Drawing on their extensive experience in publishing, reviewing and editing academic articles in the business and management field's top journals, Charlotte Cloutier, Ann Langley and Kevin Corley outline how to best cultivate, craft and polish the novel theoretical insights embedded in qualitative data. They adopt a unique approach to the research process by analyzing prior exemplary work and addressing common mistakes revealed in editorial and review letters issued by the editorial teams of leading journals. The authors offer strategies to navigate the iterative nature of qualitative inquiry, as well as guidance and advice for consistently producing high-quality outputs.

This book is an essential resource for business and management, public administration, psychology and sociology scholars looking to improve their qualitative research skills. It is also a crucial read for both novice and experienced qualitative researchers across the social sciences wishing to gain deeper insights on the topic.

This book explores the intricate landscape of youth representation on television, shedding new light on how tweens, teens, and young adults navigate social, political, and environmental crises through media. Through an examination of myriad shows from primarily the last two decades, the book delves into the complex narratives that shape young viewers' understanding of the world around them. Chapters in Contemporary Youth Television investigate critical topics such as racial violence, representations of gender and sexuality, identity formation, coming of age, and the impact of digital media on youth. Through expert analysis, the authors uncover how television serves as both a mirror and a guide, reflecting societal issues while offering avenues for hope and education. Readers are invited to consider how long-form narratives on television uniquely engage with real-world challenges, providing a platform for meaningful discourse. This volume is essential for scholars of media studies, educators, and anyone interested in the intersection of youth, media, and society. It offers valuable insights into the evolving role of television in shaping young minds and highlights the potential for positive representation and education in youth programming. Whether you are a researcher, a parent, or a media enthusiast, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the perils, power, and promise of youth television.

Through an ethnographic lens, the Handbook analyzes human-machine entanglements as they have emerged in AI companions, healthcare, automated policing, warfare, conversational chatbots and fact-checking. Chapters assume theoretical perspectives to scrutinize AI power and how AI evolves on the ground in ethnographic locations and case studies from across the globe. Assessing the current state of AI, the collection examines its implications for the future, in areas ranging from climate change to politics.

The Handbook on Anthropology and Artificial Intelligence is a valuable resource for students and scholars of anthropology, science and technology, innovation, media and communication and sociology. It will also be prime reading for journalists, policymakers and practitioners seeking a deeper understanding of the impact of AI on the world.

This book offers the first historical summary in English and source text in Dutch of the Tayuoan Consistory Minutes recorded between 1643 and 1649 at the Castle Zeelandia in Formosa (today's Taiwan). The minute recordings occurred at a crucial moment in the existence of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan in the 17th century and are complemented with an annotated Introduction that contextualizes the manuscript from an historical perspective. The public disclosure in Dutch transcription and English translation is one of the few remaining primary sources covering the Calvinist mission history of the Dutch pioneering settlement in Formosa. It is concise and the reading is factual, yet enriching from a multitude of perspectives.

The main topics cover the growing community of Calvinist believers, the expansion of the education, and the evangelization of the Indigenous, such as the inspection of the schools, finances of the church and the diaconate, mobility and community membership among the VOC employees. These come to make the record of important events, evaluation of personalities and socio-economic development of the Dutch community and an emerging indigenous community of believers. This serves to deepen the understanding of the goal of the Church consistory to act as an instrument in carrying out VOC policies. We want to draw attention to illustrate how this contributed to an emerging citizenry. The manuscript is replete with valuable information about the colonial encounter, the contact with the Indigenous, the tension between a clerical and secular society in establishing a Calvinist community, and most of all to contextualize the historiographic intervention. It helps to critically scrutinize the colonial biases and its inherited narratives, and offers against the background of the traditional echoed perspectives of the VOC as a "merchant" organization, a glimpse into what this pioneering settlement was all about.

Scholars, practitioners and activists from across the globe illustrate the differences and contradictions in this kaleidoscopically diverse field. Topics covered range from border crossings, gig economy delivery riders and the experience and perspective of those who move, to the policies and techniques which seek to govern mobility, and the ways those (im)mobilities might be resisted, or expressed in artistic and creative forms.

The Encyclopedia of Mobilities is an essential resource for students and academics of mobilities and movement across the social sciences, including human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and politics as well as interdisciplinary fields such as urban studies, migration and border studies and transport studies. It is also a beneficial read for practitioners and activists involved in mobility and transport justice movements, migration and environmental advocacy.

Key Features:

• Presents creative and critical approaches
• Covers key topics in mobility across disciplines
• Includes more than 150 clear and accessible entries