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Poverty and Quality of Life in the Digital Era

Interdisciplinary Discussions and Solutions

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Editors:
  1. Nikolaos E. Myridis

    1. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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  • Provides insight into the problem of poverty with analysis and offers new age solutions
  • Introduces a Multidimensional Poverty hyper-index consisting of over 20 dimensions
  • Looks at the digital economy and Industry 4.0

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Poverty and Quality of Life in Industry 4.0

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. (e)Analysis of Poverty and Quality of Life

      • Nikolaos E. Myridis
      Pages 3-39

    3. Redistribution of Perishable Food as a Corporate Social Responsibility Tool That Confronts Poverty

      • Ioannis Mallidis, Volha Yakavenka, Paraskevi Kapetanopoulou, Efstathios Bouhouras, Dimitrios Vlachos
      Pages 41-51

    4. Digitization and International Development: A Descriptive Analysis of the Networked Readiness Index in Eight European Union Countries

      • George Barboutidis, Emmanouil Stiakakis
      Pages 53-79

  3. Poverty, (Digital) Culture and Media

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Poverty and Children in South Africa: The Promise of Equality. A Semiotic Analysis

      • Dimitra Sarakatsianou, Nikolaos E. Myridis
      Pages 83-103

    3. Ηow Digital Poverty Affects Television Viewing Habits

      • Anna Podara, George Kalliris
      Pages 105-123

  4. Interdisciplinary Poverty

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Embracing Poverty with Lifelong Learning

      • Styliani Giossi, Panagiotis Giavrimis
      Pages 127-143

    3. Art as a Tool of Tackling Poverty and Social Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups

      • Ofilia Psomadaki, George Kalliris
      Pages 145-157

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 159-162
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About this book

This book proposes new solutions to the problem of poverty, and begins with providing analyses. It bases most of the analyses and solutions in the context of the digital era. The book also follows, in addition to a scientific distribution, a spatial-geographical one: analyses of countries of the  European Union as well as South Africa, while it referring to two main variables, television and art, as agents of poverty alleviation. The book places particular focus on how poverty is understood in the framework of Industry 4.0. It introduces a new expanded Multidimensional Poverty Index with more than 20 dimensions; moreover, it provides a mathematically based solution for the disposal of perishable food. Finally, it does not disregard the crucial aspect of the issue of poverty: that of education planning. This book is of interest to specialists in poverty research, from students to professionals and from professors to activists, without excluding engineers. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Nikolaos E. Myridis

About the editor

N.E. Myridis is Assistant Professor of Informatics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has authored more than 115 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, edited books, and at international conferences, most of them as the sole author. He is also the sole author of eight (8) scientific books and the editor of three (3) scientific books and is the chief-editor of the Computer & Information Science journal, board member of scientific conferences and reviewer for 10 international scientific journals. He has been a lecturer and supervisor for UNESCO Chair's European Master thesis. He received or was offered many stipends from international societies as well as invitations (e.g., from the European Satellite Agency (ESA)). Dr Myridis is a reviewer for pioneering books of many esteemed publishers and universities for the journal Contemporary Physics, for instance, of books by the Nobel Laureates A. Zewail, 4-d Visualization of Matter and P. Peebles, The Large-scale Structure of the Universe.

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