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Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

By: Petros Iosifidis,Nicholas Nicoli

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Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

By: Petros Iosifidis,Nicholas Nicoli

Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation discusses some of the political, regulatory and technological issues which arise from the increased power of internet intermediaries (such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and the impact of the spread of digital disinformation, especially in the midst of a health pandemic. The volume provides a detailed account of the main areas surrounding digital democracy, disinformation and fake news, freedom of expression and post-truth politics. It addresses the major theoretical and regulatory concepts of digital democracy and the ‘network society’ before offering potential socio-political and technological solutions to the fight against disinformation and fake news. These solutions include self-regulation, rebuttals and myth-busting, news literacy, policy recommendations, awareness and communication strategies and the potential of recent technologies such as the blockchain and public interest algorithms to counter disinformation. After addressing what has currently been done to combat disinformation and fake news, the volume argues that digital disinformation needs to be identified as a multifaceted problem, one that requires multiple approaches to resolve. Governments, regulators, think tanks, the academy and technology providers need to take more steps to better shape the next internet with as little digital disinformation as possible by means of a regional analysis. In this context, two cases concerning Russia and Ukraine are presented regarding disinformation and the ways it was handled. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students and researchers within the social sciences, computer science, law and business studies, as well as policy makers engaged in combating what constitutes one of the most pressing issues of the digital age.

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1000299783

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Mexico City

By: Nicholas Caistor

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Mexico City

By: Nicholas Caistor

Mexico City has always been a seat of empire. With its grandiose pretensions, sheer swagger, and staggering proportions, it gives the impression of power exercised over great time and distances. And yet this power has frequently been contested, lending the city a tough, battle-hardened look. At the same time, life in the Mexican capital can be carefree and intoxicating, and the city continues to offer any visitor not only glimpses of past grandeur, but of the fascinating wealth of the culture of Mexico today. This book explores how the city has grown and evolved from the Tenochtitlan city-state of the Aztecs to the capital of the Spanish empire’s “New Spain,” French intervention, revolution, and the newly branded CDMX. Nick Caistor leads us through centuries of history and into the material city of today: from recently constructed museums and shopping malls, to neighborhoods where age-old traditions still appear to be the norm. Whether sampling ice cream at Xochimilco, watching freestyle wrestling at the Arena Mexico, or savoring long Mexican breakfasts, Nick Caistor reveals why Mexico City continues to fascinate and beguile us.

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Reaktion Books

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1789141109

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Contradictions of Democracy

Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By: Nicholas Rush Smith

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Contradictions of Democracy

Vigilantism and Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa

By: Nicholas Rush Smith

Despite being one of the world's most vibrant democracies, police estimate between five and ten percent of the murders in South Africa result from vigilante violence. This is puzzling given the country's celebrated transition to democracy and massive reform of the state's legal institutions. Where most studies explain vigilantism as a response to state or civic failure, in Contradictions of Democracy, Nicholas Rush Smith illustrates that vigilantism is actually a response to the processes of democratic state formation. In the context of densely networked neighborhoods, vigilante citizens often interpret the technical success of legal institutions-for instance, the arrest and subsequent release of suspects on bail-as failure and work to correct such perceived failures on their own. Smith also shows that vigilantism provides a new lens through which to understand democratic state formation. Among young men of color in some parts of South Africa, fear of extra-judicial police violence is common. Amid such fear, instead of the state seeming protective, it can appear as something akin to a massive vigilante organization. An insightful look into the high rates of vigilantism in South Africa and the general challenges of democratic state building, Contradictions of Democracy explores fundamental questions about political order, the rule of law, and democratic citizenship.

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Oxford University Press

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0190847212

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Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

By: Nicholas Ridley

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Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

By: Nicholas Ridley

Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whilst Collins’ role as a guerrilla leader and intelligence operative is well documented, his actions as the clandestine Irish government Minister of Finance have been less studied. The book analyses how funds were raised and transferred in order that the IRA could initiate and sustain the military struggle, and lay the financial foundations of an Irish state. Nicholas Ridley examines the legacy of these actions by comparing Collins’ modus operandi for raising and transferring clandestine funds to those of more modern groups engaged in political violence, as well as the laying of foundations for Irish financial and fiscal regulation.

