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A collection of short, punchy essays arguing that communities are alive and thriving, but not under government control.

Communities. --- Communities --- Community --- Social groups --- Political aspects.

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Protest campaigns against large-scale public works usually take place within a local context. However, since the 1990s new forms of protest have been emerging. This book analyses two cases from Italy that illustrate this development: the environmentalist protest campaigns against the TAV (the building of a new high-speed railway in Val de Susa, close to the border with France), and the construction of the Bridge on the Messina Straits (between Calabria and Sicily). Such mobilizations emerge from local conflicts but develop as part of a global justice movement, often resulting in the production

Protest movements --- Communities --- Environmentalism --- High speed trains --- Bridges --- Environmental aspects

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Many elements of our society are embedded in network structures in which actors depend on each other as well as the structural context of their actions. This is reflected by the wide use of concepts and terms of social network analysis, such as the concept of the small world, the strength of weak ties, opinion leaders, gatekeepers, viral marketing, terrorist networks, stakeholders and the like. This volume provides a sample of the broad range of research in which social network analysis can be fruitfully applied. Topics addressed include networks of academic hiring, epidemic dynamics of diseases in populations such as HIV/AIDS, flow of information, semantic networks of the internet, relationships in private and public spheres, patent authorship, paper citation, and networks in linguistic as well as political systems.

Online social networks --- Research. --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Sociology, general. --- Communication Studies. --- Social sciences --- Network analysis --- Virtual communities --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Sociology. --- Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Social theory --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks)

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The human-environment relationship is one of the most pressing concerns of the twenty-first century. Bringing together a range of global case studies to illustrate the broad range of current theories on this relationship, this book presents significant cutting-edge research into the continuing (re)definition of political ecology as it relates to environmental contestation.

Environmental responsibility. --- Natural resources --- Resource-based communities. --- Nature --- Environmental policy --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Resource communities --- Resource frontier communities --- Communities --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Ecological accountability --- Ecological responsibility --- Environmental accountability --- Environmental ethics --- Responsibility --- Social aspects. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Economic aspects --- Environmental responsibility --- #SBIB:327.7H42 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Social aspects --- Effect of human beings on --- Specifieke internationale organisaties en samenwerking: milieu --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening

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Looking at how maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics and infrastructure in our everyday life this book provides a synoptic overview as well as illustrative case studies. "Digital media and network technologies are now part of everyday life. The Internet has become the backbone of communication, commerce, and media; the ubiquitous mobile phone connects us with others as it removes us from any stable sense of location. Networked Publics examines the ways that the social and cultural shifts created by these technologies have transformed our relationships to (and definitions of) place, culture, politics, and infrastructure. Four chapters--each by an interdisciplinary team of scholars using collaborative software--provide a synoptic overview along with illustrative case studies. The chapter on place describes how digital networks enable us to be present in physical and networked places simultaneously--often at the expense of nondigital commitments. The chapter on culture explores the growth and impact of amateur-produced and remixed content online. The chapter on politics examines the new networked modes of bottom-up political expression and mobilization. And finally, the chapter on infrastructure notes the tension between openness and control in the flow of information, as seen in the current controversy over net neutrality."

Internet --- Online social networks --- Convergence (Telecommunication) --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Electronic social networks --- Social networking Web sites --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- USA. --- Telecommunication --- Social media --- Social networks --- Sociotechnical systems --- Web sites --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Virtual communities --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies --- DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/Social Media & Networking --- SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General --- Communities, Online (Online social networks) --- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) --- Online communities (Online social networks)