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The Internet and digital technologies have changed the world we live in and the ways we engage with one another and work and play. This is the starting point for this collection which takes analysis of the digital world to the next level exploring the frontiers of digital and creative transformations and mapping their future directions. It brings together a distinctive collection of leading academics, social innovators, activists, policy specialists and digital and creative practitioners to discuss and address the challenges and opportunities in the contemporary digital and creative economy.

"This edited volume looks at the phenomena of shared trauma and how it affects social workers and their clients alike. Bringing together established voices from the field of social work, Shared Mass Trauma presents ideas of how to provide resilient care and practice while social workers and their clients are both experiencing the same mass trauma. Social workers are often on the front line when community trauma occurs, and the boundary between their experiences and those of clients can become blurred. In this timely resource, Ann Goelitz and the contributors aim to share both their findings and evidence-based tools to help professionals look after themselves and their clients in times of turmoil. Beginning by setting a conceptual framework for shared trauma and reviewing related research, the contributors discuss the concept as it relates to events such as the coronavirus pandemic, climate change and natural disasters, police brutality and racism, and war and terrorism. Filled with case studies that bring the text to life, chapters then move to the modalities of psychotherapy, group work, and community organizing, before concluding with reflections and lessons learnt for future practice. With specific implications, trauma-informed care, social work principles, and practical tips incorporated throughout, the book ends with a glossary of terms, a sample syllabus, and practical exercises to support training social workers as well providing practical assistance for clinicians working in unprecedented circumstances"--

"Researchers in group psychology and group psychotherapy rarely consider each other's work, despite their clear areas of common interest. This book demonstrates how these separate but related lines of research can be used to inform and enrich each other. Led by two past presidents of APA's Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy, this book features expert contributors who examine the interface between social or organizational research on groups and clinical research, as well as the application of findings in each area. They reveal that different kinds of groups are far more similar than they are different, and illustrate how group psychology as a line of inquiry and practice benefits from improved dialogue among its domains. For example, there is growing literature on how individual personality factors such as attachment can affect group processes and outcomes in group psychotherapy. Similarly, research on expectations of social inclusion and ostracism in groups has a long history in social psychology, and there is great potential for these areas of inquiry to inform future research in both clinical and social contexts. The book will inspire greater collaboration among researchers"--

In the months after the contested Iranian presidential election in June 2009, Iranians spoke out about the election using Twitter--a social media service that allows users to send short text messages, called tweets, with relative anonymity. This research analyzed more than 2.5 million tweets discussing the Iran election that were sent in the nine months following it, drawing insights into Iranian public and mood in the post-election period.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Aspects of community-based water management and social capital -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Foundation of Collective Action -- 1.3 Water Governance and Participatory Approaches -- 1.4 Institutions of Community-Based Water Management -- 1.5 Case Studies -- 1.6 Concluding Comments -- 1.7 References -- 2. An alternative clean water supply system for community living in coastal and flood-prone areas: lesson learned from Legon Kulon village -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Community and Water Supply Management in Legon Kulon Village -- 2.3 The Framework -- 2.4 Water Management Plan -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 2.6 References -- 3. Collective action in water resource management: theoretical perspectives and propositions -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Collective Action for Managing Common Pool Resource (CPR): Elinor Ostrom Framework -- 3.3 Conditions of Collective Action: Robert Wade's Perspective -- 3.4 A General Theory of Collective Action -- 3.4.1 Individual Preference and Choice -- 3.4.2 Potential Actors and Focal Actors -- 3.4.3 Shared Knowledge and its Accessibility -- 3.4.4 Prevailing Objective Conditions in the Society -- 3.4.5 Sustaining Collective Action: Role of Structuration and Legitimation Dynamics -- 3.5 Applying the General Theory for Collective Water Resource Management: Theoretical Propositions for Empirical Validation -- 3.6 Concluding Remarks -- 3.7 References -- 4. Participatory approach to community based water supply system -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Empirical Research -- 4.2.1 Access to Water -- 4.2.2 Demographic Data of the Respondents -- 4.3 Model and Estimation Method -- 4.3.1 Model -- 4.3.2 Bayesian Inference -- 4.3.3 The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Sampler -- 4.4 Results and Discussions -- 4.4.1 The Explanatory Variables.

This paper discusses the philosophical background and socio-theoretical affinities of Pierpaolo Donati's relational sociology, focusing particularly on language as a missing element in relational social ontology. Following a discussion of Norbert Elias's and Charles Wright Mills's ideas of modernity as a counterpart to Donati's theorizing, the paper criticizes the concept of relational society and the limitations to its applicability. The author argues that the communicational aspect of social relations calls for linguistic normativity as the basis of all normativity in a society that Margaret Archer and Donati call "morphogenic."

AbstractResearchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high‐ and low‐status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda‐setting stage. If affluent and less affluent citizens have different priorities about which issues should be tackled by government, then these divergent group priorities explain why government favours high‐ over low‐status citizens. Due to different levels of visibility, resources and social ties, governments pay more attention to what high‐status citizens consider important in their legislative agenda and pay less attention to the issues of low‐status citizens. We combined three types of data for our research design. First, we extracted the policy priorities (most important issues) for all status groups from Eurobarometer data between 2002 and 2016 for 10 European countries and matched this information with data on policy outcomes from the Comparative Agendas Project. We then strengthen our results using a focused comparison of three single country studies over longer time series. We show that a priority gap exists and has representational consequences. Our analysis has important implications for the understanding of the unequal representation of status groups as it sheds light on an important, yet so far unexplored, aspect of the political process. Since the misrepresentation of political agendas occurs at the very beginning of the policy‐making process, the consequences are potentially even more severe than for the unequal treatment of preferences.

Forensic genetics and genetic surveillance in Europe: a historical and sociological analysis -- Transnational genetic surveillance in the EU: the case of the Prüm system -- Genetic surveillance in European post-communist countries -- The uses of familial searching in Europe: at the crossroads between expanding suspicion and historical reparation -- Expanding genetic informativity through emerging technologies: the cases of forensic DNA phenotyping and next generation sequencing -- Non-governmental organizations and the critique of genetic surveillance.

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swallowed up lives by the thousands. Exposed bodies strewn around in public spaces were a threat to social order as well as to public health. In a place where every group had its own beliefs and set of death and funeral practices, how did they adapt to a modern, urbanised environment? How did the interactions of social organisations and state authorities manage these new ways of thinking and acting? Christian Henriot's pioneering and original study of Shanghai between 1865 and 1965 gives new insights into this crucial aspect of modern society in a global commercial hub and guides readers through this tumultuous era that radically redefined the Chinese relationship with death

Entrance -- Fantastic four of metaphysics : dunamis, adunamis, energeia, entelecheia -- The fantastic four of existence : privation, private, privacy, prohibition -- The fantastic four of politics : state of nature, the leviathan, state of politics, social contract -- The fantastic four of ontology : Sein, Dasein, Seiende, Welt -- The fantastic four of epistemology : noumena, transcendental subject, time-space, phenomena -- The fantastic four of geneology : resistance, subject, power, dispositive -- The fantastic four of phenomenology : nature, geist, idea, notion -- Exit.