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UNINA9910460789503321 |
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Cowles Ernest L. |
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An introduction to survey research / / Ernest L. Cowles and Edward Nelson |
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New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2015 |
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1-78684-347-1 |
1-60649-819-3 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Quantitative approaches to decision making collection, , 2163-9582 |
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Social surveys |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index. |
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1. Introduction -- 2. Probability sampling -- 3. Total survey error -- 4. Factors to consider when thinking about surveys -- 5. Modes of survey delivery -- 6. Writing good questions -- 7. Carrying out the survey -- 8. Presenting survey results -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
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This book is an introduction to survey research for those who want an overview of the survey process. It is intended to describe fundamental survey components to help both students and managers understand and use surveys effectively and avoid the pitfalls stemming from bad survey construction and inappropriate methods. We begin by talking about how best to identify the information needed and the best approach to get that information. We then discuss the processes commonly involved in conducting a survey including the value of both obtaining a representative sample and dealing with the types of errors that can distort results. Next, each chapter focuses on one of the key components of constructing and carrying out a survey, including the elements to consider when developing a survey, the modes of survey delivery, writing good questions, conducting the survey, and presenting the results. Each chapter concludes with a summary of important points contained in the chapter and an annotated set of references indicating where readers can go for more information on chapter topics. |
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UNINA9910510589503321 |
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Autore |
Thatcher Jim <1980-> |
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Data power : radical geographies of control and resistance / / Jim Thatcher, Craig M. Dalton |
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London : , : Pluto Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (176 pages) : illustrations |
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Algorithms - Social aspects |
Big data - Social aspects |
Information technology - Social aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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List of Figures and Tables -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Technology and the Axes of Hope and Fear -- 1. Life in the Age of Big Data -- 2. What Are Our Data, and What Are They Worth? -- 3. Existing Everyday Resistances -- 4. Contesting the Data Spectacle -- 5. Our Data Are Us, So Make Them Ours Epilogue Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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In recent years, popular media have inundated audiences with sensationalised headlines recounting data breaches, new forms of surveillance and other dangers of our digital age. Despite their regularity, such accounts treat each case as unprecedented and unique. This book proposes a radical rethinking of the history, present and future of our relations with the digital, spatial technologies that increasingly mediate our everyday lives. From smartphones to surveillance cameras, to navigational satellites, these new technologies offer visions of integrated, smooth and efficient societies, even as they directly conflict with the ways users experience them. Recognising the potential for both control and liberation, the authors argue against both acquiescence to and rejection of these technologies. Through intentional use of the very systems that monitor them, activists from Charlottesville to Hong Kong are subverting, resisting and repurposing |
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geographic technologies. Using examples as varied as writings on the first telephones to the experiences of a feminist collective for migrant women in Spain, the authors present a revolution of everyday technologies. In the face of the seemingly inevitable dominance of corporate interests, these technologies allow us to create new spaces of affinity, and a new politics of change. |
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