Libros

This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities arising from migration.

In looking at past and emerging challenges of social inclusion and cultural dialogue, hybrid models of cultural identity, citizenship and national belonging, the study also sets out to answer the questions 'how'. How can cultural institutions leverage the power of cross-border networks in a contested place such as Europe today? How could they elaborate approaches and strategies based on cultural practices? How can the actions of the European Commission and relevant cultural bodies be strengthened, adapted or extended to meet these goals?

Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage will be of interest to scholars and students in museum and cultural heritage studies, visual arts, sociology of organisations and information studies. It will also be relevant to practitioners and policymakers from museums, libraries, NGOs and cultural institutions at large.

La sociedad humana es un ente vivo, complejo y en continua trasformación. Para comprenderla es necesario evolucionar en el método del saber, actualizando los procedimientos para la investigación y la producción del conocimiento científico de lo humano colectivo.

Este libro se encamina hacia esa dirección, pues el autor propone criterios orientadores o principios generativos que pueden servir de base para explorar nuevas vías metodológicas y epistemológicas que abran la puerta a un mejor entendimiento de la realidad sistémica, entrelazada y en movimiento que nos envuelve, así como para una eventual intervención en ella.

Esta obra es lectura recomendada para investigadores, profesores y estudiantes de ciencias sociales, quienes pueden complementar los principios aquí expuestos con los que se presentan en El conocimiento de lo social II. El método-estrategia, también perteneciente a esta colección.

Día a día, las tecnologías de la información están conquistando nuevos espacios en el quehacer del ser humano. Por ello, en esta obra se analizan los huecos que tiene la regulación actual en la materia a nivel mundial y en México, y ofrece claves para generar una sinergia funcional entre abogados, técnicos y usuarios, de tal manera que se pueda ofrecer seguridad jurídica a quienes directa o indirectamente tienen acceso a las nuevas tecnologías.

Asimismo, se desglosan los contratos más importantes en este rubro:

• Contratos tecnológicos vía web.

• Contratos de software: especializados y personalizados.

• Contratos de hardware.

• Contratos mixtos.

De manera clara y accesible, los autores introducen a las características que deben tener este tipo de documentos legales y orientan cómo se deben redactar para que garanticen a las partes el eficiente funcionamiento de los productos o servicios contratados.

Esta obra constituye un material útil para quienes estudian y ejercen el derecho, así como para aquellas empresas, técnicos y usuarios que comercializan, producen y consumen productos o servicios vinculados a los sistemas tecnológicos.

Communication Rights and Social Justice offers historical perspectives on struggles to use the instruments of state and political participation – power, inter-governmental treaties and declarations, and various forms of political advocacy and protest politics – to articulate the concept of communication as a fundamental right. The contributions make up an intergenerational and multi-vocal dialogue. Different generations of scholars, activists and practitioners, who have been engaged with mobilizations at different times, present their views; some adopt a more academic style, others reflect autobiographically on personal experiences. The collection acknowledges the plural geo-cultural roots that compose what have eventually become a network of transnational mobilization dynamics that are increasingly global, digitally mediated, multi-stakeholder and faced by new and forthcoming challenges. It makes an original and welcome contribution to understanding a vital history that will only grow in worldwide importance.

The first book-long analysis of the 'mediatization of politics', this volume aims to understand the transformations of the relationship between media and politics in recent decades, and explores how growing media autonomy, journalistic framing, media populism and new media technologies affect democratic processes. As politics becomes increasingly mediatized, the role of the media becomes more important in political processes, overlaying and subsuming political logic. This affects not only the presentational aspects of politics but, it is feared, also policymaking processes. This may in turn have far-reaching implications as to how well democracy works. Against this background, Mediatization of Politics brings together state-of-the-art chapters written by leading scholars in the field of political communication. It synthesizes relevant concepts and arguments, identifies core components of the mediatization paradigm, and sets the agenda for subsequent work on the changing relationship between media and politics in general, and on the mediatization of politics in particular.