Autore	Taylor Jimmy D. <1973->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (183 p.)
Disciplina	306.4/6
Collana	Criminal justice
Soggetto topico	Firearms - Social aspects - United States Firearms ownership - United States - History Firearms - Collectors and collecting - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-59332-541-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Charts and Tables; List of Images; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: What About Guns; 2. Gun Ownership as "Normal?"; The Cowboy Way; The Gender Performance; Managing and Negotiating Emotions; Warrior Narratives; Gun Laws "In the News"; 3. Making Science Out of Gun Ownership; Data Analysis; Credibility; Human Subjects Consideration; 4. Considering Popular Music; Guns and Music; Gun Lyric Sources; Guns: The Badass/Masculinity Factor; Gun as High Comedy?; Guns as a Ritual Site; Protecting the Masculine Center of Guns in Music; 5. A Day at The Gun Event Schedule of Events AttendedWhat to Expect to Find at Your Local Gun Show?; Guns: A Masculine Symbol of Power; Media Images as an Institutional Influence; Protecting the Masculine Center of Guns; Deference and Demeanor-Based Gun Rituals; 6. Management of Suspect Identities; Stigmatization; Managing Stigma; Individual Stigma Management Strategies; Collective Stigma Management Strategies; In Group Strategies; Conclusions; 7. Discussion and Implications; Appendix A Semi-Structured Interview Schedule; Appendix B Subject Consent Form; Appendix C Glossary of Gun Terms; Appendix D Approach Script Appendix E Me Out in the FieldList of References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910457120903321

Autore	Adam Alison
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
Descrizione fisica	v, 210 p
Disciplina	306.4/6
Soggetto topico	Women - Effect of technological innovations on Artificial intelligence - Social aspects Expert systems (Computer science) Knowledge representation (Information theory) Feminist theory
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-203-00505-8 1-134-79356-1 1-280-50648-2 9786610506484
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	chapter INTRODUCTION -- chapter 1 FEMINIST RESOURCES -- chapter 2 AI IN CONTEXT -- chapter 3 THE KNOWING SUBJECT IN AI -- chapter 4 KNOWLEDGE, LANGUAGE AND RATIONALITY IN AI -- chapter 5 EMBODIMENT AND SITUATEDNESS -- chapter 6 FEMINIST AI PROJECTS AND CYBERFUTURES.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910449841303321

Autore	Mom Gijs <1949->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : berghahn, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (768 p.)
Disciplina	306.4/6
Collana	Explorations in Mobility
Soggetto topico	Automobiles - North America - History - 20th century Automobile travel - North America - History - 20th century Automobiles - Social aspects - North America
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78238-378-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Preface; Introduction - Explaining the Car: Prolegomena for a History of North-Atlantic Automobilism; Part I - Emergence (1895-1918); Chapter 1 - Racing, Touring, Tinkering: Constructing the Adventure Machine (1895-1914/1917); Chapter 2 - How it Feels to be Run Over: The Grammar of Early Automobile Adventure; Chapter 3 - Driving on Aggression: The First World War and the Systems Approach to the Car; Part II - Persistence (1918-1940); Chapter 4 - ""Why Apologize for Pleasure?"" Consuming the Car in Boom and Bust Chapter 5 - Translation and Transition: Readjusting the Technology and Culture of Middle-Class Family AdventuresChapter 6 - Redefining Adventure: Domesticated Violence and the Coldness of Distance; Chapter 7 - Swarms Into Flows: The Contested Emergence of the Automobile System; Conclusion - Transcendence and the Automotive Production of Mobility; Bibliography; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910463717603321

Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (332 p.)
Disciplina	306.4/6
Altri autori (Persone)	AdamsTyrone SmithStephen A. <1949->
Soggetto topico	Online social networks Internet - Social aspects Tribes Communication and technology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	0-292-79396-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	; Introduction, Where is the shaman? / Jim Parker -- "Tribe by any other name..." / Tyrone L. Adams and Stephen A. Smith -- Mimetic kinship : theorizing online "tribalism" / Veronica M. Davidov and Barbara Andersen -- Electronic tribes (e-tribes) : some theoretical perspectives and implications / Bolanle Olaniran -- Revisiting the impact of tribalism on civil society : an investigation of the potential benefits of membership in an e-tribe on public discourse / Christina Standerfer -- Theorizing the e-tribe on MySpace.com / David R. Dewberry -- Don't date, craftsterbate : dialogue and resistance on Craftster.org / Terri L. Russ -- Guild life in the world of Warcraft : online gaming tribalism / Thomas Brignall III -- At the electronic Evergreen : a computer-mediated ethnography of tribalism in a newsgroup from Montserrat and afar / Jonathan Skinner -- "Like a neighborhood of sisters" : can culture be formed electronically? / Deborah Clark Vance -- Gerald M. Phillips as electronic tribal chief : socioforming cyberspace / Ann Rosenthal -- Digital dreamtime, sonic talismans : music downloading and the tribal landscape / Michael C. Zalot -- Magic, myth, and mayhem : tribalization in the digital age / Leonie Naughton -- Mundanes at the gate-- and perverts within : managing internal and external threats to community online / Steve Abrams and Smaragd Grün -- Brotherhood of blood : Aryan tribalism and skinhead cybercrews / Jody M. Roy -- Radical tribes at Warre : primitivists on the net / Mathieu O'Neil -- "Tribe" migrates crime to cyberspace : Nigerian Igbos in 419 e-mail scams / Farooq A. Kperogi and Sandra Duhé.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453891103321

Autore	Schurman Rachel
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (327 p.)
Disciplina	306.4/6 660.6
Altri autori (Persone)	KelsoDennis D
Soggetto topico	Agricultural biotechnology Agricultural biotechnology - Social aspects Food Food - Biotechnology - Social aspects Genetic engineering Genetic engineering-- Social aspects Biological Science Disciplines Social Control, Informal Organism Forms Technology Social Sciences Technology, Industry, and Agriculture Sociology Natural Science Disciplines Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Organisms Technology, Industry, Agriculture Disciplines and Occupations Politics Public Opinion Biotechnology Organisms, Genetically Modified Industry Health & Biological Sciences Biomedical Engineering
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-4175-2550-9 0-520-93749-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millennium; 1 Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology; 2 Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington; 3 The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology; 4 Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry; 5 Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods; 6 The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime? 7 Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes8 From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research; CONCLUSION: Recreating Democracy; GLOSSARY; CONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450075603321