Download or read book DOOM METAL LEXICANUM 2 written by ALEKSEY. EVDOKIMOV and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Algorithmic Cultures written by Robert Seyfert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides in-depth and wide-ranging analyses of the emergence, and subsequent ubiquity, of algorithms in diverse realms of social life. The plurality of Algorithmic Cultures emphasizes: 1) algorithms’ increasing importance in the formation of new epistemic and organizational paradigms; and 2) the multifaceted analyses of algorithms across an increasing number of research fields. The authors in this volume address the complex interrelations between social groups and algorithms in the construction of meaning and social interaction. The contributors highlight the performative dimensions of algorithms by exposing the dynamic processes through which algorithms – themselves the product of a specific approach to the world – frame reality, while at the same time organizing how people think about society. With contributions from leading experts from Media Studies, Social Studies of Science and Technology, Cultural and Media Sociology from Canada, France, Germany, UK and the USA, this volume presents cutting edge empirical and conceptual research that includes case studies on social media platforms, gaming, financial trading and mobile security infrastructures.

Download or read book The Encyclop dia of Stupidity written by Matthijs van Boxsel and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shows how stupidity manifests itself in all areas, in everyone, at all times: stupidity is the foundation of our civilization. He posits that stupidity is a condition for intelligence, that blunders stimulate progress and that failure is the basis for success.

Download or read book Error Glitch Noise and Jam in New Media Cultures written by Mark Nunes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section, "Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities for critical and aesthetic intervention within new media practices. In the second section, "Game," they examine how errors allow for intentional and accidental co-opting of rules and protocols toward unintended ends. The final section, "Jam," considers the role of error as both an inherent "counterstrategy" and a mode of tactical resistance within a network society. By offering a timely and novel exploration into the ways in which error and noise "slip through" in systems dominated by principles of efficiency and control, this collection provides a unique take on the ways in which information theory and new media technologies inform cultural practice.

Download or read book Google and the Culture of Search written by Ken Hillis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Google and the Culture of Search examines the role of search technologies in shaping the contemporary digital and informational landscape. Ken Hillis and Michael Petit shed light on a culture of search in which our increasing reliance on search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing influences the way we navigate Web content--and how we think about ourselves and the world around us, online and off. Even as it becomes the number one internet activity, the very ubiquity of search technology naturalizes it as utilitarian and transparent--an assumption that Hillis and Petit explode in this innovative study. Commercial search engines supply an infrastructure that impacts the way we locate, prioritize, classify, and archive information on the Web, and as these search functionalities continue to make their way into our lives through mobile, GPS-based platforms and personalized results, distinctions between the virtual and the real collapse. Google--a multibillion-dollar global corporation--holds the balance of power among search providers, and the biases and individuating tendencies of its search algorithm undeniably shape our collective experience of the internet and our assumptions about the location and value of information. Google and the Culture of Search explores what is at stake for an increasingly networked culture in which search technology is a site of knowledge and power. This comprehensive study of search technology's broader implications for knowledge production and social relations is an indispensable resource for students and scholars of Internet and new media studies, the digital humanities, and information technology. "-- Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press written by Gisela Procházka-Eisl and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises papers delivered at the sixth meeting of the conference series History of the Press in the Middle East which was held in Nicosia/Cyprus from May 19 to May 23, 2004. The meeting was devoted to the theme The Economy as an Issue in the Middle Eastern Press.

Download or read book Algorithmic Life written by Louise Amoore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically explores forms and techniques of calculation that emerge with digital computation, and their implications. The contributors demonstrate that digital calculative devices matter beyond their specific functions as they progressively shape, transform and govern all areas of our life. In particular, it addresses such questions as: How does the drive to make sense of, and productively use, large amounts of diverse data, inform the development of new calculative devices, logics and techniques? How do these devices, logics and techniques affect our capacity to decide and to act? How do mundane elements of our physical and virtual existence become data to be analysed and rearranged in complex ensembles of people and things? In what ways are conventional notions of public and private, individual and population, certainty and probability, rule and exception transformed and what are the consequences? How does the search for ‘hidden’ connections and patterns change our understanding of social relations and associative life? Do contemporary modes of calculation produce new thresholds of calculability and computability, allowing for the improbable or the merely possible to be embraced and acted upon? As contemporary approaches to governing uncertain futures seek to anticipate future events, how are calculation and decision engaged anew? Drawing together different strands of cutting-edge research that is both theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book makes an important contribution to several areas of scholarship, including the emerging social science field of software studies, and will be a vital resource for students and scholars alike.

