"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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as: Digital, Infrastructure, People, Planet, and Prosperity." (https://blogs.worldbank.org)
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"This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental discou
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rses in online activities, Spotify as an intimate social media platform, neoliberalisation of feminist discourses, digital sex work, social media wars in trans debates and 'BimboTok'. The focus is on their acceleration and impact due to the specificities of social media in relation to identities, intimacies within the broad 'political' sphere. The geographic range of case study material reflects the global impact of social media, and includes data from Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the USA." (Publisher description)
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"El libro que tiene en sus manos empieza con una perspectiva cristiana de la realidad venezolana, para después mirar el contexto latinoamericano y mundial. Sigue un panorama amplio del desarrollo político de la democracia en Venezuela, desde el modelo modernizador del siglo XX hasta el proyecto bo
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livariano de Hugo Chavez y la versión madurista de hoy. A esto habría que sumarle un capítulo sobre la mirada de género, reconociendo la importancia de los derechos humanos de las mujeres, quienes representan alrededor de la mitad de la población, en extremo impactadas por la crisis política y económica del país. La mirada económica expone la evolución del sistema económica venezolano y meustra alternativas a la dependencia del petróleo y la Estado rentista, con sus consecuencias ecológicas y políticas. Por otra parte, la mirada comunicacional trata el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías para la comunicación humana y sus efectos sobre la democracia. Asimismo, el capítulo sobre los derechos humanos muestra una descripción panorámica de los principales derechos violados en Venezuela y acciones concretas para contrarrestarlos. Finalmente, se presentan aluguons elementos de reflexión para una transición política en Venezuela de cara a una reconciliación tras muchos años de polarización política. El libreo termina ofreciendo algunas herramientas para mejorar las intervenciones de ciudadanos y acvtivistas frente a la opinión pública, orientadas a trabajar en una retórica y oratoria adecuadas, y a realizar ejercicios prácticos para la organización y la participación política." (Cubierta del libro)
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"In the context of the International Year and International Decade of Indigenous Languages, a Global Call for Research Papers was commissioned with the aim to show a diversity of scholarship in the field of Indigenous languages and related issues. The international peer-review team carried out a com
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prehensive review process of nearly 300 papers from 63 countries, facilitated the final compilation of 38 selected papers by researchers from 26 countries, and the production of 10 articles by peer-reviewers. Overall, this multilingual collection includes 48 articles by researchers and analytical pieces by peer reviewers from 30 countries. This initiative aims to contribute to the creation of favourable conditions for knowledge-sharing and dissemination of good practices on Indigenous languages, as well as growth and development through elaboration of new knowledge." (Back cover)
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"Secularization has accelerated. From 1981 to 2007, most countries became more religious, but from 2007 to 2020, the overwhelming majority became less religious. For centuries, all major religions encouraged norms that limit women to producing as many children as possible and discourage any sexual b
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ehavior not linked with reproduction. These norms were needed when facing high infant mortality and low life expectancy but require suppressing strong drives, and are rapidly eroding. These norms are so strongly linked with religion that abandoning them undermines religiosity. Religion became pervasive because it was conducive to survival, encouraged sharing when there was no social security system, and it is conducive to mental health and coping with insecure conditions. People need coherent belief systems, but religion is declining. What comes next? The Nordic countries have consistently been at the cutting edge of cultural change. Protestantism left an enduring imprint, but the 20th Century welfare added universal health coverage, high levels of state support for education, welfare spending, child care, pensions and an ethos of social solidarity. These countries are also characterized by rapidly declining religiosity. Does this portend corruption and nihilism? Apparently not. These countries lead the world on numerous indicators of a well-functioning society, including economic equality, gender equality, low homicide rates, subjective well-being, environmental protection and democracy. They have become less religious, but their people have high levels of interpersonal trust, tolerance, honesty, social solidarity and commitment to democratic norms." (Publisher description)
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"El texto está escrito a tres voces: la realizadora del programa, quien hace uso de la pregunta para ampliar y profundizar en el tema, de tal manera que se logre la conexión con las realidades del entorno; el invitado que responde las preguntas apoyado en su formación profesional, en la experienc
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ia de trabajo con las parejas y en su capacidad de traducir el lenguaje técnico en un lenguaje coloquial para favorecer la interpretación de los contenidos por la audiencia; y la voz principal, correspondiente a los oyentes, ellos crearon nuevas conversaciones, de allí la importancia de poder escuchar las inquietudes, las apreciaciones y los testimonios de vida que posibilitaron una cocreación en palabras, que son el reflejo de la vida cotidiana. La obra está contenida en cinco capítulos; en el capítulo 1: Ser pareja, encontraremos apartados que describen las maneras para elegir, constituirse y otras tareas que se cumplen una vez conformada la pareja. El capítulo 2: Aprendiendo a vivir en pareja, hace referencia a la convivencia que requiere un cuidado permanente en los modos de relacionarse. El tercer capítulo: Los celos no son amor, nos permite ampliar la visión de una problemática, que tal vez ha llegado a convertirse en una epidemia de salud pública en nuestro contexto. Por supuesto un tema que no podía faltar se concreta en el capítulo 4: Se nos rompió el amor, en el cual se presentan los cambios relacionales, legales por la separación y el divorcio luego de la ruptura del vínculo afectivo. Finalmente, un aporte significativo es el capítulo 5 con cuatro investigaciones que exponen las realidades contemporáneas sobre los cambios y transformaciones en la vida de pareja." (Página 11-12)
