirit : The legacy of Quintin Hogg and The Polytechnic, 1864-1992 / Helen Glew, Anthony Gorst, Michael Heller, Neil Matthews. London : University of Westminster Press, 2013. ©2013 1 online resource (xix+257 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The story of the Polytechnic and of the legacy of Quintin Hogg is the third publication exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. A fitting tribute to the life and legacy of Hogg, his holistic approach to education and the institute he created. This book is richly illustrated with images from the University's Archive. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Regent Street Quintin Hogg Young Women's Institute Polytechnic of Central London Polytechnic movement University of Westminster Gorst, Anthony, author. University of Westminster. Heller, Michael, author. University of Westminster. Matthews, Neil, author. University of Westminster. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book9 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/8/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03007nam 22004572 4500 0ae04c98-a3db-4234-a22c-7ac9d5f72391 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534600 (Paperback) 9781911534617 (PDF) 9781911534624 (Epub) 9781911534631 (Mobi) 10.16997/book15 doi UkCbTOM eng local JC585.B35 Baldissone, Ricardo, author. Farewell to Freedom : A Western Genealogy of Liberty / Ricardo Baldissone; edited by Riccardo Baldissone. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (xx+177 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Understandings of freedom are often discussed in moral, theological, legal and political terms, but they are not often set in a historical perspective, and they are even more rarely considered within their specific language context. From Homeric poems to contemporary works, the author traces the words that express the various notions of freedom in Classical Greek, Latin, and medieval and modern European idioms. Examining writers as varied as Plato, Aristotle, Luther, La Boétie, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Stirner, Nietzsche, and Foucault among others, this theoretical mapping shows old and new boundaries of the horizon of freedom. The book suggests the possibility of transcending these boundaries on the basis of a different theorization of human interactions, which constructs individual and collective subjects as processes rather than entities. This construction shifts and disseminates the very locus of freedom, whose vocabulary would be better recast as a relational middle path between autonomous and heteronomous alternatives. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. freedom autonomy liberty mastery theology individual Baldissone, Riccardo, editor. University of Westminster. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book15 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/20/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03165nam 22004572 4500 3ab1a2cd-3577-4126-81b5-2e6ed49d5407 m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656912 (PDF) 9781912656929 (Epub) 9781912656936 (Mobi) 10.16997/book50 doi UkCbTOM eng local SOC052000 bisacsh BUS070090 bisacsh BUS016000 bisacsh Denisova, Anastasia, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000288326261 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8832-6261 Fashion Media and Sustainability : Encouraging Ethical Consumption via Journalism and Influencers / Anastasia Denisova. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (38 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Fashion is among the biggest polluters, yet the media still promote throwaway fast fashion. The growing fashion public relations industry encourages and enables this media coverage. This policy brief identifies patterns in the way journalists and influencers cover fashion which contribute to unsustainable buying behaviours. Recent research recommends practical steps to improve media coverage to make consumption sustainable, by changing consumers’ understanding and reducing the pressure on them to buy ‘fast’ satisfaction. Policy recommendations here suggested are based on original analysis of 1,000+ media artefacts in the UK – from magazines to newspapers, gossip weeklies to Instagram influencers.Researcher Anastasia Denisova proposes regulation of vocabulary and of affiliated links in journalism and social media, greater discussion of the psychology of buying and a ‘paid advertisement label’. Also recommended is a more proactive approach to be taken by magazines and other media with the aim of promoting restyling advice and more sustainable coverage for readers of differing financial means. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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(orcid)000000020708154X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-154X Festivals and the City : The Contested Geographies of Urban Events / edited by Andrew Smith; Andrew Smith. London : University of Westminster Press, 2022. ©2022 1 online resource (308 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book explores how festivals and events affect urban places and public spaces, with a particular focus on their role in fostering inclusion. The ‘festivalisation’ of culture, politics and space in cities is often regarded as problematic, but this book examines the positive and negative ways that festivals affect cities by examining festive spaces as contested spaces. The book focuses on Western European cities, a particularly interesting context given the social and cultural pressures associated with high levels of in-migration and concerns over the commercialisation and privatisation of public spaces.The key themes of this book are the quest for more inclusive urban spaces and the contested geographies of festival spaces and places. Festivals are often used by municipal authorities to break down symbolic barriers that restrict who uses public spaces and what those spaces are used for. However, the rise of commercial festivals and ticketed events means that they are also responsible for imposing physical and financial obstacles that reduce the accessibility of city parks, streets and squares.Alongside addressing the contested effects of urban festivals on the character and inclusivity of public spaces, the book addresses more general themes including the role of festivals in culture-led regeneration. Several chapters analyse festivals and events as economic development tools, and the book also covers contested representations of festival cities and the ways related images and stories are used in place marketing.A range of cases from Western Europe are used to explore these issues, including chapters on some of the world’s most significant and contested festival cities: Venice, Edinburgh, London and Barcelona. The book covers a wide range of festivals, including those dedicated to music and the arts, but also events celebrating particular histories, identities and pastimes. A series of fascinating cases are discussed - from the Venice Biennale and Dublin Festival of History, to Rotterdam’s music festivals and craft beer festivals in Manchester. The diverse and innovative qualities of the book are also evident in the range of urban spaces covered: obvious examples of public spaces – such as parks, streets, squares and piazzas – are addressed, but the book includes chapters on enclosed public spaces (e.g., libraries) and urban blue spaces (waterways) too. This reflects the interpretation of public spaces as socio-material entities: they are produced informally through their use (including for festivals and events), as well as through their formal design and management. