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• Introduction: The great hidden political asset
• Act I. A political awakening. The power of broadcasting
• A business rivalry forms
• Distinguishing cable television
• Revenge politics
• Act II. Coming of age. The Watergate hangover
• Exploding the cable dial
• Visions '79
• Becoming a household name
• Act III. The triumph of cable America. A political tool
• Regulatory consequences
• Winning at any cost
• The MTV presidency
• Conclusion: Democracy in cable America.

"As television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation. Yet over the next three decades, the expansion of a different technology, cable, changed all of this. 24/7 Politics tells the story of how the cable industry worked with political leaders to create an entirely new approach to television, one that tethered politics to profits and divided and distracted Americans by feeding their appetite for entertainment--frequently at the expense of fostering responsible citizenship. In this timely and provocative book, Kathryn Cramer Brownell argues that cable television itself is not to blame for today's rampant polarization and scandal politics--the intentional restructuring of television as a political institution is. She describes how cable innovations--from C-SPAN coverage of congressional debates in the 1980s to MTV's foray into presidential politics in the 1990s--took on network broadcasting using market forces, giving rise to a more decentralized media world. Brownell shows how cable became an unstoppable medium for political communication that prioritized cult followings and loyalty to individual brands, fundamentally reshaped party politics, and, in the process, sowed the seeds of democratic upheaval. 24/7 Politics reveals how cable TV created new possibilities for antiestablishment voices and opened a pathway to political prominence for seemingly unlikely figures like Donald Trump by playing to narrow audiences and cultivating division instead of common ground."-- Publisher's website.

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: The Great Hidden Political Asset
• Act I. A Political Awakening
• 1. The Power of Broadcasting
• 2. A Business Rivalry Forms
• 3. Distinguishing Cable Television
• 4. Revenge Politics
• Act II. Coming of Age
• 5. The Watergate Hangover
• 6. Exploding the Cable Dial
• 7. Visions '79
• 8. Becoming a Household Name
• Act III. The Triumph of Cable America
• 9. A Political Tool
• 10. Regulatory Consequences
• 11. Winning at Any Cost
• 12. The MTV Presidency
• Conclusion: Democracy in Cable America
• Notes
• Index

• Introduction : China's role in Africa's railway renaissance / Tim Zajontz, Pádraig Carmody, Mandira Bagwandeen and Anthony Leysens
• The political economy of China's globalising railways
• and their arrival in Africa / Tim Zajontz
• Powering African transport or transporting Chinese power? : the spatial political economy of Chinese railways in Africa / Kefa M. Otiso and Pádraig Carmody
• The freedom railway now and then : the enduring relevance of the 'TAZARA Spirit' for South-South cooperation / Liu Haifang
• Chinese railways and African development : developing railways or railing development? / Mandira Bagwandeen
• Chinese globalism, African regionalisms and state spatial strategies : The intricacies of regionalising Africa's railway renaissance / Tim Zajontz
• West Africa's 'railway patchwork' and the challenges of its integration / Mouhamed Bayane Bouraima and Qiu Yanjun
• China's infrastructure projects in Africa : Nigeria's unfinished Lagos-Kano railway / Gladys Lechini, María Noel Dussort and Agustina Marchetti
• Kenya's new lunatic express : the standard gauge railway / Ian Taylor
• The Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway and the national question in Ethiopia : a bottom-up view / Sharon Bar-David and Lynn Schle
• The rehabilitation of the Benguela railway and the reactivation of the Lobito corridor / Ana Duarte and Regina Santos
• Inside Kenya's standard gauge railway : passenger narratives on large-scale transport infrastructure, connectivity, and political controversy / Hugh Lamarque.

• Introduction Part I: Mailing, Collecting, Cataloguing
• 1. The Postal Infrastructure of Democratic Citizenship
• 2. Creating Post-postal Value: Stamp Collecting
• 3. U.S. Stamps: Cataloguing Polities and Framing National Culture Part II: Storied Ancestors
• 4. Fixing the Iconography of National Ancestry: Dead Heads and Moving Bodies During the U.S. Civil War
• 5. Mining History and Marketing Stamps at the World's Fairs
• 6. The People in the Postal Polity: Twentieth-Century Definitive Stamps and the Iconography of Democratic Inclusion Part III: The Stamp of Neoliberalism
• 7. Postal People: From Industrial Labor, Black Power, and Social Service to Cartoon Citizenship
• 8. Segregating Stamps: From White Definitives to Racialized Commemoratives
• 9. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part I: First-Day Covers
• 10. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part II: Shooting the Moon Conclusion: Postal Circulation and Citizenship at the End of the American Century Acknowledgments Appendix: How Many People Collect Stamps in the United States? Notes Bibliography Index.
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More than three thousand different images appeared on United States postage stamps from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Limited at first to the depiction of a small cast of characters and patriotic images, postal iconography gradually expanded as the Postal Service sought to depict the country's history in all its diversity. This vast breadth has helped make stamp collecting a widespread hobby and made stamps into consumer goods in their own right. Examining the canon of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American stamps, Laura Goldblatt and Richard Handler show how postal iconography and material culture offer a window into the contested meanings and responsibilities of U.S. citizenship. They argue that postage stamps, which are both devices to pay for a government service and purchasable items themselves, embody a crucial tension: is democracy defined by political agency or the freedom to buy? The changing images and uses of stamps reveal how governmental authorities have attempted to navigate between public service and businesslike efficiency, belonging and exclusion, citizenship and consumerism. Stamps are vehicles for state messaging, and what they depict is tied up with broader questions of what it means to be American. Goldblatt and Handler combine historical, sociological, and iconographic analysis of a vast quantity of stamps with anthropological exploration of how postal customers and stamp collectors behave. At the crossroads of several disciplines, this book casts the symbolic and material meanings of stamps in a wholly new light.
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• Introduction
• Highway safety basics
• Artificial intelligence basics
• Matrix algebra and probability
• Supervised learning
• Unsupervised learning
• Deep learning
• Natural language processing
• Explainable AI
• Disruptive and emerging technologies in highway safety
• Conclusions and future needs

