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Harness 'Code Halos' to gain competitive advantage in the digital eraAmazon beating Borders, Netflix beating Blockbuster, Apple beating Kodak, and the rise of companies like Google, LinkedIn, and Pandora are not isolated or random events. Today's outliers in revenue growth and value creation are winning with a new set of rules. They are dominating by managing the information that surrounds people, organizations, processes, and products—what authors Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring call Code Halos. This is far beyond "Big Data" and analytics. Code Halos spark new commercial models that can dramatically flip market dominance from industry stalwarts to challengers. In this new book, the authors show leaders how digital innovators and traditional companies can build Code Halo solutions to drive success. The book:Examines the explosion of digital information that now surrounds us and describes the profound impact this is having on individuals, corporations, and societies;Shows how the Crossroads Model can help anticipate and navigate this market shift;Provides examples of traditional firms already harnessing the power of Code Halos including GE's 'Brilliant Machines,' Disney's theme park 'Magic Band,' and Allstate's mobile devices and analytics that transform auto insurance.With reasoned insight, new data, real-world cases, and practical guidance, Code Halosshows seasoned executives, entrepreneurs, students, line-of-business owners, and technology leaders how to master the new rules of the Code Halo economy.

In The Game Culture Reader, editors Jason C. Thompson and Marc A. Ouellette propose that Game Studies-that peculiar multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary field wherein international researchers from such diverse areas as rhetoric, computer science, literary studies, culture studies, psychology, media studies and so on come together to study the production, distribution, and consumption of games-has reached an unproductive stasis. Its scholarship remains either divided (as in the narratologis

"This book aims to engage the complex relationship between technology, culture, and socio-economic elements by exploring it in a transnational, yet contextually grounded, framework, exploring diverse perspectives and approaches, from political economy to cultural studies, and from policy studies to ethnography"--Provided by publisher

Sustainable Development refers to the creation and maintenance of social and economic development. In order to achieve this it is necessary to provide interaction between environmental, social and economic components of the system, synchronized in time and space. Each of these interactions has its specific dynamics, requires the involvement of certain resources. Greening the of society expands the array of environmental requirements that are in opposition to traditional economic needs of the accumulation of material wealth and production, which does not take account of the environment. Despite the economic crisis, according to the results of the Euro barometer survey conducted in late March and early April 2014, which included 28,000 respondents from different social and demographic groups, and the 28 members of the European Union, showed that 96% of people said how they care for the environment, personal matters. To ensure the inclusion of sustainability requirements into development policies and their implementation in practice, Montenegro has prepared and implemented by the National Strategy for Sustainable Development, based on the principles of the Declaration of Rio de Janeiro and Agenda 21, as well as the principles contained in the Declaration and the Johannesburg Plan by implementation.

Previous research has attempted to examine specific social aspects of the school inclusion of students with vision impairment, such as the development of social relationships with their teachers and peers and their participation in school activities. Based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological system theory, this article presents a socio-ecological model that aims to embrace the different elements of social inclusion in school. Considering the components of this socio-ecological model, the findings of an empirical study that examined the school engagement of adolescents with vision impairment and its effect on their social competence are presented. Thirty-seven adolescents, with and without vision impairment, aged 12–14 years, participated in this study. Adolescents were divided into three groups: adolescents with severe sight impairment (previously 'blindness'), adolescents with sight impairment (previously 'low vision') and sighted adolescents. Participants completed a questionnaire about their school engagement and disengagement, and their parents completed a quantitative scale about their children's social competence. There were no significant differences found between the three participant groups in terms of school engagement, disengagement and social competence. Neither school engagement nor disengagement was a significant predictor of social competence. The findings of this empirical study revealed remarkable similarities in school engagement and social competence between adolescents with and without vision impairment. These findings may also suggest that other clinical and social factors, independent of visual functioning, affect the school inclusion and social competence of adolescents with vision impairment. Overall, the socio-ecological model developed for the purposes of this research can lead to the development of evidence-based interventions that will aim to improve the social inclusion of adolescents with vision impairment. Furthermore, the rationale of the empirical study may promote further investigation of the critical role of promoting less-intrusive classroom interventions to facilitate the school inclusion of students with vision impairment.