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. tourism Cultural heritage urban policy Festivals Event management Cities Quinn, Bernadette, author, editor. Technological University Dublin. (orcid)0000000208078465 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0807-8465 Smith, Andrew, editor, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000251723984 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5172-3984 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book64 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/61/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03803nam 22005052 4500 6b24b7d6-a69b-493b-b937-b1551eacfdbe m o d cr n 260402t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386367 (Paperback) 9781914386374 (PDF) 9781914386381 (Epub) 9781914386398 (Mobi) 10.16997/book62 doi UkCbTOM eng local LAW000000 bisacsh PHI004000 bisacsh PHI000000 bisacsh HEAR / edited by Danilo Mandic. London : University of Westminster Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (329 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Hearing is an intricate but delicate modality of sensory perception, continuously enfolded in the surroundings in which it takes place. While passive in its disposition, it is integral to the movement and fluctuations of one’s environment. Always attuned to the present and immersed in the murmur of its background, hearing remains a situated perception but fundamentally overarching and extended into the open. It is an immanent modality of being in and with the world. It is also the ultimate juridical act, a sense-making activity that adjudicates and informs the spatio-temporal acoustics of law and justice. This collection gathers multidisciplinary contributions on the relationship between law and hearing, the human vocalisations and non-human echolocations, the spatial and temporal conditions in which hearing takes place, as well as the forms of order and control that listening entails. Contributors explore, challenge and expand the structural and sensorial qualities of law, and recognise how hearing directs us to perceiving and understanding the intrinsic acoustic sphere of simultaneous relations, which challenge and break the normative distinctions that law informs and maintains. In exploring the ambiguous, indefinable and unembodied nature of hearing, as well as its objects – sound and silence – this volume approaches it as both an ontological and epistemological device to think with and about law. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Law Senses Hearing Materiality Sound Posthuman Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000285039208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-9208 Mandic, Danilo, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)000000019149447X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-447X Nirta, Caterina, editor. (orcid)0000000178705914 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-5914 Pavoni, Andrea, editor. University Institute of Lisbon. (orcid)0000000287979981 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-9981 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book62 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/65/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03388nam 22004572 4500 ce4b44e4-38b9-492f-b84e-3dc7c789e960 m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534907 (PDF) 9781911534914 (Epub) 9781911534921 (Mobi) 10.16997/book32 doi UkCbTOM eng local HD5854.G76 Gross, Sally-Anne, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000192471253 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9247-1253 Well-Being and Mental Health in the Gig Economy : Policy Perspectives on Precarity / Sally-Anne Gross, George Musgrave, Laima Janciute. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (37 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star A response is needed to the numerous issues spurred by the expansion of the gig economy, where flexible patterns of employment prevail in contrast to permanent jobs. In this context of the exponential growth of the digital economy and underlying business models the largest nationwide study of its kind into the impact of the working conditions in the UK music industry ‘Can Music Make You Sick?’ has been conducted by MusicTank/University of Westminster. This research suggests the need to consider the future of work not only from an economic or employment law perspective but from a mental health one too. What are the psychological implications of precarious work and how are factors such as financial instability, the feedback economy and personal relationships reflected in mental health outcomes or connected to the business relationships most musicians and other gig economy participants work under? Authors Sally-Anne Gross, George Musgrave and Laima Janciute consider which policy measures may help or harm gig economy workers including the taxation of self-employed workers, a universal basic income, education around mental health issues and access to mental health support. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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(orcid)0000000237589221 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3758-9221 We Need To Talk About Climate : How Citizens’ Assemblies Can Help Us Solve The Climate Crisis / Graham Smith. London : University of Westminster Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Environmental politics Public policy Climate change Citizens’ assemblies Participatory democracy Deliberative democracy University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book73 Connect to e-book https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41czPji8-FL._SY445_SX342_.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 01957nam 22004692 4500 25d18707-9f6d-40e4-be24-21cd0e500679 m o d cr n 260402t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445773 (Paperback) 9781915445797 (Epub) UkCbTOM eng local POL034000 bisacsh SOC052000 bisacsh SOC026040 bisacsh SOC052000 bisacsh SOC026040 bisacsh SOC071000 bisacsh PHI019000 bisacsh PHI005000 bisacsh GTU thema JBCT thema KCP thema PDR thema JBFK thema QDTS thema QDTQ thema Fuchs, Christian, author. Paderborn University. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 World War and World Peace in the Age of Digital Capitalism / Christian Fuchs. London, UK : University of Westminster Press, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (370 pages): 12 illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03411nam 22004572 4500 4f9b2cdc-dee3-478e-b786-c540dfb347eb m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534976 (Paperback) 9781911534723 (Hardback) 9781911534730 (PDF) 9781911534747 (Epub) 9781911534754 (Mobi) 10.16997/book14 doi UkCbTOM eng local QA76.9.B45R53 Richterich, Annika, author. Maastricht University. (orcid)0000000284671084 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8467-1084 The Big Data Agenda : Data Ethics and Critical Data Studies / Annika Richterich. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (iv+144 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book highlights that the capacity for gathering, analysing, and utilising vast amounts of digital (user) data raises significant ethical issues. Annika Richterich provides a systematic contemporary overview of the field of critical data studies that reflects on practices of digital data collection and analysis. The book assesses in detail one big data research area: biomedical studies, focused on epidemiological surveillance. Specific case studies explore how big data have been used in academic work.The Big Data Agenda concludes that the use of big data in research urgently needs to be considered from the vantage point of ethics and social justice. Drawing upon discourse ethics and critical data studies, Richterich argues that entanglements between big data research and technology/ internet corporations have emerged. In consequence, more opportunities for discussing and negotiating emerging research practices and their implications for societal values are needed.An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high quality books Open Access for the public good. More information about the initiative and details about KU's Open Access programme can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org. (www.knowledgeunlatched.org) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. big data Biomedical Sciences Public Health Digital Humanities Discourse Ethics Predictive Analytics University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book14 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/15/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03303nam 22004452 4500 aedc8ddf-f826-4aa4-a575-8f07b38b2630 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534488 (Paperback) 9781911534495 (PDF) 9781911534501 (Epub) 9781911534518 (Mobi) 10.16997/book26 doi UkCbTOM eng local UG700.C53 Clapson, Mark, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000248072906 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4807-2906 The Blitz Companion : Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City since 1911 / Mark Clapson. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (xiii+287 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Blitz aerial warfare air raids and civilians Second World War bombing commemoration University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book26 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/28/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03592nam 22005172 4500 887123b0-a7e3-4b4e-b639-0648e3baac5e m o d cr n 260402t20202020 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656837 (Paperback) 9781912656844 (PDF) 9781912656851 (Epub) 9781912656868 (Mobi) 10.16997/book46 doi UkCbTOM eng local HD2963.P37 SOC026040 bisacsh POL023000 bisacsh BUS072000 bisacsh POL007000 bisacsh BUS069000 bisacsh SOC071000 bisacsh Papadimitropoulos, Vangelis, author. Independent researcher. (orcid)0000000310459416 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1045-9416 The Commons : Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age / Vangelis Papadimitropoulos. London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (ix+251 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book explores the potential creation of a broader collaborative economy through commons-based peer production (P2P) and the emergent role of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The book seeks to critically engage in the political discussion of commons-based peer production, which can be classified into three basic arguments: the liberal, the reformist and the anti-capitalist. This book categorises the liberal argument as being in favour of the coexistence of the commons with the market and the state. Reformists, on the other hand, advocate for the gradual adjustment of the state and of capitalism to the commons, while anti-capitalists situate the commons against capitalism and the state. By discussing these three viewpoints, the book contributes to contemporary debates concerning the future of commons-based peer production. Further, the author argues that for the commons to become a fully operational mode of peer production, it needs to reach critical mass arguing that the liberal argument underestimates the reformist insight that technology has the potential to decentralise production, thereby forcing capitalism to transition to post-capitalism. Surveying the three main strands of commons-based peer production, this book makes the case for a post-capitalist commons-orientated transition that moves beyond neoliberalism. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (212 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism’s transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started – globalisation and postmodernity – whilst highlighting the geo-spatial limits to accumulation imposed by our planet. However this landmark publication, author Robert Hassan argues, did not address the arrival of digital technology, the quantum leap represented by the move from an analogue world to a digital economy and the rapid creation of a global networked society. Considering first the contexts of 1989 and Harvey’s work, then the idea of humans as analogue beings he argues this arising new human condition of digitality leads to alienation not only from technology but also the environment. This condition he suggests, is not an ideology of time and space but a reality stressing that Harvey’s time-space compression takes on new features including those of ‘outward’ and ‘inward’ globalisation and the commodification of all spheres of existence. Lastly the author considers culture’s role drawing on Rahel Jaeggi’s theories to make the case for a post-modern Marxism attuned to the most significant issue of our age. Stimulating and theoretically wide-ranging The Condition of Digitality recognises post-modernity’s radical new form as a reality and the urgent need to assert more democratic control over digitality. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Marxism postmodern technology digital David Harvey globalisation University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book44 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/37/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02225nam 22004212 4500 2b67e0f8-bfbc-4ca7-a296-d8655c19d5c3 m o d cr n 260402t20082008 ob 000 0 eng d 9781857570977 (Paperback) 9781911534204 (PDF) 10.16997/book7 doi UkCbTOM eng local LF449.R69W44 Weeden, Brenda, author. The Education of the Eye : History of the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838-1881 / Brenda Weeden. London : University of Westminster Press, 2008. ©2008 1 online resource (x+100 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The Royal Polytechnic Institution's story is the first episode in the long, diverse history of the University of Westminster. Drawing on an extensive range of primary and secondary sources this book explores the Institution's reputation for visual spectacle and the popularisation of science. It is lavishly illustrated with contemporary images. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. University of Westminster The Royal Polytechnic The Polytechnic Institution John Henry Pepper science education early photography University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book7 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/7/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04523nam 22004692 4500 e4b690a8-2d78-4ca6-b6c5-75b671e09f5b m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656943 (Paperback) 9781912656950 (PDF) 9781912656967 (Epub) 9781912656974 (Mobi) 10.16997/book51 doi UkCbTOM eng local POL013000 bisacsh BUS038010 bisacsh SOC024000 bisacsh Woodcock, Jamie, author. The Open University. (orcid)000000017097305X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7097-305X The Fight Against Platform Capitalism : An Inquiry into the Global Struggles of the Gig Economy / Jamie Woodcock. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (127 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star “The book rewards readers with interesting first-hand accounts of protests and pickets that are typically absent from academic discussions of the digital economy.” - https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/03/17/book-review-the-fight-against-platform-capitalism-an-inquiry-into-the-global-struggles-of-the-gig-economy-by-jamie-woodcock/So far, platform work has been an important laboratory for capital. Management techniques, like the use of algorithms, are being tested with a view to exporting across the global economy and it is argued that automation is undermining workers’ agency. Although the contractual trick of self-employment has allowed platforms to grow quickly and keep their costs down, yet it has also been the case also that workers have also found they can strike without following the existing regulations. