Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

From the authors of the fascinating The Age of Cryptocurrency, comes the definitive work on the Internets next big thing: the blockchain. ...

This book provides an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, revealing its mechanisms, key actors and domi...

Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and ...

What are the borders of risk? How is the perception of risk related to new technologies and digital changing? This book discusses these topics, mov...

Utility Drives Adoption: Understanding Internet Accessibility in Rural China addresses the deep digital divide in China by exploring the reasons be...

This book describes in an easily accessible way how artificial intelligence (AI) will help us to overcome the ongoing rise in complexity and thus s...

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary persp...

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary persp...

This book highlights how optimized big data applications can be used for patient monitoring and clinical diagnosis. In fact, IoT-based applications...

Cyber bullying is a growing concern for practitioners, policy makers, educators and parents as Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are...

The idea that such pervasive and ever-growing immersion in virtual play affects consciousness seems obvious and is the focus of this volume. These ...

This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...

'An essential resource. Howson strikes not just at cryptocurrency, but the frauds who promote blockchain technology as a solution to any social pro...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Barcodes are about as ordinary as an ob...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024**LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023* 'A parable for...

With a razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valleys unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we...

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications...

'Fascinating' - Financial Times Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we dont really know what th...

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Inter...

Two of the biggest design problems in Artificial Intelligence are how to build robots that behave in line with human values and how to stop them ev...

A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Our culture has an uneasy relationship with repetition and same...

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More than sixty percent of today's email traffic is spam, according to email filtering firm Brightmail. This year alone, five trillion spam message...

From race, sex, class, and culture, the multidisciplinary field of Internet studies needs theoretical and methodological approaches that allow us t...