The technology of nonviolence : social media and violence prevention / / Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach
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| Autore: |
Bock Joseph G.
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| Titolo: |
The technology of nonviolence : social media and violence prevention / / Joseph G. Bock ; foreword by John Paul Lederach
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2012 |
| [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2012] | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (311 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.6/1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Nonviolence |
| Violence - Prevention | |
| Social media | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Multi-User |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Towards an applied theory of violence prevention -- Reporting and warning about deadly possibilities -- Organizing against ethnoreligious violence in Ahmedabad -- Overcoming gang violence in Chicago -- Counteracting ethnoreligious violence in Sri Lanka -- Crowdsourcing during post-election violence in Kenya -- Foisting tribal violence in East Africa -- Comparing the approaches -- How to intervene effectively -- What to do when violence prevention is unlikely to work -- Concerns about misallocation of resources -- Future directions and recommendations. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How technology and community organizing can combine to help prevent violence, with examples from Chicago to Sri Lanka. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The technology of nonviolence |
| ISBN: | 1-282-13379-9 |
| 9786613806376 | |
| 0-262-30555-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452768103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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