The Age of Fragmentation
Title | The Age of Fragmentation PDF eBook |
Author | Alessandro Roncaglia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 453 |
Release | 2019-12-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108478441 |
A wide-ranging historical account and critical analysis of the global development of economics from 1940 to the present day.
The Great Fragmentation
Title | The Great Fragmentation PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Sammartino |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2014-06-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0730312704 |
Doing business in the digital age The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business is Small is a business survival manifesto for the technology revolution. As the world moves from the industrial era to the digital age, power is shifting and fragmenting. Power is no longer about might and ownership; power in a digital world is about access. Existing businesses need to understand this shift and position themselves to survive and thrive in an environment where entrepreneurs and start-ups enabled by access to technology are genuine threats. Author Steve Sammartino is widely regarded as a thought leader on the subject of technology and business, and helps companies transition from industrial-era thinking to the mindset and processes required to compete in today's digital marketplace. The Great Fragmentation shows how technological changes such as Big Data, gamification, crowdfunding, Bitcoin, 3D printing, social media, mashup culture and artisanal production will forever change business and the way we live our lives. Examine how the digital era has altered where we work, how we work, where we live and what we do Discover how the digital era has impacted social and economic structures, including educational systems, financial systems and government policy Understand that the social media and collecting 'friends' is just the tip of the iceberg in a digital business environment Weaving together insights from business, technology and anthropology, The Great Fragmentation provides both corporations and entrepreneurs with a playbook for the future of work, life and business in the digital era.
The Protean Self
Title | The Protean Self PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Jay Lifton |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 1999-11 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780226480985 |
"We are becoming fluid and many-sided. Without quite realizing it, we have been evolving a sense of self appropriate to the restlessness and flux of our time. This mode of being differs radically from that of the past, and enables us to engage in continuous exploration and personal experiment. I have named it the 'protean self,' after Proteus, the Greek sea god of many forms."—from The Protean Self "A fascinating and appealing book. . . . As he revises the psychology of the self, Dr. Lifton is subtle, even profound, in drawing a line between multiplicity and fragmentation. To those who are nostalgic for the age of the unitary ego, his message is that it is better to be fluid, resilient and on the move than to be firm, fixed, self-assured and settled. To those who worry that the post-modern age is an age of shattered selves, dissociative states, multiple personality disorders and identity diffusion, Dr. Lifton brings the good news that discontinuity can be a mirror of reality, and the standard for a reasonable life."—Richard A. Shweder, New York Times "Lifton has challenged the conventional social-scientific wisdom of the last half century. . . .He has called attention to the emergence of a new form of self and considered it in a bold and imaginative light."—Howard Gardner, Boston Book Review
Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age
Title | Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Rubinstein |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 100069920X |
Fragmentation of the Photographic Image in the Digital Age challenges orthodoxies of photographic theory and practice. Beyond understanding the image as a static representation of reality, it shows photography as a linchpin of dynamic developments in augmented intelligence, neuroscience, critical theory, and cybernetic cultures. Through essays by leading philosophers, political theorists, software artists, media researchers, curators, and experimental programmers, photography emerges not as a mimetic or a recording device but simultaneously as a new type of critical discipline and a new art form that stands at the crossroads of visual art, contemporary philosophy, and digital technologies.
Solidarity and Fragmentation
Title | Solidarity and Fragmentation PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Jules Oestreicher |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 1989-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780252061202 |
How did the interplay between class and ethnicity play out within the working class during the Gilded Age? Richard Jules Oestreicher illuminates the immigrant communities, radical politics, worker-employer relationships, and the multiple meanings of workers' affiliations in Detroit at the end of the nineteenth century.
Fragmentation in Archaeology
Title | Fragmentation in Archaeology PDF eBook |
Author | John Chapman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134687613 |
Fragmentation in Archaeology revolutionises archaeological studies of material culture, by arguing that the deliberate physical fragmentation of objects, and their (often structured) deposition, lies at the core of the archaeology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Copper Age of Central and Eastern Europe. John Chapman draws on detailed evidence from the Balkans to explain such phenomena as the mass sherd deposition in pits and the wealth of artefacts found in the Varna cemetery to place the significance of fragmentation within a broad anthropological context.
A Nation Fragmented
Title | A Nation Fragmented PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Edy |
Publisher | Temple University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-04-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781439915998 |
The transformation from an undifferentiated public to a surfeit of interest groups has become yet another distinguishing feature of the increasing polarization of American politics. Jill Edy and Patrick Meirick contend that the media has played a key role in this splintering. A Nation Fragmented reveals how the content and character of the public agenda has transformed as the media environment evolved from network television and daily newspapers in the late 1960s to today’s saturated social media world with 200 cable channels. The authors seek to understand what happened as the public’s sense of shared priorities deteriorated. They consider to what extent our public agenda has “fallen apart” as attention to news has declined, and to what extent we have been “driven apart” by changes in the issue agendas of news. Edy and Meirick also show how public attention is limited and spread too thin except in cases where a highly consistent news agenda can provoke a more focused public agenda. A Nation Fragmented explores the media’s influence and political power and, ultimately, how contemporary democracy works.