Electronic Tribes

Author : Tyrone L. Adams,Stephen A. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780292784475

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Electronic Tribes by Tyrone L. Adams,Stephen A. Smith Pdf

Whether people want to play games and download music, engage in social networking and professional collaboration, or view pornography and incite terror, the Internet provides myriad opportunities for people who share common interests to find each other. The contributors to this book argue that these self-selected online groups are best understood as tribes, with many of the same ramifications, both positive and negative, that tribalism has in the non-cyber world. In Electronic Tribes, the authors of sixteen competitively selected essays provide an up-to-the-minute look at the social uses and occasional abuses of online communication in the new media era. They explore many current Internet subcultures, including MySpace.com, craftster.org, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) such as World of Warcraft, music downloading, white supremacist and other counterculture groups, and Nigerian e-mail scams. Their research raises compelling questions and some remarkable answers about the real-life social consequences of participating in electronic tribes. Collectively, the contributors to this book capture a profound shift in the way people connect, as communities formed by geographical proximity are giving way to communities—both online and offline—formed around ideas.

Author : Christof Pforr,Ross Dowling,Michael Volgger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811571503

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Consumer Tribes in Tourism by Christof Pforr,Ross Dowling,Michael Volgger Pdf

This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on ‘special interest tourism’ and ‘niche tourism’ as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo‐tribes. It promotes a shift in perspective away from special interest tourism understood as a sum of similarly motivated individuals, to a collective view of special interest tourists who share common characteristics (e.g., shared values, beliefs and mutual interests) and group structures. This approach provides a better understanding of groupings that are not unified by a common tourism motivation, but brought together by otherwise conditioned commonalities in actual behavior triggered by supply-side contexts (e.g., Airbnb). The book considers tourism micro‐segments as consumer tribes (i.e., as symbolic communities) in which individuals are embedded and loosely bound together. As there is limited research on the collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, in the first part the book’s conceptual/theoretical discourse contributes to a better understanding of ‘groupings’ in tourism behavior but also collectives that are not unified by a common tourism motivation. Presenting international examples, the book explores in Part 2 the group culture of a range of tourist tribes by describing emerging tourism micro-segments, identifying shared identities, and analyzing their collective mechanisms.

Author : Seth Godin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1591842336

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Tribes by Seth Godin Pdf

The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller that redefined what it means to be a leader. Since it was first published almost a decade ago, Seth Godin's visionary book has helped tens of thousands of leaders turn a scattering of followers into a loyal tribe. If you need to rally fellow employees, customers, investors, believers, hobbyists, or readers around an idea, this book will demystify the process. It's human nature to seek out tribes, be they religious, ethnic, economic, political, or even musical (think of the Deadheads). Now the Internet has eliminated the barriers of geography, cost, and time. Social media gives anyone who wants to make a difference the tools to do so. With his signature wit and storytelling flair, Godin presents the three steps to building a tribe: the desire to change things, the ability to connect a tribe, and the willingness to lead. If you think leadership is for other people, think again—leaders come in surprising packages. Consider Joel Spolsky and his international tribe of scary-smart software engineers. Or Gary Vaynerhuck, a wine expert with a devoted following of enthusiasts. Chris Sharma led a tribe of rock climbers up impossible cliff faces, while Mich Mathews, a VP at Microsoft, ran her internal tribe of marketers from her cube in Seattle. Tribes will make you think—really think—about the opportunities to mobilize an audience that are already at your fingertips. It's not easy, but it's easier than you think.

Author : David Glen Mick,Simone Pettigrew,Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann,Julie L. Ozanne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136698743

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Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well-Being by David Glen Mick,Simone Pettigrew,Cornelia (Connie) Pechmann,Julie L. Ozanne Pdf

Daily existence is more interconnected to consumer behaviors than ever before, encompassing many issues of well-being. Problems include unhealthy eating; credit card mismanagement; alcohol, tobacco, pornography, and gambling abuse; marketplace discrimination; and ecological deterioration; as well as at-risk groups who are impoverished, impaired, or elderly. Opportunities for well-being via consumer behaviors include empowerment via the Internet, product sharing, leisure pursuits, family consumption, and pro-environmental activities, among others. In 2005 the Association for Consumer Research launched Transformative Consumer Research (TCR). Its mission is to foster research on quality of life that is both rigorous and applied for better assisting consumers, their caregivers, policy administrators, and executives. This edited volume includes 33 chapters on a wide range of topics by expert international authors. All royalties from sales of this book are donated to the Association to support TCR grants.

