1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000037856

Titolo

Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Heroism : essays from the 1981 Conference of the Southeastern Nineteenth-Century Studies Association / edited by Sara M. Putzell and David C. Leonard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madrid : <<JosĂ©>> PorrĂșa Turanzas

Potomac (Maryland) : Studia humanitatis, 1982

ISBN

0-93-5568-37-9

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 169 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Studia humanitatis

Disciplina

179.6

Soggetti

Eroismo - Letteratura - Sec. 19

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003077950203316

Autore

SIGNORELLI, Amalia

Titolo

Cultura popolare a Napoli e in Campania nel Novecento / a cura di Amalia Signorelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli : Edizioni del Millennio, 2002

Descrizione fisica

169 p. ; 25 cm

Disciplina

306.0945731

Soggetti

Cultura popolare - Campania - Sec. 20. - Saggi

Collocazione

1028

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Estr. da: Napoli e la Campania nel Novecento : Diario di un secolo, vol. 2. non ancora pubblicato



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455883303321

Autore

Ginneken Jaap van <1943->

Titolo

Collective behavior and public opinion [[electronic resource] ] : rapid shifts in opinion and communication / / Jaap van Ginneken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003

ISBN

1-4106-0731-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

The European Institute for the Media series

Disciplina

303.3/8

Soggetti

Public opinion

Collective behavior

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of the author's: Brein-bevingen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: A New Vision; PART I: MIND QUAKES; Chapter 1 Public Opinion as a Complex Adaptive System (CAS); Chapter 2 The Continuous Mutation of Informal Messages; Chapter 3 Circular Reaction in Media Hypes; PART II: EMERGING COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR; Chapter 4 The Formation of Synergy in Crowds; Chapter 5 The Emergence of Patterns in Opinion Currents; Chapter 6 The Self-Organization of Social Movements; PART III: SHIFTING PUBLIC MOODS; Chapter 7 The Evolving Context of Fashion and Fads; Chapter 8 Critical Thresholds in Fear and Panic

Chapter 9 Possible Attractors in Outrage and ProtestPART IV: Conclusions; Chapter 10 Phase Transitions in Crazes and Crashes; Chapter 11 Prediction, Planning, and Fundamental Uncertainty; Chapter 12 Epilogue: Issues Management?; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This is a highly innovative and stimulating work with the outline of an entirely new approach to massive and rapid shifts in opinion and communication. It discusses and explains such mysterious phenomena as sudden crazes and crashes, fads and fashion, hypes and manias, moral outrage and protests, gossip and rumors, and scares and panics.   Rich in alternative insights, the book is divided into four parts. Part I discusses the points of departure: the most relevant processes of opinion formation and communication. Part II is about phenomena on



three different levels, that have tradition