Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Edited by three of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of technology, this new handbook provides a thoughtful and evidence-driven exa...

The original edition of this accessible and interdisciplinary textbook was the first to consider the ethical issues of digital media from a global,...

The growth and health of our digital economies and societies depend on the core protocols and infrastructure of the Internet. This technical and lo...

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology is the first book to provide a student-oriented introduction to this rapidly growing and increasingly studied to...

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology is the first book to provide a student-oriented introduction to this rapidly growing and increasingly studied to...

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But the...

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is thi...

Communications technology is advancing at such speed, heralding a world of choice and opportunity, that we sometimes struggle to navigate each new ...

Inside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digit...

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is thi...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shockin...

Todays machine-learning systems, trained by data, are so effective that weve invited them to see and hear for usand to make decisions on our behalf...

This book is dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The title word Rainbow reflects the beauty and variety of the achiev...

The papers in this volume were the fruitful scientific results of the Second International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), held during Novemb...

Thisbookcontainsthepostproceedingsofthe6thEuropeanWorkshoponPublic Key Services, Applications and Infrastructures, which was held at the CNR Resear...

In a world supported by Ambient Intelligence (AmI), various devices embedded in the environment collectively use the distributed information and th...

ICWL is an annual international conference series on Web-based learning that has so far been held in Asia, Europe and Australia. This series repres...

For almost a decade the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration), or IF...

This volume compiles the papers accepted for presentation at the 16thWorking C- ference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Qualit...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2011, held in Pittsbur...

TheseproceedingscontainthepapersselectedforpresentationatCARDIS 2010, the 9th IFIP Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Application hoste...