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Participatory Culture, Community, and Play : Learning from Reddit
What does online community look like in the age of social networking?How do participatory culture platforms reflect both their designers’ intentions and the desires of their users?In this incisive and timely work, Adrienne L. Massanari discusses how culture is created and challenged on Reddit.com, the self-proclaimed «front page of the internet».Reddit enables the sharing of original and reposted content from around the web, and provides a platform for like-minded individuals to commune around topics of interest – everything from the joys of drinking beer in a shower (/r/showerbeer) to celebrating the pleasures of tidy penmanship (/r/penmanshipporn).Massanari’s ethnographic work provides a detailed examination of the contradictions that shape Reddit’s culture and how they reflect its role as an epicenter of geek culture.The book explores the ways in which community on Reddit is formed and solidified through play and humor, and the complex ways in which Redditors come together, which demonstrate a deep capacity for altruism and charitable giving, but can easily lapse into mob action.It also explores the community’s troubling gender and racial politics and how some Redditors are carving out their own space on the site to fight back.
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Machine Learning Safety
Machine learning algorithms allow computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.Their application is now spreading to highly sophisticated tasks across multiple domains, such as medical diagnostics or fully autonomous vehicles.While this development holds great potential, it also raises new safety concerns, as machine learning has many specificities that make its behaviour prediction and assessment very different from that for explicitly programmed software systems.This book addresses the main safety concerns with regard to machine learning, including its susceptibility to environmental noise and adversarial attacks.Such vulnerabilities have become a major roadblock to the deployment of machine learning in safety-critical applications.The book presents up-to-date techniques for adversarial attacks, which are used to assess the vulnerabilities of machine learning models; formal verification, which is used to determine if a trained machine learning model is free of vulnerabilities; and adversarial training, which is used to enhance the training process and reduce vulnerabilities.The book aims to improve readers’ awareness of the potential safety issues regarding machine learning models.In addition, it includes up-to-date techniques for dealing with these issues, equipping readers with not only technical knowledge but also hands-on practical skills.
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Introduction to Community Development : Theory, Practice, and Service-Learning
Historical context, theoretical grounding, critical issues perspective, and the "how-to" for community developmentThis collection of work by leading community development scholars presents students with a theoretical and practical introduction to the field.The text progresses seamlessly from a theoretical overview to a historical overview to three approaches to community development (ecological, interactional, and structural-functional), then explores the practice of community development along with technical assistance, action research, evaluation research, and the role of local organizations, local leadership, and coalitions.The book concludes with critical issues, such as rural development, inner-city development, youth in community development, health care, public schools, and sustainable development. Key features include:New community development intervention models, using examples from recent events to demonstrate the strengths and challenges of such models Community service-learning activities, providing useful examples and case studies of successful service-learning programs in communities A hierarchy of learning activities and exercises within each chapter, ensuring that students learn how to apply concepts to real-world issues Relevant cases of successful community development interventions, giving students examples of 'best practices'Major trends, challenges, and prospects for the future in community development, helping students identify key issues and opportunities Instructor Teaching Site: Password-protected resources contain learning modules, developed by the authors, which include exercises and activities which reinforce chapter content, and demonstrate application of concepts in real-life communities. Student Study Site: Open-access study materials include chapter self-quizzes to aid content learning. This comprehensive, introductory survey text is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in Community Development, Urban Studies, Rural Development, and Introduction to Service Learning found in departments of sociology, public administration, management, and social work.
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Changing the Workplace Safety Culture
Despite the fact that workplaces have implemented and followed new safety innovations and approaches, the majority of them have seen little, if any, significant progress in the reduction of accidental deaths and injuries.Changing the Workplace Safety Culture demonstrates that changing the way an organization views and practices safety will impact the behavior of all employees including executive and line managers.It delineates how safety culture change can be implemented and defines the roles of everyone in the safety culture, including management, employees, and unions and their members.Rather than focus on behavior-based safety measures, this book provides step-by-step procedures on how to establish a long-lasting integrated safety management system in any organization.It explores how to change the safety personality of an organization.The author covers the management principles and functions that need to be applied to bring about safety culture change and includes many real-life examples.He goes on to explain the activities needed to implement safety change and the benefits of getting others involved in the safety management system. The only way to ensure that accidents and their consequences are tackled at the source is to identify and eliminate the workplace risks before, rather than after, the event.To be truly effective, safety activities must be integrated into the day-to-day business and become a way of life for management and employees of the organization.This book provides a blueprint for creating an active safety culture that prevents accidents before they occur and becomes the key component in ongoing safety success.
