1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910674028703321

Autore

Boschetti Giovanni

Titolo

Advances in Italian Robotics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (294 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering & technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book disseminates the latest research achievements, findings, and ideas in the robotics field, with particular attention to the Italian scenario. Book coverage includes topics that are related to the theory, design, practice, and applications of robots, such as robot design and kinematics, dynamics of robots and multi-body systems, linkages and manipulators, control of robotic systems, trajectory planning and optimization, innovative robots and applications, industrial robotics, collaborative robotics, medical robotics, assistive robotics, and service robotics. Book contributions include, but are not limited to, revised and substantially extended versions of selected papers that have been presented at the 2nd International Conference of IFToMM Italy (IFIT 2018).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777909403321

Autore

Worsley Shawan M

Titolo

Audience, agency and identity in Black popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / by Shawan M. Worsley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-23564-3

1-282-28347-2

9786612283475

0-203-86657-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Studies in African American history and culture

Disciplina

305.896/07300904

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans in popular culture - History - 20th century

African American arts - 20th century

African Americans - Intellectual life - 20th century

African Americans - Race identity

Racism in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States

Hip-hop - Social aspects - United States

Rap (Music) - Social aspects - United States

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Race, Racism and Black Popular Culture; 2 Making the Past Accountable: The Wind Done Gone and Stereotypes of Black Women; 3 Audience Reception through the Lens of a 10 Million Dollar Lawsuit; 4 Unholy Narratives and Shameless Acts: Kara Walker's Side-Long Glance; 5 Racist Visual Images?: Museum Comment Books and Viewer Response; 6 Troubling Blackness: The Source Magazine and the Hip-Hop Nation; 7 The Narrative Disrupted: Reading Letters, Rewriting Identity

8 Conclusion: Reframing Debates and Analyses of Controversial Black



CultureNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images. Rather, they present anti-black stereotypes in their original forms and encourage audiences not to ignore, but to explore them. Shifting critical commentary from a need to censor these questionable images, Worsley offers a complex consideration of the value of and problems with these alter