The culture we consume is increasingly delivered to us via various digital on-demand platforms. The last decade has seen platforms like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify, Google and the like become massive players in shaping cultural consumption. But how can we understand culture once it moves on to big tech platforms? How can we make sense of the changes this brings to our lives? These platforms have the power to shape our cultural landscape and to use data, algorithms and other technolo...

This book examines the powerful and intensifying role that metrics play in ordering and shaping our everyday lives. Focusing upon the interconnections between measurement, circulation and possibility, the author explores the interwoven relations between power and metrics. He draws upon a wide-range of interdisciplinary resources to place these metrics within their broader historical, political and social contexts. More specifically, he illuminates the various ways that metrics implicate ou...

We are living in algorithmic times.From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated systems can transform the social world in ways that are just starting to be imagined.Redefining these emergent technologies as the new systems of knowing, pioneering scholar David Beer examines the acute tensions they create and how they are changing what is known and what is knowable. Drawing on cases ranging from the art market and th...

A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering.It is centrally concerned with examining the types of knowledge associated with data analytics and shows that how these analytics are envisioned is central to the emergence and prominence of data at various scales of...

This book draws upon the work of Georg Simmel to explore the limits, tensions and dynamism of social life through a close analysis of the works produced in the final years of his life and reveals what they might still offer some 100 years later. Focusing on the relationships between worlds, lives and fragments in these works, David Beer opens up a conceptual toolkit for understanding life as both an individual experience and as a deeply social phenomenon. Taking the reader through artistic...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Wohnen und Stadtsoziologie, Note: keine, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Erziehungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Pädagogische Forschung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Untersuchungsergebnisse sollen darstellen, in wie weit Magdeburger Studenten mit Ihrer Wohnsituation zufrieden sind. Sie sollen darlegen, auf welche Probleme die Wohnenden stoßen. Ist zum Beispiel der Mietpreis zu teuer, oder sind Lage und I...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Sonstiges, Note: keine, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit dem Phänomen Kreativität beschäftigen sich Menschen schon seit langer Zeit. Aber erst Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts begann die wissenschaftliche Betrachtung. Der Beginn der Kreativitätsforschung wird in der Psychologie mit dem 1950 gehaltenen Vortrag „Creativity“ von J.P. Guilford datiert. Die verschiedensten Ansätze zur Definition, Messu...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Politik, Majoritäten, Minoritäten, Note: keine, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Name Rudi Dutschke ist in den 60er/ 70er Jahren im gleichen Atemzug zu nennen, wie die Studentenbewegung. Er war einer der bekanntesten, charismatischsten, intellektuellsten Redner dieser Zeit. Dutschke wusste die Massen mit seinen Reden mitzureißen und zu begeistern. Er wurde auch der „verirrte Rebell“ genannt ...

In Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace, award-winner David Beers offers a powerful, personal vision of the rise and fall of the American middle class. Here is a dazzling literary chronicle of a family, a people, and a nation: the “blue sky tribe” of ever-optimistic middle-class Americans who believed in something called the American Dream, then woke up one day to discover it was gone. Blue Sky Dream is a book incredibly rich in ideas, in ways of...

The games are over.The war is here.Does humanity have a chance against the gods?Five men and women venture to another universe to find beings whose power gives them abilities they can’t imagine.Their leader? The greatest warrior produced since Prometheus: Achilles.Young, untested, but with unbridled potential, will his raw talent be enough?Can Achilles fight gods and turn back the tide of fate for the entire universe?Or will he be crus...

Pensando la Educación Física como área de conocimiento ha sido producto de las investigaciones, artículos y ponencias presentadas en las Conferencias Académicas –del período 2013-2015– producidas por el Seminario Permanente de Investigación del Laboratorio de Investigaciones Pedagógicas de la Actividad Física y el Deporte, del ISEF Nº 1 "Dr. Enrique Romero Brest". El texto se dirige a los estudiantes, profesores, licenciados e investigadores de Educación Física así como a todo actor de la ...

Quinn’s study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn “solves” the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were massacred.