Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences...

In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous i...

The Internet and smartphone are just the latest in a 250 year long cycle of disruption that has continuously changed the way we live, the way we wo...

In 2013, journalist Ginger Gorman was trolled online. She received scores of hateful tweets, including a death threat. She was terrified, but once ...

In the new media world, advertisers are deciding who you are, how much you matter, and what you see and do The Internet is often hyped as a means t...

The main purpose of the eleven contributions to this volume is to reconsider and re-assess the role of cores and peripheries in shaping modern soci...

Today more people live in cities than in the countryside, mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones and machines outnumber people on a new ...

The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequ...

Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies differently.David Byrne, ...

Hailed as the most influential book so far on the cloud computing movement (Christian Science Monitor), The Big Switch makes a simple and profound ...

In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! play...

Weighing in from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, today's most forward-thinking minds explore the rise of machines that think. Stephen Hawki...

An examination of our many modes of online identity and how we live on the continuum between the virtual and the real. Hello Avatar! Or, {llSay(...

The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have w...

A Financial Times 'Best Thing I Read This Year' 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDGoogle. Amazon. Facebook. T...

*****''Very Bad People would be a hugely enjoyable thriller if it wasn''t all true... Thank heavens there are Very Good People like Patrick Alley a...

With at least seven billion subscriptions worldwide, the impact of mobile devices undoubtedly rivals that of television, radio, and newspapers. Mob...

A New York Times bestselling author and tech columnist's counter-intuitive guide to staying relevant - and employable - in the machine age by becom...

If you could reinvent the internet now, what would it look like?'A superb and timely book showing how we can face up to the tsunami of big data tha...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology; we seem as governed by technology as we do by...

Within the rapidly-growing arena of 'virtual worlds', such as Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOs), individuals behave in particular ways, inf...

This Handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives that apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and c...

The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When The Best Technology Series was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make...

How many times do you check something on the internet but find you are drifting aimlessly from one link to another? If you can't not answer the pho...

Nicholas Carr has made his name as an incisive writer on our complicated relationship with technology. Utopia Is Creepy, a sharp and often funny in...

The War on Privacy is lost, and states and corporations now collect more of our data than even they know what to do with. No one person or group ca...

This volume covers a wide spectrum of issues relating to economic and political development enabled by information and communication technology (IC...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and b...

This book argues that identity is changing profoundly and that money is changing equally profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends...

Screenwise offers a realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age. Many parents feel that their kids ar...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer conte...

While everyone is talking about big data, the truth is that understanding the little data--the stats that underlie newspaper headlines, stock repor...

In January 2012, millions participated in the now-infamous Internet blackout against the Stop Online Piracy Act, protesting the power it would have...