Through a number of narrative case studies, this book explores how innovative news-academic partnerships are reshaping the landscape of local journalism.

Local news is facing a dire outlook across the United States, and many rural and urban communities increasingly have little to no access to credible or comprehensive local news and information. As factors including the rise of online news sources and the consolidation of media ownership contribute to the decline in local news outlets, the battle to control local news - and therefore, the power to craft influential messages to communities -- has only intensified in recent years. In this book, Lara Salahi explores how news-academic partnerships are emerging as a viable business model for local news in which higher education institutions can be a strong contender against other entities in local news production and ownership. By examining successful case studies and innovative models, Salahi demonstrates how collaborations between local news outlets and academic institutions can provide financial stability, foster community engagement, and ensure the continuation of high-quality local news coverage. Through these partnerships, she posits, local news outlets can secure resources, expand their reach, and effectively serve as the bedrock of democratic societies by providing accurate, relevant, and community-centric news and information. Ultimately, this book explores both the opportunities and challenges offered by the transformational approach of news-academic partnerships to not only preserve the integrity of journalism, but also to enhance media literacy while ensuring the long-term survival of vital local news outlets.

Queer Mother Memoir: Experiments in Life/Narrative curates an archive of memoirs, published 1997 to the present, in order to define and complicate "queer mother memoir" as an emergent literary genre. Through careful readings of life narratives, including her own, Silbergleid offers these radical autotheoretical texts as a challenge to scholarship that has yet to critically examine, much less embrace, queer motherhood.

The author of this book discusses and addresses the issues of management and organizations by employing cross-culture and organizational culture perspectives. This approach, merging cross-cultural management and organizational culture research, advances the reader's knowledge of the role culture plays both inside and outside the organization in management and organizations. Despite a large volume of existing work on cross-cultural management and organizational culture, these cultural studies have focused on either societal culture or organizational culture. As a result, cross-cultural management and organizational culture research have developed separately, even though societal and organizational culture are closely connected and their interplay has a significant effect on management and organizations.

The author elaborates on the cross-culture and organizational-culture perspective and the gaps between them, which he views as a reason that the two streams of cultural studies in management have not converged into the cultural studies of management. He discusses managing multinational corporations, among other management and organizational issues, in terms of the cross-culture or organizational-culture perspective, or both, seeking to combine the separate cultural studies of management into the cultural studies of management.

This open access book explores how the digital transformation of the education system involves more than just a technological upgrade; it is a complex social innovation process that affects governance, infrastructure, educational practice, and participation.

This volume analyses the interdependencies between digital education and innovation, highlighting selected cases of good practice and providing practical recommendations.

How can governance mechanisms, digital education infrastructures and evolving pedagogical approaches be sustainably designed? What might a digital education infrastructure that meets the demands of sustainability, participation, equity and resilience look like? How can empirically grounded knowledge contribute to improving digitally supported educational practices and how can innovation within the education system be fostered and sustained?

The contributions to this volume provide well-founded theoretical frameworks, empirical findings, and practical insights, ranging from governance strategies and AI-supported learning systems to inclusive 'making' approaches. They demonstrate why digital educational innovation is both indispensable and inherently challenging in contemporary contexts.

By outlining concrete courses of action and identifying avenues for further research, this volume offers decision-makers in education policy, administration and practice valuable guidance for shaping an adaptive, digital and innovative education system.

Explores in both theory and practice the deconstructive demand to never let traces die.

At a time when technological advancements, especially LLMs, have all of us wondering about the future of reading and writing, Derrida and Prosthetic Usage; or, How to Return to Cinder studies deconstruction as an ethical injunction to read and write on every technological surface one can find or create. To study this general theory of deconstruction, and Derrida's powerful demand that we "never let the dead bury the dead," this book works in tandem with the website Return to Cinder, an enormous concordance of notes on Derrida taken by author Jake Reeder. Less media studies and more a reading of philosophy and thought in general, Reeder claims that all thought, speech, and writing are forms of re-marking, and that imbedded in the condensation of every re-mark is the demand to create new technological formats. Thus, returning to cinder is both a call for more technological innovation in the humanities and a call to leave more traces.