Download or read book Crucial Images in the Presentation of a Kurdish National Identity written by Martin Strohmeier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the discourse on Kurdishness and the development of the Kurdish national movement from its inception at the end of the 19th century to the late 1930's by using as source the Kurdish press, open letters, propaganda brochures and a novel.

Download or read book Late Ottoman Society written by Elisabeth Özdalga and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period.

Download or read book Crime Fiction in and Around the Eastern Mediterranean written by Börte Sagaster and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, crime fiction has been considered popular literature - an assessment that prevented serious critical engagement with it. It is only in recent years that critical literary theories have begun to be applied to genres such as crime fiction, while at the same time the interest of literary scholars in crime fiction by authors not belonging to the European-American 'Western' cultures has grown. The articles assembled in this volume seek to address the role of crime fiction in and around the Eastern Mediterranean in countries such as Turkey, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Saudi-Arabia, and Egypt, focusing on generic, terminological, literary critical, social, and cultural themes. The book is intended to be an invitation for literary scholars doing research on different literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean to compare and discuss their results and to engage in further research in this field.

Download or read book Intercultural Aspects in and Around Turkic Literatures written by Matthias Kappler and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains a selection of papers presented at an international conference on "Intercultural Aspects in and around Turkic Literatures" in Nicosia in 2003. The contributions address various aspects of and views on interculturalism, cosmopolitanism, stereotypes and crosscultural literary trends in Turkic literatures and literatures in contact with Turkic culture and literatures, namely Greek, Russian, and Italian. The contributors, who come from nine different countries, examine topics from the analysis of the image of the "other" in Turkish or "neighbouring" literary texts to the investigation of literary techniques and trends as a device of interculturalism and cosmopolitanism and cover a period from the 18th to the 20th century. Also included are introductory chapters on the historical and political context of the contact areas discussed in the contributions.

Download or read book Imperial Classroom written by Benjamin C. Fortna and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Imperial Classroom deserves our attention on several counts, the most important being its innovatory approach, systematic presentation and the large variety of sources consulted to good effect... well-documented and very readable... this scholarly book should be read not only by those studying late Ottoman education, but by all those interested in the period of Abdülhamid II.' -Middle Eastern StudiesThis book presents a many-sided view of education in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century under the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide array of primary material, ranging from archival reports to textbooks and classroom maps, Benjamin C. Fortna provides a detailed scholarly analysis of the Ottoman educational endeavour, revealing its fascinating mix of Western and indigenous influences.

Download or read book The Late Age of Print written by Ted Striphas and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the author assesses our modern book culture by focusing on five key elements including the explosion of retail bookstores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, and the formation of the Oprah Book Club.

