Download or read book Technically Together written by Michele A. Willson and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technically Together takes the reader on a thoughtful tour of the key writings on community and technology and the current debates that surround them to provide a clear understanding of the challenges new technologies present for theories of social interaction.
Download or read book Technically Together written by Taylor Dotson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community. If social interaction by social media has become “the modern front porch” (as one sociologist argues), offering richer and more various contexts for community and personal connection, why do we often feel lonelier after checking Facebook? For one thing, as Taylor Dotson writes in Technically Together, “Try getting a Facebook status update to help move a couch or stay for dinner.” Dotson argues that the experts who assure us that “networked individualism” will only bring us closer together seem to be urging citizens to adapt their social expectations to the current limits of technology and discouraging them from considering how technologies could be refashioned to enable other ways of relating and belonging. Dotson characterizes different instantiations of community as “thick” or “thin,” depending on the facets and manifestations of togetherness that they encompass. Individuating social networks are a form of community, he explains, but relatively thin in regard to several dimensions of communality. Dotson points out that current technological practices are not foreordained but supported by policies, economic arrangements, and entrenched patterns of thought. He examines a range of systems, organizations, and infrastructures—from suburban sprawl and smartphones to energy grids and “cry-it-out” sleep training for infants—and considers whether they contribute to the atomization of social life or to togetherness and community vibrancy. Dotson argues that technology could support multifaceted communities if citizens stopped accepting the technological status quo and instead demanded more from their ever-present devices.
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Download or read book Souls in Transition written by Christian Smith and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.
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Download or read book The Hawke Family Collection One written by Gwyn McNamee and published by Gwyn McNamee. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING: Once you start reading the Hawke Family Series, you won’t want to stop! Be prepared to stay up all night! “The Hawkes are the family I wish I had! These books have everything! Steamy romance, all the angsty feels, and a bit of suspense that keeps you on the edge of your seat.” -⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ There’s always something happening in the Hawke family in New Orleans. Whether it’s conflict with the Italian mob, issues with the dancers at their clubs, hurricanes, or typical sibling drama, the Hawkes and their friends will drag you into their lives and refuse to let go! Grab the first two books in the series, Savage Collisionand Tortured Skye, today to meet them all and get lost in their world. Featuring two never before published bonus scenes! Savage Collision He's everything she didn't know she wanted. She's everything he thought he could never have. • Enemies to Lovers • Billionaire • Damaged Hero • Feisty heroine • The Italian Mob • Secrets ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Oh, my lord! This book deserves a standing ovation. This is me standing and hollering like a loon." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"If I could rate this 10-stars I would and it still wouldn't be enough!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"This book made me laugh, cry, and want to throw my Kindle across the room. I loved it.” – Alpha Loving Erotic Book Beauty Blog Tortured Skye She's always been off-limits. He's always just out of reach. • Best friend’s little sister • Forbidden romance • Damaged Hero • Former military • Determined heroine ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "...I fell in love with Gwyn McNamee's writing style from page one...[it] is smart, sure, fiery, quick-witted, sexy and sarcastic!!" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Funny, sexy, steamy, hot, mysterious, gripping, edgy, action and full of love. This couple has to be one of my favourites to read about.” Grab your copy of the Hawke Family Series Collection and meet the Hawkes today! Keywords: Love books, Love stories, Romantic novels, Sexually romantic books, Contemporary romance, Family saga, Tattoo romance, Blue Collar, Sexy, Family love, Strong heroine, Captivating romance, Loyalty, Protect, Kissing books, Steamy romance, Contemporary, Romance series, Long series, Long romance series, Hot, Hot romance, Sparks, Ebook, Racy, Racy Books, Gwyn McNamee, Suspense romance, Action scene romance, Hot guy, Love, Romance, Alpha Romance, Hawke Family, Hawke Family Series, Hawke Club, Mafia, Mafia romance, Dominant Alpha Male, Action and adventure romance, Organized Crime, Billionaire Romance, Billionaire, Enemies to lovers, Best Friends Sister, Military,
Download or read book INK A Titan Kings MC written by R L Dickinson and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kennedy, an art student and part time tattoo artist, meets the shy and beautiful Tina Spencer at a party at the college he attends, after she asks him for a tattoo. He is immediately enthralled by her. Something doesn’t feel right though, especially when he sees the nasty bruises covering her arms. Then Tina goes missing. The years go by, and he still thinks about her. Then one day, fate intervenes, and he finds himself face to face with the beautiful woman he tattooed all those years ago. But she has some devastating secrets. Where has she been this whole time? Will David ever get the chance to heal her? Will they get the happily ever after she needs?