This article is focused on the differences between shame and guilt examined through a psychological perspective. The purpose of this analysis developed here is to attain conceptual clarity about what is distinctive about shame and guilt. We claim that shame is erroneously included in the category of "moral emotions" and that, paradoxically, there is nothing moral in it. To this end, we emphasize that shame is produced by the failure to achieve a certain minimum, which is social in its nature. It is therefore connected with low demands on one's self and low self-esteem. Guilt, on the other hand, is based on the failure to achieve a subjective maximum and an ideal, so it tends to be observed in personalities that exhibit high demands upon themselves and a high self-esteem.

Front Cover -- Volume 1, Issue 2, 2016 -- Introduction -- Education and the Right to the City -- Derek R. Ford Christina Convertino -- DePauw University University of Texas, El Paso -- Laura Jordan Jaffee -- Syracuse University -- Note -- References -- Scaffolding Lefebvre's "Cry" and "Demand" -- Educational Spaces, Praxis, and the Right to the City -- Peter Hossler and Zachary Casey -- Rhodes College -- The question of what kind of city we want cannot be divorced from that of what kind of social ties, relationship to nature, lifestyles, technologies, and aesthetic values we desire. The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to acc... -- The Right to the City -- The Right to the City and the Public School -- THE CHICAGO TEACHERS' STRIKE AND/AS THE RIGHT TO THE CITY -- LEFEBVRE'S INTERVENTION IN CRITICAL PEDAGOGY -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- References -- Claiming the Right to the City Through Intergroup Dialogue -- The Tools for Social Change Initiative in Geneva, NY -- Rodman King, Khuram Hussain, and Jeremy Wattles -- Hobart & William Smith Colleges -- Methodology -- Unfinished Business- The Legacy of the Killing of Corey Jackson -- Renewed Hope -- A Dream Deferred -- Addressing Declining Enfranchisement in Cities -- Urban Space and the Right to the City -- DIALOGUE AT THE CROSSROADS -- REPURPOSING IDG TOWARD A FIGHT TO RECLAIM GENEVA -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Mapping the Hidden Curriculum of the Global City -- From Bogotá to Berlin -- Julie Ficarra Kate Cottrell -- Syracuse University Gimnasio La Montaña, Colombia -- Sophia Burton and Kelly Miller -- Collidoscope Berlin, Germany -- INTRODUCTION -- Right to the City-Privileging "Use Value" Over "Exchange Value" -- Hidden Curriculum as Our Primary Theoretical Intervention -- Mapping the Hidden Curriculum of the City -- Comparative International Perspectives-Our Positionality.

"Retrieving the older but surprisingly neglected language of household governance, Economy of Force offers a radical new account of the historical rise of the social realm and distinctly social theory as modern forms of oikonomikos - the art and science of household rule. The techniques and domestic ideologies of household administration are highly portable and play a remarkably central role in international and imperial relations. In two late-colonial British 'emergencies' in Malaya and Kenya, and US counterinsurgencies in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, armed social work was the continuation of oikonomia - not politics - by other means. This is a provocative new history of counterinsurgency with major implications for social, political and international theory. Historically rich and theoretically innovative, this book will interest scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences, especially politics and international relations, history of social and political thought, history of war, social theory and sociology"--

This textbook is part of a series covering several aspects of social science, social and political life. Chapters include Role of the Government in Health, How the State Government Works, Growing up as Boys and Girls, Women Change the World, Understanding Media, Understanding Advertising, Markets Around Us, A Shirt in the Market, and Struggles for Equality.

