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How do public spaces generate accountability and advance social equity? Stimulating the conversation, this volume explores the creation of meaning, the increasing confrontation between regulators and the community they are purported to serve, and the prevalent conflicts in seeking a balancing of social and economic interests.

Part 1. Governance as an interaction space -- Chapter 1. The hidden side of co-creation in a complex multi-stakeholder environment: when self-organization fails and emergence overtakes -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on hybridity -- Chapter 3. Bringing Society Back in: Actors, Networks, and Systems in Policy-Making. Part 2. Policy and evaluation as an interaction space -- Chapter 4. Mission-oriented public policy and the new evaluation culture -- Chapter 5. Systemic Evaluation Approach to Meet the Challenges of Complexity -- Chapter 6. Participative policymaking in complex welfare system - a Delphi study -- Part 3. Innovation as an interactin space -- Chapter 7. How overlapping connections between groups interact with value differences in explaining creativity? -- Chapter 8. Disaster Management as a Complex Adaptive System: Building Resilience with New Systemic Tools of Analysis -- Chapter 9. Translations in biobanking: Socio-material networks in health data business -- Chapter 10. Digital Platforms and Industry Change -- Part 4. Section IV Civic society as an interaction space -- Chapter 11. Facilitating Organizational Fluidity with Computational Social Matching -- Chapter 12. Emotions in customer experience -- Chapter 13. Sensory technologies for improving employee experience and strengthening customer relationships -- Chapter 14. Individual conditions for co-production of a social innovation in a Living Lab: Case Sunshine PopUp Park -- Chapter 15. Security Cafés: A deliberative democratic method to engage citizens in meaningful two-way conversations with security authorities and to gather data.

"This volume comprises cutting edge research on language contact and change. The chapters present a wide scope of settings in which Spanish is in contact with other languages, such as Catalan, English, and Quechua; a large breadth of geographical areas (e.g., United States, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina); and varied participant groups, ranging from dialect contacts, second-language learners and heritage speakers to balanced bilinguals and code-switchers. Taken together, the chapters provide rich empirical descriptions of data pertaining to different levels of language, diverse - naturalistic and experimental - methodological approaches to data collection, as well as theoretical implications of the findings. The interdisciplinary perspective adopted by the authors contributes to the linguistic analysis and offers important insights into theoretical linguistics in general, and into theories of sociolinguistics, language variation, bilingualism, and second language acquisition"--

"This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally. The author divides work in evolutionary economics into three distinct, albeit related, forms: a structural form, an evidential form, and a heuristic form. He then analyzes five examples of work in evolutionary economics falling under these three forms. For the structural form, he examines the parallelism between natural selection and economic decision making, and the parallelism between natural selection and market competition. For the evidential form, he looks at the relationship between animal and human economic decision making, and the evolutionary explanation of diversity in human economic decision making. Finally, for the heuristic form, he focuses on the plausibility of equilibrium modeling in evolutionary ecology and economics. In this way, he shows that linking evolutionary biology and economics can make for a powerful methodological tool that can enable progress in our understanding of various economics questions. Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, evolutionary biology, and economics."

Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetic experience. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound them to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic viewing of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance

Was unter dem Stichwort «Digitalisierung» verhandelt wird, pendelt zwischen Heilsphantasien und Katastrophisierung. Die Theologische Ethik tastet sich gegenwärtig noch unsicher an dieses Thema heran. Das Buch legt eine ethische Grundlegung für die Probleme der angewandten Ethik mit künstlich intelligenten und autonomen Maschinen vor.