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"Is China's engagement in the global governance of global public goods (GPGs) credible in terms of China's projected image as a new responsible power? Only through global cooperation can GPGs such as climate and security be effectively provided. International decision-making structures are currently
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undergoing major changes due to emerging economies such as China. Despite common interests regarding GPGs and global challenges such as climate change, there are still many obstacles for the cooperation between China and Europe." (Publisher description)
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"Der Atlas stellt anhand von Texten, Grafiken und Illustrationen die wichtigsten Ereignisse und Protagonisten der sozialen und politischen Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt vor. Er beleuchtet speziell auch die regionalen wie globalen Auswirkungen. Dabei kommen ganz wesentlich Journalisten und Wissens
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chaftler aus den jeweiligen Ländern zu Wort." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"The first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world, including Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the re
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sults of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project’s academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences." (Back cover)
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"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos
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ta uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people. Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people's everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context." (Publisher description)
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"The book is divided into five sections: 1. Community Empowerment and Sustainable Development; 2. Hate speech and Incitement; 3. Radicalization and Extremism; 4. Human Rights and Gender Equality; 5. Inter-religious and Intercultural Discourses in the media. Articles submitted are linked to one of th
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e sub-themes above in the context of media and information literacy. Special attention has been given to the intercultural dimensions of these areas. Papers involve an effort to engage the reader to understand media and information literacy beyond their home country or professional area of competence." (Page 16)
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"In Indien wirft das Thema Eheschließung Fragen individueller und kultureller Identität im Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichem Wandel und Kontinuität auf. Am rasant wachsenden indischen Online-Heiratsmarkt lassen sich diese Fragen besonders eindrücklich im Zusammenhang mit der Medienentwicklung
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diskutieren. Die Autorin beschreibt die gleichzeitig global ausgerichteten, aber als ‚indisch‘ konnotierten Online-Heiratsmärkte und zeigt, wie sich diese in die Ausdifferenzierungsprozesse der indischen und transnationalen Medienlandschaft einfügen. In einem zweiten Schritt stellt sie Konzepte von Weiblichkeit und Ehe vor, die diese Portale transportieren, und analysiert den Umgang der Nutzerinnen mit den Erwartungen und Rollenklischees, die Familie und Gesellschaft an sie herantragen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male
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and female ownership levels decrease. The largest gaps exist in countries that are still developing mobile capacity." (Summary, page 35)
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"In recent decades the Maasai of East Africa have undergone substantive cultural change in response to national development efforts. This study uses participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital photography to better understand the lived experience and development perspectives of Maasai
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women. Through dialog about digital photographs they had taken, Maasai women powerfully articulated their concerns and ideas about development and social change within their communities. Results show that Maasai women have a keen sense of the potential benefits and pitfalls of the social changes they are experiencing, particularly with regards to marriage relationships, gender norms, and education. Implications of the study of participants’ adept use of digital photography to facilitate dialog about development and social change are discussed." (Abstract)
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"In Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the rate at which listeners’ clubs are being formed and the fact that the approach is now being reproduced in various settings are indications of the success of this strategy and the extent to which it is proving sustainable. In South Kivu, for
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example, a new formula has been tested with excellent results: the introduction of Farmer Field and Life Schools has been supported by existing community listeners’ clubs. In addition, a process for evaluating the impact of the clubs has revealed an unexpected but promising factor: the improved capacity of club members to engage in more formal rural structures. In this sense, the clubs are paving the way for greater participation of women in producers’ organizations and rural cooperatives. The success of the clubs has led to the setting up of new projects in Burundi, Senegal, Mauritania and the DRC (Oriental Province). At the request of various organizations and agencies, FAO-Dimitra is helping to implement these projects based on gender sensitive participatory methodologies that are flexible and well adapted, with a goal that remains unchanged: the empowerment of men and women in a rural environment." (Editorial, page 2)
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"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are
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far more publicly engaged than they were in the past. Muslims and New Media in West Africa expands ideas about religious life in West Africa, women's roles in religion, religion and popular culture, the meaning of religious experience in a charged environment, and how those who consume both religion and new media view their public and private selves." (Publisher description)
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"This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of availability of the signal of Rede Globo—the network that had a virtual monopoly on telenovelas in the country—across municipal areas. Using three rounds of Census data (1970, 1980 and
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1991) and controlling for area fixed effects and for time-varying characteristics, the paper finds that the share of women who are separated or divorced increases significantly after the Globo signal becomes available. The effect is robust to controlling for potential determinants of Globo’s entry strategy and is stronger for relatively smaller areas, where the signal reaches a higher fraction of the population." (Abstract)
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