The purpose of the study is to characterize and assess the influence of selected economic factors on the value of purchases made by Ukrainian citizens in Poland at the border (so-called unregistered turnover on customs declarations). The ex-change rate andlabour migration as well as the impact of political disorders that occurred at the end of 2013 in Ukraine were analysed in detail. The analysis covered the period 2009—2017. Data were derived from the questionnaires of the Statistical Office in Rzeszów, Local Data Bank of Statistics Poland, State Statistics Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. The analysis of correlation and regression were used as the basic research tools. The results of the study show that political events affected cross-border trade indirectly through, inter alia, the exchange rate, which limited the expenses made by Ukrainian citizens in Poland. However, this impact was not strong enough to reverse the upward trend in cross-border shopping. The analyses did not provide statistically significant indications of a cause-and-effect relationship between labour migration flows of Ukrainian citizens to Poland and cross-border trade.

This technical report is underpinning the European added value assessment by the European Parliament Research Service on "European framework on ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies". The report can be found in the attachment to the said assessment. The European Union, through legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation, has looked to implement new rules for the digital economy that protect citizens fundamental rights and meets both existing and emerging ethical standards. While many studies have examined the social implications of legislation designed to protect rights in emerging domains such as artificial intelligence and robotics, few have considered the economic implications of an ethical framework. While some researchers and practitioners argue that legislation designed to protect citizens have an economic cost, this study demonstrates that an ethical framework for artificial intelligence – by helping to further social acceptance of new technologies and providing other benefits– not only helps maintain ethical standards, but also creates net economic benefits. By 2030, an ethical legislative framework for artificial intelligence and robotics could create between 3.3-4.6 million jobs and add €221-299 billion to the European economy.

The altogether alterations and relative political, media and economic openings witnessed by Algeria since about three decades have had a direct impact on the advertizing context where the accentuation of the sociolinguitic dynamics is taking impetuous. The official monolingualism and bilingualism, till recently devoted to the media communication, have been altered by the market ideology. This one attempts to impose its linguistic as well as cultural constraints which are channeled towards plurality. This multilingual reality has been questioned in the present thesis with the aim of capturing the diversity of this manifestation and its exploitation by the creative people at a first level. Then, measuring the impact of these inventive, and sometimes, transcendent uses on the representations that Algerians have about different languages and their attitudes vis-à-vis their uses. For so doing, I started by a global sociolinguistic description of multilingualism thanks to a corpus containing advertizing texts, to focus afterwards on more specific descriptive choices dealing with the sociolinguistic values and functioning of the outstanding phenomena of code-switching and borrowing. The manifestation of these innovative uses, on an epilinguistic plane, has been assembled via a questionnaire. The qualitative analysis stressing the comprehensive along with the contextualizing steps championed by empirico-inductive methods, pushed us to single out themes that are relative to " linguistic choices " as operated by my investigation, to their " mixed linguistic perception " as found in advertisements, to their " linguistic consciousness " as regards multilingualism in Algeria. And eventually, to the accentuation of the referents tied to a " linguistic polarization " and to a " polarized identity " in relation with the theme of "Algerianity" whose components are established as being multicultural and linguistic. ; Les mutations ainsi que les relatives ouvertures politique, médiatique et économique que connait l'Algérie depuis ...

To provide context for this special issue's eight articles, we review the lenses adopted in i-deals research and its findings and then address under-studied aspects of i-deals. Part of the societal trend toward customization of employment arrangements, the i-deals workers negotiate for themselves are the subject of a growing body of research. We observe that i-deals research investigates both antecedents and consequences of i-deals at levels from the individual and dyad to team and organization. Numerous theories have been applied to explain i-deal phenomena beginning with social exchange theory in its initial research to social comparison and diverse theories regarding human needs and values. Employers are known to use i-deals to attract, motivate, and retain workers, while employees pursue i-deals to better their work lives and career opportunities. Although the positive effects of i-deals for organizations and i-dealers alike are well-documented, potential negative effects are under-studied. Moreover, white collar workers in developed countries are the recurrent focus in i-deals research to the neglect of other occupations and societies. In this article and special issue, we seek insights regarding understudied aspects of i-deals to deepen investigation into their myriad manifestations and effects.