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/03/17/book-review-the-fight-against-platform-capitalism-an-inquiry-into-the-global-struggles-of-the-gig-economy-by-jamie-woodcock/)This book develops a critique of platforms and platform capitalism from the perspective of workers and contributes to the ongoing debates about the future of work and worker organising. It presents an alternative portrait returning to a focus on workers’ experience, focusing on solidarity, drawing out a global picture of new forms of agency. In particular, the book focuses on three dynamics that are driving struggles in the platform economy: the increasing connections between workers who are no longer isolated; the lack of communication and negotiation from platforms, leading to escalating worker action around shared issues; and the internationalisation of platforms, which has laid the basis for new transnational solidarity. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/03/17/book-review-the-fight-against-platform-capitalism-an-inquiry-into-the-global-struggles-of-the-gig-economy-by-jamie-woodcock/)Focusing on transport and courier workers, online workers and freelancers author Jamie Woodcock concludes by considering how workers build power in different situations. Rather than undermining worker agency, platforms have instead provided the technical basis for the emergence of new global struggles against capitalism. (https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2021/03/17/book-review-the-fight-against-platform-capitalism-an-inquiry-into-the-global-struggles-of-the-gig-economy-by-jamie-woodcock/) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). 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London : University of Westminster Press, 2020. ©2020 1 online resource (169 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star ‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this book emphasizes how a dominant narrative has extensively contributed to the construction of the Internet myth while other visions of the networked society have been erased from the collective imaginary. The book decodes, analyzes and challenges the foundations of the network ideologies looking at how networks have been imagined, designed and promoted during the crucial phase of the 1990s. Three case studies are scrutinized so as to reveal the complexity of network imaginaries in this decade: the birth of the Web and the mythopoesis of its inventor; and the histories of two Italian networking projects, the infrastructural plan Socrate and the civic network Iperbole, the first to give free Internet access to citizens. The Internet Myth thereby provides a compelling and hidden sociohistorical narrative in order to challenge one of the most powerful myths of our time.This title has been published with the financial assistance of the Fondazione Hilda e Felice Vitali, Lugano, Switzerland. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. networks Internet imaginary myth Internet history ideologies media history University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book48 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/43/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03927nam 22004932 4500 1f920585-ead7-481c-8da8-35dcc3faf9fa m o d cr n 260402t20242024 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386404 (Paperback) 9781914386411 (PDF) 9781914386428 (Epub) 9781914386435 (Mobi) 10.16997/book63 doi UkCbTOM eng local The Long Walk to Equality : Perspectives on Racial Inequality, Injustice and the Law / edited by Avis Whyte, Patricia Tuitt, Judith Bourne. London : University of Westminster Press, 2024. ©2024 1 online resource (222 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star In 1965 the UK enacted the Race Relations Act while the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) opened for signature and ratification. In the US, the changes that brought down the walls of segregation, conveying some equality to black people essentially began with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These ground-breaking instruments marked a commitment—domestically and internationally by the state parties to the ICERD—to address racial injustice and inequality through legal means.Yet, the intervening years reveal the challenges of pursuing racial justice and equality through the medium of law. In recent years, allegations of institutional racism have been levelled against numerous public institutions in the UK, while the rise of populism globally has challenged the ability of law to effect change.This edited collection draws attention to the need to reflect on the persistence of racial inequalities and injustices despite law’s intervention and arguably because of its ‘unconscious’ role in their promotion. It does so from a multiplicity of perspectives ranging from the doctrinal, socio-legal, critical and theoretical, thereby generating different kinds of knowledge about race and law. By exploring contemporary issues in racial justice and equality, contributors examine the role of law—whether domestic or international, hard or soft—in advancing racial equality and justice and consider whether it can effect substantive change. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Immigration Stop and Search Laws Terrorism Funds The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination Legal Academia Legal Profession Equality Race Law Whyte, Avis, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0009000631407876 https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3140-7876 Tuitt, Patricia, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000299759062 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9975-9062 Bourne, Judith, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000231165209 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3116-5209 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book63 Connect to e-book https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51Zyd54NecL._SY445_SX342_.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02130nam 22003732 4500 320b676d-5814-4407-95c4-7bd375173d5d m o d cr n 260402t20152015 ob 000 0 eng d 9780957612464 (Paperback) 9781911534235 (PDF) 10.16997/book10 doi UkCbTOM eng local PN1993.5.G7H86 Hunningher, Joost, author. The Magic Screen : A History of Regent Street Cinema / Joost Hunningher, Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas, Guy Osborn, Ro Spankie. London : University of Westminster Press, 2015. ©2015 1 online resource (xv+158 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star The story of the (now restored) Regent Street Cinema is the fourth volume exploring the University of Westminster's long and diverse history. This multi-authored volume tells its history from architectural, educational, legal and cinematic perspectives and is richly illustrated throughout with images from the University of Westminster archive. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Morgan-Tamosunas, Rikki, author. Osborn, Guy, author. (orcid)000000020708154X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-154X Spankie, Ro, author. (orcid)0000000324962266 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2496-2266 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book10 Connect to e-book https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03182nam 22004452 4500 16ee9821-8421-42ab-9a3b-893976b26892 m o d cr n 260402t20192019 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656561 (Paperback) 9781912656578 (PDF) 9781912656585 (Epub) 9781912656592 (Mobi) 10.16997/book42 doi UkCbTOM eng local P91.3.S64 Specht, Doug, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000164803732 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-3732 The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide / Doug Specht. London : University of Westminster Press, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (184 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies. As well as the mechanics of writing and presentations, the book also shows how students can work on and engage with the critical and contemplative elements of their degrees whilst retaining motivation and refining timekeeping skills. Of course the nuts and bolts of reading, writing, listening, seminars and the dreaded dissertation and essays are covered too. In addition advice on referencing, citation and academic style is offered for those with concerns over English grammar and expression. Aimed primarily at postgraduate students, there is significant crossover with undergraduate work, so this book will also prove of use to upper level undergraduate readers whether using English as a first or second language.Supplementary resources (https://doi.org/10.16997/book42.1) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. media studies study skills communication studies student guide learning resource writing University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book42 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/34/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 02742nam 22004332 4500 a0355df1-b539-4fd1-9e90-96acf2d6c4be m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534860 (PDF) 9781911534877 (Epub) 9781911534884 (Mobi) 10.16997/book24 doi UkCbTOM eng local HJ5709.F832 Fuchs, Christian, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 The Online Advertising Tax : A Digital Policy Innovation / Christian Fuchs. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (33 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Google and Facebook currently control close to two-thirds of global advertising revenue. While dominating the online advertising market, these two companies have thus far avoided paying adequate taxes. This CAMRI policy brief presents a new policy innovation, the online advertising tax. Considering the key role of user activity and user data for the value of Google and Facebook’s services, it explains how digital advertising companies’ revenues could be taxed based on the respective country in which targeted users are located. The author reviews existing policy arguments and policy options and sets out practical steps to ensure that tax avoidance by online advertising companies is mitigated. Furthermore, he illustrates how tax revenues could be used to support public service internet platforms. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Facebook Google online advertising media industries public service internet tax University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book24 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/18/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03131nam 22004452 4500 53f09567-22ce-4268-baba-6f834091e5aa m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534938 (Paperback) 9781911534945 (PDF) 9781911534952 (Epub) 9781911534969 (Mobi) 10.16997/book23 doi UkCbTOM eng local HJ5709.F83 Fuchs, Christian, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 The Online Advertising Tax as the Foundation of a Public Service Internet : a CAMRI extended policy report / Christian Fuchs. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (102 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star Online advertising will soon form the largest share of global advertisement revenues. Google and Facebook netted profits of US $29 billion in 2016. While these two giants control more than 66% of all online advertising revenues complex legal company structures have minimised their tax liabilities. This extended policy report considers where they should be taxed and where the value of their activities is actually created. It argues that tax paid by those platforms should be levied in the country where platform users are located when they click on or view an advertisement. Furthermore, the report examines the practical steps needed to ensure transparent accounting of taxed transactions in order to avoid long term negative effects for media and democracy. Considering counter-arguments the author makes the case for an online advertising tax alongside a public service Internet strategy that could support other viable platforms and counter the dangers of duopoly or oligopoly and the high risks of financial bubbles in a world where advertising is the Internet's dominant business model. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Facebook Google online advertising tax avoidance media industries public service internet University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book23 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/17/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03431nam 22004692 4500 50b96713-5d80-4be8-9773-6f5dc8c934eb m o d cr n 260402t20182018 ob 000 0 eng d 9781912656165 (Paperback) 9781912656172 (PDF) 9781912656189 (Epub) 9781912656196 (Mobi) 10.16997/book27 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM1231.P76 The Propaganda Model Today : Filtering Perception and Awareness / edited by Joan Pedro-Carañana, Daniel Broudy, Jeffery Klaehn. London : University of Westminster Press, 2018. ©2018 1 online resource (viii+297 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star While the individual elements of the propaganda system (or filters) identified by the Propaganda Model (PM) – ownership, advertising, sources, flak and anti-communism – have previously been the focus of much scholarly attention, their systematisation in a model, empirical corroboration and historicisation have made the PM a useful tool for media analysis across cultural and geographical boundaries. Despite the wealth of scholarly research Herman and Chomsky’s work has set into motion over the past decades, the PM has been subjected to marginalisation, poorly informed critiques and misrepresentations. Interestingly, while the PM enables researchers to form discerning predictions as regards corporate media performance, Herman and Chomsky had further predicted that the PM itself would meet with such marginalisation and contempt. In current theoretical and empirical studies of mass media performance, uses of the PM continue, nonetheless, to yield important insights into the workings of political and economic power in society, due in large measure to the model’s considerable explanatory power. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Propaganda Model media bias Herman and Chomsky filters democracy corporate control Pedro-Carañana, Joan, editor. Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus. (orcid)0000000189580897 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8958-0897 Broudy, Daniel, editor. Okinawa Christian University. (orcid)0000000327256914 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-6914 Klaehn, Jeffery, editor. Independent Scholar. (orcid)0000000283229024 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8322-9024 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book27 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/24/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03693nam 22004812 4500 fb624bac-8e8c-4f8c-a626-fb532f9a4f6a m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386299 (PDF) 9781914386305 (Epub) 9781914386312 (Mobi) 10.16997/book60 doi UkCbTOM eng local TK5105.8854.P83 POL050000 bisacsh POL065000 bisacsh LAN004000 bisacsh The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto / edited by Christian Fuchs, Klaus Unterberger. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (135 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book presents the collectively authored Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto and accompanying materials.The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. They have created a communications landscape overwhelmed by surveillance, advertising, fake news, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and algorithmic politics. Commercial Internet platforms have harmed citizens, users, everyday life, and society. Democracy and digital democracy require Public Service Media. A democracy-enhancing Internet requires Public Service Media becoming Public Service Internet platforms – an Internet of the public, by the public, and for the public; an Internet that advances instead of threatens democracy and the public sphere. The Public Service Internet is based on Internet platforms operated by a variety of Public Service Media, taking the public service remit into the digital age. The Public Service Internet provides opportunities for public debate, participation, and the advancement of social cohesion.Accompanying the Manifesto are materials that informed its creation: Christian Fuchs’ report of the results of the Public Service Media/Internet Survey, the written version of Graham Murdock’s online talk on public service media today, and a summary of an ecomitee.com discussion of the Manifesto’s foundations.The Manifesto can be signed by visiting http://bit.ly/signPSManifesto (https://bit.ly/signPSManifesto) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Public Service Media Public Service Internet digital media public sphere digital technologies digital democracy Fuchs, Christian, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000305894579 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0589-4579 Unterberger, Klaus, editor. Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book60 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/57/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03643nam 22004932 4500 d2f23bb0-9bfa-49e8-8df8-04e23396957a m o d cr n 260402t20212021 ob 000 0 eng d 9781914386251 (Paperback) 9781914386268 (PDF) 9781914386275 (Epub) 9781914386282 (Mobi) 10.16997/book59 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM741.M67 SOC026040 bisacsh POL033000 bisacsh PHI040000 bisacsh Morelock, Jeremiah, author. Boston College. (orcid)0000000265064940 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6506-4940 The Society of the Selfie : Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy / Jeremiah Morelock, Felipe Ziotti Narita. London : University of Westminster Press, 2021. ©2021 1 online resource (ix+170 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Social media Critical theory Democracy Digital networks Globalization Neoliberalism Narita, Felipe Ziotti, author. São Paulo State University (UNESP). (orcid)0000000231391919 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3139-1919 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book59 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/60/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 03992nam 22004572 4500 418a6860-bfec-4968-8f1f-ffb88230a0e4 m o d cr n 260402t20172017 ob 000 0 eng d 9781911534440 (Paperback) 9781911534457 (PDF) 9781911534464 (Epub) 9781911534471 (Mobi) 10.16997/book11 doi UkCbTOM eng local HM291.S64 The Spectacle 2.0 : Reading Debord in the Context of Digital Capitalism / edited by Marco Briziarelli, Emiliana Armano. London : University of Westminster Press, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xi+228 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star “Necessary reading for scholars interested in theorising the spectacle's relation to the labour theory of value, commodity fetishism and subjectivity under post-Fordism.” - https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1015/1176Spectacle 2.0 recasts Debord's theory of spectacle within the frame of 21st century digital capitalism. It offers a reassessment of Debord’s original notion of Spectacle from the late 1960s, of its posterior revisitation in the 1990s, and it presents a reinterpretation of the concept within the scenario of contemporary informational capitalism and more specifically of digital and media labour. It is argued that the Spectacle 2.0 form operates as the interactive network that links through one singular (but contradictory) language and various imaginaries, uniting diverse productive contexts such as logistics, finance, new media and urbanism. Spectacle 2.0 thus colonizes most spheres of social life by processes of commodification, exploitation and reification. Diverse contributors consider the topic within the book’s two main sections: Part I conceptualizes and historicizes the Spectacle in the context of informational capitalism; contributions in Part II offer empirical cases that historicise the Spectacle in relation to the present (and recent past) showing how a Spectacle 2.0 approach can illuminate and deconstruct specific aspects of contemporary social reality. All contributions included in this book rework the category of the Spectacle to present a stimulating compendium of theoretical critical literature in the fields of media and labour studies. In the era of the gig-economy, highly mediated content and President Trump, Debord’s concept is arguably more relevant than ever. (https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1015/1176) Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Digital capitalism Spectacle Guy Debord digital labour commodification media studies Briziarelli, Marco, editor. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. (orcid)0000000243112534 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4311-2534 Armano, Emiliana, editor. State University of Milan. (orcid)0000000212809494 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1280-9494 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book11 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/11/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 04163nam 22004452 4500 8267d23a-e0b1-4a6e-91e8-22a0ecff7fad m o d cr n 260402t20252025 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445100 (Paperback) 9781915445087 (Epub) 10.16997/mpub.13071364 doi UkCbTOM eng local ART046000 bisacsh EDU057000 bisacsh ART027000 bisacsh AFJ thema AGZ thema 4TC thema 4TY thema UG thema UGL thema Petrova, Denitsa, author. University of Edinburgh. (orcid)0000000256081909 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5608-1909 The Student Guide to the Creative Studio in the Digital Age / Denitsa Petrova, Doug Specht. London, UK : University of Westminster Press, 2025. ©2025 1 online resource (182 pages): 36 illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book looks at what it means to work in a creative studio. The volume takes a broad view of the concept of studio, defining it as any creative space that exists in the real or digital world – so this could be your studio at the university, a space or table you have at home, or a digital environment such as Miro where you work alone or with others. This book guides you in setting up a studio space and thinking about how to get the most out of solo and collaborative work within that space. It examines some of the practical elements, such as hardware and tools you might need, along with some of the soft skills, such as time management that will help you in your working.Having helped you to establish your working space, the authors provide guidance on