This book re-examines drug control through the lens of health and human rights. It offers the first comprehensive and systematic analysis of the international drug control regime from its inception to the present day. It traces the development of this system through a detailed examination of all major treaties, conventions, and institutional mechanisms. Written accessibly and drawing on archival research and documentary analysis, this book explores how colonial legacies have shaped international drug control, from the 1909 Shanghai Opium Commission to the present-day policies under the UN, which are discussed in relation to good health and access. It provides an in-depth investigation of the key negotiations, alliances, and geopolitical interests that have influenced drug governance, highlighting how securitisation and prohibition have often taken precedence over public health and equitable access to essential medicines. This work will be of interest to scholars and policymakers in history, international law, international relations, global governance, drug policy, and post-colonial studies. By offering an unprecedented level of detail and synthesis, it fills a critical gap in the literature and provides a much-needed reference for understanding the long-term impacts of international drug control.

Explores how Japan navigated its alliance with the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, balancing its pacifist constitution with evolving global security demands through newly revealed diplomatic documents and high-level policy analysis.

After Terrorism offers a groundbreaking analysis of how Japan navigated its alliance with the United States in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions. Drawing from newly declassified diplomatic documents, Ryuji Hattori challenges conventional narratives and introduces the concept of the global alliance security dilemma, illustrating how Japan struggled to balance its pacifist constitution with growing international security demands. Providing a rare, document-based perspective on the Bush-Koizumi era, Hattori offers insights into high-level negotiations, security policymaking, and the shifting geopolitical landscape of East Asia. Through a meticulous analysis of primary sources and interviews with key policymakers, he reveals how Japan's foreign policy was shaped by both alliance asymmetries and domestic constraints. Ideal for scholars of international relations, security studies, and Asian diplomacy, After Terrorism is an essential resource for understanding the long-term impact of post-9/11 security decisions on US-Japan relations and the broader Indo-Pacific order.

The open access version of this book has been made available thanks to the generosity of Ryuji Hattori.

This volume showcases effective teaching practices and the broader academic benefits of student philanthropy, focussing on the innovative pedagogy of Northern Kentucky University's Mayerson Student Philanthropy, a pioneering community engagement initiative that integrates experiential philanthropy across diverse disciplines to enhance student success.

In 1999, Northern Kentucky University introduced student experiential philanthropy with the Mayerson Student Philanthropy Project (MSPP). Each MSPP class is given grant money to invest in a local nonprofit with the goal of deepening student learning outcomes through the community engagement initiative. Drawing its findings from the program's success, the book first covers the history and theory of student philanthropy and experiential learning, and subsequent chapters explore funding variations, community and K-12 education partnerships, service combined with philanthropy as well as different course levels (upper and lower division) and course delivery methods (hybrid, in person, online). Each chapter features specific, tangible examples of creative pedagogy to inform and inspire readers to consider in their own research and teaching. A conclusion sets out how student philanthropy programs can be implemented at other institutions, touching on the challenges of funding and conflicts of interest, with a case study from another US university.

In a higher education environment with increasing competition for students and funding, this book demonstrates how resources can be allocated effectively to improve both student and community outcomes. Student Experiential Philanthropy provides an evidence-based resource for faculty seeking to increase teaching effectiveness or explore new active, experiential pedagogical initiatives in their classrooms.

The shocking story of how a haven for the Lower East Side's Jewish population was destroyed by New York's rapacious real estate interests.

There were few options for Jewish patrons looking for a place to stay or celebrate key life events in turn-of-the-century New York City. To meet this need, entrepreneur Max Bernstein built Libby's Hotel and Baths, a magnificent $3 million, twelve-story luxury palace that towered over the tenements of New York City's gritty yet vibrant Lower East Side from 1926 until 1930. Bernstein's grand hotel was short-lived-it was demolished after falling victim to a predatory mortgage lending scheme and a land grab by corrupt Tammany politicians. The Ritz with a Shvitz illuminates the intrigue that an incestuous web of Tammany officials employed in their scheme to wrest control of Libby's Hotel and a large swath of the bustling neighborhood surrounding it. The rogues' gallery included Joseph Force Crater, the judge who vanished into the night, never to be seen or heard from again. Some historians speculate he was murdered because of his role in the takeover of Libby's Hotel. Bernstein's visionary building was razed and with it the dreams of a new, glamorous, gentrified, Jewish Lower East Side. The Ritz with a Shvitz is a compelling story of dreams and reality, greed and betrayal, corruption and reform and is a microcosm of that era of Tammany's oppressive control of New York City government.