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Routledge

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1315444909

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9781315444901

An Improved Form for the Electrostatic Interactions of Polyelectrolytes in Solution and Its Implications for the Analysis of QELSS Experiments in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide

By: Nicholas V. Sushkin

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An Improved Form for the Electrostatic Interactions of Polyelectrolytes in Solution and Its Implications for the Analysis of QELSS Experiments in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide

By: Nicholas V. Sushkin

The electrostatic interaction between two charged spheres in the presence of a screening electrolyte is calculated at the level of the linearized Debye-Hückel theory. The calculation is performed analytically as a multipole expansion by applying two-center spherical harmonic expansions and symbolic manipulation methods. I focus on charge-charge and charge-induced dipole interactions, calculated for two spheres of possibly unequal size. The former interaction is given to good approximation by the familiar Debye-Hückel form q1q2exp[-k(R-2a)]/[(epsilon*r(1]ka)^2]. The new results are the charge-induced dipole interactions. Physically, these terms arise from two sources: (i) surface polarization charge at the surface of each sphere, and (ii) exclusion of the counterion cloud of each sphere from the volume occupied by the other sphere. With parameters appropriate for micelles, the charge-induced dipole interactions dominate the charge-charge interaction at small separations. Quasi-elastic light scattering measurements of the diffusion of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) micelles in aqueous solutions, and the diffusion of mesoscopic optical probes through the same solutions, were carried out at 35°C and multiple solvent ionic strengths. Assuming a spherical micelle, I deduced the micelle radius, aggregation number, charge, and hydration from nonlinear least-squares fits to both probe and mutual diffusion data. For SDS micelles the charge that I find is lower than reported in the literature [Hayter, J. B.; Penfold, J. Colloid & Polymer Science 1983, 261, 1022; Triolo, R.; Caponetti, E.; Graziano, V. J. Phys. Chem. 1985, 89, 5743.] because I used an improved functional form of the micellar electrostatic interaction. I find a smaller aggregation number and a larger micellar hydration than literature values. My analysis of CTAB data implies extensive micellar growth, and failure of the spherical micelle assumption.

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Universal-Publishers

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1581120087

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Shakespeare’s Theatre of War

By: Nicholas de Somogyi

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Shakespeare’s Theatre of War

By: Nicholas de Somogyi

The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period spans English drama’s coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department; the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare’s Rumour is here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales, military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title’s components, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.

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1351900706

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Navigating Cybercultures

By: Nicholas van Orden

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Navigating Cybercultures

By: Nicholas van Orden

The papers collected here address the questions about posthumanism, hybridity, humanity, subjectivity, and aesthetics that echo through all of our daily attempts to navigate our rapidly shifting cybercultures.

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BRILL

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1848881630

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9781848881631

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

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Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

By: Nicholas Terpstra

An analysis of the social, political and religious role of confraternities in Renaissance Bologna, first published in 1995.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522617

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9780521522618

The Dachshund

By: Anna Katherine Nicholas,Marcia A. Foy

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The Dachshund

By: Anna Katherine Nicholas,Marcia A. Foy

Covers the showing, care, selection, and breeding of dachshunds.

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0866221581

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Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

By: Petros Iosifidis,Nicholas Nicoli

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By: Petros Iosifidis,Nicholas Nicoli

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Natalie Natalia

By: Nicholas Mosley

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Natalie Natalia

By: Nicholas Mosley

Natalie Natalia"?is Nicholas Mosley's brilliant examination of political life. It revolves around Anthony Greville, a conservative Member of Parliament who is tormented by his ambivalence toward his career, by his religious doubts, and by his adulterous affair with Natalia Jones, the enigmatic wife of a colleague. The course of their affair dramatizes love in its most creative and perilously destructive aspects, the two facets symbolized in the two names he has for his lover: "I sometimes called Natalia Natalie instead of Natalia," Greville says, "when she was the ravenous rather than the angelic angel... What Natalie said was often a code for what Natalia was meaning." Ranging in setting from England to Central Africa, the novel is a remarkable investigation of ethics, with fiction itself as an ethical activity.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564780864

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Goodfellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

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Goodfellas

By: Nicholas Pileggi

The Bloomsbury Film Classics, The Original Novel series presents books from a number of films from the last 40 years that have been considered to have shown great cinematic merit.

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Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

Mexico City

Mexico City

Contradictions of Democracy

Contradictions of Democracy

Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

An Improved Form for the Electrostatic Interactions of Polyelectrolytes in Solution and Its Implications for the Analysis of QELSS Experiments in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide

An Improved Form for the Electrostatic Interactions of Polyelectrolytes in Solution and Its Implications for the Analysis of QELSS Experiments in Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate and Cetyl Trimethyl Ammonium Bromide

Shakespeare’s Theatre of War

Shakespeare’s Theatre of War

Navigating Cybercultures

Navigating Cybercultures

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

Lay Confraternities and Civic Religion in Renaissance Bologna

The Dachshund

The Dachshund

Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

Natalie Natalia

Natalie Natalia

Goodfellas

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