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Which safety stirrups?
When choosing safety stirrups, it is important to consider your specific needs and preferences. Some popular options include jointed stirrups, which are designed to release the foot in case of a fall, and stirrups with a wide footbed for added stability. Additionally, stirrups with a magnetic safety release system are also a good choice as they provide a quick release in case of an emergency. Ultimately, the best safety stirrups for you will depend on your riding style, comfort level, and budget.
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What is an air safety training and a job safety training?
Air safety training is a program designed to educate individuals on how to safely operate and navigate aircraft, as well as how to respond to emergency situations that may arise during flight. Job safety training, on the other hand, focuses on educating employees on how to perform their job duties in a safe manner, including proper use of equipment, handling of hazardous materials, and emergency procedures. Both types of training are essential to ensure the safety of individuals in their respective environments.
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Is it an Isana safety razor or a Gillette safety razor?
It is a Gillette safety razor.
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What is an air safety training and a workplace safety training?
Air safety training is a program designed to educate individuals working in the aviation industry on how to prevent accidents and respond effectively in emergency situations. This training covers topics such as aircraft evacuation procedures, fire safety, and first aid. On the other hand, workplace safety training is a program that aims to educate employees on how to identify and mitigate potential hazards in the workplace to prevent accidents and injuries. This training typically covers topics such as proper lifting techniques, use of personal protective equipment, and emergency response protocols. Both types of training are essential to ensure the safety of individuals in their respective environments.
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Structural Safety : Theory & Practice
We all depend on infrastructure for civilised living with the scale and sophistication of what we build ever increasing.Manifestly we all have a vested interest in construction being safe, and yet failures occur.Not infrequently these failures are catastrophic and accompanied by huge cost and occasional loss of life.Avoiding such tragedies is every engineer's desire but how to do it is not straightforward.Nor is it straightforward to respond the question of: is this project safe?Nonetheless, progress can be made by laying down guidelines of what makes structures safe and by studying the pattern of past failures as a basis for predicting what might go wrong.This assists by drawing on the author's considerable career experiences of observation, study and practice. The opening chapter describes the general challenges of making structures safe taking account of uncertainty and the consequence of failure, and it also describes the evolution of safety thinking which nowadays includes issues of worker safety and health.Subsequent chapters discuss what is meant by both failure and safety and describe various safety attributes that ought to be targeted.Even over the last 50 years, structural methodologies for analysis and design have evolved to reflect the way we collectively think is the best to assure safe structures. Many of the notions used are rather abstract and so can best be appreciated by learning from what has gone wrong in the past.Unfortunately there is no shortage of precedents. Hence all subsequent chapters covering human error, material failures, construction failures and fire follow a general pattern of describing the problem, accompanied by examples illustrating how failures have arisen in practice. It will be apparent that common themes recur. Engineered structures protect societies, so some of the biggest challenges we face are of designing against the possibility of man-made or environmental catastrophe.Most readers will be familiar with the occurrence of natural events such as storm, flood and earthquake and so two chapters are devoted to man-made and natural hazards.Occupational health and safety, plus designers' legal obligations to assure these, are described in another chapter.The final chapter concerns Avoiding Failure and deals with concepts such as hazards and risk and the procedures that can be followed to minimise the probability of serious failure occurring.
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Community : Seeking Safety in an Insecure World
'Community' is one of those words that feels good: it is good 'to have a community', 'to be in a community'. And 'community' feels good because of the meanings which the word conveys, all of them promising pleasures, and more often than not the kind of pleasures which we would like to experience but seem to miss. 'Community' conveys the image of a warm and comfortable place, like a fireplace at which we warm our hands on a frosty day.Out there, in the street, all sorts of dangers lie in ambush; in here, in the community, we can relax and feel safe. 'Community' stands for the kind of world which we long to inhabit but which is not, regrettably, available to us.Today 'community' is another name for paradise lost - but for a paradise which we still hope to find, as we feverishly search for the roads that may lead us there. But there is a price to be paid for the privilege of being in a community.Community promises security but seems to deprive us of freedom, of the right to be ourselves.Security and freedom are two equally precious and coveted values which could be balanced to some degree, but hardly ever fully reconciled.The tension between security and freedom, and between community and individuality, is unlikely ever to be resolved.We cannot escape the dilemma but we can take stock of the opportunities and the dangers, and at least try to avoid repeating past errors. In this important new book, Zygmunt Bauman takes stock of these opportunities and dangers and, in his distinctive and brilliant fashion, offers a much-needed reappraisal of a concept that has become central to current debates about the nature and future of our societies.
