Tag: Societal

Free Download Multilingualism in the Baltic States: Societal Discourses and Contact Phenomena by Sanita Lazdiņa, Heiko F. Marten
English | EPUB (True) | 2019 | 522 Pages | ISBN : 1137569131 | 2.4 MB
This edited collection provides an overview of linguistic diversity, societal discourses and interaction between majorities and minorities in the Baltic States. It presents a wide range of methods and research paradigms including folk linguistics, discourse analysis, narrative analyses, code alternation, ethnographic observations, language learning motivation, languages in education and language acquisition. Grouped thematically, its chapters examine regional varieties and minority languages (Latgalian, Võro, urban dialects in Lithuania, Polish in Lithuania); the integration of the Russian language and its speakers; and the role of international languages like English in Baltic societies. The editors’ introductory and concluding chapters provide a comparative perspective that situates these issues within the particular history of the region and broader debates on language and nationalism at a time of both increased globalization and ethno-regionalism. This book will appeal in particular to students and scholars of multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language discourses and language policy, and provide a valuable resource for researchers focusing on Baltic States, Northern Europe and the post-Soviet world in the related fields of history, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Free Download Covid-19 in Africa: Societal and Economic Implications by Susan Arndt, Banhoro Yacouba, Taibat Lawanson, Enocent Msindo, Peter Simatei
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 330 Pages | ISBN : 3031403150 | 12.5 MB
Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand the many ramifications of Covid-19 on societies, politics, and the economies of Africa. The contributors examine measures, communicative practices, and experiences that have guided the (inter)action of governments, societies, and citizens in this unpredictable moment. Covid-19 tested governments’ disaster preparedness as well as exposed governments’ attitudes towards the poor and vulnerable. In the same vein, it also tested the agency of the African populace in the face of containment measures and their impact on everyday social, cultural, and economic practices of ordinary people. In this vein, our concern is to understand the relationship between growing vulnerability on the one hand, and ingenuity of agency on the other, and how both were embodied, narrated and discoursed by the African poor, university students, religious entities, middle-classes, and those who bore the major brunt of the lockdowns.

Free Download Innovative Design for Societal Needs
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819964679 | 311 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 62 MB
This book presents select proceedings of North-East Research Conclave (NERC 2022) on innovative design for societal needs. Human Society and culture are a continuously evolving, complex, and intelligent system. The social needs of humans today are exacerbated by extremely unbalanced regional economic development and cultural identity crises across the globe and within states. This edited book presents cutting-edge research on how design innovation can be used to bring sustainable and meaningful social change. It also provides novel directions for future researchers interested in exploring the impact of design innovation and design thinking on human society. The book can be a valuable reference for beginners, researchers, and professionals interested in innovative design and allied fields.

Free Download Economic Growth and Societal Collapse: Beyond Green Growth and Degrowth Fairy Tales
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031455819 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB
It has been said that, in the light of ecological overshoot, that human civilization faces two future possibilities: a Great Decoupling or a Great Collapse. In this book, two distinct positions to achieve the Great Decoupling are critically evaluated: Green Growth and Degrowth. It is concluded that neither Green Growth nor Degrowth will be able to achieve the Great Decoupling. The possibility for society to collapse is then raised, with the potential for a civilizational rebound pondered. Whether collapse may be a feature, and not a bug, of the long-run evolution of complex civilization is discussed.

Free Download The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making
by Raghavan, Manish;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9798400708596 | 364 pages | True PDF EPUB | 19.23 MB

Free Download Autonomous Vehicles and Systems: A Technological and Societal Perspective
by Ishwar K. Sethi
English | 2023 | ISBN: 877022885X | 464 pages | True PDF | 23.49 MB

Free Download Techno-societal 2022:
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications―Volume 1
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031346432 | 1029 Pages | PDF (True) | 38 MB

Free Download Communication Technologies: Societal Perspectives, Strategic Management and Impact on Business (Media and Communications – Technologies, Policies and Challenges) by Alonsa J. Salazar, Cedro Jimenez
English | January 1, 2013 | ISBN: 162257768X | 148 pages | PDF | 12 Mb
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage, and audio-visual systems, which enable users to create, access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. In this book, the authors examine the societal perspectives, strategic management and impact on business of communications technology. Topics include information and communication technologies in world class universities; ICT used by businesses on purchasing orientation; ICT and their impact on customer patronizing behaviour; the using of and attitudes toward ICT in different age groups; optoelectronic switch arrays for communication networks; and factors affecting eco-driving through a web-based information provision system.

Free Download Artificial Intelligence for Societal Issues
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031124189 | 581 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 68 MB
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to provide innovative solutions to various societal issues and real-world social challenges. AI is useful in combating some of the seemingly unsolvable social crises facing the world today. Be it disaster awareness and management or demand forecasting, or healthcare informatics or disease outbreaks like COVID-19, the AI plays a pivotal role everywhere. AI has the potential to address some of the societal issues that indirectly pose challenges like cybercrime, agriculture, education, economy, and health. The book covers several applications of AI as solutions to different societal issues, which include economic empowerment, smart education system, COVID-19 detection & management, emotion detection, fraudulent transactions, applications in agriculture and health informatics, etc. The book will be helpful for the academicians and researchers working with various areas of societal issues, data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

Free Download Leo Granberg, Ann-Mari Sätre, "The Other Russia: Local Experience and Societal Change"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1032097647, 1472476891 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.6 mb
Most recent research seeks to explain contemporary changes in Russia by analysing the decisions of Russian leaders, oligarchs and politicians based in Moscow. This book examines another Russia, one of ordinary people changing their environment and taking opportunities to provoke societal changes in small towns and the countryside. Russia is a resource-rich society and the country’s strategy and institutional structure are built on the most valuable of these resources: oil and gas. Analysing the implications of this situation at the local level, this book offers chapters on resource use, local authorities, enterprises, poverty and types of individual, as well as a final chapter which places local societies within the framework of the Russian politicised economy.