Liquid surveillance: a conversation
by Bauman, Zygmunt, Lyon, David
fromPolity conversations series
Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accep…
Roughly one company in every ten is able to sustain the kind of growth that translates into an above-average increase in shareholder returns over more than a few years. Once a company's core business has matured, the pursuit of new platforms for growth entails daunting risk - to…
Schooling, society and curriculum
by Moore, Alex
fromFoundations and futures of education
In recent years, much curriculum debate has focused less on wider issues related to the purpusses of education and more on the contet and 'delivery' of school curricula themselves, including new and revised national curricula. Schooling, Society and Curriculum seeks to return cu…
Theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries.
Industrial organization and the digital economy
Examines the impact of the information revolution on international and domestic security, attempting to remedy both the lack of theoretically informed analysis of information security and the US-centric tendency in the existing literature.
Ausgewählte, wichtige Technologiefelder im Bereich Energieerzeugung, -verteilung und -verbrauch werden anhand ihrer technischen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklungsziele, ihrer System- und Marktrelevanz sowie der wichtigsten Treiber und Hemmnisse dargestellt. Vor dem Hintergrund de…