specific creative skills that cross multiple disciplines and ways of working. Providing help with creating portfolios, including those that are needed to get into university, those you might produce while at university, and also ones that might be used after you complete your studies. The book also takes a deep five into how to present your work, both in person and online, synchronously, and asynchronously. Relatedly the volume examines crits, and how you might use and respond to feedback provided by your lecturers and peers. The authors are also joined by more than 20 contributors who help this volume to dive deeply into different subject areas. Ranging from sculpture, textiles, art and graphic design, readers will find tailored expert tips to help them in their own discipline to get the most from the digital creative environment.This book challenges the reader to think about what it means to be creative and how digital can play a role in this. Furthermore, it asks the reader to ask what is next. To think about the career they would like that will engage in creative practices. Think about how the creative studio might differ in the world of work and how you can ensure you keep your creative energies going. Throughout this, though, the authors, with the help of expert contributors, guide and support the reader in exploiting the digital creative environment to its maximum. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Specht, Doug, author. (orcid)0000000164803732 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-3732 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/mpub.13071364 Connect to e-book https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 07143nam 22004812 4500 488b5981-40ad-4aef-9668-a31947045139 m o d cr n 260402t20232023 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445308 (Paperback) 9781915445315 (PDF) 9781915445322 (Epub) 9781915445339 (Mobi) 10.16997/book72 doi UkCbTOM eng local PHI040000 bisacsh SOC015000 bisacsh SOC008000 bisacsh Chandler, David, author. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000227667169 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2766-7169 The World as Abyss : The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene / Jonathan Pugh. London : University of Westminster Press, 2023. ©2023 1 online resource (122 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Open Access Unrestricted online access star This book is about a distinctive ‘abyssal’ approach to the crisis of modernity. In this framing, influenced by contemporary critical Black studies, another understanding of the world of modernity is foregrounded – a world violently forged through the projects of Indigenous dispossession, chattel slavery and colonial world-making. Modern and colonial world-making violently forged the ‘human’ by dividing those with ontological security from those without, and by carving out the ‘world’ in a fixed grid of space and time, delineating a linear temporality of ‘progress’ and ‘development’. The distinctiveness of abyssal thought is that it inverts the stakes of critique and brings indeterminacy into the heart of ontological assumptions of a world of entities, essences, and universal determination. This is an approach that does not focus upon tropes of rescue and salvation but upon the generative power of negation. In doing so, it highlights how Caribbean experiences and writings have been drawn upon to provide an important and distinct perspective for critical thought."How is it that ontology has come to be seen as the antidote for modernity? While Foucault denigrated ontology as a mistaken and parochial exercise, contemporary social theory holds out the promise that new modes of planetary knowledge will save us from our own excesses. Drawing together long traditions in Caribbean scholarship with Afro-pessimist thought, Pugh and Chandler illustrate how the search for more emancipatory ontologies - relational ontologies, indigenous ontologies, non-human ontologies, etc. – not only misunderstands the problem of modernity but (more importantly) works to veil the negative force that marks both the limit and cause of all such knowledge practices: what they term the abyss. To engage in abyssal thought – as they lay out – is to inhabit a site of refusal: a determination not to be drawn into the lure of ontological ‘correction’ and to recognise that the practice of world making cannot not bear the imprint of colonial violence. Articulated in passionate declarative prose, these authors powerfully illuminate the trap of the emancipatory instinct and the promise of a deconstructive ethic." — Mitch Rose, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University, UK“A much-needed intellectual effort in the non-reductionist and non-essentialising style of Pugh and Chandler's previous book. The World as Abyss gives Caribbean thought and culture the place they deserve within critical theory and materialist studies.” — Mónica Fernández Jiménez, Valladolid University, Spain“For some time now scholars have questioned the overly general assumptions about the ‘anthropos’ of the Anthropocene, but much work needs to be done to flesh out what a decolonized Anthropocene might be. Pugh and Chandler’s The World as Abyss provides an original, intriguing and compelling counterpoint to bland Anthropocene humanism (and posthumanism). This timely work explores the poetics of the Caribbean and provides a way to think about the Anthropocene and the future beyond the managerialism of the present. This book is essential reading for those working in the environmental humanities or Anthropocene studies.” — Claire Colebrook, Professor, Penn State University, USA“This book names an apocalypse that began long ago. Pugh and Chandler patiently follow the journey of thought as it travels from the Middle Passage to the Caribbean. This brings them face-to-face with the horror of anti-Black violence, not as just another resource to strip-mine, but as an unavoidable abyss that confines all thought. Its reminder: that we have still not yet begun to think a truly Black world.” — Andrew Culp, Professor, California Institute of the Arts, USA "With the force of a manifesto, the intensity of a polemic, and the nuance of a treatise, thisbook sets out to disavow the disavowal of Colonial violence in the making of thecontemporary world and thought. Learning from Caribbean thinkers, writers, and poets, itsets to work unworking, desedimenting and deconstructing, the violent ontologicalfoundations by which anti-Black worlds maintain and reproduce their innocence andignorance. Replaying and reiterating, extending and multiplying, gestures of refusal –refusals of subjection, of History, of Geography, of meaning, of Being – there is the refusalof the World as it is and of the World as it could be. The World as Abyss artfully combines acritique of the historical forces which make and unmake the contemporary moment withthe suspension of horizons, of ends, of grounds. What emerges in the wake is anintensification of the generative capacity of this refusal; voids, arrhythmia, counter-times,displacements, dislocations, the abyssal. First as threat and then as promise" — PaulHarrison, Associate Professor of Human Geography, Durham University, UK Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Critical Black Studies Caribbean Critical theory Anthropocene Modernity Colonialism Pugh, Jonathan, author. Newcastle University. 