Critical Understanding

Author : Lori Bindig
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739133160
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The O.C. written by Lori Bindig and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The O.C., A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M. Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of FOX's hit teen television drama The O.C. (2003-2007). Episodes of The O.C. are analyzed as a set of media texts that blur the boundaries between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic content. This analysis utilizes ancillary media such as director commentary in conjunction with content in order to understand how ideological content, in regards to gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism, is presented throughout the show. The O.C. is also examined in terms of audience analysis, auteur theory, aesthetics, and reality television spin-offs. Bindig and Bergstrom place The O.C. in a larger social context and explore the potential ramifications of popular media texts, as well as the series' cultural legacy which continues to resonate in media and culture.

Author : Matthew Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195517330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Thinking written by Matthew Allen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is a practical step-by-step guide to improving skills in analysis, critical thinking, and the effective communication of arguments and explanations.

Author : Lori Bindig
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739122228
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dawson's Creek written by Lori Bindig and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Lori Bindig examines the television seriesDawson's Creek from five ideological aspects: gender, race, class, sexuality, and consumerism.

Author : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226065553
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Understanding written by Wayne C. Booth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critics will always disagree, but, maintains Wayne Booth, their disagreement need not result in critical chaos. In Critical Understanding, Booth argues for a reasoned pluralism—a criticism more various and resourceful than can be caught in any one critic's net. He relates three noted pluralists—Ronald Crane, Kenneth Burke, and M. H. Abrams—to various currently popular critical approaches. Throughout, Booth tests the abstractions of metacriticism against particular literary works, devoting a substantial portion of his discussion to works by W. H. Auden, Henry James, Oliver Goldsmith, and Anatole France.

Author : Algis Mickunas
Publisher : Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9815123416
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Understanding of Artificial Intelligence: A Phenomenological Foundation written by Algis Mickunas and published by Bentham Science Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is viewed as one of the technological advances that will reshape modern societies and their relations. While the design and deployment of systems that continually adapt hold the promise of far-reaching, positive change, they simultaneously pose significant risks, especially to already vulnerable people. This work explores the meaning of AI, and the important role of critical understanding and its phenomenological foundation in shaping its ongoing advances. The values, power, and magic of reason are central to this discussion. Critical theory has used historical hindsight to explain the patterns of power that shape our intellectual, political, economic, and social worlds, and the discourse on AI that surrounds these worlds. The authors also delve into niche topics in philosophy such as transcendental self-awareness, post-humanism, and concepts of space-time and computer logic. By embedding a critical phenomenological orientation within their technical practices, AI communities can develop foresight and tactics that can better align research and technology development with established ethical principles — centering vulnerable people who continue to bear the brunt of the negative impacts of innovation and scientific progress. The creation of a critical–technical practice of AI will lead to a permanent revolution in social, scientific, and political communities. The years ahead will usher in a wave of new scientific breakthroughs and technologies driven by AI research, making it incumbent upon AI communities to strengthen the social contract through ethical foresight, a capability which only phenomenology can deliver, ultimately supporting future technologies that enable greater well-being, with the goal of delivering practical truths. A Critical Understanding of Artificial Intelligence: A Phenomenological Foundation is an essential read for anyone interested in the complex debate and phenomenology surrounding AI and its growing role in our society.

Author : Sue L. T. McGregor
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1506350976
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Evaluating Research written by Sue L. T. McGregor and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding and Evaluating Research: A Critical Guide shows students how to be critical consumers of research and to appreciate the power of methodology as it shapes the research question, the use of theory in the study, the methods used, and how the outcomes are reported. The book starts with what it means to be a critical and uncritical reader of research, followed by a detailed chapter on methodology, and then proceeds to a discussion of each component of a research article as it is informed by the methodology. The book encourages readers to select an article from their discipline, learning along the way how to assess each component of the article and come to a judgment of its rigor or quality as a scholarly report.

Author : Keith Tuffin
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761954972
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Critical Social Psychology written by Keith Tuffin and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Critical Social Psychology is an exciting new textbook providing a comprehensive and reader-friendly approach to the theories and methods surrounding Critical Social Psychology. This book combines a critical examination of the traditional philosophies, practices and topics with an emphasis on introducing innovative and contemporary developments in social psychological research. In this way, Tuffin integrates newer insights with established modes of thinking.

Author : Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351587617
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies written by Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing urgency for Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the field of education, the "how" of this theoretical framework can often be overlooked. This exciting edited collection presents different methods and methodologies, which are used by education researchers to investigate critical issues of racial justice in education from a CRT perspective. Featuring scholars from a range of disciplines, the chapters showcase how various researchers synthesize different methods—including qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, and historical and archival research—with CRT to explore issues of equity and access in the field of education. Scholars discuss their current research approaches using CRT and present new models of conducting research within a CRT framework, offering a valuable contribution to ongoing methodological debates. Researchers across different levels of expertise will find the articulations of CRT and methods insightful and compelling.

Author : Gary Shank
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351344900
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Education Research written by Gary Shank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Education Research, 2nd Edition is designed to help students learn to read educational research articles carefully, systematically, and critically. Readers will learn how to categorize titles, decode abstracts, find research questions, characterize research arguments, break down methods and procedures, explore references, apply analysis strategies, and interpret findings. This textbook and quick reference guide allows students to easily develop the skills they need to become research literate and the 2nd edition has been updated throughout to offer simple guidelines for qualitative, quantitative, and statistical approaches and up-to-date information on complex and confusing methodologies.

Author : William Egelman
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 : 9780205352623
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Families written by William Egelman and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In chapters that each include a brief essay and an analysis section with data and student questions, Egelman (Iowa College) examines changes in the family over the past 30 years that he has been teaching sociology of family classes. Lacks an index. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).