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Download or read book Britain in Cyprus written by Hubert Faustmann and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seit 125 Jahren spielt Grossbritannien in der Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur Zyperns eine bedeutende Rolle. Zwischen 1878 und 1960 war Zypern eine britische Kolonie und wahrend dieser Zeit entstanden die zahlreiche Charakteristika der modernen zypriotischen Gesellschaft.Von 1955 bis 1959 kampfte die griechisch-zypriotische Untergrundarmee EOKA fur ein Ende der Kolonialherrschaft und die Vereinigung der Insel mit Griechenland. Der Konflikt, der auch zu burgerkriegsahnlichen Auseinandersetzungen mit der turkisch-zypriotischen Volksgruppe und fast zum Krieg zwischen Griechenland und der Turkei fuhrte, endete mit einem Kompromiss, den keiner gewollt hatte: der unabhangigen Republik Zypern. Bis heute wird Grossbritannien beschuldigt, die Hauptverantwortung fur die Entstehung dieses Konfliktes und seine Eskalation in den 50er Jahren zu tragen.Auch nach der Unabhangigkeit spielten die Briten in der Geschichte der Insel eine besondere und ausserst umstrittene Rolle. Als Garantiemacht teilten sie sich zusammen mit Griechenland und der Turkei die Verantwortung fur die Bewahrung der verfassungsmassigen Ordnung und territorialen Integritat der Insel Zudem behielten die Briten zwei souverane Militarbasen, die sie bis heute als koloniale Relikte nutzen.1963 brach die verfassungsmassige Ordnung der Republik zusammen, es kam erneut zum Burgerkrieg. Der Konflikt zwischen beiden Volksgruppen und ihren "Mutterlandern" Griechenland und Turkei kulminierte 1974 in einem Coup d''Etat der Militarjunta in Athen gegen den griechisch-zypriotischen Prasidenten Makarios, den die Turkei mit einer Invasion der Insel beantwortete, der zu der bis heute andauernden Teilung der Insel fuhrte. Grossbritannien wird beschuldigt, als Garantiemacht seit 1963 versagt zu haben. Lassen sich diese Anschuldigungen halten?Das vorliegende Buch enthalt die bislang umfassendste Darstellung der britisch-zypriotischen Beziehungen zwischen 1878 und dem heutigen Tage. Mehr als 40 Arbeiten von anerkannten Zypernexperten beleuchten die Rolle, die Grossbritannien bei der Entstehung und im Verlauf des Zypernkonfliktes bis heute spielte.Die historisch-politische Analyse wird durch eine Reihe von weiteren Arbeiten erganzt, die sich mit soziologischen, anthropologischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Aspekten der britisch-zypriotischen Beziehungen beschaftigen.Das Publikation beinhaltet eine Fulle bislang unveroffentlichter Forschungsergebnisse und ist ein Muss fur jeden, der sich fur britisch-zypriotischen Beziehungen, die moderne zypriotische Geschichte sowie fur Kolonialismus und seine Auswirkungen interessiert.Britain played an important role in Cypriot history, society and culture during the last 125 years. Cyprus was a British colony from 1878 to 1960 and during this period many of the features of modern Cypriot society were shaped.Between 1955 and 1959 EOKA, a Greek-Cypriot underground organisation, fought an armed struggle for union of the island with Greece. This conflict resulted also in civil strife between the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities and led to the involvement of Greece and Turkey which came to the brink of war over the island. In the end a compromise was found nobody had wished for: independence. Until today Britain is accused of carrying the main responsibility for the emergence and escalation of the Cyprus conflict through a consistent policy of divide and rule.Britain also played an important role in the history of the island after independence. The UK shared together with Greece and Turkey the responsibility for the preservation of the constitutional order and the territorial integrity of the island. Moreover, Britain retained two sovereign military bases as colonial relics.In 1963 the constitutional order of the Republic broke down resulting in renewed armed conflict between the two communities. The unresolved conflict between the Greek and Turkish Cypriots as well as their "mother countries" culminated in a Greek coup d''etat against the Greek Cypriot president Makarios and an ensuing Turkish invasion in 1974, which led to the current division of the island. Britain is accused of having failed to live up to its responsibilities as a Guarantor power. Are all these accusations justified?This book contains the most comprehensive analysis of the relations between Great Britain and Cyprus from 1878 to the present day. More than 40 eminent scholars assess the British role in the emergence and the historical course of the Cyprus problem as well as the British-Cypriot relations after independence.The historical-political analysis is enriched by a number of articles dealing with