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Open Access Unrestricted online access star Described by Aristotle as the most vital of senses, touch contains both the physical and the metaphysical in its ability to express the determination of being. To manifest itself, touch makes a movement outwards, beyond the body, and relies on a specific physical involvement other senses do not require: to touch is already to be active and to activate. This fundamental ontology makes touch the most essential of all senses.This volume of ‘Law and the Senses’ attempts to illuminate and reconsider the complex and interflowing relations and contradictions between the tactful intrusion of the law and the untactful movement of touch. Compelling contributors from arts, literature and social science disciplines alongside artist presentations explore touch’s boundaries and formal and informal ‘laws’ of the senses. Each contribution unveils a multi-faceted new dimension to the force of touch, its ability to form, deform and reform what it touches. In unique ways, each of the several contributions to this volume recognises the trans-corporeality of touch to traverse the boundaries on the body and entangle other bodies and spaces, thus challenging the very notion of corporeal integrity and human being. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. arts law perception touch body skin Pavoni, Andrea, editor. Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. (orcid)0000000287979981 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8797-9981 Mandic, Danilo, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)000000019149447X https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9149-447X Nirta, Caterina, editor. University of Roehampton. (orcid)0000000178705914 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7870-5914 Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000285039208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8503-9208 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/book37 Connect to e-book https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/service-zipper/wup/files/36/cover.jpg Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License 06881nam 22004812 4500 18548046-c743-444b-a8d3-740eb360065c m o d cr n 260402t20262026 ob 000 0 eng d 9781915445261 (Paperback) 9781915445278 (Epub) 10.16997/mpub.13085013 doi UkCbTOM eng local SOC026030 bisacsh ARC010000 bisacsh RGCT thema JPRB thema RPC thema 1DDF-FR-LAA thema 1KBB-US-NAKC thema 1DSE-ES-MAA thema Tourism and the Metropolis : Exploring Conceptual and Geographical Frontiers / edited by Dr. Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović, Johannes Novy. London, UK : University of Westminster Press, 2026. ©2026 1 online resource (538 pages): 66 illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Available through University of Westminster Press. Tourism as a metropolitan phenomenon: legacies, turning points and prospectsMaria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović, Johannes Novy PART 1: The spatiality of metropolitan tourism Introduction to part 1Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy1.         Madrid, Metropolitan Tourism Transformation María García-Hernández and Manuel de la Calle-Vaquero 2.         Los Angeles, Inhabiting the Tourist MetapolisLeopold Lucas3.         The phenomenon of the spatial organisation of metropolitan tourism:the case of St. PetersburgValery Gordin, Anastasiia Polomarchuk and Anastasiia Korman4.         Metropolitan tourism and urban redevelopment in South Africa: Creating uneven geographies? Gustav Visser5.         The global metropolis as a tourism and leisure playground: megaprojects in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan spaceFrédéric Bouchon6.         Palermo Soho: urban transformation, metropolitan lifestyles, and tourism in the creation of a trendy neighbourhood in the city of Buenos AiresMercedes González Bracco7.         Thanatourism in London and the Metropolitan ImaginaryPippa Catterall  PART 2: Politics and Governance of Metropolitan Tourism Introduction to part 2Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy 8.         Fragmented Dynamics of Touristification and Urban Development in the Metropolis of ParisTim Freytag, Florian Weber and Nora Winsky 9.         Tourism and the New York Metropolitan Region: Chaos, compromise and Collaboration Jill Simone Gross 10.     Tourism, Planification and Metropolises in 21st Century China: Jing-Jin-Ji and Yangtze Delta River CasesFrançoise Ged, Chensi Shen, Lian Hu and Chunyan Zhang 11.     Constructing metropolitan scales and metropolitan cultural tourism in China’s Greater Bay AreaJie Li and Honggang Xu 12.     Laboratory of Consumption: Macau’s Metropolitan TourismTim Simpson13.      The impossible joint governance? Tourism and metropolises in the Shanghai megalopolis.Benjamin Taunay Part 3: Practices and representations of metropolitan tourism Introduction to part 3Maria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy 14.      From Forgotten Borders to New Centralities: Emerging Tourism Practices and Concepts in São Paulo (Brazil)Camila Cardoso Ribeiro, Paulo Tácio Aires Ferreira, Thiago Allis and Reinaldo Tadeu Boscolo Pacheco 15.      Tokyo as a Tourism MetropolisEranga Ranaweerage, Taiyo Yagasaki and Toshio Kikuchi 16.      Beyond The Gateway of India: Pertinent and Misplaced Narratives of 21st Century Mumbai’s Tourism   Bhagyasshree Ramakrishna  and Shruthi Ramesh 17.      Tourists in the many-sided metropolis Robert Pascoe and Chris McConville  18.      Tourists of the Metropolis: Vertical recreation between West and EastDesmond Wee 19.      Destination Metropolis: from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first CenturiesUlrike Zitzlspergger ConclusionMaria Gravari-Barbas, Sébastien Jacquot, Maja Jović and Johannes Novy Open Access Unrestricted online access star The growing role and relevance of tourism in cities – and of cities in tourism – has in recent decades emerged as a topic of great interest to scholars across many social sciences disciplines. Yet, while urban tourism research has flourished, various issues relating to tourism in metropolitan contexts are in need of greater scholarly engagement.What forms does tourism take in today’s metropolises and metropolitan regions? How do these forms differ from tourism in other urban contexts? Are these differences significant enough to warrant the classification of ‘metropolitan tourism’ as a distinct type of urban tourism? What are their implications for policy and planning processes? How do policy and planning processes in different metropolises and metropolitan regions differ from each other, and what can they learn from each other? And finally, how could tourism in these regions be made more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive?Given the importance of tourism as a leading economic and social force of the 21st century, and major metropolises and metropolitan regions as contemporary engines of economic development, innovation, and change, it is surprising how little systematic attention is paid to tourism in metropolitan contexts. This book aims to fill these gaps. Mode of access: World Wide Web. The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Metadata licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Gravari-Barbas, Maria, editor. (orcid)0000000178219473 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7821-9473 Jacquot, Sébastien, editor. (orcid)0000000311334893 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1133-4893 Jović, Maja, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000272174638 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7217-4638 Novy, Johannes, editor. University of Westminster. (orcid)0000000198921809 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9892-1809 University of Westminster Press, publisher. https://doi.org/10.16997/mpub.13085013 Connect to e-book https://www.fulcrum.org/image-service/kw52jc8041764950837/full/286,/0/default.png Connect to cover image https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 Metadata License