Author : Joshua Greene
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101638675

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Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene Pdf

“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings (“portrait,” “landscape”) as well as a manual mode. Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions—efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience. The brain’s manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us. But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them. Our tribal emotions make us fight—sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words—often with life-and-death stakes. A major achievement from a rising star in a new scientific field, Moral Tribes will refashion your deepest beliefs about how moral thinking works and how it can work better.

Author : W. Fraser Tolmie,George Mercer Dawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015070465052

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Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia by W. Fraser Tolmie,George Mercer Dawson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic music
ISBN : UOM:39015040222872

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Electronic Musician by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Raisbeck
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781838676551

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Architecture as a Global System by Peter Raisbeck Pdf

This book provides a clear-sighted analysis which suggests that architectural design may yet shape and order the future of cities. A clear argument that emerges is that to retain their future agency, architects must understand the contours and ecologies of practice that constitute the global system of architectural production.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Gambling
ISBN : IND:30000117320022

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International Gaming & Wagering Business by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443449601

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Tribe by Sebastian Junger Pdf

Sebastian Junger, the bestselling author of War and The Perfect Storm, takes a critical look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the many challenges today’s returning veterans face in modern society. There are ancient tribal human behaviors-loyalty, inter-reliance, cooperation-that flare up in communities during times of turmoil and suffering. These are the very same behaviors that typify good soldiering and foster a sense of belonging among troops, whether they’re fighting on the front lines or engaged in non-combat activities away from the action. Drawing from history, psychology, and anthropology, bestselling author Sebastian Junger shows us just how at odds the structure of modern society is with our tribal instincts, arguing that the difficulties many veterans face upon returning home from war do not stem entirely from the trauma they’ve suffered, but also from the individualist societies they must reintegrate into. A 2011 study by the Canadian Forces and Statistics Canada reveals that 78 percent of military suicides from 1972 to the end of 2006 involved veterans. Though these numbers present an implicit call to action, the government is only just taking steps now to address the problems veterans face when they return home. But can the government ever truly eliminate the challenges faced by returning veterans? Or is the problem deeper, woven into the very fabric of our modern existence? Perhaps our circumstances are not so bleak, and simply understanding that beneath our modern guises we all belong to one tribe or another would help us face not just the problems of our nation but of our individual lives as well. Well-researched and compellingly written, this timely look at how veterans react to coming home will reconceive our approach to veteran’s affairs and help us to repair our current social dynamic.

Author : Mickey Weems
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131619954

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The Fierce Tribe by Mickey Weems Pdf

In this ethnography that documents the folk nature of popular culture, Mickey Weems applies interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. The Circuit, an expression of gay culture, comprises large dance events.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic commerce
ISBN : IND:30000124693213

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Electronic Commerce by Anonim Pdf

"This collection compiles a critical mass of top research--nearly 300 chapters from upwards of 400 of the world's leading experts--to provide libraries with a landmark, four-volume reference to meet research needs in the many disciplines impacted by these far-reaching topics. This collection covers topics including mobile commerce, virtual enterprises, business-to-business applications, Web services, and enterprise methodologies"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063733526

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Indian Law Reporter by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Casinos
ISBN : CORNELL:31924108116256

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Casino City's Global Gaming Almanac by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Ferriss
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781328994967

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Tribe of Mentors by Timothy Ferriss Pdf

Life-changing wisdom from 130 of the world's highest achievers in short, action-packed pieces, featuring inspiring quotes, life lessons, career guidance, personal anecdotes, and other advice