In Rumor Psychology: Social and Organizational Approaches, expert rumor researchers Nicholas DiFonzo and Prashant Bordia investigate how rumors start and spread, the accuracy of different types of rumor, and how rumors can be controlled, particularly given their propagation across media outlets and within organizations. Rumors are an enduring feature of our social and organizat...(展开全部)

In this volume, John van Buren offers a new reading of Martin Heidegger's youthful thought leading up to Being and Time (1927) and its subsequent development in his later writings.

During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said...(展开全部)

Luise White is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. Her previous book, The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (1990), won the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association.

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there's a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives, often of dubious r...(展开全部)

In the spring of 1750 a two-day series of riots erupted in Paris when the populace discovered that police were sweeping children off the streets in an overzealous attempt to control vagrancy. Arlette Farge and Jacques Revel use this bizarre incident and its colorful cast of actors to view broader issues such as the power of rumor, mob psychology, the exercise of authority, and ...(展开全部)

阿莱特•法尔热（Arlette Farge，1941- ）是法国著名的历史学家，主要研究领域为18世纪的法国史，尤其关注穷人、小手工业者、妇女和儿童等社会边缘群体，曾担任法国国家科学院（CNRS）的主管，任教于法国社会高等研究院（EHSS）。她著述颇丰，已出版超过30部著作，其中比较有代表性的有《18世纪巴黎的街头生活》（Vivre dans la rue à Paris au XVIIIème siècle, coll. «Archives», Gallimard,1979）、与米歇尔•福柯合著的《混乱的家庭：巴士底档案中的密札》（Le désordre des familles. Lettres de cachetdes Archives de la Bastille ,coll. «Archives», Gallimard, 1982）、《脆弱...(展开全部)