This book explores what is required to adopt an inclusive approach to emergency communications in multilingual and multicultural societies. The increased frequency and severity of emergencies such as floods, fires and heatwaves is occurring at the same time that complex migration patterns are producing diverse multilingual and multicultural populations. This convergence raises two crucial questions: What does best practice now look like in emergency communications? And what are the barriers to doing this well?

Drawing on multidisciplinary expertise and reflecting on interviews with people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, the arguments engage with the role and limitations of new technologies in emergency communication, as well as the challenges of social inclusion of vulnerable populations during emergency situations. This research offers important conceptual insights as well as practical guidance for leaders involved in emergency planning and disaster risk reduction.

Optimize your brand visibility for AI-powered search engines and large language models

In The New Rules of AI Search: SEO for visibility in ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Generative Search, Crystal Carter delivers a practical guide to optimizing brand visibility across AI-powered platforms. As large language models transform how consumers discover products and services, traditional SEO strategies require fundamental updates to remain effective in this new search paradigm.

The New Rules of AI Search explores the technical and strategic dimensions of generative engine optimization. Crystal Carter examines how AI search platforms aggregate and present information differently than traditional search engines, providing actionable frameworks for ensuring your brand appears prominently when users query ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and similar platforms for recommendations and information.

Readers will also discover:

• Specific techniques for structuring content that AI systems can easily understand, cite, and recommend to users seeking information
• Strategies for building brand authority signals that large language models recognize and prioritize in their generated responses
• Methods for monitoring and measuring your brand's visibility across multiple AI search platforms and generative interfaces
• Practical approaches for adapting existing SEO infrastructure to meet the unique requirements of AI-powered discovery channels
• Frameworks for anticipating future developments in generative search and positioning your brand ahead of algorithmic changes

Essential for digital marketers, SEO professionals, brand managers, and business owners seeking to maintain competitive visibility, this guide provides the strategic foundation for succeeding as AI fundamentally transforms how consumers search for and discover information online.

'My view is that the future belongs to the minority of businesses that follow this advice.' Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group

As fears of agentic obsolescence abound, organizations are struggling to implement AI in ways that enhance rather than replace human work. This unique book introduces a full-stack approach that balances technological capability with human values, ethics and practical applications.

AI at Work provides a framework that moves beyond scattered AI experiments toward a coherent strategy that will run throughout your entire company. Rather than focusing on technical capabilities or dystopian warnings, it utilizes a full-stack approach to harness AI's benefits while preserving what matters most - a firm's people, its values and its unique organizational identity.

The global AI market is projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030, with organizations across sectors racing to implement AI solutions. However, whilst 83% of executives report that AI is a top priority for their organization, only 23% have a comprehensive implementation strategy.

This book fills a critical gap between theoretical AI books and technical implementation guides by offering:
? A practical framework applicable across industries;
? Equal emphasis on technological capability, ethical considerations and real-world applications;
? A human-centred approach that addresses concerns about AI replacing workers; and
? Case studies and examples from diverse sectors.

How can research move from observation to transformation without sacrificing rigor? This volume brings together cultural, feminist, decolonial, and community-engaged approaches that make voices too often silenced in mainstream psychology both audible and authoritative. Across 2 volumes, spanning gender equity, mental health, education, and community development, contributors from Latin America and Spain present grounded research designs, dialogic analyses, and creative artefacts that reconfigure who speaks and what counts as knowledge. The collection is a call to humanize academia and broaden the methodological horizons of the social sciences, proposing an ethical framework that redistributes epistemic authority.

In this first volume, focusing on feminist and gender-sensitive research and mental health, chapters interrogate diagnosis and discourse through phenomenology and psychoanalysis, co-produce knowledge with survivors and caregivers, and pilot arts-based, participatory designs that support recovery. Grounded in concrete field projects, the book offers a tested methodological toolkit. Its contributions foreground the agency and subjectivity of research participants, and scholar-practitioners with "one foot on the street and one in the university."

Read alongside Volume 2, which extends this into research on education and community development, the two-volume set traces how participatory methodologies travel across contexts while remaining locally situated. By centring the research subject, the book challenges dominant assumptions and prevailing power structures, opening new avenues for intervention and inquiry. It will be essential reading for students and scholars in critical psychology, mental health, medical anthropology, Latin American and Hispanic studies, and public policy.