In the past decade, social capital has become an influential concept in social, political and economic sciences, but also for policy design. Social capital is a notion that has been widely accepted, and has been welcomed as the "missing link" to development and economic efficiency. However, theoretical and empirical research papers about social capital evoke uncomfortable feelings in the critical reader, for something in the concept of social capital seems to be suspicious. What is it that provokes these uncomfortable feelings? In this paper, I intend to answer this question. To this end, I...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Multimedia, Internet, neue Technologien, Note: 2, ZHAW Zurcher Hochschule fur Angewandte Wissenschaften - IAP (Departement Angewandte Linguistik, IAM Institut fur Angewandte Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die sozialen Medien des Web 2.0 sind in der Kommunikation der Trend dieses Jahrzehnts. Neue Kommunikationsformen durchdringen praktisch jeden privaten und geschaftlichen Bereich. Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der sozialen Plattform auf dem Web 2.0, welche in den letzten Jahren in der Schweiz...

This report summarizes efforts to monitor wolves (Canis lupus) in Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA), Alaska, through spring 2011. Wolves occur in all three parks of the Central Alaska Monitoring Network (CAKN): Denali National Park and Preserve, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, and Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Wolves are one of six keystone large mammal species in interior Alaska, along with grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), black bears (Ursus americanus), moose (Alces alces). caribou (Rangifer tarandus), and Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli).

How does one define and explore the -material presence of the written in non-typographical cultures?- The interdisciplinary and collaborative essays in this handbook present theoretical principles, describe text-bearing materials and objects, and investigate the diverse practices related to text-bearing artifacts. The analysis is illustrated with examples drawn from a period of over 4,500 years.

German text: The primary way of generating knowledge in archaeology is through its collections and archives of objects of past cultures and societies - as was and still is stated quite often. But archaeology has been struggling with the sheer masses of objects since, which steadily grow because of excavations. The following seventeen articles were contributions to a conference in Berlin in 2013, which was organized by the German Association for Theories in Archaeology. This edited volume focuses on two general topics. The essays in the first part of the volume treat the virulent problem of...