“Crouching Tiger”
The Irish software industry faces new challenges from competitors like India. This volume explores attitudes towards software process quality in both nations, comparing their implementation and concluding with recommendations to support Irish competitiveness.
Sport tourism is a tool for sustainable local development. This book’s 24 authors offer analyses from case studies to theory. An essential read for academics, students, policymakers, and professionals looking to promote their territory.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
This book explores teaching journalism and communication in a changing media environment. Bringing together professors and students from across Europe, it offers training proposals and insights to strengthen university teaching for professional communicators in the digital age.
Human–Robot Interaction
This book introduces state-of-the-art technologies in human-robot interactions. It details recent advances in dynamics, controls, design, and modelling, appealing to graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in robotics, computer science, and mechanical engineering.
The Co-Design of an Online Campaign for an Inclusive Community
This volume shows how communication builds our perception of “us” versus “others,” a cultural obstacle that can lead to radicalisation. We can prevent this with participation and counter-narratives, as shown by a European project that pushes the reader beyond prejudice.
This book explores the elastic-anisotropic properties of rocks, showing that velocity, density, and anisotropy increase with metamorphic transformations. It also details an acoustopolariscope for analyzing rocks, anisotropic alloys, plastics, ceramics, and gemstones.
Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet
The Internet was created with a democratic dream to empower individuals. This book explores the contrast between that dream and the reality: a world of new, anti-democratic centers of power, and age-old struggles over censorship, privacy, and freedom of expression.
As traditional journalism collapses, this ground-breaking textbook provides a new path. It presents a narrative-free, experimental model using verified facts to show how the world interconnects. Through unique exercises, you will see reality and truth in a whole new light.
Contested Tourism Commodities
This book explores tourism’s contested niches, from slum tourism to trophy hunting. It traces how marginal pursuits explode into the mainstream, causing controversy as they are commodified, packaged, and sold while the lines between acceptance and outrage blur.
History shows that civilizations collapse when they fail to adapt to change. Today, new technology threatens to destroy our own world. This book analyzes its social disadvantages—from fake news to its earliest victims—and asks what must be done to adapt and use it for the good.
This collection of essays highlights the most pressing research topics in infocommunication technologies, including next generation networks, innovative knowledge-based systems, and innovations in healthcare and eHealth.
This book examines the challenges confronting foreign correspondents in covering Africa for an international audience in the digital era. It explores factors that influence how Africa is reported, addressing international journalism practices and issues rarely considered.
COVID-19, Racism and Politicization
This book explores the global media and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining countries from the USA to Asia, it addresses the media’s role in both countering and spreading misinformation, politicizing the crisis, and fueling racism and conspiracy theories.
Maurice Moynihan and the Irish State, 1902-1999
He was the elusive civil servant at the heart of the new Irish State. A former Civil War opponent of Éamon de Valera, Maurice Moynihan became his most trusted advisor, writing the 1937 constitution and wielding immense influence over the government he helped create.
The Univac Corporation
This volume tells the story of the Univac 1100 series. It pioneered the concept of a computer family, a multidimensional OS supporting interactive and batch processing, and evolutionary designs with upward compatibility that protected its customers’ investment.
Computer Processing of Sanskrit Nominal Inflections
Based on the reverse engineering of Panini’s Sanskrit Grammar, this work presents studies in computational linguistics and NLP for parsing Sanskrit nominal inflections. Parsing inflections is the first basic step toward complete analysis for any larger system.
This book provides researchers the understandings needed to develop scientifically validated internet survey methods. To avoid ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out,’ it is essential to support best practices in presentation, sampling, data collection, and analysis.
Post-Colonial Distances
This anthology compares popular music in Canada and Australia. Both post-colonial nations create commercial music in the shadow of the US and UK industries, and both have seen tremendous growth in the popular music of their indigenous and immigrant groups.
Eelam Online
This book details how the internet helps create political identities among the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. It traces their online engagement in the struggle for a homeland, exploring how communication technologies shape the very “imagination” of a nation.