Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

How are platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (now X) used by citizens to frame contentious parades and protests in post-conflict Northern Ireland...

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 2325 in Cardiff (U...

th The 15 International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2010) took place during June 2325 in Cardiff (U...

Contemporary technology has the potential to hinder humanity's attainment of freedom in the opinion of Thomas Merton and Jacques Ellul. Both thinke...

Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices offers a comprehensive overview of design-based, technology-enhanced approaches to teaching and learni...

A TIMES BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning Financial Times columnist exposes the threat that Big Tech poses to our democracies,...

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The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams Diagrams 2010 was held in Portland, USA in August 2010. Diagrams is an...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the first two international workshops on computational models of colla...

A digital anthropologist examines the online lives of millions of people in China, India, Brazil, and across the Middle Easthome to most of the wor...

This is a softcover version of the title released in 2011; there is no new material. The modern human animal spends upwards of 11 hours out of ever...

The book is distinctive in its application of the early philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to misinformation analysis. It also proposes a new theory...

This book enables readers to interrogate the technical, rhetorical, theoretical, and socio-ethical challenges and opportunities involved in the dev...

We already know how much of our data is collected and used to profile and target us. The real question is why, k...

Supply Chain 4.0 has introduced automation into logistics and supply chain processes, exploiting predictive analytics to better match supply with d...

Supply Chain 4.0 has introduced automation into logistics and supply chain processes, exploiting predictive analytics to better match supply with d...

The digital has emerged as a driving force of change that is reshaping everyday life and affecting nearly every sphere of vital activity. Yet, its ...

This is an Open Access book.In 2015, Industry 4.0 was announced with the rise of industrialization by the European Parliament, supporting policy, r...

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction tha...

The average person sees about 10,000 commercial visuals a day. Yet, research shows we can only process about 1% of the visual information we encoun...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there. Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI_A potent exp...

Data science ethics is all about what is right and wrong when conducting data science. Data science has so far been primarily used for positive out...

NFTs cause excitement and skepticism. How much value can a token hold? What drives this value?To properly appreciate NFTs we must first understand ...

Welcome to the economy of algorithms. Its here and its growing. In the past few years, we have been flooded with examples of impressive technology....

Biohackers explores fundamental changes occuring in the circulation and ownership of scientific information. Alessandro Delfanti argues that the co...

The human race now creates, distributes and stores more information than at any other time in history. Frictionless and cheap digital networks circ...

Innovative research solutions increasingly require deep engagement with practitioners to manage the complex problems they are attempting to solve. ...

'Vital reading. This is the book on artificial intelligence we need right now.' Mike Krieger, cofounder of InstagramArtificial intelligence is rapi...

From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. An expert in computer science and m...

An Entrepreneur Best Book of the YearFacebook makes us lonely. Selfies breed narcissism. On Twitter, hostility reigns. Pundits and psychologists wa...

Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for so...

Mainstreaming Gays discusses a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, analyzing how queer production and interaction tha...

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to d...

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of Chinas Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerc...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how...

We are living in algorithmic times. From machine learning and artificial intelligence to blockchain or simpler newsfeed filtering, automated syst...

Two oversimplified narratives have long dominated news reports and academic studies of Chinas Internet: one lauding its potentials to boost commerc...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...