• Creatures made of screens
• The screen time era
• We are not alone (good vibes)
• We are not alone (bad vibes)
• Space junk.

"Avidly Reads Screen Time is a heartwarming, harrowing diary of our relationship with screens and the complicated feelings we have about them"-- Provided by publisher.

• Making Connections: Early Public Transportation for Boston
• Unification and Electrification: Trolleys Take Hold
• America's First Subway
• Grand Terminals for Commuters
• Rapid Transit Takes Shape
• Pocket Maps and Transit Improvements in the Early Twentieth Century
• Catching the Bus
• The Rise and Fall of the MTA
• The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

"Comprehensive history of public transportation infrastructure and the modes of transit that have moved Boston for nearly four centuries"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction: City of Men
• The Urban Landscape of Public Transport
• Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws
• Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis
• Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police
• City Characters: Morality
• Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies.

David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed--even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph

• Intro
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Chapter 1: Radio Convergence and Youth: An Overview on African Perspectives
• Introduction
• The Youth Factor in African Converged Radio
• History of Broadcasting in Africa
• Mapping Digitisation in Africa
• The Structure of This Book
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 2: Converged Radio, Youth, and Participatory Politics in Harare, Zimbabwe
• Introduction
• Brief Description of Power FM, Star FM, and ZiFM Stereo

• Theorising Converged Radio and Youth Political Participation in Zimbabwe
• Unpacking Converged Radio, Youth, and Participatory Politics
• The Intersection of Converged Radio, Youth, and Participatory Politics
• Methodology
• Findings and Discussion
• 'The Gadget Is the Media': Devices Used to Listen to Radio
• 'Agents of Change': Convergence Radio, Youth, and Participatory Politics
• 'It's Elite-Centric': Challenges Associated with Convergence Radio and Youth Political Participation
• Conclusion and Recommendations
• References

• Chapter 3: An Alternative Arena for "Communities of Resistance"? Podcasting, Democratic Spaces, and Counterpublics in Zimbabwe
• Introduction
• Podcasting and Its Democratic Potential
• Youth, Social Media and Participatory Politics
• Theory
• Methodology
• Findings
• Podcasting as a Counterhegemonic Space
• Podcasting as a Tool for Enhancing Youth's and Women's Participation
• On Technical Issues and Trainings
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 4: 'Mobile Radio' and Youth Identity Formation on the Streets of Harare
• Introduction
• Mobile Radio, Identity and Self-management

• Mobile Radio and the Creation of the 'Digital Cyborg'
• Methods
• Findings
• Experiencing a 'New Kind of Radio': Mobile Radio and Disaggregation of Audiences
• Competing Attention: Self-identity Meanings and Identity
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 5: Strategic Diversion and Commercial Exploitation: The Dumbing Down of Converged Youth Radio Programming in Zimbabwe
• Introduction
• Background and Context: Radio Broadcasting System in Zimbabwe
• Theoretical Framework: Radio Broadcasting in the Age of ICTs
• Dumping Down of Media Content
• Converged Radio
• Research Questions

• Methodology
• Findings
• The Nature of Youth Programming of the Converged Radio
• Creating an Apolitical Youth Through Dumbed-Down Programming
• Youths as a Market and Not Citizens
• The Implications of a Dumped-Down Programming on Converged Radio
• Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 6: Mis(Understanding) Youth Engagement: Role of Commercial Youth Radio in Promoting Political Engagement in South Africa
• Introduction
• Radio and Youth Engagement: A Review of Related Literature
• Conceptualising Youth, Media, and Citizenship
• A Note on Methodology

• Introduction
• If the Wheel Ain't Turnin', You Ain't Earnin': Trucker Politics,
• Economics, and Culture
• Tired Truckers and the Rise of Electronic Surveillance
• The Business of Trucker Surveillance
• Computers in the Coop
• Beating the Box: How Truckers Resist Being Monitored
• RoboTruckers: The Double Threat of AI for Low-Wage Work
• Technology, Enforcement, and Apparent Order

