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2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineHow mobile devices make our in-between moments valuable to media companies while also providing a sense of control and connectionIn moments of downtime – waiting for a friend to arrive or commuting to work – we pull out our phones for a few minutes of distraction. Just as television reoriented the way we think about living rooms, mobile devices have taken over the interstitial spaces of our everyday lives. Ethan Tussey argues that these in-between moments have created a procrastination economy, an opportunity for entertainment companies to create products, apps, platforms, subscription services, micropayments, and interactive opportunities that can colonize our everyday lives.But as businesses commoditize our free time, and mobile devices become essential tools for promotion, branding and distribution, consumers are using these devices as a means of navigating public and private space. These devices are not just changing the way we spend and value our time, but also how we interact with others and transform our sense of the politics of space.By examining the four main locations of the procrastination economy—the workplace, the commute, the waiting room, and the “connected” living room—Ethan Tussey illuminates the relationship between the entertainment industry and the digitally empowered public.

Procrastination. --- Work environment. --- Recreation --- Economic aspects. --- community. --- consumer behavior. --- cultural politics. --- engagement. --- entertainment industry. --- mobile devices. --- new media. --- phone apps. --- screen time. --- smartphones. --- social connections. --- social media. --- user experience. --- wasting time.

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"In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from "The Fappening" and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars' activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women's vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions"--

Feminism. --- Fame. --- Celebrities --- Political activity. --- celebrity feminism, digital culture, race studies, sexuality, capitalism, misogyny, misogynists, feminism, female empowerment, gender norms, gender binary, #MeToo movement, MeToo movement, woke culture, internet activism, social connections, postfeminism, radical feminism, third wave feminism, cancel culture, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Networked misogyny, Hillary Clinton, The Fappening, online discourse, discourse, Twitter discourse, white feminism, female vulnerability, politics online, online social justice, the Internet, women online, women, women togetherness.

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The deep relationship between the United States and Mexico has had repercussions felt around the world. This sweeping and unprecedented chronicle of the economic and social connections between the two nations opens a new window onto history from the Civil War to today and brilliantly illuminates the course of events that made the United States a global empire. The Mexican Revolution, Manifest Destiny, World War II, and NAFTA are all part of the story, but John Mason Hart's narrative transcends these moments of economic and political drama, resonating with the themes of wealth and power. Combining economic and historical analysis with personal memoirs and vivid descriptions of key episodes and players, Empire and Revolution is based on substantial amounts of previously unexplored source material. Hart excavated recently declassified documents in the archives of the United States government and traveled extensively in rural Mexico to uncover the rich sources for this gripping story of 135 years of intervention, cooperation, and corruption.Beginning just after the American Civil War, Hart traces the activities of an elite group of financiers and industrialists who, sensing opportunities for wealth to the south, began to develop Mexico's infrastructure. He charts their activities through the pivotal regime of Porfirio Díaz, when Americans began to gain ownership of Mexico's natural resources, and through the Mexican Revolution, when Americans lost many of their holdings in Mexico. Hart concentrates less on traditional political history in the twentieth century and more on the hidden interactions between Americans and Mexicans, especially the unfolding story of industrial production in Mexico for export to the United States. Throughout, this masterful narrative illuminates the development and expansion of the American railroad, oil, mining, and banking industries. Hart also shows how the export of the "American Dream" has shaped such areas as religion and work attitudes in Mexico.Empire and Revolution reveals much about the American psyche, especially the compulsion of American elites toward wealth, global power, and contact with other peoples, often in order to "save" them. These characteristics were first expressed internationally in Mexico, and Hart shows that the Mexican experience was and continues to be a prototype for U.S. expansion around the world. His work demonstrates the often inconspicuous yet profoundly damaging impact of American investment in the underdeveloped countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Empire and Revolution will be the definitive book on U.S.-Mexico relations and their local and global ramifications.

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Locusts are a threat to agriculture and livelihoods in many countries globally. The economic, social, and environmental consequences of these highly migratory pests are so substantial that they are treated as a national priority by many countries; several international commissions have been established to unite efforts. This Special Issue aims to shed light on some overarching questions: what have we learned from historical outbreaks; how serious is the threat; what research is ongoing and is needed to better manage these insects; how should the world respond to plagues today, especially in the context of climate change; are recommended preventive strategies really effective and what are the constraints to their application; and is there a possibility to make better use of biological alternatives to chemical pesticides?

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- Technology, engineering, agriculture --- locust swarm --- bio-pesticide --- gregarious locusts --- aggregation behaviour --- linseed oil --- necromones --- aggregation --- density-dependent phase polyphenism --- migration --- night-roosting site choice --- Schistocerca gregaria --- Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål 1775) --- Oriental Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen 1835) --- spectral analysis --- Kalman filter --- spectral coherence --- convergence cross mapping --- sunspot groups --- ENSO --- SOI --- IOD --- NAO --- locust swarms --- Near East --- Mesopotamia --- swarming potential of resident species --- Schistocerca greraria --- Dociostaurus maroccanus --- control --- impediments --- insecurity --- plague --- surveillance --- war --- proaction --- threshold --- upsurge --- locust plagues --- preventative and reactive programs --- moral agents --- capacity-and-capability model --- social connections model --- responsibility --- global justice --- entomophagy --- malnutrition --- desert locust --- outbreak --- food --- insect --- locust --- grasshopper --- biological control --- Nosema locustae --- application --- epizootics --- West Siberian Plain --- distribution --- dynamics --- population --- population management --- plant protection --- environmental governance --- social variables --- locusts --- social sciences --- ecology --- field monitoring --- outbreaks management --- drone --- unmanned aerial vehicle --- early warning --- preventive control --- biopesticide --- Desert locust --- ecosystem processes --- nutrient cycling --- nutritional value --- brown locust --- Locustana pardalina --- Karoo --- outbreak patterns --- control strategy --- integrated pest management --- Tibet --- high altitude plateau --- invasion route --- survival --- natural barrier --- desert locusts --- crop loss --- pastureland --- land cover --- population dynamics --- management --- insecticide disturbance --- barrier treatment --- spray history --- non-target effects --- Coarctotermes clepsydra --- recovery --- resilience --- preventive strategy --- locust biology --- locust ecology --- Metarhizium acridum --- Metarhizium anisopliae --- Beauveria bassiana --- lethal effect --- sublethal effect --- greenhouse --- field efficacy --- n/a --- Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål 1775)