The Great Disconnect

Author : Marco Magnani
Publisher : EGEA spa
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788823887718

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Despite its excesses and contradictions, globalization has lifted billions of people out of poverty, enabled scientific progress, and reduced conflict. Nevertheless, globalization is going through a deep crisis. Marco Magnani identifies four forces that are fueling the «great disconnect»: economic and technological trends are reshaping global value chains; do-mestic political dynamics are fostering closures in an attempt to protect national interests; external shocks (pandemics, wars, financial crises) are exposing the vulnerability of the global system; geopolitical objectives are encouraging to restrict relations to countries perceived as friends. In such a scenario, politics prevails over economics, regionalization increases, and the instability of international alliances soars, partly due to the proliferation of «free agent» countries seeking strategic autonomy. Fragmentation has high economic costs and it increases the risk of conflict. But it may also trigger a new globalization trend. The Arctic, the Under-water, Space and the Digital Revolution can be fronts of competition and dispute, or they can represent the new frontiers of cooperation. The world to come will largely depend on the ability of liberal democracies to defend and promote their values, abroad and at home. The hope is that the revival in the circulation of goods, services, capital, people and knowledge will consolidate rights and spread freedoms.

Author : Michael Gramling
Publisher : Redleaf Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781605544007

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The Great Disconnect in Early Childhood Education by Michael Gramling Pdf

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice—the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the importance of teaching is told while entertaining and engaging the reader throughout. Michael Gramling is an expert in providing family literacy training and positive guidance training and has conducted experiential supervisor and mentor coach institutes for Head Start programs.

Author : Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD.,Teresa H. Barker
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062082442

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The Big Disconnect by Catherine Steiner-Adair, EdD.,Teresa H. Barker Pdf

Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Pick; Publisher's Weekly Best Book of the Year Clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair takes an in-depth look at how the Internet and the digital revolution are profoundly changing childhood and family dynamics, and offers solutions parents can use to successfully shepherd their children through the technological wilderness. As the focus of the family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends or going online to do homework; parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive transformation. Easy access to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries that protect children from damaging exposure to excessive marketing and the unsavory aspects of adult culture. Parents often feel they are losing a meaningful connection with their children. Children are feeling lonely and alienated. The digital world is here to stay, but what are families losing with technology's gain? As renowned clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair explains, families are in crisis as they face this issue, and even more so than they realize. Not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects but children also desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. Drawing on real-life stories from her clinical work with children and parents and her consulting work with educators and experts across the country, Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater understanding, authority, and confidence as they engage with the tech revolution unfolding in their living rooms.

Author : Giles Slade
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781616145965

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Smart phones and social media sites may be contemporary fixations, but using technology to replace face-to-face interactions is not a new cultural phenomenon. Throughout our history, intimacy with machines has often supplanted mutual human connection. This book reveals how consumer technologies changed from analgesic devices that soothed the loneliness of a newly urban generation to prosthetic interfaces that act as substitutes for companionship in modern America. The history of this transformation helps explain why we use technology to mediate our connections with other human beings instead of seeking out face-to-face contact. Do electronic interfaces receive most of our attention to the detriment of real interpersonal communication? Why do sixty million Americans report that isolation and loneliness are major sources of unhappiness? The author provides many insights into our increasingly artificial relationships and a vision for how we can rediscover genuine community and human empathy.

Author : Micah L. Sifry
Publisher : OR Books
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781939293510

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The web and social media have enabled an explosive increase in participation in the public arena—but not much else has changed. For the next step beyond connectivity, writes Sifry, “we need a real digital public square, not one hosted by Facebook, shaped by Google and snooped on by the National Security Agency. If we don’t build one, then any notion of democracy as ‘rule by the people’ will no longer be meaningful. We will be a nation of Big Data, by Big Email, for the powers that be.”

