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Augmented Communication: The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of participants from distant geographical locations (either synchronously or...

Arctic Energy and Social Sustainability

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world’s Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and developing technologies are expected to push energy-related activities ever further into the previously inaccessible north. Within this...

A Companion of Feminisms for Digital Design and Spherology

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

This book questions if spherology is a philosophy for designers, giving guidance on ways to read Spheres, how to approach the trilogy’s indexicality, and apply the key tropes and ethics of atmospheres to digital design. Each chapter includes a design-in, that is a practical entry point into the...

Management Studies in South Africa: Exploring the Trajectory in the Apartheid Era and Beyond (Palgrave Studies in African Leadership)

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. The unique political journey of South Africa provides a distinctive context in which to explore the progression of management studies within a developing state. The authors consider how Apartheid has configured the...

Dark Pedagogy: Education, Horror and the Anthropocene (Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment)

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current...

The Knowledge Growth Regime: A Schumpeterian Approach

Palgrave Pivot, 2019

‘This important new book provides a penetrating, novel analysis of the key role played by knowledge when viewed through the lens of Schumpeterian economics. It is loaded with important insights that highlight the primacy of knowledge and innovation to unleash economic growth.’

?David B. Audretsch,...

A Political Theory of Post-Truth

Palgrave Pivot, 2018

This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter’s preconditions, context, and functions in today’s societies. Contrary to the prevalent view of post-truth as primarily manipulative, it is argued that post-truth is, instead, a collusion...

Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism)

Palgrave Pivot, 2020

This book offers a sustained and vigorous defence of free expression and objective enquiry situated in the context of the current culture wars. In the spirit of J. S. Mill, Benn investigates objections to the ideal of free expression in relation to harm and offence, reaching broadly liberal conclusions with reference to recent...

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