The Art of Communication in a Polarized World
In North America and elsewhere, communities are fractured along ideological lines as social media and algorithms encourage individuals to seek out others who think like they do and to condemn those that don’t. An essential guide for surviving in our polarized society, this book offers concrete strategies for refining how values and ideas are communicated.
Emergence and Innovation in Digital Learning
Foundations and Applications
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Research and Applications
In this authoritative collection, a team of international experts outline the emerging trends and developments in the use of 3D virtual worlds for teaching and learning.
How Canadians Communicate V
Sports
The Digital Nexus
Identity, Agency, and Political Engagement
The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape.
Speaking Power to Truth
Digital Discourse and the Public Intellectual
Familiar and Foreign
Identity in Iranian Film and Literature
In Familiar and Foreign, Mannani and Thompson set out to explore the tensions surrounding the ongoing formulation of Iranian identity by bringing together essays on poetry, novels, memoir, and films.
Transparent Lives
Surveillance in Canada
This highly readable book tells Canadians what they ought to know to better understand the ways in which surveillance is expanding – mostly unchecked – into every facet of their lives, and what they can do about it.
Vivre á nu
La surveillance au Canada
Open Data Structures
An Introduction
An introduction to the field of data structures and algorithms.
The Undiscovered Country
Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Reel Time
Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896 to 1986
Reel Time depicts how the industry shaped the development of the Canadian Prairie West and propelled the region into the modern era.
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.
Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
Connecting Canadians examines the burgeoning field of community informatics.
How Canadians Communicate IV
Media and Politics
A comprehensive, up-to-date, and probing examination of media and politics in Canada.
Flexible Pedagogy, Flexible Practice
Notes from the Trenches of Distance Education
Extending the reach of higher education through flexibility.
Controlling Knowledge
Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection in a Networked World
How current legislation governs privacy and freedom in the digital age.
How Canadians Communicate III
Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
The contributors to this third volume of How Canadians Communicate focus on the question “what does Canadian popular culture have to say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity?” and show how popular culture is negotiated across the different terrains where a sense of national identity is built.
Mobile Learning
Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training
Readers will discover how to design learning materials for delivery on mobile technology and become familiar with the best practices of other educators, trainers, and researchers in the field, as well as the most recent initiatives in mobile learning research.