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"This is an excellent Handbook with varied, interesting and relevant chapters that present sophisticated approaches to the human aspects of technology usage and digital life" - Robin Mansell, Professor Emerita, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK "Bringing together an unparalleled collection of global technology scholars, this Handbook offers keen insights into our quotidian digital routines. It is an exemplar of inclusionary voices. A must read for all media and internet scholars!" - Inês Vitorino Sampaio, Professor, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, and Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Klein Center, USA This comprehensive Handbook explores the multiple ways in which people experience digital life. It maps the transitions in human civilization generated by such digital technologies as the internet, mobile telephony, artificial intelligence, the metaverse, social media platforms and algorithms. It explores how the scarcity or abundance of digital affordances impacts access, governance and livelihoods in various parts of the world. The book's 27 chapters are organised in five sections: Social Media and Digital Lifeworlds; Digital Affordances and Contestations; Digital Divides and Inclusion Strategies; Work, Culture and Digital Consumption, and New Media and Digital Journalism. The present and future of digital transitions are interrogated in the context of everyday social production and consumption. Hopeton S. Dunn is Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media at the University of Botswana and Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Massimo Ragnedda is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Northumbria University, U.K. and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Maria Laura Ruiu is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Northumbria University, U.K. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Sassari, Italy and a PhD in Media and Communication from Northumbria University, UK. Laura Robinson is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Santa Clara University, USA, and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, USA. .

Section 1: Social Media as an Agent for public health wellness: Celebrating Social Media among younger adults,- Chapter 1: Psychosocial Perspectives of Social Media Use among Youth in the Global South: A review of identity and the neo-global culture -- Chapter 2: Thematic Analysis of Selective WHO-Affiliated Member Countries' COVID-19 Vaccination Messages on social media Targeting Young Adults -- Chapter 3: "Vaxxed n' Masked": Global Youth & the Influence of Celebrity Remarks on Social Media -- Chapter 4: The Impact of Social Media on Asian International Students' Emergency Preparedness and Response -- Section 2: Social Media as a Conduit for socioeconomic change among the Youth: Latin America, North America, South America, Middle East, and Asia -- Chapter 5: Determinants of creativity-related skills and activities among young people in four Latin American countries -- Chapter 6: Applying the technology acceptance model to understand China's sharing economy among the young -- Chapter 7: How young people detect and analyze disinformation campaigns in Mexico: The Case of Campeche, Southeast Mexico -- Chapter 8: Impact of Social Media Use on Youths' Identity in the Middle East and North Africa Region -- Section 3: Social Media on the Crossroads of identity negotiation: Cases in South America, East & South Asia -- Chapter 9: The interplay between identity and alterity in the uses of social media platforms by Brazilian youth -- Chapter 10: Visually Impaired Chinese Young Adults' User Behaviors on social media -- Chapter 11: Social Media use in education in the MENA region -- Chapter 12: Identity Negotiation and Cosmopolitanism in Social Media: The Case of London and Sao Paulo migrant communities -- Section 4: The Perils of social media use among Youth: Cases in Southeast Asia -- Chapter 13: Perspectives of Vietnamese Facebook users towards the LGBT Parade expressed under posts about Hanoi Pride Parade -- Chapter 14: Twitter users' perceptions of some countries' censorship of same-sex kissing scenes in Disney's Lightyear (2022) -- Section 5: You Can't shut down our voices: Social Media as a youth advocate in Africa -- Chapter 15: Youths and the Tyranny of social media: Implications for Sustainable Development in Nigeria.

Chapter 1. Introduction. From deregulation of the higher education market to meritocratic elitism: reflections on the fabrication of inequalities by the private sector -- Chapter 2. Private higher education in Vietnam. A factor in increasing or reducing inequalities? -- Chapter 3. Private higher education in Argentina. A channel for reproducing inequality? -- Chapter 4. Deregulation of higher education, the diversification of private universities and university experiments in inequality in Peru -- Chapter 5. Higher education under the yoke of the market. Private universities in Mexico and social inequalities -- Chapter 6. Private higher education provision and the management of social inequalities in Senegal: practices and limitations -- Chapter 7. Private higher education in a post-abdication state. (Non)governance and inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

"This volume represents the latest research in cultural anthropology on an ascendant and globalizing China, covering the many different dimensions of China's ascendancy both within China itself and beyond. It focuses not only on the real and perceived successes of China in the past four decades, but also on the difficulties, tensions, and dangers that have emerged as a result of rapid economic development: class polarization, state expansion, psychological distress, and environmental degradation. Including contributions by some of the most well-known cultural anthropologists of China, as well as rising innovative younger scholars, this book documents and analyses China's multifaceted transformations in the modern era - both within Chinese society, as well as in Chinese relations with the outside world. It features the unique perspective of anthropology, with its on-the-ground deep cultural immersion through long-term fieldwork, coupled with a macrolevel global perspective, a strong historical perspective, and theoretically engaged analyses to present a balanced account of China's ascendancy. Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations is suitable for students and scholars in Anthropology, Sociology, History, Political Science, and East Asian Studies, as well as those working on contemporary Chinese society and culture more broadly"--

"Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead and what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, poems, and drawings, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead - treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, landscapes, and need for care"--

Um in Deutschland und Europa Klimaneutralität bis 2045 bzw. 2050 zu erreichen, wurden bisher Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz und zum Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien verstärkt in den Fokus genommen. Jedoch reichen Emissionsreduktionen nicht mehr aus, um die Klimaziele zu erfüllen. Der Atmosphäre muss zusätzlich auch das wichtigste Treibhausgas CO2 aktiv und dauerhaft entzogen werden. So wird ein dritter Handlungsbereich auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität bedeutend: das Kohlenstoffmanagement. Die Ad-hoc-Stellungnahme "Schlüsselelemente eines Kohlenstoffmanagements" gibt Empfehlungen zu den verschiedenen Möglichkeiten der Speicherung und langfristigen Nutzung von CO2. Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler empfehlen zudem Maßnahmen zur technischen Umsetzung, für ökonomische Anreize und zur internationalen Zusammenarbeit.

While in the Ottoman Regency of Tunis after returning from pilgrimage around 1809 C.E., the Timbuktu cleric and religious puritanist, Aḥmad b. al-Qādī b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Fulānī al-Timbuktāwī wrote Hatk al-Sitr ʿammā ʿalayhi sūdān Tūnis min al-kufr (Piercing the Veil: Being an Account of the Infidel Religion of the Blacks of Tunis), which he dedicated to the ruler of the Beylic, Ḥammūda Pāsha (r. 1782-1814 C.E.) In this treatise, al-Timbuktāwī provided a vivid account of the Hausa Bori cult and entreated Tunisian authorities to imprison or even re-enslave its practitioners whom he distinguished from the heterogeneous Black population in the Regency. This critical edition and complete translation of Hatk al-Sitr places the story of al-Timbuktāwī's encounter with the Bori practitioners not just in their Maghribi and Sudanic African contexts, but also in the environment of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jihad and Islamic revivalism. The result is an insight into a discourse on Bori, jihad, and race and enslavement in the context of the African Diaspora to the Islamic World

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Systematic Literature Review of Circular Economy and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 3: Circular Economy key concepts and Reporting Practices: An exploratory study -- Chapter 4: Circular Economy and Environment Disclosure -- Chapter 5: Circular Economy 6Rs and Reporting Practices: The Role of Institutional Pressures -- Chapter 6: Circular Economy and Balance Scorecard -- Chapter 7: Conclusion. .