Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Information seeking is a fundamental human activity. In the modern world, it is frequently conducted through interactions with search systems. The ...

As we interact online we are creating new kinds of knowledge and community. How are these communities formed? How do we know whether to trust them ...

We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will ...

How to Be Online and Also Be Happy is your playful guide to using the internet in a rewarding, productive and meaningful way.While spending time on...

In Industry Unbound, Ari Ezra Waldman exposes precisely how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy. With research ...

As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious dow...

''Kevin Roose provides a clear, compelling strategy for surviving the next wave of technology with our jobs - and souls - intact... Futureproof is ...

Many of the significant developments of our era have resulted from advances in technology, including the design of large-scale systems; advances in...

When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It''s time we stand face-to-digital-...

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates...

As a practicing child psychiatrist and mother of three, Jodi Gold has a unique understanding of both the mind-boggling benefits and the serious dow...

Household use of broadband internet service has risen dramatically during the first decade of the 21st century as the internet has become integral ...

It has long been known that some people, usually those with eating disorders, or on their way to having one, abuse drugs that are specifically desi...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dol...

Every day, Internet users interact with technologies designed to undermine their privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Int...

Cryptology, the mathematical and technical science of ciphers and codes, and philology, the humanistic study of natural or human languages, are typ...

Silicon Valley gets all the credit for digital creativity, but this account of the pre-PC world, when computing meant more than using mature consum...

The boundaries of citizenship have been blurred by global information systems--while the public and private spheres have been reshaped through g...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are widely heralded as an opportunity for the poor to have greater access to information that can...

Dr Mary Aiken is the world's leading expert in forensic cyberpsychology - a discipline that combines psychology, criminology and technology to inve...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Di...

In You are Not a Gadget digital guru and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier reveals how the internet is deadening personal interaction, stifling ...

The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's a...

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone on (or off) or pay with a credit card. This data is stored, studied, bough...

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research dir...