Are you concerned about the future and what lies ahead for ourselves and the next generations? Do you worry about the rapid environmental degradation that is occurring globally? With the world at a crossroads, the decisions being made by adults today will have a profound effect on our children's tomorrow. Paradigm Time, Two Tales of the Future, depicts very different views of the years ahead for us. In the first tale, Resource Wars, ecological and economic disasters have brought great chan...

"Some Artists at the Fair" is a captivating exploration of the artistic landscape during a significant exhibition. The book features the works and insights of notable artists such as W. Hamilton Gibson, Will H. Low, Francis Davis Millet, John Ames Mitchell, and Francis Hopkinson Smith. Each artist brings a unique perspective, showcasing their contributions to the art world and the cultural milieu of the time. Through vivid descriptions and engaging narratives, the book immerses readers in ...

This book showcases the critical contribution that scholarship in the field of social interaction can make to the study of the senses.Centred on an understanding of the senses as interactionally configured between people and the ways in which people themselves experience the senses—how they build and negotiate meanings between each other about what is being sensed, what the social implications of the senses are, and how these might relate to sets of activities or interests—it bring...

In a not-so-distant future where androids are woven seamlessly into the fabric of society, "The Paranoid Android" introduces us to Zenon - a state-of-the-art household butler serving the affluent Johnstone family in London. Programmed for perfection, Zenon efficiently manages the household, catering to the needs of Kael Johnstone, a high-ranking Federation politician under immense pressure; his compassionate wife, Lyris, who yearns for a deeper connection with her distant ...

In the not-so-distant year of 2038, a world on the precipice of chaos is divided into two stark realms: the meticulously governed suburbs, where AI reigns supreme, and the lawless, untamed urban wastelands that sprawl beyond. It is within this fragile equilibrium that the fate of humanity hangs by a thread. At the heart of this compelling futuristic thriller lies an audacious plan conceived by a disillusioned English boy. His objective: to rescue the luminous Asian pop star, Suki, from the...

This insightful and accessible book is a response to the increasing important role that technology plays in everyday life, and the urgent need for empirical studies that analyse the impact of technology on social practices.The chapters in this co-edited collection reveal how technology is oriented to and embedded within the social organization of action in a wide range of settings and institutions, including education, markets, arts and culture, health and social care, media, polit...

The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism demonstrates the promise and diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science today, providing students and practitioners with an overview of the impressive developments in interactionist theory, methods and research. Thematically organized, it explores the history of interactionism and the contemporary state of the field, considering the ways in which scholars approach topics that are central to interactionism. A...

From hospitals and prisons to schools and corporations: no matter how large or seemingly abstract, all institutions are ultimately the result of the actions and interactions of people. In this original and innovative text, Gibson and Vom Lehn show the different ways in which studying people's own meaning-making practices can help us understand the role of institutions in contemporary society.Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory takes the reader through the core conc...

In the year 2038, a disillusioned English boy's audacious plan to save his beloved Asian pop star collides with a weary New York cop's pursuit of an unfathomable global conspiracy, as humanity balances on the razor's edge between AI-governed order and lawless urban chaos. As unprecedented system failures plunge the world into turmoil, Joe Jones races against time to unravel the deceit behind apocalyptic threats and protect those he loves, revealing the delicate intersection of human vulner...

Revisualising Intersectionality offers transdisciplinary interrogations of the supposed visual evidentiality of categories of human similarity and difference. This open-access book incorporates insights from social and cognitive science as well as psychology and philosophy to explain how we visually perceive physical differences and how cognition is fallible, processual, and dependent on who is looking in a specific context. Revisualising Intersectionality also puts into ...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Media provides an accessible and comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in media linguistics. This handbook analyzes both language theory and practice, demonstrating the vital role of this research in understanding language use in society. With over thirty chapters contributed by leading academics from around the world, this handbook:addresses issues of language use, form, structure, ideology, practice, an...

Paradoxes of Media and Information Literacy contributes to ongoing conversations about control of knowledge and different ways of knowing. It does so by analysing why media and information literacy (MIL) is proposed as a solution for addressing the current information crisis.Questioning why MIL is commonly believed to wield such power, the book throws into sharp relief several paradoxes that are built into common understandings of such literacies. Haider and Sundin take th...