Download or read book The Poetics of Philosophy A Reading of Plato written by David Ross and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Philosophy is my attempt to hear what academic philosophy attempts to silence, namely, how reason resonates with madness. It is thus a stinging of the great steed of academia in order to recover and re-experience what otherwise would be repressed by the exigencies of bureaucratic-commodity life in the late capitalist world. An analysis of Plato’s principal dialogues with a view towards developing the author’s conception of thinking, knowing, and loving, it incorporates the insights of Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Provoking the world mind to reflect upon its phenomenological possibility for Being dispersed within its daily routines or business, the book argues for the metaphysicality of physical reality articulated through the narrative trope of fractal dialectical logic. The present volume’s more general implications extend the insights of the author’s previous work in the area of social science. I refer to the possibility for world communist revolution, which is predicated on communism’s thorough ridding itself of its naïve materialist perspective, the relics of a Newtonian Universe, and its embracing of a fractal-dialectical logic (or similar) that is better able to incorporate the yearning for immortality, desire to experience beauty, and the need to have a meaningful life that define human species life. To articulate such a framework is the aim of my general research.
Download or read book The Appraisal 2 written by Brielle Montgomery and published by Urban Renaissance. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brielle Montgomery returns with more scandal, more secrets, and more deception. In The Appraisal 2, everyone is out for one thing: revenge. In this much‐anticipated finale, all is fair in sex and revenge. Lives are at stake as everyone fights to control the hands of karma. Some will succeed, some will fail, but only one will survive. Over a year has passed, but the time spent in jail has done nothing to soften the hatred in Jayla’s heart. After Jasmine’s betrayal, it’s only a matter of time before Jayla can give her a taste of her own medicine. The opportunity arises when Sheila Weston, the senator’s wife, intervenes, offering Jayla an assignment that she can’t refuse. Little does she know how much this assignment will change her life forever. Betrayal is at every turn, and no one can be trusted. As new secrets are revealed, Jayla finds herself tangled in a web so twisted that it brings her past full circle. Meanwhile, Jasmine has her own plans in motion to come out on top, and neither she nor Jayla realizes how dangerously intertwined their lives really are. The plot thickens, and new players emerge with their own hidden agendas.
Download or read book Uninhibited written by Liberty Parker and published by Liberty Parker . This book was released on with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAYNE Being in a band and creating music with my sisters has been a dream come true. Our small-town roots have been replaced with bright lights, big cities, and more attention than we know how to handle. There’s just one thing missing—her. But I’m the one who ultimately pushed her away. Now, I struggle on a daily basis to remember who I am, and who it is I want to be. I need her back. I’m prepared to fight for her, use whatever I have to in order to get her back. JACEY I had to leave him for good to ensure my own sanity. I couldn’t take the groupies throwing themselves at Rayne, and his publicist saying that he had to pretend to be single. I trust him; it’s those grasping, greedy women that I mistrust. Deciding that I can’t go home to the place we all grew up because the ghosts are around every corner, I make a new life for myself in another small town, abandoning all that I love and hold dear. I never expected to see him again. When Rayne forces the issue and shows up in Jacey’s new hometown, will it rekindle what they once had or are the sparks completely dead? Can he handle what she hasn’t told him and will he forgive her? Or is their love truly over?
