Learning From Strangers is the definitive work on qualitative research interviewing. It draws on Robert Weiss's thirty years of experience in interviewing and teaching others how to do it. The most effective interviews, says Weiss, rely on creating cooperation -- an open and trusting alliance between interviewer and respondent, dedicated to specific and honest accounts of both internal and external events. Against the eclectic background of his work in national sample surveys, studies based o...

What is happening to public debate in Western cultures? Is our public sphere disintegrating? In the face of popular tabloid newspapers, new forms of reality television and an increasing lack of respect for traditional authorities, many critics are concerned that our society no longer has a rational, informed and unified space where everyone can communicate about the issues that affect us all. In this book Alan McKee answers these questions by providing an introduction to the concept of the pu...

Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand h...

War has always been close to the centre of British culture, but never more so than in the period since 1850. "Warrior Nation" explores the way in which images of battle, both literary and visual, have been constructed in British fiction and popular culture since this time. The rise of war reporting has helped to shape a society fascinated by conflict, and the development of mass communications has aided in the creation of mass-produced martial heroes and the relation of epic adventures for po...

Contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.

Cybercrime has greatly increased in recent years. That is why it is important for criminologists and legal professionals to learn the basics about cybercrime. This text book offers insights into the various types and features of cybercrime, offender and victim characteristics, cybercriminal markets and groups, quantitative and qualitative methods for studying cybercrime, criminological theories that can be used to understand cybercrime, and possible countermeasures and interventions. In addit...

Tijdens de coronapandemie kwam maatschappelijke meerstemmigheid onder druk te staan: niet ieders visie werd even serieus genomen, niet iedereen durfde of kon zich uiten en niet iedereen voelde zich gehoord. Dat is problematisch vanuit democratisch perspectief. Maar het is ook nadelig voor maatschappelijke stabiliteit, de kwaliteit van crisisbeleid en het vertrouwen daarin. Om goed voorbereid te zijn op een gezondheidscrisis is het daarom essentieel om nu na te denken over hoe meerstemmigheid ...

Bestaat een volmaakt burgerberaad? Een intrigerende vraag die iedereen zich zal stellen na het lezen van dit boek over de fundamentele problemen, cruciale opgaven en mooie kansen van het burgerberaad. Met hun kennis en ervaring op het gebied van deliberatieve democratie bieden de auteurs vanuit verschillende invalshoeken een actueel en prikkelend overzicht van wat burgerberaden ons tot nu toe hebben opgeleverd en wat we ervan hebben geleerd. Dit boek biedt recente inzichten uit wetenschap en ...