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Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety
This second edition of the Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety provides a completely revised and updated collection of essays focusing on the theory and practice of crime prevention and the creation of safer communities.This book is divided into five comprehensive parts: Part I, brand new to this edition, is concerned with theoretical perspectives on crime prevention and community safety. Part II considers general approaches to preventing crime, including a new chapter on the theory and practice of deterrence. Part III focuses on specific crime prevention strategies, including a new chapter on regulation for crime prevention. Part IV focuses on the prevention of specific categories of crime and the fear they generate, including new chapters on organised crime and cybercrime. Part V considers the preventative process: the methods through which presenting problems can be analysed, responses formulated and implemented, and their effectiveness evaluated. Bringing together leading academics and practitioners from the UK, US, Australia and the Netherlands, this volume will be an invaluable reference for researchers and practitioners whose work relates to crime prevention and community safety, as well as for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in crime prevention.
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Just Culture : Balancing Safety and Accountability
Building on the success of the 2007 original, Dekker revises, enhances and expands his view of just culture for this second edition, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations.The goal remains the same: to create an environment where learning and accountability are fairly and constructively balanced. The First Edition of Sidney Dekker’s Just Culture brought accident accountability and criminalization to a broader audience.It made people question, perhaps for the first time, the nature of personal culpability when organizational accidents occur. Having raised this awareness the author then discovered that while many organizations saw the fairness and value of creating a just culture they really struggled when it came to developing it: What should they do?How should they and their managers respond to incidents, errors, failures that happen on their watch? In this Second Edition, Dekker expands his view of just culture, additionally tackling the key issue of how justice is created inside organizations.The new book is structured quite differently. Chapter One asks, ’what is the right thing to do?’ - the basic moral question underpinning the issue.Ensuing chapters demonstrate how determining the ’right thing’ really depends on one’s viewpoint, and that there is not one ’true story’ but several.This naturally leads into the key issue of how justice is established inside organizations and the practical efforts needed to sustain it.The following chapters place just culture and criminalization in a societal context.Finally, the author reflects upon why we tend to blame individual people for systemic failures when in fact we bear collective responsibility. The changes to the text allow the author to explain the core elements of a just culture which he delineated so successfully in the First Edition and to explain how his original ideas have evolved.Dekker also introduces new material on ethics and on caring
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What is traffic safety?
Traffic safety refers to the measures and practices put in place to prevent accidents and injuries on the road. This includes obeying traffic laws, using seat belts and child safety seats, avoiding distractions while driving, and being aware of other road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. Traffic safety also involves maintaining vehicles in good working condition and being mindful of weather and road conditions. Ultimately, traffic safety aims to reduce the risk of collisions and protect the lives and well-being of all individuals on the road.
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What is road safety?
Road safety refers to the measures and precautions taken to prevent accidents and injuries on the road. This includes obeying traffic laws, wearing seat belts, avoiding distractions while driving, and maintaining a safe speed. Road safety is important to protect the lives of drivers, passengers, pedestrians, and cyclists. It aims to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities on the road, making transportation safer for everyone.
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What is electrical safety?
Electrical safety refers to the practices and precautions taken to prevent accidents and injuries caused by electricity. This includes proper installation and maintenance of electrical systems, using appropriate protective equipment, and following safety guidelines when working with electricity. Electrical safety also involves being aware of potential hazards, such as exposed wires or overloaded circuits, and taking steps to mitigate these risks. Overall, electrical safety is essential for protecting individuals from electric shock, burns, and other electrical-related accidents.
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What are safety shoes?
Safety shoes are a type of footwear designed to protect the feet from workplace hazards such as falling objects, sharp objects, electrical hazards, and slippery surfaces. They are typically made with reinforced toe caps, puncture-resistant soles, and slip-resistant outsoles to provide maximum protection and stability. Safety shoes are commonly worn in industries such as construction, manufacturing, and warehousing to prevent foot injuries and ensure workplace safety.
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