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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This book presents a soft-sensing technique using spectral data to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. It’s a practical guide for researchers, engineers, and students who need a modelling method for small sample data to solve real-world control challenges.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Why do public sector digital projects fail while private companies like Amazon flourish? This book draws on eight years of developing technology for health and social care to reveal what separates success from failure, and why our public services remain rooted in the past.
Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
A definitive guide to high-performance marine vehicles. This volume explores the design, resistance, powering, seakeeping, and maneuvering of monohulls, multihulls, hydrofoils, and more, through cutting-edge theoretical and numerical analysis.
Old definitions of journalism are under fire; its occupational identity and importance to democracy, public life, and social justice are contested. This conference proceedings discusses the key concepts, categories and models emerging in conversations about journalism today.
This title provides an overview of the role of the media during the attack on Dubrovnik in autumn 1991 by the federal army and Montenegrin reservists, and represents a primary source of information about the propaganda war waged during the conflict between Croatia and Serbia.
Power and Communication
This book explores the relationship between power and the media in Western societies. The media exercise symbolic force, but are also subject to political and economic influence. This relationship is paradoxically as strict as it is opaque.
The Image of a Country created by International Media
How does ex-communist Europe come across through the Western media? This book analyzes five years of BBC coverage on Bulgaria, revealing hidden attitudes. Bulgarians are construed as “immigrants,” not “ex-pats,” and associated with CORRUPTION, POOR, and POOREST.
Women’s Political Visibility and Media Access
Despite laws against gender discrimination, women remain invisible in the media. This book explores women’s political visibility in Nigeria, assessing aggressive tactics, “conscious reporting,” and the use of ICTs as practical ways of bridging this wide gap.
Performance of Public and Private Mining Firms in India
Are private mining firms in India better than public ones? This book compares their productivity, environmental, and social compliance. It finds private firms are more productive, but both sectors fail to comply with environmental and social regulations.
Public Service Media in the Digital Age
Public service media are in dramatic transformation. This book provides analysis of the key issues from an international perspective, bringing together leading researchers to explore the future of broadcasting and the new participatory roles of audiences.