A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life Long-haul truckers are the backbone of the American economy, transporting goods under grueling conditions and immense economic pressure. Truckers have long valued the day-to-day independence of their work, sharing a strong occupational identity rooted in a tradition of autonomy. Yet these workers increasingly find themselves under many watchful eyes. Data Driven examines how digital surveillance is upending life and work on the open road, and raises crucial questions about the role of data collection in broader systems of social control. Karen Levy takes readers inside a world few ever see, painting a bracing portrait of one of the last great American frontiers. Federal regulations now require truckers to buy and install digital monitors that capture data about their locations and behaviors. Intended to address the pervasive problem of trucker fatigue by regulating the number of hours driven each day, these devices support additional surveillance by trucking firms and other companies. Traveling from industry trade shows to law offices and truck-stop bars, Levy reveals how these invasive technologies are reconfiguring industry relationships and providing new tools for managerial and legal control-and how truckers are challenging and resisting them. Data Driven contributes to an emerging conversation about how technology affects our work, institutions, and personal lives, and helps to guide our thinking about how to protect public interests and safeguard human dignity in the digital age.
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• Introduction
• LCA Studies on Marine Alternative Fuels
• Life Cycle Emissions of Fossil Fuels and Biofuels for Maritime Transportation
• Use of Alcohol-Diesel Fuel Blends in CI Engine: A Review
• Hydrogen Fueled Marine Engine's Adaptation for Near Future
• Investigation and Examination of LNG, Methanol, and Ammonia Usage on Marine Vessels
• Electrification and Hybridization of Ferries: State of the Art and Case Study
• SWOT Analysis of Carbon Capture, Storage and Transportation for Maritime Industry
• Green Port Concept
• Evaluation of the Environmental Contributions of the Green Port Concept
• Energy Efficiency and Management on Ships
• Alternative Approaches on the Decision of Market-based Measures.

This contributed book focuses on decarbonization of maritime transport by highlighting different aspects of decarbonization methods indicated in the International Maritime Organization's Initial Greenhouse Gas Strategy (2018). The book contains studies on alternative fuels and alternative energy systems with their life cycle assessment, electrification and hybridization of ships, carbon capture technologies, green port concept, energy efficiency management, and market-based measures. This book will be of interest to those working in academia and industry in maritime technologies and transportation.

• Prologue: April 14, 1865
• A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825-55
• A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856-61
• Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861-62
• "An Honored & Favored Man": February-September 1862
• "The Flood of Letters": September 1862-64
• "Twenty Tons of Mail": 1864
• "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail": January-April 1865
• "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem": April 1865-November 1868
• "Our Continued Services Together": 1868-71
• The "Colonel" Becomes a "General": 1872-84
• A Man in Search of Himself: 1885-88
• Epilogue: 1889-Today

""Delivered Under Fire" tells the harrowing story of a U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect and transfer some of the most personal and valuable connections between war and home"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Part I. Introduction
• 1. Using discourse analysis in transport and urban development research / Robin Hickman and Christine Hannigan
• Part II. Grand narratives
• 2. Transport planning, paradigms and practices: finding conditions for change / Ruben Akse, Adri Albert de la Bruhèze and Karst Geurs
• 3. Exploring growth as a central representation in sustainable transport discourse / Elias Isaksson
• 4. Discursive power dynamics affecting how climate targets are framed and integrated in national transport planning: the case of Sweden / Karolina Isaksson, Linnea Eriksson and Jacob Witzell
• 5. Stakeholders' perceptions of urban mobility in a Central European country: a Q methodology approach / Hana Brůhová Foltýnová, Eliska Vejchodská, Radomíra Jordová and Kristýna Rybová
• 6. The meta and master narratives of mega transport infrastructure / Daniel Durrant
• Part III. Case studies on discourse, transport and urban development
• 7. Car advertising and environmental greenwashing / Robin Hickman
• 8. The Interstate Highway 70 reconstruction project in Denver: repeating a 1960s planning failure? / Andrew R. Goetz
• 9. Sustainability and shared ride-hailing in a mega-city: the rhetoric and impacts of Uber Juntos in São Paulo / Leandro da Silva Correa and Anthony Perl
• 10. Legitimising HS2: analysing political speeches from 2010-2014 / James Udagawa
• 11. Where are the rails? An investigation into the climate, future prospects and barriers to high-speed rail development in Canada / Giacomo Vecia
• 12. Exploring bus reform in Malta / Thérèse Bajada
• 13. Cycling promotion and narratives of urban development: an ecolinguistic approach / M. Cristina Caimotto
• 14. Community, authenticity and newness: obscuring financial motivations in transport and development projects through discourse at Battersea Power Station / Christine Hannigan
• 15. MaaS unmasked: how local leaders think they are resisting (and are thereby accelerating) the neoliberalisation of transport policies / Nacima Baron
• 16. Anything that can reasonably be automated will be: analysis of transport automation imaginaries in the Finnish context / Janne Olin and Milos N. Mladenović;
• Part IV. Conclusions
• 17. Next steps for discourse analysis in transport and urban development / Christine Hannigan and Robin Hickman
• Index