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Handbook of Research Methods on Trust
Edward Elgar Publishing 2011; US$ 60.00The Handbook of Research Methods on Trust provides an authoritative in-depth consideration of quantitative and qualitative methods for empirical study of trust in the social sciences. As this topic has matured, a growing number of practical approaches and techniques have been utilised across the broad, multidisciplinary community of trust research,... more...
Economic Networks
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchanges involving money, labor, and commodities combine into complexly connected systems. Economic networks span many levels of analysis, from persons (consumers, employees), to groups (households, workteams),... more...
The Social Media Reader
NYU Press 2012; US$ 75.00With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces... more...
Making is Connecting
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95In Making is Connecting , David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to make connections. During the previous century, the production of culture became dominated by professional elite... more...
Listening Publics
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and underestimated in a culture fascinated by the spectacle and the... more...
Eight Technologies of Otherness
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 52.95The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite,... more...
Social Capital
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 25.00Social Capital explains the importance of using social connections and social relations in achieving goals. Social capital, or resources accessed through such connections and relations, is critical (along with human capital, or what a person or organization actually possesses) in achieving goals for individuals, social groups, organizations, and communities. more...
Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99Reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. This book throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. more...
Trust and Rule
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 22.00This book provides an essential background to the explanation of democratization and de-democratization. more...
Internet & Organizational Transformation
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00Over the past decade, the Internet has opened unprecedented opportunities for exchanging business information. Today, the Internet contributes to the coordination of global workforce, facilitates communication between managers and subordinates, creates networks of physical and virtual business partners, and opens new sales channels to customers around... more...