Author : Morris P. Fiorina
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806184807

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Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate. Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras and considers what might be done to overcome the unproductive politics of recent decades. Drawing on polling results and other data, Fiorina examines the disconnect between an unrepresentative “political class” and the citizenry it purports to represent, showing how politicians have become more polarized while voters remain moderate; how politicians’ rhetoric and activities reflect hot-button issues that are not public priorities; and how politicians’ dogmatic, divisive, and uncivil style of “debate” contrasts with the more civil discourse of ordinary Americans, who tend to be more polite and open to compromise than their leaders. Disconnect depicts politicians out of touch with the larger public, distorting issues and information to appeal to narrow interest groups. It can help readers better understand the political divide between leaders and the American public—and help steer a course for change.

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781595588913

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Digital Disconnect by Robert W. McChesney Pdf

Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances of the digital age, incorporating capitalism into the heart of his analysis. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems, and other policies and massive indirect subsidies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism. A small handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google, which garners an astonishing 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the world's computers. This capitalistic colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism, and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance, and a disturbingly anti-democratic force. In Digital Disconnect Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking analysis and critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.

Author : Lois Peterson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459801462

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Disconnect by Lois Peterson Pdf

Since moving hundreds of miles to a new school, Daria has become increasingly dependent on her cell phone. Texts, Facebook and phone calls are her only connection to her friends in Calgary, and Daria needs to know everything that is going on at home to feel connected to her old life. Her cell phone habit looks a lot like addiction to her mother and to her new friend Cleo. Daria dismisses the idea of technology addiction as foolish until her habit puts a life in danger.

Author : Susan Maushart
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781459623576

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The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart Pdf

For any parent who's ever IM-ed their child to the dinner table - or yanked the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage - this account of one family's self-imposed exile from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing with recognition. But it will also challenge you to take stock of your own family connections, to create a media ...

Author : Paul Gary Wyckoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080877106

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Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age by Paul Gary Wyckoff Pdf

With the warring between left and right, Democrats and Republicans, advocacy groups on one side and advocacy groups on the other, it seems as if those who set our national agenda are those who shout the loudest. But shouldn't scholarship count for more than preconceived notions? Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age debunks myths about economic and social policy while explaining the standards of evidence that should guide our legislation. Author Paul Gary Wyckoff also recommends revisions to economics and law curricula so that the next generation of legislators will know how to craft evidence-based policy derived from research rather than conventional wisdom and theory.

Author : Bill Barron
Publisher : Inkstone Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9881750733

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This book lays out in clear language the challenges to the sustainability of the current economic system. It then considers possible market, government and values-driven responses. "This book highlights how, by focusing too heavily on particular aspects of the world around us, different groups have reached vastly different conclusions about relevant priorities. This is so much so that it is almost as if these different sectors of society do not share the same planet." -- from the foreword by Alexis Lau, Director, Environmental Central Facility, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Author : Devra Davis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101443484

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"As [Disconnect] shows, cell phones may actually be doing damage to far more than our attention spans-and could, in fact, be killing us." -Salon.com. Since the invention of radar, cell phone radiation was assumed to be harmless because it wasn't like X-rays. But a sea change is now occurring in the way scientists think about it. The latest research ties this kind of radiation to lowered sperm counts, an increased risk of Alzheimer's, and even cancer. In Disconnect, National Book Award finalist Devra Davis tells the story of the dangers that the cell phone industry is knowingly exposing us-and our children-to in the pursuit of profit. More than five billion cell phones are currently in use, and that number increases every day. Synthesizing the findings and cautionary advice of leading experts in bioelectricalmagnetics and neuroscience, Davis explains simple safety measures that no one can afford to ignore.

Author : Keren David
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781781128893

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The Disconnect by Keren David Pdf

How will a group of teenagers react when they are offered £1,000 to give up their mobile phone in Keren David’s thought-provoking story of perspective and influence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : IND:30000046894261

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Author : Robert Miljan
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329007109

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