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The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Deer, Sarah

“…Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not anepidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women…”
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Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement by Pellow, David Naguib

“…When in 2001 Earth Liberation Front activists drove metal spikes into hundreds of trees in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, they were protesting the sale of a…”
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The Social Project: Housing Postwar France by Cupers, Kenny

“…In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century's greatest social and architectural experiments:…”
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Language, Madness, and Desire: On Literature by MICHEL FOUCAULT

“…As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound…”
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Effects of personalized exercise prescriptions and social media delivered through mobile health on cancer survivors'physical activity and quality of life by Zan Gao, Suryeon Ryu, Wanjiang Zhou, Kaitlyn Adams, Mohamed Hassan, Rui Zhang, Anne Blaes, Julian Wolfson, Ju Sun

“…Purpose:This study aimed to examine the effects of a multi-component mobile health intervention(wearable,apps,and social media)on cancer…”
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Digital Innovation Management: Reinventing Innovation Management Research in a Digital World by Nambisan, Satish, Lyytinen, Kalle, Majchrzak, Ann, Song, Michael

“…Rapid and pervasive digitization of innovation processes and outcomes has upended extant theories on innovation management by calling into question fundamental…”
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Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945 by Bao, Weihong

“…What was cinema in modern China? It was, this book tells us, a dynamic entity, not strictly tied to one media technology, one mode of operation, or one system…”
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Militarizing the Environment: Climate Change and the Security State by Marzec, Robert P

“…As the seriousness of climate change becomes more and more obvious, military institutions are responding by taking a prominent role in the governing of…”
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The Needs–Affordances–Features Perspective for the Use of Social Media by Karahanna, Elena, Xu, Sean Xin, Xu, Yan, Zhang, Nan (Andy)

“…The paper develops a needs–affordances–features (NAF) perspective on social media use which posits that individuals’ psychological needs motivate their use of…”
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The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade by Cowen, Deborah

“…In a world in which global trade is at risk, where warehouses and airports, shipping lanes and seaports try to guard against the likes of Al Qaeda and Somali…”
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Toward Meaningful Engagement: A Framework for Design and Research of Gamified Information Systems by De Liu, Santhanam, Radhika, Webster, Jane

“…Gamification, an emerging idea for using game design elements and principles to make everyday tasks more engaging, is permeating many different types of…”
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What Do Systems Users Have to Fear? Using Fear Appeals to Engender Threats and Fear that Motivate Protective Security Behaviors by Boss, Scott R., Galletta, Dennis F., Lowry, Paul Benjamin, Moody, Gregory D., Polak, Peter

“…Because violations of information security (ISec) and privacy have become ubiquitous in both personal and work environments, academic attention to ISec and…”
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The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts by Kallinikos, Jannis, Aaltonen, Aleksi, Marton, Attila

“…Digital artifacts are embedded in wider and constantly shifting ecosystems such that they become increasingly editable, interactive, reprogrammable, and…”
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Consumer Acceptance and Use of Information Technology: Extending the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology by Venkatesh, Viswanath, Thong, James Y. L., Xu, Xin

“…This paper extends the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) to study acceptance and use of technology in a consumer context. Our proposed…”
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Trust, Satisfaction, and Online Repurchase Intention: The Moderating Role of Perceived Effectiveness of E-Commerce Institutional Mechanisms by Fang, Yulin, Qureshi, Israr, Sun, Heshan, McCole, Patrick, Ramsey, Elaine, Lim, Kai H.

“…The effects of e-commerce institutional mechanisms on trust and online purchase have traditionally been understood in the initial online purchase context. This…”
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Effects of exergaming on motor skill competence, perceived competence, and physical activity in preschool children by Gao, Zan, Zeng, Nan, Pope, Zachary C., Wang, Ru, Yu, Fang

“…•Exergaming has shown a positive effect in promoting preschool children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at school.•Exergaming has the potential to…”
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Grounded Theory Methodology in Information Systems Research by Wiesche, Manuel, Jurisch, Marlen C., Yetton, Philip W., Krcmar, Helmut

“…Grounded theory methodology (GTM), with its espoused goal of theory development of novel phenomena, has found broad application in Information Systems (IS)…”
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Data Collection in the Digital Age: Innovative Alternatives to Student Samples by Steelman, Zachary R., Hammer, Bryan I., Limayem, Moez

“…Online crowdsourcing markets (OCM) are becoming more popular as a source for data collection. In this paper, we examine the consistency of survey results…”
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External Knowledge and Information Technology: Implications for Process Innovation Performance by Trantopoulos, Konstantinos, von Krogh, Georg, Wallin, Martin W., Woerter, Martin

“…Prior information systems research highlights the vital role of information technology (IT) for innovation in firms. At the same time, innovation literature…”
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Friendships in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending: Pipes, Prisms, and Relational Herding by De Liu, Brass, Daniel J., Lu, Yong, Chen, Dongyu

“…This paper investigates how friendship relationships act as pipes, prisms, and herding signals in a large online, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending site. By analyzing…”
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