Download or read book Select written by Marit Weisenberg and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day young adult retelling of Romeo and Juliet, with a supernatural twist that will appeal to fans of Ally Condie’s Matched and Kiera Cass’ The Selection Julia Jaynes has the perfect life. The perfect family. The perfect destiny. The daughter of a billionaire investor in Austin, Texas, it looks like Julia has it all. But there's something rotten beneath the surface—dangerous secrets her father is keeping; abilities she was never meant to have; and an elite society of highly evolved people who care nothing for the rest of humanity. So when Julia accidentally jeopardizes the delicate anonymity of her people, she's banished to the one place meant to make her feel inferior: public high school. Julia's goal is to lay low and blend in. Then she meets him—John Ford. He’s popular, quiet, intense, and strangely compelling. Then Julia discovers she can read his mind and her world expands. Their forbidden love is powerful enough to break the conditioning that has kept Julia in the cold grip of her manipulative father. For the first time, Julia develops a sense of self and questions her restrictive upbringing and her family prejudices. She must decide how she will define herself—and whom she will betray.
Download or read book The industrial self instructor and technical journal written by Ward, Lock and co, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Global Perspectives on Health Communication in the Age of Social Media written by Sekalala, Seif and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous studies suggest that people with a variety of health concerns are increasingly turning to online networks for social support. As a result, the number of online support communities has risen over the past two decades. Global Perspectives on Health Communication in the Age of Social Media is a critical scholarly resource that examines the illness and pain-and-suffering narrative of health communication. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as social networks, patient empowerment, and e-health, this book is geared towards professionals and researchers in health informatics as well as students, practitioners, clinicians, and academics.
Download or read book Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age written by Brown Sr., Michael A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital collaboration is abundant in today’s world, but it is often problematic and does not provide an apt solution to the human need for comprehensive communication. Humans require more personal interactions beyond what can be achieved online. Returning to Interpersonal Dialogue and Understanding Human Communication in the Digital Age is a collection of innovative studies on the methods and applications of comparing online human interactions to face-to-face interactions. While highlighting topics including digital collaboration, social media, and privacy, this book is a vital reference source for public administrators, educators, businesses, academicians, and researchers seeking current research on the importance of non-digital communication between people.
Download or read book The Ritual written by Adam Nevill and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix Original Movie! The Ritual is Adam Nevill's horror novel depicting a group of friends lost in a remote wilderness in Sweden where something supernatural lurks. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse. But then they stumble across an old habitation. Ancient artifacts decorate the walls and there are bones scattered upon the dry floors. The residue of old rites and pagan sacrifice for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that follows their every step. As the four friends stagger in the direction of salvation, they learn that death doesn't come easy among these ancient trees . . .
Download or read book More Than I Should written by Rebecca Stone and published by Starr Street Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julie Milligan has the perfect life. She has a dream job as a lawyer, no thanks to the insistence of her over-bearing parents. She works alongside her two best friends at their publicity company, Maven Media. She lives rent free in New York City. She can have any guy she wants — and she does. Except for Anthony Russo, the one guy she can’t get out of her mind. Everything about Anthony lit her body — and her heart— on fire. But timing wasn’t in their favor, and the short fling they shared a couple years ago is better saved as a memory. Especially since they decided to be friends instead. Lead guitarist for his rising indie rock band Eternal Youths, Anthony was on the brink of having it all: fame, fortune, and women. But when an alcohol-induced car wreck renders him unable to play for the foreseeable future, Anthony is left to face the music of his actions while the band goes on tour. Including the one woman he was stupid enough to lose. He’d remained friends with Julie in light of their passionate and unforgettable affair. But the constant contact with her only amplified the realization he’d made the biggest mistake of his life. Out of rehab and finding his feet, their friendship finds new ground and Anthony knows his future is incomplete without her by his side. But Julie seems to have moved on, content at keeping their relationship right where it is while she explores New York City and all that it offers. They need to decide if protecting their hearts is worth letting each other go - or if risking everything could bring the love of a lifetime.
