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Free Download The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies by Anthony Elliott
English | July 22, 2024 | ISBN: 3110721252 | 315 pages | MOBI | 0.95 Mb
The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies examines the relationship of the social sciences to artificial intelligence, surveying the various convergences and divergences between science and technology studies on the one hand and identity transformations on the other. It provides representative coverage of all aspects of the AI revolution, from employment to education to military warfare, impacts on public policy and governance and the future of ethics.

Free Download Svitlana Biedarieva, "Art in Ukraine Between Identity Construction and Anti-Colonial Resistance "
English | ISBN: 1032595183 | 2024 | 186 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 12 MB
This edited volume traces the development of art practices in Ukraine from the 2004 Orange Revolution, through the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity, to the ongoing Russian war of aggression.

Free Download Vicente Lledó-Guillem, "The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times"
English | ISBN: 3319720791 | 2018 | 258 pages | EPUB | 1183 KB
The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that shaped national identities in the Iberian Peninsula and, consequently, neighboring areas of the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The innovative textual approach taken in these pages exposes the multifaceted ways in which the boundaries between the region’s most prestigious languages were contested, and demonstrates how linguistic identities were linked to ongoing struggles for political power. As the analysis reveals, the ideological construction of Occitan would play a crucial role in the construction of a unified Catalan, and Catalan would, in turn, give rise to a fervent debate around ‘Spanish’ language that has endured through the present day. This book will appeal to students and scholars of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, Hispanic linguistics, Catalan language and linguistics, anthropological linguistics, Early Modern literature and culture, and the history of the Mediterranean.

Free Download Rob Drummond, "Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity"
English | ISBN: 331973461X | 2018 | 303 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

Free Download J. Sheyholislami, "Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media "
English | ISBN: 0230109853 | 2011 | 266 pages | EPUB | 963 KB
Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world’s largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities. This book examines the complex interrelationships between ethno-national identities, discourses, and new media. Not only offers the first study of discursive constructions of Kurdish identity in the new media, this book also the first CDA informed comparative study of the contents of the two media. The study pushes the boundaries of the growing area of studies of identity, nationalism and transnationalism, discourse studies, minority language, and digital media.

Free Download Jackie Hogan, "Gender, Race and National Identity: Nations of Flesh and Blood"
English | 2008 | pages: 271 | ISBN: 0415384761 | PDF | 1,7 mb
All nations construct stories of national belonging, stories of the nation’s character, its accomplishments, its defining traits, its historical trajectory. These stories, or discourses of national identity, carry powerful messages about gender and race, messages that reflect, reproduce and occasionally challenge social hierarchies.

Free Download Decentralized Identity Explained: Embrace decentralization for a more secure and empowering digital experience by Rohan Pinto
English | July 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 1804617636 | 392 pages | True PDF | 23.17 MB
Delve into the cutting-edge trends of decentralized identities, blockchains, and other digital identity management technologies and leverage them to craft seamless digital experiences for both your customers and employees

Free Download Lynnette Porter, "Who Is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations"
English | ISBN: 0786499079 | 2016 | 224 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective’s identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a specific way.

Free Download Hardy, "The White Men’s Countries: Racial Identity in the United States-Australian Relationship, 1933-1953"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1433169363 | PDF | pages: 206 | 8.4 mb
The White Men’s Countries explores how a shared ideal of race united the American and Australian governments during World War II and the early Cold War periods. This interpretation places cultural and ideological factors alongside the traditional emphasis on pragmatic economic and security considerations in explaining why two nations whose objectives in the Pacific region were often at odds were able to craft one of the most enduring diplomatic relationships of the twentieth century. It examines not only official policies and attitudes but also emphasizes the shared views on race carried by both American and Australian citizens that helped to ameliorate, and at times complicate, the bond between Washington D.C. and Canberra. This work also places greater emphasis on the post-World War II relationship as being the most crucial time in the shaping of the alliance. The White Men’s Countries serves to help broaden our understanding of how racial ideology played a powerful role in the transnational relationships formed by the United States and Australia in the mid-twentieth century and how influential ideological factors became an international diplomacy.

Free Download Anthony Bushell, "Polemical Austria: The Rhetorics of National Identity: From Empire to the Second Republic"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0708326048 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.6 mb
Today Austria is a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and turbulent history. Following World War I, Vienna lost its position as the capital of a large continental and multiethnic empire and became an alpine republic surrounded by larger states. Anthony Bushell’s Polemical Austria examines this transition, asking how such an abrupt change has affected the way Austrians perceive themselves today. Bushell places particular emphasis on the role of language in Austrian national identity.