sociological, anthropological, economic and cultural aspects of British-Cypriot relations.This book is an essential source for anybody interested in British-Cypriot relations, modern Cypriot history as well as Colonialism and Post-Colonialism.ContentsIntroduction: Hubert Faustmann and Nicos Peristianis 7Heinz A Richter The Grand Game, the Balkans, the Congress of Berlin and Cyprus 11Diana Markides Cyprus 1878-1925: Ambiguities and Uncertainties 19Andrekos Varnava "Cyprus is of no use to anybody": The Pawn, 1878-1915 35Mike Hajimichael Revisiting Thomson - The Colonial Eye and Cyprus 61Rebecca Bryant Signatures and ''Simple Ones'': Constituting a Public in Cyprus, circa 1900 79Marios Constantinou Rethinking Max Weber''s Sociology of Domination in Colonial Context: A Micro-Macro Framework for a Theory of Authority Relevant to the Case of Cyprus 99Heinz A Richter Benevolent Autocracy 1931-1945 133Martin Strohmeier "I''d rather have it in Cyprus than nowhere": A Plan for a British University in the Near East (1935-1940) 151Jan Asmussen "Dark-skinned Cypriots will not be accepted!" Cypriots in the British Army 1939-1945 167George H Kelling British Policy in Cyprus 1945-1955. The Pigeons Come Home to Roost 187Evanthis Hatzivassiliou British Strategic Priorities and the Cyprus Question, 1954-1958 199Makarios Drousiotis The Greco-Turkish ''Para-State'' and Cyprus 1947-1960 211Nicos Peristianis The Rise of the Left and of the Intra-Ethnic Cleavage 233Vassilis Protopapas The Rise of a Bi-Polar Party System, Municipal Elections 1940-1955 269Christophoros Christophorou The Emergence of Modern Politics 1940-1960 295Niyazi Kizilyurek The Turkish Cypriots from an Ottoman-Muslim Community to a National Community 315Huseyin Mehmet Atesin The Process of Secularisation of the Turkish Community 1925-1975 327Dimitra Karoulla-Vrikki Language and Ethnicity in Cyprus under the British: A Linkage of Heightened Salience 343Petra Tournay-Theodotou The Empire Writes Back: Anti-Colonial Nationalism in Costas Montis'' Closed Doors and Rodis Roufos'' The Age of Bronze 359Rita C Severis Travelling Artists in Cyprus: Art, Identity and Politics 381Hubert Faustmann Independence Postponed: Cyprus 1959-1960 413Hansjorg Brey The Cypriot Economy under British Rule and the Economic Heritage of the British Period 431Robert Holland The Historiography of Late Colonial Cyprus: Where Do We Go from Here? 445Joseph S Joseph The Political Context and Consequences of the London and Zurich Agreements 453Brendan O''Malley The Impact of British Strategic Interests on the Cyprus Problem 473Claude Nicolet Lack of Concern, Will and Power: British Policy towards Cyprus, 1960-1974 491Klearchos A Kyriakides The Sovereign Base Areas and British Defence Policy Since 1960 511Oliver P Richmond Decolonisation and Post-Independence Causes of Conflict: Mapping the Case of Cyprus 535James Ker-Lindsay The Joint Truce Force in Cyprus, December 1963-March 1964 561Alan James Britain and the Crisis of 1963-1964. The Manifestation of a Special Interest 573Keith Kyle British Policy on Cyprus 1974-2004 583Tim Potier Britain and Cyprus: From Referendum to Reunification? 607DocumentsPeter Loizos HajiMatheos HajiNikolas - A Home-Grown Radical Thinker 631HajiMatheos HajiNikola The Agrarian Class in Cyprus 637George Vassiliou Britain and the EU Accession of Cyprus 653

Download or read book Software Studies written by Matthew Fuller and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of short expository, critical and speculative texts offers a field guide to the cultural, political, social and aesthetic impact of software. Experts from a range of disciplines each take a key topic in software and the understanding of software, such as algorithms and logical structures.

Download or read book Popular Culture and New Media written by David Beer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture and new media are deeply interwoven, yet they are often thought of as separate spheres. This book explores the material and everyday intersections between popular culture and new media. Using a range of interdisciplinary resources the chapters open up a series of hidden dimensions – including objects and infrastructures, archives, algorithms, data play and the body – that force us to rethink our understanding of culture as it is today. Through an exploration of its intersections with new media, this book reveals the centrality of data circulations in the formation, organization and relations of popular culture. It shows how digital data accumulate as a result of our routine engagements with culture. It then examines the ways that these data fold-back into culture through algorithmic process, through play and through mediated bodily experiences. The book asks how we might conceptualize and understand culture as it continues to be reshaped by these recursive circulations of data.